Science Chair
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Georges De Moor Head of the Department of Medical Informatics and Statistic School of Medicine Ghent University Belgium |
Biography
Professor Dr. Georges J.E. De Moor studied Medicine and specialised in Clinical Pathology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of Ghent (Belgium), where he also obtained in 1994 his PhD in Medical Information Science.
He is head of the Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics at the State University of Ghent, Belgium, where he teaches Health Informatics, Medical Statistics, Decision Theory and Evidence Based Medicine.
Dr. De Moor is also head of the Clinical Pathology Laboratory of the St-Elisabeth Hospital in Zottegem (since 2001).
As president of RAMIT (Research in Medical Informatics and Telematics), he has been involved in both European and International Research and Development projects (+85), as well as in Standardisation activities. For seven years, Prof. De Moor acted as the Founding Chairman of CEN/TC251, the official Technical Committee on standardisation in health informatics in Europe. He has been one of the initiators of ISO/TC 215.
As a result of the conducted research, Prof. De Moor has been founding or co-founding a number of companies of which he has been or still is director, chairman or C.E.O.
In 2004, he was elected President of the European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec) which is the de facto body for certification of Electronic Health Record systems in Europe (http://www.eurorec.org).
In Belgium, Prof. De Moor chairs a number of official Committees, among which the Health Telematics Committee of the Belgian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, as well as a number of scientific and professional organisations.
He has edited seven books related to ICT in Health and published over 200 articles in international peer reviewed scientific journals.
In 2005 he was awarded with the International Rory O'Moore Medal (presented by Bertie Ahern, in Dublin) for Health Informatics.