astronomy

Gunther Eysenbach

Gunther Eysenbach is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Gunther Eysenbach rather than just read about it. In short: Gunther Eysenbach (born 1967) is a German-Canadian researcher on healthcare, especially health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics. Career While a medical student, Eysenbach was on the executive board as elected communication director, later as vice-president of the European Medical Students' Association.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Gunther Eysenbach (born 1967) is a German-Canadian researcher on healthcare, especially health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics.

Career While a medical student, Eysenbach was on the executive board as elected communication director, later as vice-president of the European Medical Students' Association. He received an M.D. from the University of Freiburg and a Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health. From 1999 to 2002 he founded and headed a research unit on cybermedicine and ehealth at the University of Heidelberg and organized and chaired the World Congress on Internet in Medicine. In March 2002, he emigrated to Canada and since then has been senior scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University Health Network (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), and associate professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Eysenbach works in the field of consumer health informatics. He has written several books and articles, and organizes conferences. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. From 2000 to 2008, he was working group chair for the WG Consumer Health Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association. Other contributions include:

Initiator, organizer, and chair of the annual Medicine 2.0 Congress Eysenbach has conducted a study on the association between search engine queries and influenza incidence, which was replicated by other research groups 2–3 years later. He coined the terms "infoveillance" and "infodemiology" for these kinds of approaches. Eysenbach also contributed to the concept of "infodemic". Eysenbach is initiator of WebCite, an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages. Together with his former student Paul Kudlow, he cofounded TrendMD, a scholarly recommendation system and cross-publisher content marketing platform He is founder and CEO of the Canadian publisher JMIR Publications, which is the publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research and 30 other open access journals; JMIR Publications is one of Canada's fastest growing companies according to Business Insider He co-founded the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)

Bibliography Lewis, D; Eysenbach, G; Kukafka, R; Jimison, H; Stavri, Z, eds. (2005). Consumer Health Informatics. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-23991-0. OCLC 60413694. Eysenbach, G., ed. (1998). Medicine and Medical Education in Europe - The Eurodoctor. Stuttgart-New York: Thieme. ISBN 978-3-13-115221-3. OCLC 41647056. Eysenbach G; Lamers W, eds. (1999). Praxis und Computer (in German). Düsseldorf: Springer-Verlag/med-inform Verlagsges. Eysenbach, G (1994). Computer-Manual für Mediziner und Biowissenschaftler (in German). Munich-Baltimore: Urban & Schwarzenberg. ISBN 978-3-541-11841-0. OCLC 30558735.

See also WebCite – an on-demand Web archiving service founded by Eysenbach

References

External links Official website (via the Internet Archive) Faculty page at the University of Toronto (via the Internet Archive) Profile on Google Scholar

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Gunther Eysenbach

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Gunther Eysenbach claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Gunther Eysenbach before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Gunther Eysenbach ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Gunther Eysenbach

In research: Gunther Eysenbach appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Gunther Eysenbach in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Gunther Eysenbach is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1967 births, 20th-century Canadian scientists, 20th-century German scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Gunther Eysenbach outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is Gunther Eysenbach in simple terms?

Gunther Eysenbach (born 1967) is a German-Canadian researcher on healthcare, especially health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics. Career While a medical student, Eysenbach was on the executive board as elected communication director, later as vice-president of the European Medical St…

Why does Gunther Eysenbach matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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