JMIR Publications
Gunther Eysenbach has a diverse work experience in the field of health informatics and publishing. Gunther is currently serving as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria since 2020. In 1998, they founded JMIR Publications, a leading academic open access publisher, where they held the roles of Founder, CEO, and Publisher. Gunther also founded WebCite Consortium in 2005, which is an archiving tool for preserving cited webpages. Gunther Eysenbach has been actively involved with the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) since 1999 as Editor in chief & Publisher. In 2013, they co-founded TrendMD and served as the Chief Science Officer, specializing in personalized high-impact research articles. Gunther Eysenbach has also worked as a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, UHN, Toronto and as a Professor at the University of Toronto. Gunther has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and a Conference Producer for Medicine 2.0. Additionally, Gunther Eysenbach has held the position of Co-chair of the Consumer Health Informatics Working Group at IMIA.
Gunther Eysenbach completed their education with a Dr.med. degree in Medical Doctorate from The University of Freiburg in 1996. Prior to that, they pursued a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a focus on Public Health at Harvard University from 2001 to 2003. There is no available information regarding their earlier education at Gymnasium Fridericianum Erlangen.
JMIR Publications
JMIR Publications is the leading ehealth publisher, advancing progress in the health, engineering and social sciences to ultimately help people to live happier and healthier lives using technology. JMIR Publications helps innovators in the health technology space to collaborate and to disseminate their innovations, ideas, and research results to the widest possible audience. JMIR Publications is a rapidly growing innovative academic publisher. It builds on the success of JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research), which started in 1998 as a small independent open access project hosted at a university, which subsequently grew into the most influential journal in medical informatics (ranked #1 by Impact Factor by Thomson Reuters for three years, JIF>5.0) and health services research. Pioneer in #openaccess and #openscience, JMIR Publications is now also publishing a superjournal JMIRx as overlay journal on top of preprint servers.