Maged Kamel Boulos

Teaching interests
Medical and Public Health Informatics 

Staff serving as external examiners

External Examiner, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Diploma in Medical Informatics (January 2006)

External Examiner for the MSc in Health Informatics at University of Winchester (January 2006 - December 2009)

External Examiner for the MSc in Health Informatics and MSc in Healthcare Technologies at City University London (2009-2014)

External Examiner for the MSc in Healthcare Informatics and the MSc in Healthcare Information Governance at the University of Bath (2010-2013)

PhD Overseas External Examiner (appointed November 2008) for a candidate at Dept of Information Science, University of Otago, New Zealand

PhD External Examiner (appointed February 2009) for a candidate at City eHealth Research Centre/Centre of Health Informatics, School of Informatics, City University, London

PhD External Examiner (appointed August 2011) for another candidate at the Centre of Health Informatics, School of Informatics, City University, London

PhD External Examiner (May 2012) for a third candidate at the Centre of Health Informatics, School of Informatics, City University, London

 

Research interests
  
Next-generation Internet-based solutions for eHealth, namely:

• Internet GIS (Geographic Information Systems)/Participatory GIS/Neogeography
• GIS Data Privacy/Confidentiality Solutions
• 3-D Internet/3-D Virtual Worlds/3-D Mirror Worlds (Virtual Globes)
• Social Web Applications
• Semantic Web Applications
• Telemedicine/Telehealthcare
• Dermatology Informatics 
• Quality Benchmarking of Online Resources
• e-Learning
• Biomedical Journalology and Publishing in the Internet Age
• See also: http://healthcybermap.org/

 

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

• Supervised to successful completion/examined many MSc project students/dissertations at City University, London, University of Bath, and University of Plymouth; also served as External PhD Examiner at University of Otago, New Zealand, and City University, London 
• Lead Supervisor of H. Badredine (2004-2006); she was awarded her PhD degree from the University of Bath in 2008 (topic: Factors affecting electronic health care records adoption and success in developing Middle Eastern countries)
• Lead supervisor/'Director of Studies' of Philip AbdelMalik (2006-2011), PhD student at the University of Plymouth, funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada - ~CAD $60,000 (topic: GIS Data Privacy/Confidentiality - start date: 1^st April 2006 - see http://www.personplacetime.org/contact/default.htm) - thesis defended and accepted without amendments on 11/11/2011; PhD awarded in 2011
• Currently secondary supervisor of Rashid Kashani, PhD student at the University of Plymouth (topic: 3-D Virtual Worlds/Occupational Therapy)

 

Grants & contracts

During my years at the University of Plymouth, I secured >£380,000.00 of external research funding.

CAALYX (Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment, 2006-2008), IST-2005-045215 (FP6); Exploitation Manager and Workpackage 2 Leader/P.I. at Univ of Plymouth (UPLY): Dr MN Kamel Boulos; value €123,005.00 (UPLY's work), total €1,850,000.00 (all participants in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, UK and Ireland), funded by the European Commission http://caalyx.eu/

eCAALYX (enhanced Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment, 2009-2012 - http://ecaalyx.org/), EU-funded (AAL); P.I. at Univ of Plymouth (UPLY): Dr MN Kamel Boulos; value €50,000.00 (UPLY's work), total €4,000,000.00 (all participants in Spain, Portugal, Germany, UK and Ireland), funded by the European Commission http://www.aal-europe.eu/

MN Kamel Boulos, Lead Academic, TSB KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) in association with Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (KTP007462; value £186,112.00; 2009-2012) to develop decision support mechanisms enabling improvements in capital investment for clinical technologies assimilating technology trends and informing service-level capital investment strategies. 

MN Kamel Boulos (Co-Investigator) with Woodcock A (P.I., Coventry University), Whittle J (Lancaster University) and McAuley D (University of Nottingham). Digital Technologies Connecting Communities http://dtcc.yolasite.com/mission.php, funded by AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) under the 'Connected Communities Programme June 2010 Summit Follow-on Funding' http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/connectedcommunities.aspx (value for University of Plymouth part of the project: £2,000.00 - 2010/2011)

MN Kamel Boulos, Co-Investigator, with Ifeachor E and Carroll C. Promoting Healthy Living and Well-being for Parkinson Patients through Social Network and ICT Training - LiveWell (527943-LLP-1-2012-1-PT-GRUNDTVIG-GMP; October 2012 - September 2014; budget for Plymouth University part of the project is €48,107.00), funded by the European Commission EACEA (The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) under their Lifelong Learning Programme - Call EAC/27/11, Grundtvig Programme: Multilateral Projects. Coordinator: INOVA+, Portugal (http://www.inovamais.pt); Project Consortium includes, in addition to the Coordinator and Plymouth University, five other partners from Austria, Spain, Romania, Iceland and Slovenia. See: http://www.slideshare.net/sl.medic/liv-wellporto-magedwp325oct12

Integrating Virtual Globes and Web Service Technologies for ISPRS Higher Education Teaching and Research (March 2009 - February 2010); Principal Investigator: Prof. Jianya Gong (Wuhan University, China), Co-Investigator: Dr. Maged N. Kamel Boulos; value SFr. (CHF) 10,000.00, funded by ISPRS Council/the ISPRS Foundation http://www.isprs.org/

Kamel Boulos MN (Lead), Toth-Cohen S. Proposal: A 'Sexual Health' Public Education and Outreach SIM in Second Life (Funded by SL Education UK - a 1760 m2 Second Life land was granted on 9 July 2007 until 31 July 2008 - visit project Web site at http://healthcybermap.org/slsexualhealth/)

KFSHRC, Jeddah, KSA – Decision Support Unit Consultation (2006); value £1,375.00 (+ travel and accommodation costs)

World Health Organization (EMRO)/ University of Alexandria, Egypt – 'Alexandria Health Informatics Meeting/Workshop' consultancy for planning the development of diploma degree in medical informatics at Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine (March 2006)

Commissioned by Enterprise LSE (London School of Economics) to be the main author of a 'Cold Review' of a National Audit Office report on NHS Dentistry (December 2004)

MN Kamel Boulos (co-investigator), with R Jones, I Maramba and P Ashby. Project title: Working with Elderworld: development and evaluation of an additional e-learning module on dementia supported by webcasting. Value: £7,000.00 (May-December 2009). Funded by: University of Plymouth Research & Innovation Proof of Concept Fund.

