Jason Bonander

Jason is currently the Director of Informatics and Information Resources for the US CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Prior to taking this position he was the Director of the Division of Knowledge Management Systems in CDC's National Center for Public Health Informatics which included leadership and oversight of enterprise web and document management, electronic scientific workflow, secure collaboration and communication systems, CDC's library system, and decision support systems. He has been working to shape the public health dialogue around electronic personal health records and their potential within public health as well as advance innovative public health research in areas such as natural language processing and electronic medical records and smart interventions in online social networks. He has spoken both nationally and internationally on the topic of knowledge management in general and specifically, its role within public health. He is a medical anthropologist by training, with research projects covering theoretical models for community mental health care, ethnographic studies of mobile immunization clinics, and health systems and epidemiologic research in Belize.

Helen Oliver

Helen Oliver is a Research Assistant at the City eHealth Research Centre at City University London. As the Web Chair, she is excited to be involved in co-ordinating eHealth 2009.

With an undergraduate degree in Modern Languages from Hertford College, Oxford, she started her career in the private sector and ultimately gravitated towards computing. With 10 years' commercial experience as a software developer, she also holds an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford, where she was first introduced to the world of ontologies and the Semantic Web, which are her main research interests. She joined CeRC in October 2008 and helped to bring the EU-funded, flagship project Sealife to its conclusion, helping to develop an innovative framework for user-centred evaluation of Semantic Web browsers for the life sciences by conducting the first such evaluations ever to be carried out with participants recruited from the software's real-world target audiences.

She is a strong believer in the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 and hopes to conduct further research into web 2.0 intelligence and online communities of practice.

Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

Dr M Rajarajan is the assistant dean for E-Learning at City University London. He has been actively pursuing research in the area of security and privacy in pervasive healthcare and leads the mobile networks research group at City University London. Prior to joining City University London he has worked for Logica UK for several years as IT consultant. He is also the chief technology officer of ElaraMed and Goquo limited. He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare and International Journal of Software Architectures. He is a senior member of IEEE USA and the Business Chair for the ICST's Science for Innovation and Business/Technology Council. He is also a member of the organizing committee of the ICST Pervasive Health and ehealth conference series. His group's scientific innovation in next generation mobile authentication protocol is well received within the academic and industrial community.

Asli Uyar

Asli Uyar is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Engineering at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. She obtained her MSc degree from the same department and her BSc degree from the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. Her research interests focus on machine learning based medical decision support systems. Since July 2008 she has been working in collaboration with the IVF Unit of German Hospital in Istanbul.