Gunther Eysenbach

Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH (a graduate of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and Harvard University, USA) is Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the #1 ranked ehealth journal, and producer of the Medicine 2.0 congress series, as well as a podcast producer. He is a Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, where he teaches and supervises PhD and Master's students in the area of eHealth and Medical Informatics, and a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto, where his research focuses on consumer health informatics and public health informatics. He is recognized by many as a leading scholar in health informatics. Eysenbach is the initiator of the WebCite system, an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages, and a producer of the famous series of Medicine2.0 conferences. He has been a pioneer in the Web2.0 developmemt.