MN Kamel Boulos (co-investigator), with J Richardson, R Jones, R Stillwell, S Hodge and other colleagues. Project title: Online training to enable The National Cancer Action Team (NCAT) to collaboratively produce and quality assure information for patients affected by cancer. Value: £8,112.00 (March-September 2010). Funded by NCAT.

NAQAAE--Egypt's National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education, consultancy and organisation of a learning and teaching workshop by MN Kamel Boulos (for about 40 Egyptian academics from various universities and disciplines) upon NAQAAE's invitation, 7-10 June 2010, Cairo, EG (all travel expenses covered by NAQAAE)  http://www.naqaae.eg/main/pdf/icc/NAQAAE_Day1_Day2_from_Maged-N-Kamel-Boulos.pdf and http://tinyurl.com/3yntxqz

Consultancy for European Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO - http://www.euro.who.int/) and Global Health Europe--Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (http://www.globalhealtheurope.org/): Governance for Health in the 21st Century to inform the European Health 2020 Policy. Participation at WHO EURO Expert Group Meeting on 18 February 2011, Geneva, Switzerland, and production of a background expert paper (8000 words) on 'Social media and Web 2.0 – how will they impact governance for health?' (all travel and participation expenses covered by WHO Europe/Graduate Institute Geneva). Final WHO study report informed by commissioned expert papers is available at http://www.euro.who.int/en/who-we-are/governance/regional-committee-for-europe/sixty-first-session/documentation/information-documents/inf-doc-6-governance-of-health-in-the-21st-century

Consultancy for KADRIS Consultants, Paris, France, acting on behalf of la Caisse des Dépôts - http://www.caissedesdepots.fr/ (French study on assisted living for elderly people - September/October 2007)

 

Conferences organised

With ISPRS colleagues: International Workshop on Virtual Changing Globe for Visualisation and Analysis (VCGVA 2009), October 27-28, 2009, Wuhan, China - Event photo: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/LQyEtB3Hp_oGIngiMje4vA?feat=directlink

pHealth 2012 (9th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, Porto, Portugal, 26-28 June 2012), serving as Scientific Steering Committee Member http://www.phealth2012.com/scientific-steering-commitee/

pHealth 2013 (10th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, Tallinn, Estonia, 26-28 June 2013), serving as Scientific Steering Committee Member http://phealth2013.eu/index.php?page=organization

GEOMED 2013, the 8th international interdisciplinary conference on spatial epidemiology, spatial statistics and geomedical systems, 16-18 September 2013, the Edge--University of Sheffield conference venue, Sheffield, UK, serving as Programme Committee Member, as well as Session Organiser and Chair of the conference's theme on Health Geography, one of GEOMED 2013's eight themed sessions. http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ph/conferences/geomed2013
 

Publications:

Please see http://healthcybermap.semanticweb.org/publications/publications.doc (>100 Peer-reviewed Journal Papers, Book Chapters, Conference Papers and Abstracts, PhD and MSc Theses and Published Software)

In PubMed (please note that not all of my publications are indexed in PubMed)

Contributed to ASPRS Manual of Geographic Information Systems, 2009 (Chapter 49 and DVD material)

Google Scholar h-index = 19 http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Q9-xbkAAAAJ

International collaborations--2005: 1. With Professor Gerard Rushton, Dept of Geography, University of Iowa, USA (one joint peer reviewed paper published so far); 2. With Professor Kiyoshi Honda, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (one joint peer reviewed paper published so far) 2007-2008: With Assoc Professor Susan Toth-Cohen, Jefferson College of Health Professions, Thomas Jefferson University, USA (on a Second Life project) 2008: 1. With Dr Robert Dellavalle, Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver, USA, within CCHI on a Web 2.0/Second Life paper for EMBO Reports (published by Nature Publishing Group); 2. With Dr Kevin A Clauson, Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice, and Dr Hyla H Polen (both at Nova Southeastern University, USA), and Dr Joan Dzenowagis, Project Manager for e-Health at the World Health Organization in Switzerland, on a joint Web 2.0 project to evaluate the accuracy and completeness of drug information in Wikipedia; 3. With Dr Kei H Cheung, Associate Professor, and Dr Matthew Scotch, Postdoc Fellow, both at Yale University, USA, on a paper about geo-mashups and on http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG/Project_Ideas/VisualWebSemanticWeb; and 4. With Dr Rameshsharma Ramloll, Idaho State University, Pocatello, USA, and others on a feature paper about 'Web 3D for public, environmental and occupational health, and emergency preparedness' 2009: 1. With Andrew J Curtis, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USA, on a research article about privacy issues in health research involving disaggregate geographic data about individuals; 2. With a number of European colleagues [R Castellot Lou (Telefónica I+D, Spain), CD Nugent (University of Ulster, NI), J Alexandersson (DFKI GmbH, Germany), G Zimmermann (Access Technologies Group, Germany), U Cortes (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), R Casas (University of Zaragoza, Spain)] on a research paper presenting a detailed overview of our new eCAALYX EU AAL-funded project in the context of five other related European projects, including our original CAALYX FP6 project, and exploring the synergies and complementarities across the six covered projects on the way towards the full realisation of integrative, comprehensive health/social care and daily living solutions for senior citizens in Europe and elsewhere; and 3. With Larry R Robinson, United States Geological Survey's Biological Resources Division, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Wisconsin, USA, on an investigation and paper about stereoscopic 3-D solutions for online maps and virtual globes 2010: 1. With Drs Antonio P Sanfilippo and Courtney D Corley at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, on a research paper about Technosocial Predictive Analytics and related social Web mining technologies; 2. With Jeffrey Warren at MIT Media Laboratory, Design Ecology Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and Profs Jianya Gong and Peng Yue at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, China, on a research paper about HTML5 and the canvas element for interactive online mapping; 3. With Drs Evangelos Bekiaris and Mary Panou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Thessaloniki, Greece, on a research paper about geo-enabled technologies for independent living; 4. With Prof Manfred Buchroithner at TU Dresden, Germany, on a joint book chapter in a Springer's forthcoming Lecture Notes on Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC) volume dedicated to True 3-D (Stereoscopic 3-D) in Cartography; 5. With colleagues at the Departments of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, and of Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, and at the Department of Oncology, International Medical Center, Jeddah, KSA, on a research project and paper entitled 'An eight-year snapshot of geospatial cancer research (2002-2009): clinico-epidemiological and methodological findings and trends'; 6. With the CAALYX Consortium on a paper entitled 'Innovations in Health Care Services: The CAALYX System'; 7. With Tony Mathys at EDINA National Data Centre, The University of Edinburgh, UK, on a paper entitled 'Geospatial resources for supporting data standards, guidance and best practice in health informatics'; and 8. With colleagues at the Open University in the UK on a joint book chapter entitled '3D Virtual Worlds in Higher Education' to be published in: Anders D. Olofsson and J. Ola Lindberg (Editors). Informed Design of Educational Technologies in Higher Education: Enhanced Learning and Teaching. Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global, 2011 2011/12: 1. With Dr Matthew N Anyanwu and colleagues at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (USA) on a paper about geospatial visual analytics using Microsoft Live Labs Pivot technology and WHO population/mortality data; 2. With Carlos Tavares, eCAALYX colleague at INESC PORTO, Portugal, on the role of smartphones in eCAALYX and beyond; 3. With Prof Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna and colleagues at Texas A&M University (USA) on a research paper about the use of depth sensors and natural user interfaces (NUIs) such as Microsoft Kinect to control virtual globes such as Google Earth; 4. With colleagues at MIT, USA; PNNL, USA; DERI, Ireland; York University, Canada; and two other institutions in USA and Taiwan on a 'mega-review' of the state-of-the-art in crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and Sensor Web technologies in public health and crisis informatics: doi:10.1186/1476-072X-10-67; 5. With PF Anderson, University of Michigan, USA, on a joint project focusing on medical journalology in the era of social media; and 6. With César Gálvez-Barrón and other eCAALYX project colleagues in Europe on a book chapter entitled 'Telemedicine scenario for elderly people with comorbidity' to appear in a volume entitled 'Ambient Assisted Living: From Technology to Intervention', edited by Nuno M. Garcia et al. and due for publication by Taylor and Francis/CRC Press in 2013 2013: 1. With Stephen Yang, PhD at SUNY Cortland (NY, USA) on a paper about 'GPS exergames'; and 2. Dean Giustini at the University of British Columbia, Canada, on a study entitled 'Google Scholar is not enough to be used alone for systematic reviews'


