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Dr. Elske Ammenwerth

Professor of Medical Informatics, Institute of Medical Informatics, UMIT TIROL - Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology, Eduard Wallnöfer Zentrum 1, 6060 Hall in Tirol, Austria, http://iig.umit-tirol.at 

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Prof. Dr. Elske Ammenwerth studied Medical Informatics (Dipl.-Inform. Med.) at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn. She earned her doctorate (Dr. sc. hum.) from the University of Heidelberg in 2001. In 2002, she joined UMIT TIROL as an assistant professor and head of the Research Group on the Assessment of Health Information Systems. In 2005, she was appointed full professor of Medical Informatics and became head of the Institute of Medical Informatics. She also holds a Master’s degree in Educational Technology (M.E.T.) from the University of British Columbia and a Master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Environmental Sciences from FernUniversität Hagen.

Her research focuses on electronic health records, patient portals, hospital information systems and their management, IT evaluation in healthcare, evidence-based health informatics, and learning analytics. She founded the Working Group on the Assessment of Health Information Systems within the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and serves as co-chair of the Austrian Health Informatics Working Group (AK-MI). Between 2008 and 2016, she co-organized the annual Austrian eHealth Conference in Vienna and the European Nursing Informatics (ENI) conference, which focused on IT in nursing and social care.

Dr. Ammenwerth represents Austria at the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and EFMI. For her contributions to evidence-based health informatics, she received the David Sackett Prize from the German Network for Evidence-Based Medicine. In 2011, she was named an International Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), and in 2017, she became a founding member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI). She has delivered keynote speeches at major conferences, including Medical Informatics Europe, Ascendio, and the eHealth Summit Switzerland.

She has authored over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles and has published or edited more than 25 books and conference proceedings on health informatics. She has served on the program committees of over 100 scientific workshops and conferences in health informatics. Dr. Ammenwerth is a member of the editorial boards of Methods of Information in Medicine, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Applied Clinical Informatics, and Journal of Biomedical Informatics. She also reviews for journals such as Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Journal of Medical Internet Research, and Educational Technology Research and Development.

Dr. Ammenwerth initiated and manages two master’s programs: the fully online Health Information Management master’s program at UMIT, launched in 2017, and the EFMI-accredited blended-learning Medical Informatics master’s program, started in 2020. In 2018, her team received the John Mantas Prize for the Best Paper on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics for their work on innovative online instructional designs.

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