Maged N. Kamel Boulos

Maged N. Kamel Boulos is a British health informatician

Health informatics

.Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care...

 and scientist currently based at the University of Plymouth

University of Plymouth

Plymouth University is the largest university in the South West of England, with over 30,000 students and is 9th largest in the United Kingdom by total number of students . It has almost 3,000 staff...

, having worked before that at the University of Bath

University of Bath

The University of Bath is a campus university located in Bath, United Kingdom. It received its Royal Charter in 1966....

 and at City University London. He is particularly known for his research into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications in health and healthcare, which received wide news media coverage. He is credited with coining the phrase-terms 'online consumer geoinformatics services' and 'wikification of GIS by the masses' back in 2005 [1],[2], when neogeography

Neogeography

Neogeography literally means "new geography" , and is commonly applied to the usage of geographical techniques and tools used for personal and community activities or for utilization by a non-expert group of users...

 and virtual globes were still very new.

Kamel Boulos is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access, MEDLINE

MEDLINE

MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care...

-indexed International Journal of Health Geographics, published by BioMed Central

BioMed Central

BioMed Central is a UK-based, for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access journal publication. BMC, and its sister companies Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central, publish over 200 scientific journals. Most BMC journals are now published only online. BMC describes itself as the...

 since 2002. He is Co-Chair of WG IV/4: Virtual Globes and Context-Aware Visualisation/Analysis, within the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing--ISPRS Commission IV Geodatabases and Digital Mapping, 2008-2012.

News media coverage (examples)

• Software 'Agents' Could Help Unmask Reality Of Disease Clusters - ScienceDaily (Sep. 7, 2005)
• New Map Fills Need in Disease Surveillance - Government Technology (Feb. 25, 2005)
• Survey shows dire shortage of dentists - Telegraph (May 2004)
• NHS 'must fill gaps in national shortage of dentists' - The Times (May 2004)
• NHS needs 5,000 extra dentists, says report - The Guardian (May 2004)
• Diabetes websites too complicated - BBC News (Sep. 10, 2004)

Publications and further detail

• MN Kamel Boulos' profile at University of Plymouth, UK
• Publications (partial list) in PubMed
• Kamel Boulos, MN, Contributor to the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, or ASPRS is the United States member organization of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Founded in 1934, the society is a scientific association serving over 7,000 professional members around the world...
  
  Manual of Geographic Information Systems, 2009 (Chapter 49 and DVD material)