Reports & invited lectures:

Kamel Boulos MN. Towards an e-Aged Care / Health and Social Care Informatics Education and Research Agenda for Europe 2020 and beyond (invited keynote speech). In: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Health GIS, Bangkok, Thailand, 1-2 December 2005 - http://e-geoinfo.net/HealthGIS/FISH_prog.htm

Kamel Boulos MN. eHealth service interoperability: Paying attention to interfaces! Lessons from CAALYX and eCAALYX (invited keynote speech). In: Proceedings of the Third Middle East Conference of Health Informatics, Beirut, Lebanon, 31 March-1 April 2010 - organised by the Lebanese Medical Informatics Association (LMIA) in collaboration with MEAHI, the Middle East Association for Health Informatics within IMIA

Invited speech about Web 2.0 and 3D virtual worlds at UMSLG (University Medical School Librarians Group) / UHSL Open Forum on ‘e-learning in health and medicine’, Woburn House, London, 14 May 2007 - http://www.umslg.ac.uk/2007_openforum.htm (see news report about Dr Boulos' session on p.32 of CILIP Health Libraries Group Newsletter, 24(2) June 2007)

Presentation entitled 'Why visualize RL data in SL? (or the co-presence power of a 3-D virtual world)' at the 'Visualizing Real Data in a Virtual World' panel organized by Linden Lab, 2 July 2008, Second Life

Kamel Boulos MN. Novel Emergency/Public Health Situation Rooms and More Using 4-D GIS. Presented at: ISPRS WG IV/4 International Workshop on Virtual Changing Globe for Visualisation & Analysis (VCGVA2009), Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 27-28 October 2009 (Published in ISPRS Archives, Vol. XXXVIII ISSN No: 1682-1777 PART 4/W10) http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVIII/4-W10/papers/VCGVA2009_03608_Boulos.pdf and http://healthcybermap.org/publications/VCGVA2009-MNKB_27-10-2009_slides.zip

Kamel Boulos MN. Invited (in the capacity of a WHO Expert Adviser) by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe to deliver a speech at 'Governance for health at the local level: People, citizens and assets for health', 15-18 June 2011, Liège, Belgium. (This is the third Annual Business and Technical Conference of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network and the Network of European National Healthy Cities Networks in Phase V.) http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environment-and-health/urban-health/activities/healthy-cities/who-european-healthy-cities-network and http://www.provincedeliege.be/2011healthycities/

Kamel Boulos MN. Invited talk entitled 'Location-aware telehealth services: an overview of eCAALYX and how geolocation is being used in reasoning with clinical data' at Location-Based Technologies in Health & Care Services, Reading, UK, 8 February 2012 (an event organised by South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA) and the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network of the UK Technology Strategy Board - https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/6508521)

Kamel Boulos MN. Invited paper entitled 'Enhanced Ambient Assisted Living - eCAALYX' at Health Informatics Scotland Conference 2011, 13 September 2011, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (organised by British Computer Society Health Scotland)

Kamel Boulos MN. Public Health Informatics and GIS. Presented at the 27th Annual Scientific Congress on Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, 23-24 March 2006 http://www.alexmed.edu.eg/ (invited speech)

Symplectic Elements:

             http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maged_Kamel_Boulos/ (partial list)

Kamel Boulos MN, Yang SP. Exergames for health and fitness: the roles of GPS and geosocial apps. Int J Health Geogr. 2013; 12:18 - http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/pdf/1476-072X-12-18.pdf

Escudero J, Carroll C, Kamel Boulos MN, Ifeachor E. The LiveWell project: Promoting healthy living and well-being for Parkinson’s disease patients through social network and training (poster). In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognition Institute, Plymouth University, UK, 20-22 March 2013 - conference URL: http://cognition.plymouth.ac.uk/annual-conference-lure-new/

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2013, January 14). Expert System Shells for Rapid Clinical Decision Support Module Development: An ESTA Demonstration of a Simple Rule-Based System for the Diagnosis of Vaginal Discharge. Healthcare Informatics Research, 18(4), 252-258. doi:10.4258/hir.2012.18.4.252

