Editorial Board

FOUNDING EDITOR & PUBLISHER

Gunther Eysenbach, MD MPH
Senior Scientist, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research;
Toronto General Research Institute of the UHN;

Associate Professor,
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
(Canada)

email:

(do not use email for submissions - submissions are only accepted via our web-based submission system)

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EDITORIAL BOARD

The editorial board is currently being reorganized, with the new EB members taking on a more active role in screening submissions, assigning peer-reviewers, and guiding manuscripts through the peer-review process. If you are interested in serving on the editorial board, please read the notes at the bottom of this page.

Ellen Balka
Professor, School of Communication,
Simon Fraser University
(Canada)

Enrico Coiera MB BS Ph.D.
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Computer Science
University of New South Wales, Sydney
(Australia)

Khaled El Emam Ph.D
Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information
University of Ottawa
(Canada)

Joshua Fogel, PhD
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York,
Department of Economics
(USA)

Thomas K. Houston, M.D., MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Scientist, Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education
University of Alabama - Birmingham
(USA)

Andre Kushniruk Ph.D.
Director, School of Health Information Science
University of Victoria
(Canada)

John Powell MA MB BChir MSc PhD MRCPsych MFPHM
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Section of Public Health and Epidemiology,
Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
(UK)

Lee M Ritterband PhD
Associate Professor, University of Virginia Health System
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences,
Behavioral Health and Technology
Charlottesville, VA
(USA)

Alejandro (Alex) R. Jadad MD, DPhil, FRCPC
Professor, Departments of Anaesthesia, and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, and Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
(Canada)

Jim Till, Ph.D.
University of Toronto c/o Ontario Cancer Institute
University Health Network, Toronto
(Canada)

Jeremy Wyatt DM, FRCP, MB, BS
Professor of Health Informatics, University of Dundee
(UK)

FORMER EB MEMBERS & ADVISORS

Richard J Appleyard, Ph.D., BA (Oxon)
Director of Disability Informatics, Oregon Institute on Disability and Development; Assistant Professor, Dept Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology,
Oregon Health & Science University
(USA)

Vincenzo Della Mea, Ph.D.
Inst. of Pathology, University of Udine
(Italy)

John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
International Society for Mental Health Online
PsychCentral.com
(USA)

Stephen Keevil, MA(Oxon), MSc, Ph.D.
Department of Radiological Sciences
The Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, London
(United Kingdom)

John Mack, MS, Mphil
President and Co-founder,
Internet Healthcare Coalition
(USA)

Helga E. Rippen, M.D., Ph.D., MPH
Director, Science and Technology Policy Institute, RAND
(USA)

Ahmad Risk, M.D.
Family physician
(UK)

Roberto J. Rodrigues M.D.
Consultant, fmr. Coordinator, Health Services Information Systems Program,
Division of Health Systems and Services Development
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington
(USA)

Nicolas P. Terry J.D.
Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Health Law Studies,
Saint Louis University
(USA)

J.W. Hans van der Slikke, M.D. Ph.D.
Obstetrician/Gynaecologist, Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre, Amsterdam,
Medical Director OBGYN.net
Chairman Society for the Internet in Medicine,
(The Netherlands)

Lead Copyeditor
Kelly Davis, Toronto
We are constantly looking for experienced copyeditors (technical editors) to edit/clean manuscripts, check references, query authors, and bring manuscripts into AMA/JMIR style. Please only apply if you have extensive experience in editing medical manuscripts according to AMA Style and if you have a sound understanding of how statistics in medicine should be reported.

