Staff details

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 (2009-2012)

PhD External Examiner (appointed May 2010) for another 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)
• Currently lead supervisor/'Director of Studies' of Philip AbdelMalik, 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)
• Currently secondary supervisor of Rashid Kashani, PhD student at the University of Plymouth (topic: 3-D Virtual Worlds/Occupational Therapy)

Grants & contracts

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 €50,00.00 (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/

Lead Academic, DTI 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.

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 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)

Publications

Please see http://healthcybermap.semanticweb.org/publications/publications.doc (>85 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)

h-index = 17 (2000-2009 - see http://interaction.lille.inria.fr/~roussel/projects/scholarindex/index.cgi?btnG=Search+Scholar&as_sauthors=Kamel+Boulos)

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 Prof Daniel Z Sui, Center for Urban & Regional Analysis (CURA), The Ohio State University, USA, on a joint paper entitled 'Medical/Health Geography 2.0: The convergence of Geoweb and Social Web and its applications for studying the geography of health' for The Annals of the Association of American Geographers' special issue on the Geography of Health; 7. With the CAALYX Consortium on a paper entitled ' Innovations in Health Care Services: The CAALYX System'; 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

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://www.lmars.whu.edu.cn/vcgva2009/VCGVA2009-presentation-agenda.pdf

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)

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
 

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

Dr Boulos' research in the news

Links
On LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/663/687
Non-work interests/profile
http://orthodoxwiki.org/User:Arbible