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2011). Background expert paper to inform: 'Governance for health in the 21st century: a study conducted for the WHO Regional Office for Europe': Social media and Web 2.0 – how will they impact governance for health? (background expert paper). WHO EURO. Retrieved from http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/148951/RC61_InfDoc6.pdf

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2011). How social media and sociable tools are impacting the way we interact and make decisions on matters that relate to our health and well-being.. In Governance for health at the local level: People, citizens and assets for health--WHO European Healthy Cities Networks Third Annual Business and Technical Conference: Initial consultation with local governments on the new health policy for the WHO European Region – Health 2020. Liège, Belgium. Retrieved from http://www.provincedeliege.be/2011healthycities/

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2011). Telehealthcare for older people with comorbidity: some lessons learned from the eCAALYX project.. In British Society of Gerontology 40th Annual Conference. University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, UK. Retrieved from http://www.britishgerontology.org/

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2011). Serving our cities: Delivering world-class university education with emphasis on ‘key skills’ (generic, transferable skills).. In UNICA International Conference: Cities and their Universities, University of Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland. Retrieved from http://www.euroreg-unicaconference.pl/

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2012). Geosemantically-enhanced PubMed Queries Using the GeoNames Ontology and Web Services. In IEEE Xplore Vol. 2012. Munich, Germany: IEEE. Retrieved from http://www.igarss2012.org/Papers/viewpapers.asp?papernum=1189

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2011). Smartphones in diabetes care and management.. CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation (C&R) Magazine, 4(3), 20-21. Retrieved from http://www.vrphobia.eu/index.php?id=CandR

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2011). BlogBrain Ops: Proposal for a Semi-automatic Social Web Mining and Cyberinfluence Decision-support Tool for Info Ops Teams. JETWI - Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, 3(4), 317-322. doi:10.4304/jetwi.3.4.317-322

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2012, May). Quo vadis smartphones and apps in emergency medicine?. International Hospital and Equipment (IHE), 38, 14-15. Retrieved from http://www.ihe-online.com/index.php?id=3315

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2012, June). Seeing through the Crowds: Crowdmaps Visualize User-Reported Data.. GeoWorld, 25(6), 22-25. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/geoplace-com

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2012, October). Xbox 360 Kinect exergames for health.. Games for Health Journal: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications, 1(5), 326-330. doi:10.1089/g4h.2012.0041

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2013). Using social media for improving health literacy.. In I. Kickbusch, J. Pelikan, A. Tsouros, & F. Apfel (Eds.), THE SOLID FACTS - Health Literacy: Enabling healthier decisions in the 21st century.. Copenhagen, Denmark: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2013). Social media and Web 2.0 – how will they impact governance for health?. In I. Kickbusch, & D. Gleicher (Eds.), Governance for Health.. Springer.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Anderson, P. F. (2012). Preliminary survey of leading general medicine journals’ use of Facebook and Twitter1. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 33, 38-47. doi:10.5596/c2012-010

Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Berry, G. (2012). Real-time locating systems (RTLS) in healthcare: a condensed primer.. Int J Health Geogr, 11, 25. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-11-25

Jones, R. B., Goldsmith, L., Williams, C. J., & Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2012). Accuracy of geographically targeted internet advertisements on Google AdWords for recruitment in a randomized trial.. J Med Internet Res, 14(3), e84. doi:10.2196/jmir.1991

Jones, R. B., Goldsmith, L., Hewson, P., Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Williams, C. J. (2012). Do adverts increase the probability of finding online cognitive behavioural therapy for depression? Cross-sectional study.. BMJ Open, 2(2), e000800. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000800

Boulos, M. N. K. (2011). GIS in hospital and healthcare emergency management. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE, 25(11), 1906-1907. doi:10.1080/13658816.2011.562212

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Resch, B., Crowley, D. N., Breslin, J. G., Sohn, G., Burtner, R., . . . Chuang, K. Y. (2011). Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples.. Int J Health Geogr, 10, 67. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-10-67

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Blanchard, B. J., Walker, C., Montero, J., Tripathy, A., & Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2011, July 26). Web GIS in practice X: a Microsoft Kinect natural user interface for Google Earth navigation. Int J Health Geogr, 10(45). doi:10.1186/1476-072X-10-45

AbdelMalik, P., & Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2012). Multidimensional Point Transform for Public Health Practice. Methods of Information in Medicine, 51(1), 63-73. doi:10.3414/ME11-01-0001

Kamel Boulos, M., Wheeler, S., Tavares, C., & Jones, R. (2011). How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX. BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 10, 24. doi:10.1186/1475-925X-10-24

Rocha, A., Martins, A., Junior, J. C. F., Boulos, M. N. K., Vicente, M. E., Feld, R., . . . guez-Molinero, A. R. (2011). Innovations in health care services: The CAALYX system. International Journal of Medical Informatics, In Press, Corrected Proof, -. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.03.003

AbdelMalik, P., Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Jones, R. (2008). The perceived impact of location privacy: a web-based survey of public health perspectives and requirements in the UK and Canada. BMC Public Health.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Ramloll, R., Jones, R., & Toth-Cohen, S. (2008). Web 3D for Public, Environmental and Occupational Health: Early Examples from Second Life®.. Int J Environ Res Public Health.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Viangteeravat, T., Anyanwu, M. N., Ra Nagisetty, V., & Kuscu, E. (2011). Web GIS in practice IX: a demonstration of geospatial visual analytics using Microsoft Live Labs Pivot technology and WHO mortality data.. Int J Health Geogr, 10, 19. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-10-19

Mathys, T., & Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2011). Geospatial resources for supporting data standards, guidance and best practice in health informatics.. BMC Res Notes, 4, 19. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-4-19

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Robinson, L. R., & Buchroithner, M. (2011). Stereoscopic 3-D solutions for online maps and virtual globes. In M. Buchroithner (Ed.), True-3D in Cartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Heidelberg: Springer. Retrieved from http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/book/978-3-642-12271-2%3E

Rapanotti, L., Minocha, S., Barroca, L., Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Morse, D. R. (2011). 3D Virtual Worlds in Higher Education. In A. D. Olofsson, & J. O. Lindberg (Eds.), Informed Design of Educational Technologies in Higher Education: Enhanced Learning and Teaching. Hershey PA USA: IGI Global.

