Professor Enrico Coiera
- Director, Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation
- Founder, Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH)
Phone: +61 2 9850 2403
E-mail: enrico.coiera@mq.edu.au
Biography
MBBS [Syd], PhD [UNSW], FACMI, FACHI
Professor Enrico Coiera is Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, and Foundation Professor in Medical Informatics, Macquarie University. Trained in medicine with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), he has a research background in industry and academia, with a strong international research reputation.
Professor Coiera spent 10 years at the prestigious Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, Bristol, UK, where he led numerous health technology projects and has overseen the development and trial of multiple e-Health interventions. Professor Coiera holds a NHMRC Leadership Investigator grant.
Professor Coiera founded and leads the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH). He was awarded the François Grémy Award by the International Medical Informatics Association in 2015, and was named the Australian Field Leader in Medical Informatics in 2021. In 2017, he was one of ~100 scientists worldwide elected as a Foundation Member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.
Professor Coiera was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2018, and a Member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety in Healthcare in 2020. His textbook Guide to Health Informatics 3rd edition is widely used internationally, translated into several languages. He has >400 publications, >25,000 citations in Google Scholar.
University positions
Professor of Medical Informatics
Director, Centre for Health Informatics
Books
Other publications
Featured projects
- Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH)
- Creating safe, effective systems of care: The translational challenge
- Patient safety
Other projects
External positions, society memberships and professional activities
- Member, Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), Pandemic Response Working Group 2020 → …
- Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences 2018 → …
- Associate Editor, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2017 → …
- Foundation Member, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics 2017 → …
- Editorial Committee, Healthdirect Australia 2013 → …
- Journal Editorial Board, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2006 → …
- Foundation Fellow, Australasian College of Health Informatics 2002 → …
- International Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics 1999 → …
- Member, American Medical Informatics Association 1999 → …
- Editorial Board, Journal of Medical Internet Research 1998 → …
Awards
- 2015 François Grémy Award of Excellence, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
- 2006 Intel Don Walker award for Quality
- 2005 IBM Research Laboratories Faculty Award (USA)
Specific research keywords
Health and Biomedical Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Health Services Research, Evidence Based Medicine, Systems Science, Health systems science, Communication in Health Care Systems, Evidence-based Decision Support, Bioinformatics, E-health, Patient Safety, Health System Sustainability