Gunther Eysenbach | Stian Haklev | Edith Hillan | Heather Piwowar
Gunther Eysenbach,MD MPH, FACMI is recognized by many as one of the leading researchers in the field of eHealth and Internet & Medicine, and is producer, editor and publisher of influential knowledge translation products and web ventures. He is currently Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the Toronto Research Institute/Toronto General Hospital. He also holds an academic appointment as Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, is Visiting Professor at the University of Twente, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Enschede, The Netherlands.
He founded and headed the first research group on cybermedicine and eHealth worldwide at the University of Heidelberg between 1999 and 2001, where his main research interest was consumer health informatics, and came to Canada in March 2002 to help establishing the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto.
He is author of a textbook for computers in medicine (which he wrote at the age of 24), editor of a book on computers for physicians, publisher, founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the leading peer-reviewed eHealth journal, which is now (with an Impact Factor of 4.7 in 2010) ranked the #1 medical informatics journal in the world, and #2 in health services research, and which was also one of the first open access journals in medicine. Dr. Eysenbach has authored more than 120 publications, including almost 40 book-chapters as well as several pioneer studies and comments on cybermedicine, e-health and consumer health informatics, published in respected international journals such as JAMA, BMJ, and the Lancet.
He has also organized and chaired dozens of international workshops, seminars, and conferences, including the World Congress on Internet in Medicine in 1998 and 2006. He is founder and producer of the Medicine 2.0 conference series (World Congress on Web 2.0, mhealth and social media in health).
Stian Håklev is a PhD student in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE, University of Toronto. He was one of the co-founders of Peer2Peer University, a pioneer platform for experimentation with peer-based learning, and is also a frequent international speaker on Open Access, the future of scholarly publishing, and Science 2.0. He maintains a blog and an academic wiki.
Edith Hillan is currently Vice-Provost Faculty & Academic Life at the University of Toronto. Her academic appointment is held in the Faculty of Nursing, where she still teaches and supervises graduate students. Edith Hillan holds an MPhil in Law & Ethics in Medicine from the Faculty of Law, University of Glasgow (1994), a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow (1990) and an MSc from the University of Strathclyde (1983). Professor Hillan came to the University of Toronto in 2001, and prior to this she was Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow, Scotland UK where she was responsible for the introduction of the Master of Midwifery degree at the University. She was also an Executive Member of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine.
Since becoming Vice-Provost in 2004, her primary area of responsibility is academic personnel issues, including policy development. The Office has responsibility for the development and oversight of a wide variety of policies and programs to support the institutional goal of appointing, tenuring and retaining the best educated, most intellectually creative and most diverse faculty it can identify.
During her tenure, Professor Hillan has led the development of a wide variety of orientation and integration sessions for both new and continuing faculty and has responsibility for providing support to new academic administrators to assist them in the transition to their new role, primarily through a series of workshops and professional development leadership seminars. The programs that have been developed through her Office have attracted national interest and stand as a model for other universities seeking to support and mentor outstanding faculty.
Heather Piwowar is a postdoctoral research associate with DataONE and the Dryad digital repository at NESCent. Heather studies how scientists share and reuse research data; she hopes such evidence will inform policy for more efficient and effective use of data resources. She has measured the citation benefit of publicly archiving research data, variation in journal data sharing policies, patterns in public deposition of datasets, and is currently investigating patterns of data reuse and the impact of journal data sharing policies. Heather co-leads total-impact, an online tool for tracking the broad impact of diverse scholarly products. Heather has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from MIT in electrical engineering, 10 years of experience as a software engineer, and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Pittsburgh. She has an active research blog (http://researchremix.wordpress.com) and twitter account (@researchremix).