Bernd Blobel, FACMI, FACHI, FHL7, FEFMI, FIAHSI, PhD (Germany)
Professor of Medical Informatics, University of Regensburg, Medical Faculty
Former Head, eHealth Competence Center (eHCC)
Visiting Professor, Charles University Prague, First Medical Faculty
Prof. Dr. habil. Bernd Blobel works in basic and applied research on electronic health records, security, privacy, eHealth architectures, interoperability, personalised medicine, telemedicine and biomedical engineering, translational medicine, formal languages, knowledge representation and management, and ontologies. He has been engaged in the EHR and eHealth programmes of many countries, including Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway and the USA.
He studied natural sciences, electrical engineering, cybernetics, theoretical medicine, informatics and medical informatics at universities in Magdeburg, Halle, Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. He earned a PhD in Physics at the University of Magdeburg and Habilitations in Environmental Medicine and in Medical Informatics. He has acted as programme chair and keynote speaker at international conferences and is an editorial board member of international journals.