Gunther Eysenbach

While a medical student, Eysenbach was on the executive board as elected communication director, later as vice-president of the European Medical Students' Association.^[1] He received an M.D. from the University of Freiburg and a Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health. From 1999 to 2002 he founded and headed a research unit on cybermedicine and ehealth at the University of Heidelberg^[2] and organized and chaired the World Congress on Internet in Medicine.^[3] In March 2002, he emigrated to Canada^[2] and since then has been senior scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University Health Network^[4] (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), and associate professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.^{[citation needed]}

Eysenbach works in the field of consumer health informatics. He has written several books and articles, and organizes conferences. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. From 2000 to 2008, he was working group chair for the WG Consumer Health Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association.^[5]

Other contributions include:

• Initiator, organizer, and chair of the annual Medicine 2.0 Congress^[6]
• Eysenbach has conducted a study on the association between search engine queries and influenza incidence,^[7] which was replicated by other research groups 2–3 years later.^[8][9] He coined the terms "infoveillance" and "infodemiology" for these kinds of approaches.^[10][11] Eysenbach also contributed to the concept of "infodemic".^[12]
• Eysenbach is initiator of WebCite, an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages.^[13]
• Together with his former student Paul Kudlow, he cofounded TrendMD, a scholarly recommendation system and cross-publisher content marketing platform ^[14]
• He is founder and CEO of the Canadian publisher JMIR Publications, which is the publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research and 30 other open access journals; JMIR Publications is one of Canada's fastest growing companies according to Business Insider ^[15]
• He co-founded the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)^[16]

• Lewis, D; Eysenbach, G; Kukafka, R; Jimison, H; Stavri, Z, eds. (2005). Consumer Health Informatics. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-23991-0. OCLC 60413694.
• Eysenbach, G., ed. (1998). Medicine and Medical Education in Europe - The Eurodoctor. Stuttgart-New York: Thieme. ISBN 978-3-13-115221-3. OCLC 41647056.
• Eysenbach G; Lamers W, eds. (1999). Praxis und Computer (in German). Düsseldorf: Springer-Verlag/med-inform Verlagsges.
• Eysenbach, G (1994). Computer-Manual für Mediziner und Biowissenschaftler (in German). Munich-Baltimore: Urban & Schwarzenberg. ISBN 978-3-541-11841-0. OCLC 30558735.

• WebCite – an on-demand Web archiving service founded by Eysenbach