Georges De Moor

Professor Dr. Georges J.E. De Moor is member of the Health Sector Committee of the Belgian Privacy Protection Commission (CBPL) He studied Medicine and specialised in Clinical Pathology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of Ghent (Belgium), where he also obtained in 1994 his PhD in Medical Information Science.

He is head of the Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics at the State University of Ghent, Belgium, where he teaches Health Informatics, Medical Statistics, Decision Theory and Evidence Based Medicine.

As president of RAMIT (Research in Medical Informatics and Telematics), he has been involved in many European and International Research and Development projects as well as in Standardisation activities. For seven years, Prof. De Moor acted as the Founding Chairman of CEN/TC251, the official Technical Committee on standardisation in health informatics in Europe. As a result of the conducted research, Prof. De Moor has been founding or co-founding a number of companies mainly active in eHealth, including the domain of privacy protection.

In 2004, he was elected President of the European Institute for Health Records (the EuroRec Institute), which is the body for European wide quality labelling and certification of eHealth (incl.Electronic Health Record-) systems in Europe.

Dr. De Moor is also Head of the Clinical Pathology Laboratory in the Sint-Elisabeth Hospital of Zottegem, Belgium. Prof. De Moor chairs in Belgium and in Europe a number of official Committees related to either ICT in Health or to Laboratory Medicine.

He has edited twelve books related to ICT in Health and published over 200 articles in scientific journals.

In 2005 he was awarded with the International Rory O’Moore Medal (presented by Bertie Ahern, in Dublin) for Health Informatics.