About the Journal

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, FACMI

Adjunct Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada

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Dr. Gunther Eysenbach, MD MPH FACMI is founder, executive editor and CEO of JMIR Publications, a digital health and open science publisher, founded more than 20 years ago. Gunther is also recognized by many as one of the leading academics in the field of digital health and eHealth, is a known open access and open science pioneer, and is producer, editor and publisher of influential knowledge translation products. According to Ioannidis et al (Plos Biol 2019) he is the most cited academic in medical informatics of all times and globally. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Health Information at the University of Victoria (Canada). He created a new scientific discipline in 2002 called "infodemiology" (https://www.jmir.org/2009/1/e11/), now recognized by WHO as a core area of practice when dealing with an "infodemic." He is CEO at JMIR Publications, a leading digital open-science publisher with more than 100 employees, and Growth500 company, which he founded in 1999. He also cofounded TrendMD, a Knowledge Translation tool (https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24330). He is also an angel investor in Digital Science and Digital Health startups.

Former Editor-in-Chief

Nabil Zary, MD, PhD, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Science, Dubai, UAE

Editorial Board Members

Associate Editors

Panos Bamidis, PhD

Associate Professor Medical Education Informatics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

In the last six years, Dr Bamidis has been the co-ordinator of five large European projects (SmokeFreeBrain.org; www.meducator.net; www.longlastingmemories.eu, www.epblnet.eu, www.childrenhealth.eu); and was principal investigator for a number of national and international funded projects. Among his specific research interests includes the use of virtual patients for medical education and training.

David Chartash, PhD

Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale School of Medicine

Dr. David Chartash is Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale School of Medicine. He earned his bachelor's degree in engineering science from The University of Western Ontario in electrical engineering, focusing on biomedical signals and systems analysis. He completed a masters degree in health science by research at the University of Toronto in clinical engineering, during the course of this degree, practicing as an engineer at the Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative and Toronto General Hospital. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Indiana University Bloomington, specializing in medical informatics and complex systems. During the course of this doctorate he was a fellow at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute, as well as the Department of Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Methodologically, his research aims to model information within the medical record and clinical encounter through the use of cognitive science, computational linguistic and complex systems science approaches.

Philipp Kanzow, MSc, Dr rer medic, PD Dr med dent

Senior Lecturer, Department of Preventive Dentistry, Periodontology and Cariology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

Dr. Philipp Kanzow is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Preventive Dentistry, Periodontology and Cariology at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany. Besides working as a dentist, he is an active researcher and dental educator. His research focuses on Restorative Dentistry, Dental Education, Assessment, and Health Services Research.

Sreenivasulu Reddy Mogali, PhD

Associate Professor and Head of Anatomy at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr. Sreenivasulu Reddy Mogali is an Associate Professor and Head of Anatomy at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Mogali is a highly engaged academic professional who specializes in the fields of medical anatomy and medical education. He possesses a significant background in the development of curricula aimed at modernizing educational resources, assessments, and their delivery based on evidence-based educational theories, and frameworks. Dr. Mogali's research and scholarly pursuits center around the development and validation of emerging technologies, including 3D printing, extended reality, digital serious games, and artificial intelligence, as well as the development of conceptual frameworks for collaborative creativity and the neuroscience evidence about the influence of spatial ability on students’ learning of anatomy. He has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed papers, and his research findings have been published in journals including Anatomical Sciences Education, Medical Teacher, Scientific Reports, and Materials and Design, among others.

Dr. Mogali has been recognised for his significant contributions to educational innovation and the promotion of excellence in teaching with the receipt of the esteemed "Nanyang" Educator Award. He played a significant role in NTU’s successful 2021 submission for the renowned ASPIRE award for excellence in curriculum development. In 2022, Dr. Mogali achieved Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, UK, which serves as an international benchmark for assessing individual excellence in teaching and learning.

Christopher Ramnanan, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Innovation in Medical Education; Program Director, Master of Anatomical Sciences Education, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Canada

Dr. Christopher Ramnanan is an Associate Professor in the Division of Clinical and Functional Anatomy, Department of Innovation in Medical Education, housed in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine. After completing his Ph.D. at Carleton University in 2006 studying metabolic regulation, he was selected for the prestigious Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Scientist-Educator Fellowship Program. This unique Fellowship developed both research expertise (studying insulin’s and glucagon’s effects on hepatic glucose production) and teaching expertise (in human gross anatomy). After being named the 2010 Vanderbilt Diabetes Center Postdoctoral Fellow of the Year in 2010, he was promoted to Instructor at Vanderbilt in 2011. He was then recruited to the Medical College of Georgia, to contribute to anatomy education to medical students and allied health students in 2010-2011. In 2012-2013, he was recruited to the University of Ottawa where he has become the primary contributor to anatomy education within the Faculty of Medicine’s MD Program. As Content Expert and Director of Practical Examinations, Dr. Ramnanan has been responsible for the delivery of all Anglophone anatomy lectures and laboratories, and the assessment of knowledge, for the entire program. Stemming from these responsibilities, his education scholarship speaks to the optimization of curricular and extracurricular anatomy education best-suited to modern medical students, as well as improving approaches to assessment. As an educator, he was named to the Faculty’s Distinguish Teacher Program in 2015, and was named Basic Science Educator of the Year in 2019 and Pre-clerkship Educator of the Year in 2021. As of 2023, Dr. Ramnanan has authored 50 peer-reviewed publications that have accumulated over 1500 citations. He has led impactful basic science research that has been published in Diabetes, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Cell Metabolism. Since arriving to the University of Ottawa, his work has led to highly cited education-related papers in Medical Education, Anatomical Sciences Education, and Academic Medicine. In 2023, as Graduate Program Director, he will be providing oversight to the launch of the Master of Applied Sciences in Anatomical Sciences Education.