Boulos, D. N., Ghali, R. R., Ibrahim, E. M., Boulos, M. N., & Abdelmalik, P. (2011). An eight-year snapshot of geospatial cancer research (2002-2009): clinico-epidemiological and methodological findings and trends. Med Oncol, 28(4), 1145-1162. doi:10.1007/s12032-010-9607-z

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Sanfilippo, A. P., Corley, C. D., & Wheeler, S. (2010, October). Social Web mining and exploitation for serious applications: Technosocial Predictive Analytics and related technologies for public health, environmental and national security surveillance.. Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 100(1), 16-23. doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.02.007

Boulos, M. N., Warren, J., Gong, J., & Yue, P. (2010). Web GIS in practice VIII: HTML5 and the canvas element for interactive online mapping. Int J Health Geogr, 9, 14.

An eight-year snapshot of geospatial cancer research (2002-2009): clinico-epidemiological and methodological findings and trends. (2010). Med Oncol, NIL, NIL.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Anastasiou, A., Bekiaris, M., & Panou, M. (2011). Geo-enabled technologies for independent living: examples from four European projects. Technology and Disability, 23(1), 7-17. doi:10.3233/TAD-2011-0300

Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Toth-Cohen, S. (2009, December). The University of Plymouth Sexual Health SIM experience in Second Life: evaluation and reflections after 1 year.. Health Info Libr J, 26(4), 279-288. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2008.00831.x

Jones, R., Boulos, M. N. K., Maramba, C., Skirton, H., & Freeman, J. (2009, August 7). Patient preferences for online person-person support. In N. Panteli (Ed.), Virtual social networks (2009 ed., pp. 52-74). Palgrave MacMillan. Retrieved from http://us.macmillan.com/virtualsocialnetworks

Boulos, M. N. K. (2009, July 31). Principles and techniques of interactive Web cartography and Internet GIS (in addition to contributions to companion DVD). In M. Madden (Ed.), Manual of geographic information systems (2009 ed., pp. 935-974). Bethesda, Maryland: ASPRS—American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Retrieved from http://www.asprs.org/Publications-Other/Manual-of-Geographic-Information-Systems-Forward.html

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Lou, R. C., Anastasiou, A., Nugent, C. D., Alexandersson, J., Zimmermann, G., . . . Casas, R. (2009, July). Connectivity for healthcare and well-being management: examples from six European projects.. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 6(7), 1947-1971. doi:10.3390/ijerph6071947

Boulos, M. N., Curtis, A. J., & Abdelmalik, P. (2009). Musings on privacy issues in health research involving disaggregate geographic data about individuals.. Int J Health Geogr, 8, 46. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-8-46

Jones, R. B., Maramba, I., Boulos, M. N., & Alexander, T. (2009). Use of live interactive webcasting for an international postgraduate module in ehealth: case study evaluation.. J Med Internet Res, 11(4), e46. doi:10.2196/jmir.1225

Endacott, R., Kamel Boulos, M. N., Manning, B. R., & Maramba, I. (2009, January). Geographic Information Systems for healthcare organizations: a primer for nursing professions.. Comput Inform Nurs, 27(1), 50-56. doi:10.1097/NCN.0b013e31818e4660

Jones, R. B., Maramba, I., Boulos, M. N., & Alexander, T. (2009). Use of live interactive webcasting for an international postgraduate module in ehealth: case study evaluation. J. Med. Internet Res., 11, e46.

Boulos, M. N., & Robinson, L. R. (2009). Web GIS in practice VII: stereoscopic 3-D solutions for online maps and virtual globes. Int J Health Geogr, 8, 59.

Boulos, M. N., Curtis, A. J., & Abdelmalik, P. (2009). Musings on privacy issues in health research involving disaggregate geographic data about individuals. Int J Health Geogr, 8, 46.

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2009). Semantic Wikis: A Comprehensible Introduction with Examples from the Health Sciences. JETWI - Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, 1(1), 94-96.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Maramba, I. (2009). Pitfalls in 3-D Virtual Worlds Health Project Evaluations: The Trap of Drug-trial-style Media Comparative Studies. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 2(2). Retrieved from https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/article/view/669/497

Toro-Troconis, M., & Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2009). Musings on the State of '3-D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 2(2). Retrieved from https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/article/view/629/496

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2009). MEDTING: a social visual platform with potential in dermatology--brief service review. Egyptian Dermatology Online Journal, 5(1), 8. Retrieved from http://www.edoj.org.eg/vol005/0501/008/01.htm

Anastasiou, A., Quarrie, P. A., & Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2009). Personal location aware healthcare in Europe—the challenges from prototype to product: the CAALYX experience. eHealth International Journal, 5(1), 18-29. Retrieved from http://www.ehealthinternational.org/vol5num1/Vol5Num1p18.pdf

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2009). Novel Emergency/Public Health Situation Rooms and More Using 4-D GIS. In ISPRS Archives Vol. XXXVIII. Wuhan, Hubei, China. Retrieved from http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVIII/4-W10/papers/VCGVA2009_03608_Boulos.pdf

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Ramloll, R., Jones, R., & Toth-Cohen, S. (2008, December). Web 3D for public, environmental and occupational health: early examples from second life.. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 5(4), 290-317.

Clauson, K. A., Polen, H. H., Boulos, M. N., & Dzenowagis, J. H. (2008, December). Scope, completeness, and accuracy of drug information in Wikipedia. Ann Pharmacother, 42, 1814-1821.

Huang, S. T., Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Dellavalle, R. P. (2008, June). Scientific discourse 2.0. Will your next poster session be in Second Life?. EMBO Rep, 9(6), 496-499. doi:10.1038/embor.2008.86

AbdelMalik, P., Boulos, M. N., & Jones, R. (2008). The perceived impact of location privacy: a web-based survey of public health perspectives and requirements in the UK and Canada.. BMC Public Health, 8, 156. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-156

Clauson, K. A., Polen, H. H., Boulos, M. N., & Dzenowagis, J. H. (2008). Accuracy and completeness of drug information in Wikipedia. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 912.

Boulos, M. N., Scotch, M., Cheung, K. H., & Burden, D. (2008). Web GIS in practice VI: a demo playlist of geo-mashups for public health neogeographers. Int J Health Geogr, 7, 38.

