Maged N. Kamel Boulos

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Senior (Principal) Lecturer in Health Informatics at University of Plymouth
Editor-in-Chief at Int J Health Geogr (indexed in MEDLINE - tracked by ISI) http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/
Co-Chair, WG IV/4: Virtual Globes and Context-Aware Visualisation/Analysis at ISPRS Commission IV Geodatabases and Digital Mapping, 2008-2012

Lead Investigator (P.I.) at the University of Plymouth at CAALYX (EU FP6 project) http://caalyx.eu/
Lead Investigator (P.I.) at the University of Plymouth at eCAALYX (EU AAL project) http://ecaalyx.org/
Lead Academic at DTI KTP with Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (2009-2012)
Lead Investigator (P.I.) at Education UK Island's Sexual Health SIM in Second Life® http://healthcybermap.org/slsexualhealth/
External Examiner for the MSc in Health Informatics and MSc in Healthcare Technologies (2009-2012) at City University
External Examiner for the MSc in Health Informatics at University of Winchester (2006-2009)
Member of the Advisory Group at NLH Skin Disorders Specialist Library
Member of the Editorial Board at RECIIS http://www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/
Editor of NLH/NHS Informatics UK Health GIS SIG at http://www.espace.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/
Associate Editor at Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
Editorial Board Member at Future Internet, a journal published by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland
Editorial Board Member at Egyptian Dermatology Online Journal
Fellow at Royal Geographical Society (FRGS)
Senior Member at IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

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Past

Lecturer in Healthcare Informatics at University of Bath
Reasearch Assistant at the Centre for Measurement and Infomation in Medicine at City University, London
Medical Doctor (Dermatology & Venereology) at various locations

Education

City University
King's College London, U. of London
Ain Shams University

Ain Shams University
University of Bath

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Maged N. Kamel Boulos’s Summary

Maged N. Kamel Boulos is Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics at the University of Plymouth, Devon, UK. He previously worked as Lecturer in Health Informatics at the University of Bath, UK, where he was instrumental in developing the online MSc programme in Healthcare Informatics, and worked before that at City University, London, UK, on an EU-funded diabetes telematics project. As well as his medical degree and Master in Dermatology, he holds a Master in Medical Informatics (2000) from King's College, University of London, and a PhD in Measurement and Information in Medicine (2002) from City University, London, both in UK. Maged teaches and has over 80 publications on a specialist range of medical and public health informatics topics, including telehealthcare, health GIS, Semantic Web/knowledge management and Social Web applications. He is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; L3 Member of UKCHIP, the UK Council for Health Informatics Professions; Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE EMBS; and Co-Chair, WG IV/4: Virtual Globes and Context-Aware Visualisation/Analysis, within ISPRS Commission IV Geodatabases and Digital Mapping, 2008-2012. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access, MEDLINE-indexed International Journal of Health Geographics (http://ij-healthgeographics.com). He has undertaken consultancies/commissioned reviews and has been Principal Investigator on various activities funded by national and international bodies, including London School of Economics; UK BERR/DTI KTP Programme; KFSHRC (King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre), Jeddah; Qatar National Research Fund; Public Health Agency of Canada (funding one of his PhD students); World Health Organization EMRO; European Commission (CAALYX and eCAALYX EU-funded projects); and ISPRS. His research received wide press and media coverage, e.g., http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3641634.stm
Selected publications: http://healthcybermap.semanticweb.org/publications/publications.doc

Maged N. Kamel Boulos’s Specialties:

Medical Informatics
Dermatology and Venereology

Maged N. Kamel Boulos’s Experience

Senior (Principal) Lecturer in Health Informatics

University of Plymouth

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

2005 — Present (5 years )
Editor-in-Chief

Int J Health Geogr (indexed in MEDLINE - tracked by ISI) http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/

(Research industry)

2002 — Present (8 years )

Also journal founder (conceived and launched in 2001/2002), and member of the World Association of Medical Editors--WAME (http://www.wame.org/) and the Committee on Publication Ethics--COPE (http://publicationethics.org/).
Co-Chair, WG IV/4: Virtual Globes and Context-Aware Visualisation/Analysis

ISPRS Commission IV Geodatabases and Digital Mapping, 2008-2012

(Research industry)

1910 — Present (100 years )

http://www.isprs.org/technical_commissions/wgtc_4.aspx#wg_IV/4
Lead Investigator (P.I.) at the University of Plymouth

CAALYX (EU FP6 project) http://caalyx.eu/

(Research industry)

1909 — Present (101 years )
Lead Investigator (P.I.) at the University of Plymouth

eCAALYX (EU AAL project) http://ecaalyx.org/

(Research industry)

1908 — Present (102 years )

http://ecaalyx.org/
Lead Academic

DTI KTP with Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (2009-2012)

(Research industry)

1907 — Present (103 years )

DTI KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) http://www.ktponline.org.uk/ in association with Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust http://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/ (£186,112.00; 2009-2012) to develop decision support mechanisms enabling improvements in capital investment for clinical technologies assimilating technology trends and informing service-level capital investment strategies
Lead Investigator (P.I.)

Education UK Island's Sexual Health SIM in Second Life® http://healthcybermap.org/slsexualhealth/

(Higher Education industry)

1906 — Present (104 years )
External Examiner for the MSc in Health Informatics and MSc in Healthcare Technologies (2009-2012)

City University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

1905 — Present (105 years )
External Examiner for the MSc in Health Informatics

University of Winchester (2006-2009)

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

1904 — Present (106 years )
Member of the Advisory Group

NLH Skin Disorders Specialist Library

(Medical Practice industry)

1900 — Present (110 years )
Member of the Editorial Board

RECIIS http://www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/

(Research industry)

1900 — Present (110 years )
Editor of NLH/NHS Informatics UK Health GIS SIG

http://www.espace.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/

(Research industry)

1900 — Present (110 years )
Associate Editor

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

(Research industry)

1900 — Present (110 years )

Published by the Department of Radio, TV & Film at the University of Texas at Austin, USA http://jvwresearch.org/
Editorial Board Member

Future Internet, a journal published by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland

(Research industry)

1900 — Present (110 years )

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/editors
Editorial Board Member

Egyptian Dermatology Online Journal

(Research industry)

1900 — Present (110 years )

http://www.edoj.org.eg/
Fellow

Royal Geographical Society (FRGS)

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

1900 — Present (110 years )

http://www.rgs.org/
Senior Member

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

1900 — Present (110 years )

and of IEEE EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society http://www.embs.org/)

Maged N. Kamel Boulos’s Education

City University

PhD , Measurement and Information in Medicine , 2002
King's College London, U. of London

MSc , Medical Informatics , 2000
Ain Shams University

MSc , Dermatology and Venereology , 1994
Ain Shams University

MBBCh , Medicine and Surgery , 1989
University of Bath

Lecturer in Healthcare Informatics (full-time); now part-time tutor , http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mpsmnkb/

I have been responsible for the unit authoring and teaching for Remote Healthcare, Human Computer Interaction and Applied Research Methods (MSc), in addition to other miscellaneous teaching activities (face-to-face and online) and MSc/PhD project supervisions. I served on a number of committees including the University Computing Liaison Committee, School for Health Research Students Committee and Board of Studies, and the MSc Healthcare Informatics Board of Examiners and Programme Committee. Completed my ITDP-Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Programme (accredited by the Higher Education Academy) in 2004 while working there.