A. Hasan Sapci, MD

Associate Professor of Healthcare Informatics, Adelphi University, New York

Dr. A. Hasan Sapci is an Associate Professor of Healthcare Informatics and a family medicine physician with a profound understanding and extensive experience at the intersection of healthcare, medical artificial intelligence (AI), and health informatics. His expertise extends across various healthcare domains, including telemedicine, connected health, data analytics, wearable health technologies, telerobotics, and remote patient monitoring.

Dr. Sapci has been at the forefront of developing competency frameworks to integrate AI training into health informatics and medical curricula. He holds the AI in Medicine certification from the American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and chairs a multidisciplinary AI task force. Additionally, he serves as a CAHIIM Health Informatics Accreditation Peer Reviewer.

Dr. Sapci established a Telemedicine Simulation Laboratory and a second-generation Smarthome for Healthcare and Health Informatics Simulation & Training Laboratory. His development of a telemedicine implementation model garnered a Fostering Innovation Grant. He has participated in key committees for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

Lorainne Tudor Car, MD MSc PhD

Assistant Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, LKCMedicine, NTU Singapore; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

Dr. Lorainne Tudor Car is an Assistant Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at LKCMedicine, NTU Singapore and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London. Asst Prof Tudor Car is a Methods Editor for the Cochrane Public Health Group and Campbell Knowledge Translation and Implementation Group. She is a methodological lead for a global evidence synthesis initiative on digital education for health workforce development. Upon graduating in medicine, Asst Prof Tudor Car completed a PhD on the effectiveness of the integration of public health interventions into health systems. Her PhD included an innovative evidence synthesis with modelling of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission uptake cascade and informed the UNICEF consultation on women and children’s health. An ensuing Executive MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science further strengthened her concentration on the intricate relationships between health systems’ performance, economics and population health. Asst Prof Tudor Car’s research focuses on the use of digital technology for knowledge translation, education and behaviour change in patients and health professionals. More specifically, her research explores the use of conversational agents for the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and delivery of mental health interventions.

Guest Editors

Filomena Pietrantonio, MD, FEFIM

Internal Medicine Unit, Castelli Hospital, ASL Roma 6, Ariccia, Rome, Italy; St Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Roma, Italy

Ismael Said Criado, MD, MSc, PhD(c)

Emergency Department, Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in Vigo, Healthcare Research Institute Galicia Sur, Vigo, Spain

José López Castro, MD, PhD, FACP, FEFIM  

Internal Medicine Department and Clinical Ultrasonography Teaching Unit, Hospital Público de Monforte, Lugo, Spain

Marco Montagna, MD

AI Team, Internal Medicine Department, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

Kaushik Venkatesh, MBA, MPH

Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA

Maged N Kamel Boulos, MBBCh, MSc, PhD, FHEA, SMIEEE

Sun Yat-sen University, China

Social Media Editors

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Past Editorial Board Members

Brian Mavis, PhD, Professor and Director, Office of Medical Education Research, Michigan State University, USA

Bertalan Mesko, MD PhD, Semmelweis Medical School, The Medical Futurist, Budapest, Hungary

Francois Modave, PhD, Professor, Artificial Intelligence, University of Florida Health, USA

Aviv Shachak, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

Join the Editorial Board

We are currently looking to expand our Editorial Board. To apply to be an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor, please apply using the form linked in this article. You should hold a PhD (or similar higher degree), have a publication track record (h-index>8), and ideally have some academic editing experience. 

Guest Editors

We are also seeking guest editors who may wish to compile a theme issue on a special subtopic. Click here for more information on how to suggest a theme issue.

This may be particularly interesting for workshop and conference organizers putting together a grant-funded event (eg, with invited experts) on an eHealth-related topic. JMIR can then be used as a dissemination vehicle.

The task of the Guest Editor(s) is generally to:

  • Solicit manuscripts from colleagues concerning the selected topic;
  • Select peer-reviewers for incoming manuscripts;
  • Make decisions (together with the editorial board) on article revisions and acceptance;
  • Write an editorial for the theme issue; and/or
  • Secure funding to sponsor the APFs for published papers (usually in the $10-20k range).

Alternately, the abstracts of the conference may be published in a supplement in iProc, with selected full papers published later in a theme issue or in regular JMIR issues.