Board of Directors

Dr. Khaled El Emam
Canada Research Chair
Electronic Health Information, University of Ottawa
Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Dr. Khaled El Emam is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa. He leads the e-Health research program at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute. His research involves developing privacy enhancing technologies for electronic medical records, and ensuring the safety of information technology used in health care settings.

In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement.

Dr. El Emam has led the development of clinical, electronic data management systems for an Ottawa based information technology company. Previously, he was a senior research officer at the National Research Council of Canada where he was the technical lead of the Software Quality Laboratory. Prior to that, he was head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King's College, at the University of London (U.K.).