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Prof Enrico Coiera FAIDH

Using digital health to solve health service delivery problems, patient safety informatics, consumer e-health, translational bioinformatics, evidence-based decision support, text summarisation methods to support scientific discovery, and clinical communication.

Professor Coiera is Foundation Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University, and Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, a group he co-founded in 2000 and is also Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in eHealth. Trained in medicine and with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Coiera has a research background in both industry and academia. Coiera has won a number of prestigious awards including the 2015 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) François Grémy Award for Excellence. He was elected Foundation Fellow and first President of the Australian College of Health Informatics, is a foundation member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, an International Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sceinces.