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Shabbir Syed-Abdul MD., PhD: an associate professor at Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University. He is a leading researcher and a principal investigator at the International Center for Health Information Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Shabbir has 15 years experience of research in the domain of Long-term care with Wearable technologies, mHealth, Big data analysis and visualisation, Artificial Intelligence, Personal Health Records, Social Network in healthcare and Hospital Information System. He wants to empower care providers and improve patient participation and engagement. Dr. Shabbir is an editor of the book 'Participatory Health Through Social Media' published by Elsevier in 2016. Also, Dr. Shabbir is guest editor for the Journal Sensors since March 2018. Elia Gabarron is psychologist with experience in e-health research and actually is heading a research project on the use of computer/smartphone mediated communication and social networking in health promotion to youngsters. She has co-authored several international peer-reviewed articles in this field. Annie Lau, BE, PhD, is leader researcher of the Consumer Informatics group at the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI), Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia. CHI is the most active and productive consumer informatics research program in Australia, innovating new ways for consumers to engage with clinicians and health services through the use of e-health. Annie Lau has published important original research in this area and has led multiple international reviews on the role of social media for consumers and patients. |
