Rate My Professor Enrico Coiera

Professor Enrico Coiera, MBBS, PhD, serves as Professor and Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences. He earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Sydney and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, from the University of New South Wales. Trained initially in medicine, Coiera spent ten years at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol, UK, where he led health technology projects. He co-founded the Centre for Health Informatics in 2000 and directs the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digital Health. His research in Medical Informatics focuses on using digital health to address health service delivery problems, patient safety informatics, consumer e-health, translational bioinformatics, evidence-based decision support, text summarization methods for scientific discovery, and clinical communication. Coiera authored the textbook Guide to Health Informatics (3rd edition, 2015), which is widely used internationally and translated into several languages. He oversaw eHealth interventions such as the Healthy.me consumer system, underpinning technologies now used by a US health startup.