Web Editor + Programmer (XML/HTML Editing)
(use this email address to report technical problems and glitches)
[position vacant], Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Toronto

Publisher + Editorial Office
Dr. Gunther Eysenbach, c/o Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, 190 Elizabeth Street, Toronto M5G 2C4, Canada
Fax (+1) 416 340 3595

Acknowledgements The Journal of Medical Internet Research is an independent non-profit academic project, by eHealth researchers for eHealth researchers, without involvement of any major publishers. We are convinced that the Internet opens novel ways to publish and peer-review scholarly work independently from any of the large publishing houses, and this Journal is a living example. We also think that research work should remain the property of the creator and be distributed under an Open Access model (as opposed to researchers signing away the copyright of their work). The Journal of Medical Internet Research is supported by the individual grants held by the researchers who publish in JMIR (through the Article Processing Fees) as well as through a network of individual and institutional members forming a "Network of Excellence in eHealth Research" and supporting this unique knowledge dissemination project. Please consider to join the network to support JMIR. We thank the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation for two small grants to support publication of works from authors from less developed countries (unfortunately, this program has ended).
The Journal of Medical Internet Research had been made possible with initial support of Symposion Publishing, Duesseldorf, in particular with support of Dr. Niklas Stiller and Klaus Wrede. From 2000-2001 the Journal was published and hosted by the University of Heidelberg, Dept. of Clinical Social Medicine.
Since May 2002, the Journal is hosted at the University Health Network, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Toronto, Canada.

Information for potential peer reviewers, editorial board members and guest editors

Editorial board members

JMIR will elect a new editorial board in 2007. Editorial board members will have more responsibilities, such as serving as section editor to guide a manuscript through peer-review.

If you are interested to serve, send a brief email to the editor (email address see above), stating the subject area you are most interested/experienced in. Enclose a full list of publications, a list of funded research as principal investigator, and activities as editorial board member or referee for other journals or research programs. Simultaneous membership of editorial boards of other journals or newsletters closely related to the area of Internet and Medicine must be disclosed.

Peer-reviewers wanted !

We are actively looking for peer-reviewers from all specialties. Peer-reviewers should be experienced researchers who have published Medline-indexed peer-reviewed papers before. If you want to be added to our peer-reviewers database, please log-in (if you have already an account) or register as a user in our web-based manuscript tracking system. Note that all corresponding authors of published JMIR articles are automatically added to our peer-reviewers database and may occasionally be invited to comment on articles related to their subject area.

Guest editors

We are also constantly looking for guest editors who wish to compile a theme issue on a special subtopic (for example: electronic publishing, telemedicine, quality of health information, patient education, decision-support, Internet in psychiatry).

This may be particularly interesting for workshop and conference organizers putting together a grant-funded event (e.g. with invited experts) on an eHealth-related topic. JMIR can then be used as a dissemination vehicle (Funding through grants or other sources is usually required and should be bidgeted for in grant proposals. Letters of support are available from the JMIR editor. Note that granting agencies such as NLM or CIHR usually want to see some sort of knowledge translation activities in workshop proposals, and have in the past funded the JMIR APFs).

The task of the guest editor(s) is generally

to solicit manuscripts from colleagues concerning the selected topic,
to select peer-reviewers for incoming manuscripts,
to make decisions (together with the editorial board) on article revisions and acceptance, and
to write an editorial for the theme issue
to secure funding to sponsor the APFs for published papers (usually in the $10-20k range).

Alternately, the abstracts of the conference may published in a supplement, with selected full papers published later in a theme issue or in regular JMIR issues.

Societies and associations affiliated with JMIR

As the field is rapidly expanding, many national and international organisations are currently being created, dealing with the social and medical issues covered by this journal. We are constantly seeking to establish more formal links with societies, associations, or other entities, particularly those who are active in the field of medical informatics, consumer health informatics, or eHealth, or related social sciences, by inviting them to become affiliated with the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

The Journal of Medical Internet Research can for example enhance the attractiveness of becoming member in your society/association, by offering discounted article processing fees for association members.

If desired, representatives from affiliated societies may become Associate Editors, coordinating submissions from the society, compiling special sections of the journal or taking part in the general editorial and peer-reviewing processes and decisions.

The affiliation of the Journal of Medical Internet Research with the society may also be made visible by introducing a new subtitle "Official Journal of the Society ... / Association for ....".

Individuals interested in discussing any of these arrangements should contact the editor-in-chief with information about your position within the society, information about the mission of the society, number of members, and which affiliation model you would favor. We are also open to new ideas of collaboration and partnerships.