Lecture. Improving health through social media, mHealth and mobile apps

Health Science Studies Meeting. Programme Internationalization at home «La Caixa»

With the collaboration of Obra Social de "La Caixa"

In this presentation, Luis Luque (@luisluque) and Professor Panagiotis Bamidis will provide insights in the current trends and challenges of health social media research. Luis Luque will provide an overview of challenges such as the promotion of anorexia or anti vaccination propaganda in addition to new innovative applications that combine big data, games, social media and the Internet of things. Professor Bamidis will provide insights about the use of the internet, mobile telephones, tablets and gaming technologies for monitoring and treatment of elderly.

LECTURERS

Luis Fernandez-Luque has been involved in eHealth and Medical Informatics research for nearly 10 years. He has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, 20 of them indexed in PubMed and cited over 211 times in the last 5 years (according to Google Scholar). He has been working in in several research institutions such as Norut, Tech Univ of Valencia (Spain) and Harvard Medical School (USA). He has been coordinating national projects and participated in numerous international projects. He has been working in the last seven years in the field of Health Social Media, becoming one of the leading experts in this emerging field. He is currently the Chairman of the Social Media Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association.

Prof. Panagiotis Bamidis, Assist. Prof. of Medical Education Informatics is leading the working group of Medical Education Informatics at the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He has been the co-ordinator of many European projects (www.meducator.net, www.longlastingmemories.eu, www.epblnet.eu) as well as the principal investigator for a number of national and international funded projects (more than 25 in total). His research interests are within technology enhanced learning in Medical Education (web2.0, semantic web, serious games, virtual patients, PBL) and Affective and Physiological Computing and HCI and Affective Neurosciences. In 2009, he was awarded the Prize of the AUTH Research Committee for the Best Track Record in funded research projects among AUTH young academic staff. He has been the Chairman/Organiser of six international conferences (iSHIMR2001, iSHIMR2005, MEDICON2010, GASMA2010, SAN2011, MEI2012) and the Conference Producer of the Medical Education Informatics Conference and Spring School Series. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) and a founding member of OKFN Greek chapter.