Antoine Geissbuhler, MD

Professor and Director Service of Medical Informatics Geneva University Hospitals and School of Medicine

 

Antoine Geissbuhler is a Professor of Medical Informatics, Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics at Geneva University School of Medicine, and Director of the Service of Medical Informatics at Geneva University Hospitals.

 

A Philips European Young Scientist first award laureate, he graduated from Geneva University School of Medicine in 1991 and received his doctorate for work on tri-dimensional reconstruction of positron emission tomography images. He then trained in internal medicine under the direction of Prof. Francis Waldvogel. After a post-doctoral fellowship in medical informatics at the University of Pittsburgh and Vanderbilt University, he became associate professor of biomedical informatics and vice-chairman of the Division of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, under the mentorship of Prof. Randolph Miller and Prof. William Stead, working primarily on the development of clinical information systems and knowledge-management tools. In 1999, he returned to Geneva to head the Division of Medical Informatics in Geneva University Hospitals and School of Medicine, following in the steps of Prof. Jean-Raoul Scherrer who founded this world-renowned group.

 

Author of more than 50 scientific publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, his current research focuses on the development of innovative information systems architectures and computer-based tools for improving the quality and efficiency of care processes, at the local level of the hospital, the regional level of a community healthcare informatics network, and at the global level with the development of a south-south telemedicine network in Western Africa.

The Service of Medical Informatics (http://www.sim.hcuge.ch), strong of 50+ academic and professional collaborators, is responsible for the design, development and evaluation of an advanced clinical information system for Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), a group of primary, secondary, and tertiary care facilities, employing 8’000 collaborators, totaling 2’200 beds, 50’000 admissions and 500’000 outpatient visits each year. The clinical information system includes a multidisciplinary-multimedia electronic patient record, care provider order entry, clinical decision support tools, a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) as well as palmtop-based clinical assistants and various telemedicine applications. Research activities of the Service include medical knowledge representation, distributed knowledge management, data mining and knowledge discovery, natural language processing, advanced medical image processing, information systems architectures, telemedicine, and internet-based learning.