Enrico Coiera

Professor Enrico Coiera is Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University.

Trained in medicine with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Professor Coiera is Foundation Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University and Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, a group he co-founded in 2000. With a research background in industry and academia, he has a strong international research reputation for his work on decision support and communication processes in biomedicine.

He spent 10 years at the prestigious Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol UK where he led numerous health technology projects. He has overseen the development and trial of multiple e-Health interventions, including the Healthy.me consumer system and clinical decision support systems.

His textbook Guide to Health Informatics is in its 3rd edition, is widely used internationally, and is translated into several languages.

He has >350 publications, >16,100 citations in Google Scholar with an H-index of 63. Of these publications, 40 have more than 100 citations, 9 more than 300 citations and one has more than 2,050 citations.