4th MEAHI Conference International Advisory Board

Nancy M. Lorenzi

Reinhold Haux

The 4th MEAHI Conference has been honored by renowned international professionals in the field of biomedical and health informatics, who act at advisory capacity in regards to different aspects of the conference. Each member of the advisory board represents highest stature in academia and industry from around the globe.

Reinhold Haux is Professor for Medical Informatics and Director at the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of the University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and of Hannover Medical School, Germany.

Nancy M. Lorenzi is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Professor of Nursing at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, USA. She is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs with a major focus on informatics, implementation, quality, strategy and transformation.

Hiroshi Takeda is a Professor Emeritus at Osaka University , Japan , and is also a Dean and a Professor at the Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Jikei Institute.

Antoine Geissbuhler is a Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics at Geneva University, Director of the Division of eHealth and Telemedicine at Geneva University Hospitals. He is also President of the Health-On-the-Net Foundation, and President of the International Medical Informatics Association.

Hiroshi Takeda

Antoine Geissbuhler

John Mantas is Professor of Health Informatics and Director of the Laboratory of Health Informatics at the University of Athens, Greece. His current research interests are in health information systems, patient safety, biomedical informatics, and management of healthcare. He is the organiser for more than ten years of the International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare.

John Mantas

Dr. Ying Wu is the Dean and Professor of School of Nursing, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. She is also the current President for Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics- APAMI (2012 to 2014), as well as assumes the leadership role for 24 research and academic associations, and government affiliated academic organizations in China.

Peter J. Murray

Dr Peter J. Murray is a registered nurse, educator and health informatician. He is CEO of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association; he previously represented the United Kingdom (UK) to IMIA and held several Board positions.

Ying Wu

Prof. Riccardo Bellazzi, is Full Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pavia, Italy, Director of the Biomedical Informatics University Laboratory "Mario Stefanelli", Director of the Biomedical Informatics Laboratory, IRCCS Fondazione S. Maugeri, Pavia.

Riccardo Bellazzi

John H. Holmes, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Medical Informatics in Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, USA. He is Associate Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics and Director of the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology.

John H. Holmes

Reza Shahpori

Reza Shahpori is a world known leader in Critical Care Informatics. He is leading the clinical informatics at the Alberta Critical Care Network and the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Calgary, Canada, where he masterminded the evolutionary development of one the world’s most sophisticated and successful clinical information management frameworks.

Thomas A. Horan

Dr. Horan is Dean and Professor at CGU's School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT) and is founding Director of the Kay Center for E-Health Research, CA, USA. Dr.Horan has been an active leader in research and training related to policy and consumer dimensions of health information technology and digital infrastructure systems.

Prof. Park is Dean and Professor at Seoul National University College of Nursing, Seoul, Korea. She is Vice President of IMIA for WG/SIG , and also Chair of IMIA-Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group.

Hyeoun-Ae Park

Michio Kimura

Michio Kimura is a professor of Medicine , and Medical Informatics , and director at Medical Informatics Department of Hamamatsu University Hospital , Japan. He is currently IMIA vice-president for membership , President of Japan Association for Medical Informatics(JAMI).

KC Lun

Professor KC Lun is Professorial Fellow (Health Informatics) at the National University of Singapore Dept of Information Systems, School of Computing and Centre for Health Informatics, focusing on healthcare analytics. He is also concurrently CEO of Gateway Consulting, Singapore.