AbdelMalik, P., Boulos, M. N., & Jones, R. (2008). The perceived impact of location privacy: a web-based survey of public health perspectives and requirements in the UK and Canada. BMC Public Health, 8, 156.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Burden, D. (2008). Bringing GIS to Virtual Spaces and Virtual Worlds. PositionIT, (July/August), 53-56. Retrieved from http://www.eepublishers.co.za/images/upload/Bringing%20Gis%20to%20virtual1.pdf

Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Wheeler, S. (2007, March). The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education. Health Info Libr J, 24, 2-23.

Kamel Boulos, M., Hetherington, L., & Wheeler, S. (2007). Second Life: The potential of 3D virtual worlds in medical and health education. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 24(4), 233-245. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00733.x

al, K. B. M. N. E. (2007, January 1). Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts (Chapter 11). In B. Ravi Kumar Jain (Ed.), Web 2.0--An Introduction (pp. 125-142). Hyderabad, India: The Icfai University Press.

Boulos, M. N., Hetherington, L., & Wheeler, S. (2007, December). Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical and health education. Health Info Libr J, 24, 233-245.

Boulos, M. N. K., & Wheeler, S. (2007, January 1). The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 24(1), 2-23.

Boulos, M. N., & Burden, D. (2007). Web GIS in practice V: 3-D interactive and real-time mapping in Second Life. Int J Health Geogr, 6, 51.

Boulos, M. N., Rocha, A., Martins, A., Vicente, M. E., Bolz, A., Feld, R., . . . Kinirons, M. (2007). CAALYX: a new generation of location-based services in healthcare. Int J Health Geogr, 6, 9.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Wheeler, S., & Toth-Cohen, S. (2007). Designing for learning in 3-D virtual worlds: the University of Plymouth Sexual Health SIM experience in Second Life. In Kinshuk, D. G. Sampson, J. M. Spector, & P. Isaias (Eds.), Proceedings of IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2007 (pp. 401-406). Algarve, Portugal: IADIS Press. Retrieved from http://healthcybermap.org/publications/CELDA2007_Boulos_etal_code113.pdf

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Harvey, F. E., Roudsari, A. V., Bellazzi, R., Hernando, M. E., Deutsch, T., . . . Carson, E. R. (2006, September). A proposed semantic framework for diabetes education content management, customisation and delivery within the M2DM project. Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 83, 188-197.

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2006, September). Map of dermatology: ’first-impression’ user feedback and agenda for further development. Health Info Libr J, 23, 203-213.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Cai, Q., Padget, J. A., & Rushton, G. (2006, April). Using software agents to preserve individual health data confidentiality in micro-scale geographical analyses. J Biomed Inform, 39, 160-170.

Kamel Boulos, M., Maramba, I., & Wheeler, S. (2006). Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. BMC Medical Education, 6(41). doi:10.1186/1472-6920-6-41

Boulos, M. N. K. (2006, January 1). Map of dermatology: 'first-impression' user feedback and agenda for further development. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 23(3), 203-213.

Boulos, M. N. K., Cai, Q., Padget, J. A., & Rushton, G. (2006, January 1). Using software agents to preserve individual health data confidentiality in micro-scale geographical analyses. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 39(2), 160-170.

Boulos, M. N. K., Harvey, F. E., Roudsari, A. V., Bellazzi, R., Hernando, M. E., Deutsch, T., . . . Carson, E. R. (2006, January 1). A proposed semantic framework for diabetes education content management, customisation and delivery within the M2DM project. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 83(3), 188-197.

Ibrahim, E. M., & Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2006, January 1). Access to Online Information by Adult Saudi Cancer Patients. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 10(4)(http://www.haworthpress.com/store/toc/J381v10n04_TOC.pdf), 33–43. doi:10.1300/J381v10n04_04

Maramba, K. B. M. N., Maramba, I., & Wheeler, S. (2006, January 1). Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. BMC Med Educ, 6(1), 41.

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2006, January 1). Map of Dermatology: Web image browser for differential diagnosis in dermatology. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol, 72(1), 72-4.

Boulos, M. N., Maramba, I., & Wheeler, S. (2006). Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. BMC Med Educ, 6, 41.

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2006). Map of dermatology: web image browser for differential diagnosis in dermatology. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol, 72, 72-74.

Boulos, M. N., & Honda, K. (2006). Web GIS in practice IV: publishing your health maps and connecting to remote WMS sources using the Open Source UMN MapServer and DM Solutions MapLab. Int J Health Geogr, 5, 6.

Boulos, M. N., Taylor, A. D., & Breton, A. (2005, October). A synchronous communication experiment within an online distance learning program: a case study. Telemed J E Health, 11, 583-593.

Boulos, M. N. (2005, September). Web GIS in practice III: creating a simple interactive map of England’s Strategic Health Authorities using Google Maps API, Google Earth KML, and MSN Virtual Earth Map Control. Int J Health Geogr, 4, 22.

Kamel Boulos. (2005, June 1). British Internet-derived Patient Information on Diabetes Mellitus: Is it Readable?. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 7 (3), 528-535. doi:10.1089/dia.2005.7.528

Boulos, M. N. (2005, June). British internet-derived patient information on diabetes mellitus: is it readable?. Diabetes Technol. Ther., 7, 528-535.

Kamel Boulos. (2005, May 1). A Synchronous Communication Experiment within an Online Distance Learning Program: A Case Study. Telemedicine and e-Health, 11 (5), 583-593. doi:10.1089/tmj.2005.11.583

Boulos, M. N. (2005, March). On geography and medical journalology: a study of the geographical distribution of articles published in a leading medical informatics journal between 1999 and 2004. Int J Health Geogr, 4, 7.

Grindlay, D., Boulos, M. N., & Williams, H. C. (2005). Introducing the National Library for Health Skin Conditions Specialist Library. BMC Dermatol., 5, 4.

Boulos, M. N., Russell, C., & Smith, M. (2005, January). Web GIS in practice II: interactive SVG maps of diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases by Primary Care Trust in London, 1997 - 2003. Int J Health Geogr, 4, 4.

Boulos, M. N. (2005, January). Research protocol: EB-GIS4HEALTH UK - foundation evidence base and ontology-based framework of modular, reusable models for UK/NHS health and healthcare GIS applications. Int J Health Geogr, 4, 2.

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2004, July 28). Web GIS in practice: an interactive geographical interface to English Primary Care Trust performance ratings for 2003 and 2004.. Int J Health Geogr, 3(1), 16. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-3-16

Boulos, M. N., & Phillipps, G. P. (2004, May). Is NHS dentistry in crisis? ’Traffic light’ maps of dentists distribution in England and Wales. Int J Health Geogr, 3, 10.

