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Prof. Dr. Reinhold Haux

Prof. Dr. Reinhold Haux

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Director, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics
Universty of Braunschweig, Institute of Technology and
Hannover Medical School, Germany

Full Professor of Medical Informatics,
Department of Computer Science, TU Braunschweig

Adjunct Professor of Medical Informatics,
Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, Germany

Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics
Universty of Braunschweig, Institute of Technology and
Hannover Medical School
Muehlenpfordtstra?e 23
D-38106 Braunschweig
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 551 / 391 - 9501
fax:+49 (0) 551 / 391 - 9502
Reinhold.Haux@plri.de
www.plri.de

degrees
master degree ('Diplom') in Medical Informatics from the University of Heidelberg and the University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn, Germany, in 1978
Ph.D. degree (Dr.rer.biol.hum.) from the Faculty for Theoretical Medicine, University of Ulm, Germany, in 1983
license for Lecturing ('Habilitation') for Medical Informatics and Statistics from the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, 1987

positions

1978 - 1984 research assistant, Institute for Medical Documentation, Statistics and Data Processing, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1984 - 1987 research assistant, Institute for Medical Statistics and Documentation, Technical University of Aachen, Germany
1987 - 1989 associate professor of medical informatics, Medical Faculty, University of Tuebingen, Germany
1989 - 2001 full professor of medical informatics, Medical Faculty, and director of the Department of Medical Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2001 - 2004 full professor of medical informatics at the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT) at Innsbruck, later Hall, Austria, rector (president) of UMIT and director of the Institute of Health Information Systems
since 2002 adjunct professor of medical informatics, Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, Germany
since 2004 adjunct faculty for medical informatics of UMIT, Austria
since 2004 full professor of medical informatics, Department of Computer Science, and director of the Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology (TU Braunschweig), Germany
since 2007 director of the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School

research fields

  • health enabling technologies
  •  information and communication technologies to achieve sustainable conditions for autonomous, self-determined living
  • methods for pervasive computing and use of ubiquitously available information for diagnosis, therapy, prevention, and early identification of diseases as well as to assist in self-determined and autonomous living in the presence of diseases
  • health information systems and management
  • trans-institutional information system architectures for co-operative, patient-centered, and shared care
  • modeling and evaluation of health information systems, as well as analysis, evaluation and simulation of processes in health care
  • strategic information management, IT-strategies for hospitals and for health care regions
  • medical data management
  • electronic patient records for co-operative (e.g. regional) health care and for clinical and epidemiological research

editorships

  • Methods of Information in Medicine (editor-in-chief, since 2001)
  • IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics (editor, since 2001)
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (editorial board, 1994)
  • *       Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (editorial board, 1991 - 1995)
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine (editorial board, since 2005)
  • Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie in Medizin und Biologie (editorial board, 1989 - 2002)
  • International Journal of Medical Informatics (editorial board, 1993 - 2003)
  • International Journal of Electronic Healthcare (editorial board, since 2006)
  • Informedica Journal (editorial board, since 2002)
  • Physican and Technology (editorial board, since 2003)

scientific associations

  • International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA): president (2007-2010); vice-president (1999 - 2006); chairperson of Working Group 1: Health and Medical Informatics Education (1995 - 2000)
  • German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (gmds):
  • member of the board (1990 - 1995)
  • German Association for Computer Science (GI): chairperson of the medical informatics special interest group (1992 - 1995)
  • American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI): international associate (since 1999)
  • Working Group Medical Informatics of the Austrian Computer Society and of the
  • Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering: member of the board (2002 - 2004)

other activities

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association):
  • elected reviever for medical informatics and biometry (1992 - 2000) member of the Committee for Computing (1995 - 2001)
  • University of Oldenburg, Research Institute for Informatics-Systems and -Tools (OFFIS):
  • member of its Scientific Board (1998 - 2006)
  • Government of the Province of Tyrol, Austria, and Tiroler Landeskrankenanstalten (TILAK):
  • chairperson of the Founding Council of UMIT (2000 - 2002)
  • chairperson or member of IT strategy boards of various hospitals, among others of the Heidelberg (1989 - 2001) and Erlangen University Medical Centers (1999 - 2001), of TILAK (2002 - 2004), and of Braunschweig Medical Center (since 2005)