Gunther Eysenbach

Gunther Eysenbach is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria since March 2020, having transitioned academic work from the University of Toronto. As the Founder, CEO, and Publisher of JMIR Publications since January 1998, Gunther has established a prominent open access publishing platform. Gunther is also the founding Editor in Chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, a leading health informatics journal. In addition, Gunther co-founded TrendMD, serving as Chief Science Officer from 2013 to 2019, where a new social impact metric was developed. Gunther's academic and research contributions include a senior scientist role at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto and prior professorships at both the University of Toronto and the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Education includes a Master of Public Health from Harvard University and a Medical Doctorate from the University of Freiburg.