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2004, January 1). Geographic Informatics (Chapter 64). In R. Kamel, & J. S. P. Lumley (Eds.), Textbook of Tropical Surgery (pp. 254-57). London: Westminster Publishing.

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2004, January 1). A first look at HealthCyberMap medical semantic subject search engine. Technology and Health Care, 12(1), 33-41.

Kamel Boulos, M. N. (2004, January 1). Descriptive review of geographic mapping of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) on the Internet. International Journal of Health Geographics, 3(1), 2. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-3-2

Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Phillipps, G. P. (2004, January 1). Is NHS dentistry in crisis? 'Traffic light' maps of dentists' distribution in England and Wales. International Journal of Health Geographics, May(3), 10.

Boulos, M. N. (2004). A first look at HealthCyberMap medical semantic subject search engine. Technol Health Care, 12, 33-41.

Boulos, M. N. (2004, January). Towards evidence-based, GIS-driven national spatial health information infrastructure and surveillance services in the United Kingdom. Int J Health Geogr, 3, 1.

Boulos, M. N. (2003, September). Geographic information systems and the spiritual dimension of health: a short position paper. Int J Health Geogr, 2, 6.

Bellazzi, R., Arcelloni, M., Bensa, G., Blankenfeld, H., Brugues, E., Carson, E., . . . Stefanelli, M. (2003, January 1). Design, methods, and evaluation directions of a multi-access service for the management of diabetes mellitus patients. Diabetes Technol Ther, 5(4), 621-9.

Bellazzi, R., Arcelloni, M., Bensa, G., Blankenfeld, H., Brugues, E., Carson, E., . . . Stefanelli, M. (2003). Design, methods, and evaluation directions of a multi-access service for the management of diabetes mellitus patients. Diabetes Technol. Ther., 5, 621-629.

Boulos, M. N. (2003, January). The use of interactive graphical maps for browsing medical/health Internet information resources. Int J Health Geogr, 2, 1.

Boulos, M. N. (2003, January). Location-based health information services: a new paradigm in personalised information delivery. Int J Health Geogr, 2, 2.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Roudsari, A. V., & Carso N, E. R. (2002, December). HealthCyberMap: a semantic visual browser of medical Internet resources based on clinical codes and the human body metaphor. Health Info Libr J, 19, 189-200.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Roudsari, A. V., & Carson, E. R. (2002, September). A dynamic problem to knowledge linking Semantic Web service based on clinical codes. Med Inform Internet Med, 27, 127-137.

Boulos, M. N., Roudsari, A. V., & Carson, E. R. (2002, August). A simple method for serving Web hypermaps with dynamic database drill-down. Int J Health Geogr, 1, 1.

Boulos, M. N., Roudsari, A. V., & Carson, E. R. (2002, July). Towards a semantic medical Web: HealthCyberMap’s tool for building an RDF metadata base of health information resources based on the Qualified Dublin Core Metadata Set. Med. Sci. Monit., 8, T124-136.

Boulos, M. N., Roudsari, A. V., & Carson, E. R. (2002, July). Towards a semantic medical Web: HealthCyberMap's tool for building an RDF metadata base of health information resources based on the Qualified Dublin Core Metadata Set.. Med Sci Monit, 8(7), MT124-MT136.

Bellazzi, R., Brugues, E., Carson, E., Cobelli, C., Cramp, D., d'Annunzio, G., . . . Stefanelli, M. (2002, June). Multi-access services for the management of diabetes mellitus: The M2DM project. DIABETES, 51, A466. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000175934601907
&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=11bb513d99f797142bcfeffcc58ea008

Boulos, M. N. K., Roudsari, A. V., & Carson, E. R. (2002, January 1). A dynamic problem to knowledge linking Semantic Web service based on clinical codes. Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine, 27(3), 127-137.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Roudsari, A. V., & Carson, E. R. (2002, January 1). HealthCyberMap: A Semantic Visual Browser of Medical Internet Resources Based on Clinical Codes and the Human Body Metaphor. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 19(4), 189-200.

Bellazzi, R., Bensa, G., Brugues, E., Carson, E., Cobelli, C., Cramp, D., . . . Stefanelli, M. (2002). Multi-Access services for the management of Diabetes Mellitus: the M2DM project. In AMIA 2002 SYMPOSIUM, PROCEEDINGS (pp. 974). Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000189418100208
&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=11bb513d99f797142bcfeffcc58ea008

Boulos, M. N., Roudsari, A. V., & Carson, E. R. (2001, June). Health geomatics: an enabling suite of technologies in health and healthcare. J Biomed Inform, 34, 195-219.

Boulos, M. N. K., Roudsari, A. V., & Carson, E. R. (2001, January 1). Health geomatics: An enabling suite of technologies in health and healthcare. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 34(3), 195-219.

Kamel Boulos, M. N., Roudsari, A. V., Gordon, C., & Muir Gray, J. A. (2001, January). The use of quality benchmarking in assessing web resources for the dermatology virtual branch library of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH).. J Med Internet Res, 3(1), E5. doi:10.2196/jmir.3.1.e5

Kamel Boulos, M. N., & Anastasiou, A. (2008). A Complete Ambient Assisted Living eXperiment (CAALYX) in Second Life. In Proceedings of MedNet2008 - The 13th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine (pp. 4-5). St Petersburg, Russia. Retrieved from http://healthcybermap.org/CAALYXinSL/

 

Other academic activities

Second examiner (for some taught units) and MSc project supervisions, MSc in Healthcare Informatics, University of Bath (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mpsmnkb/

Teaching on the e-Health Module delivered via webcasting, University of Plymouth, Q4-2008 and Q4-2009, http://www.chiirup.org.uk/Ehealthblog/

 

Additional information

Prof Boulos' research in the news

Maged N. Kamel Boulos and a group of about 100 scientists from Europe and North America met the Prime Minister of Egypt on Thu 10 June 2010 at the Smart Village near Cairo to discuss HE quality assurance and accreditation issues: http://www.naqaae.eg/component/content/article/101-slideshow/152-2010-06-13-10-09-32 and http://lnkd.in/3XJaRd - Photo: http://tinyurl.com/344awwf

Meeting with H.E. General Michel Sleiman, the President of the Republic of Lebanon, at Baabda Presidential Palace, Beirut, Lebanon, on 1 April 2010

