Georges De Moor
Professor Dr. Georges J.E. De Moor studied Medicine and specialised in Clinical Pathology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of Ghent (Belgium), where he also obtained a PhD in Medical Information Science.
Currently, he is head of the Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics at the State University of Ghent, where he lectures Medical Informatics, Statistics, Decision Theory and Evidence-based Medicine.
As president of RAMIT (Research in Medical Informatics and Telematics), he has been involved in more than 80 European or international research and development projects, as well as in standardisation activities. During seven years, Prof. De Moor acted as the founding chairman of CEN/TC251, the official Technical Committee on the standardisation of Health Informatics in Europe.
Prof. De Moor has also founded a number of spin-off companies (e.g. MediBRIDGE, GEMARAN, Language and Computing, Custodix and TeleTendo). He is also the president of MSHUGe (Microsoft Healthcare Industry Users Group Europe, Asia and Africa) and of the EuroRec Institute (Certification of Electronic Health Record Systems in Europe).
Dr De Moor is also head of the Clinical Pathology laboratory at the St Elisabeth Hospital in Zottegem, Belgium. Prof. De Moor chairs a number of official committees (e.g. the Health Telematics Committee and the Clinical Pathology Committee of the Belgian Ministries of Health and Social Affairs), as well as a number of scientific and professional organisations (e.g. of the Belgian physicians specialised in Health Data Management).
He has edited several books, and published over 200 articles in international peer reviewed scientific journals