Committee

Organizers and Technical Programme Committee:

General and Scientific Chair:

Patty Kostkova, UCL, London, UK

Programme Co-Chairs:

Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK

Carlos Castillo, Eurecat, Spain

DH 2016 & WWW 2016 Liaison Chair:

Roger Nkambou, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Industry Chair:

Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, Sympatico, Canada

Clinical Chair:

Alberto Sanna, eServices for Life and Health, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Italy

Local Chair:

Philip Abdelmalik, Public Health Canada, Canada

Start-up Chair:

Tim Barnes, UCL, UK

Poster and Demo Chair:

Ed de Quincey, Keele University, UK

Web and Proceedings Chair:

Andrew Roxburgh, University of Liverpool, UK

PhD Track Chairs:

Luis Fernández-Luque, NORUT, Norway
Yelena Mejova, QCRI, Qatar
Hamed Haddadi, QMU London, UK

Sponsorship Chair:

Andreea Molnar, University of Portsmouth, UK


Senior TPC & Track Chairs:

  • Big data analytics and crowdsourcing for public health surveillance and emergencies

Alain April, ETS, Montreal, Canada
Luis Fernández-Luque, NORUT, Norway
Daniela Paolotti, ISI Foundation, Italy
John Brownstein, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

  • Web 2.0, online medical/patient communities of practice and persuasive technology

Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK
Wendy Moncur, University of Dundee, UK
Cécile Paris, CSIRO, Australia

  • Smart Health and intelligent ubiquitous technologies for health and wellbeing

Andreas Holzinger, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Martina Ziefle, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Carsten Röcker, Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, Germany

  • Tracking/wearable and mobile technology for personal, public and global health

Nuria Oliver, Telefonica, Spain
Aleksandar Matic, Telefonica, Spain

  • Digital Prevention and Interventions

David Hansen, CSIRO, Australia
Andrew Hayward, UCL, UK

  • mhealth for global health in low and middle income settings

Ed Fottrell, UCL, UK
Alain Labrique, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

  • Social Computing for Health

Yelena Mejova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Sofiane Abbar, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Hamed Haddadi, Queen Mary University of London, UK

  • Semantic Web, Knowledge Management/Extraction, Web Science and Health

Albert Burger, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Strathclyde, UK
Claudio Eccher, FBK, Italy

  • e-Learning, Edutaiment and Serious Games for Health

Baltasar Fernández Manjón, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Alberto Sanna, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Italy

  • Industry and Start-Up Track

Tim Barnes, UCL, UK

  • Health Service Robotics and Sensors

Alberto Sanna, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Italy
Diana Trojaniello, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy

  • PhD Track

Luis Fernández-Luque, NORUT, Norway
Yelena Mejova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Hamed Haddadi, Queen Mary University of London, UK

  •  Health Challenge / Hackathon Team

Yelena Mejova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Luis Fernández-Luque, NORUT, Norway
Guido Giunti, Salumedia Tecnologías, Spain
Santiago Hors Fraile, Salumedia Tecnologías, Spain
Hamed Haddadi, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Programme Committee

NameOrganisation

Sofiane Abbar QCRI
Dionisio Acosta University College London
Eyhab Al-Masri University of Waterloo
Nabil Alshurafa UCLA
Navid Amini Jules Stein Eye Institute
Elske Ammenwerth UMIT
Alain April École de Technologie Supérieure
Dk Arvind University of Edinburgh
Mariam Awad Bethlehem University
Timothy Barnes University College London
Nadia Berthouze University College London
Carl Blesius Harvard Medical School
Olivier Bodenreider US National Library of Medicine
Arnold Bosman ECDC
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane University of Strathclyde
Pamela Briggs Northumbria University
John Brownstein Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Ellen Brox Northern Research Institute Tromsø
Miroslav Bursa Czech Technical University in Prague
Elena Cardillo Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italian National Council of Research
Rumi Chunara New York University
Robin Cohen University of Waterloo
Olivier Corby INRIA
Ulises Cortés Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Karen Day University of Auckland
Berardina Nadja De Carolis dipartimento di informatica universita’ di bari
Omid Dehzangi University of Michigan Dearborn
Gayo Diallo ISPED & LABRI, University of Bordeaux
Jim Duggan National University of Ireland, Galway
David Farrell Glasgow Caledonian University
Luis Fernández-Luque NORUT
Edward Fottrell University College London
Ana Franco Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Reva Freedman Northern Illinois University
Enrique Frias-Martinez Telefonica Research
Nazli Goharian Georgetown University
Bruno Gonçalves New York University
Cathal Gurrin Dublin City University
Jaap Ham Eindhoven University of Technology
Michel Hanania Bethlehem University
David Hansen e-Health Research Centre
Yang Hao Queen Mary College, University of London
Hermie Hermens Roessingh Research/University of Twente
Andreas Holzinger Medical University and Graz University of Technology
Helmut Horacek Saarland University
Alexander Hörbst University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology
Ming-Chun Huang Case Western Reserve University
Muhammad Imran Qatar Computing Research Institute
Katharina Kaiser University of Applied Sciences St. Poelten
Jeonggil Ko Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Vasileios Lampos University College London
Sunghoon Lee Harvard Medical School
Marilyn Lennon University of Glasgow
Stefano Leonardi University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Lenka Lhotska Czech Technical University in Prague, Dept. of Cybernetics
Peter Lucas Radboud University Nijmegen
Luis Luque Northern Research Institute – Norut, Tromsø, Norway
Mira Marcus-Kalish Tel Aviv University
Sandro Meloni University of Zaragoza
Jochen Meyer OFFIS Institute for Information Technology
Francesco Miele Bruno Kessler Foundation – Center for Communication and Information Technology
Andreea Molnar University of Portsmouth
Antonio Moreno URV
Bobak Mortazavi UCLA Computer Science – Wireless Health Institute
Nikki Newhouse University College London
Nuria Oliver Telefonica Research
Rita Orji University of Saskatchewan
Hans Ossebaard University of Twente/Health care Quality Institute
Daniela Paolotti ISI Foundation
Pasi Penttinen ECDC
Matthew Purver Queen Mary University of London
Luz Rello Carnegie Mellon University
David Riaño Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Sara Rubinelli University of Lugano
Carlos Luis Sánchez Bocanegra University of Seville
Melina Santos Ministry of Health of Brazil
Heiko Schuldt University of Basel
Steven Simske Hewlett-Packard Labs
Aneesha Singh UCL Interaction Centre
Kirsten Smith University of Aberdeen
Jacopo Staiano LIP6, UPMC – Sorbonne Universités
Katarzyna Stawarz UCL Interaction Centre
Charlotte Tang University of Michigan Flint
Adel Taweel King’s College London
Matthew E. Taylor Washington State University
Michele Tizzoni ISI Foundation
Eran Toch Tel Aviv University
Bedirhan Ustun WHO
Ielka Van Der Sluis University of Groningen
Athanasios Vasilakos Lulea University of Technology
Jan Vejvalka Charles University, Prague
Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Ingmar Weber Qatar Computing Research Institute
Yeliz Yesilada University of Manchester
Elad Yom-Tov Microsoft Research
Martina Ziefle RWTH Aachen