A sense of security - Interview by 'The Engineer' magazine about CAALYX (30 January 2007)

Software “agents” could help unmask reality of disease clusters (Innovations-Report, Germany - 7 September 2005) :: Science Daily (7 September 2005) :: Medical News Today, UK (8 September 2005) :: Software "agents" unmask disease clusters (myDNA.com, TX - 8 September 2005) :: I-Newswire.com (12 September 2005) :: Concerns over the privacy of patients could be hampering efforts to spot disease clusters (News-Medical.net - 12 September 2005) :: Virtual Medical Worlds (October 2005 Issue) :: Software agents for public-health research (bjhc&im, October 2005)
The original paper can be read in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

'London's STD ‘hotspots' targeted through new technology' (Medical News Today, Tuesday 18 January 2005) :: Sex diseases on the rise (Streatham Guardian, Monday 7 February 2005) :: New borough map shows sexually transmitted disease are on the up (Wandsworth Borough Guardian, Thursday 10 February 2005) :: New Map Fills Need in Disease Surveillance (Government Technology, CA, USA, Friday 25 February 2005) :: Cybermap makes sense of statistics (bjhc&im, Thursday 31 March 2005)
The original paper can be read in the International Journal of Health Geographics. An interactive demonstrator is also available online. Also featured on Spatial News (Friday 21 January 2005) and the NHS Health Informatics Community (Tuesday 25 January 2005).

'Warning over online advice for diabetics' ( The Bath Chronicle :: Daily Mail Website :: Diabetes websites too complicated--The BBC Website, Friday 10 September 2004 :: Patient information on the internet is too complicated--The Pharmaceutical Journal, 11 September 2004, Vol 273, No 7316, p 339 :: Websites are too complex to understand--BMJ, 18 September 2004, Vol 329, No 7467, p 640 - News In brief :: NHS Direct Online diabetes information incomprehensible to most people--bjhc&im October 2004 )
Media coverage about Dr Boulos’ research paper for the 2nd HDL 2004: Workshop on Digital Libraries in Healthcare, held at the University of Bath (16 September 2004). Also featured on the NHS Health Informatics Community.

'Conference Seeks Biotech Business' (Maha Akeel, Arab News, 12 May 2004)
Report of the The Saudi Bio 2004 Conference, at which Dr Maged Boulos, Lecturer in Healthcare Informatics in the School for Health, unveils health care IC technologies.

'NHS needs 5,000 extra dentists' (The BBC Website, Monday 10 May 2004)
A paper written by Maged N Kamel Boulos, Lecturer in Healthcare Informatics in the School for Health and Guy Picton Phillipps of Brent NHS Primary Care Trust in London has generated a great deal of interest in the media. Reports have appeared in a number of newspapers including the Daily Mail , Daily Express , The Guardian , The Times , The Telegraph and The Bath Chronicle among many others (and even Channel 4 news). The original paper can be read in the International Journal of Health Geographics. An interactive 'traffic light' map of dentists' distribution in England and Wales is also available online.

'Finding the best path to take' (Article in Health Director, November 2004)

'CIN news release about my doctoral research' (CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2003 May/June, 21(3):113-117)

Blog and science sites entries featuring my work: Online consumer geoinformatics services (16 October 2005), Health Geographics Compare G Maps, KML, and MSN VE (16 October 2005), Step-By-StepTutorial: Open Source Web GIS (27 January 2006), Google enhancement for dermatology (12 February 2006) , Wikis, blogs and podcasts in clinical practice (17 August 2006) - Informaticopia blog (17 August 2006) - New Technologies and Medical Education (18 August 2006) - NLH Document of the Week:  Knowledge management tools could improve healthcare experiences of patients and clinicians (23 August 2006) - NHS/NLH Health Informatics Community: Wikis, Podcasts and Blogs, Used in Health-Related e-Learning and Educational Services Online (23 August 2006) - Web 2.0 could be used in health e-learning - E-Health Insider, UK (01 September 2006) (paper also added to the NLH Knowledge Management Specialist Library), Christian Orthodoxy and Sexual Purity - A Second Life seminar (1 May 2008), Web 3D for Public, Environmental and Occupational Health (18 December 2008), in ScienceRoll (16 June 2010), in Metaverse Health (17 June 2010), in CasesBlog by Ves Dimov, MD (18 June 2010), in The American College of Chest Physicians blog (19 June 2010), in ScienceRoll (11 August 2012), and in GIS Lounge (10 April 2013)

Quoted in my capacity as Editor-in-Chief of Int J Health Geogr on p.8 of an interview with Vitek Tracz about Open Access, published 23 May 2006 

MP3 of Dr Boulos’ podcast for NYU Medical Center/NYU School of Medicine ‘As Seen from Here CME series’ entitled ‘Program #94: Web 2.0 and Medical Information’ (31 December 2006) http://www.asseenfromhere.com/ - http://libsyn.com/media/mtrope/ASFH2006-12-31.mp3

Sex Education Arrives in Second Life - Chronicle of Higher Education (USA) - 27 July 2007: news item about a Second Life Sexual Health project led by Dr Boulos at the University of Plymouth, UK, and involving two other academics/co-investigators from the University of Plymouth and from Thomas Jefferson University, USA

Healthcare on Web 2.0 - Expert View by Maged N Kamel Boulos, HIMSS EMEA (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Web site (8 January 2008) http://emea.himss.org/enewsletters/expert_archive/2008/expertviews_01-1.html

Wikipedia can omit key drug information (E-Health Europe/Reuters - 3 December 2008) http://www.ehealtheurope.net/news/4376/wikipedia_can_omit_key_drug_information (original paper that received this coverage)

Dr Boulos' Map of Dermatology featured as a useful educational resource/tool in a paper by Simmons et al. entitled 'Dermatology Internet Resources' in Dermatologic Clinics - Volume 27, Issue 2 (April 2009), p.196

Dr Maged N Kamel Boulos' biography has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in the World 2011 (28th Edition, November 2010), a volume containing the biographies of approximately 60,000 of the world's most noteworthy people - http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Who-World-2011-28th/dp/0837911451

 

Links
On LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/663/687
Full CV (PDF)
http://healthcybermap.org/publications/MNKB_CV.pdf
Non-work interests/profile
http://orthodoxwiki.org/User:Arbible