Who stands behind Webicina?
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He is a medical blogger, a microblogger, a manager of medical projects in Wikipedia and an organizer of scientific events in Second Life. He launched the first university credit course in the world that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students.
He was included in the Healthspottr Future Health 100 List.
He thinks medical professionals of the 21st century have to be ready to meet the expectations of e-patients and e-patients will change the way medicine is practised and healthcare is delivered.
Here is his Medicine 2.0 slideshow and a collection of posts related to medicine 2.0.
 He or his blog have been mentioned in the above journals and sites.
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Lectures and presentations:
Dr. Meskó has given lectures at several clinics and departments of the University of Debrecen. He also gave presentations at
- the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference 16-17 (Long Beach, CA; January, 2008 and January, 2009)
- the University of Yale, School of Medicine (February, 2008)
- the clinics of Greenwich (February, 2008)
- the centre of World Health Organization (July, 2008)
- the 20th International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology in Vienna, Austria (August, 2008)
- the Medicine 2.0 Congress in Toronto, Canada (September, 2008)
- Web 2.0 BarCamp in Budapest, Hungary (March, 2009)
- Acutezorg.nl event in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (March, 2009).
- Sanidad 2.0 in Bilbao, Spain (June, 2009)
- SciFoo in San Francisco, USA (July, 2009)
- Pharma 2.0 event in Budapest, Hungary (October, 2009)
- Reshape Health 2.0 event in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (October, 2009)
- Cor 09 National Cardiology Congress in Budapest, Hungary (November, 2009)
- Pharma in Social Media event in Berlin, Germany (February, 2010)
- Digital Pharma Europe in Berlin, Germany (March, 2010)
- Healthcare Social Media Unconference Camp in Berlin, Germany (March, 2010)
- Health 2.0 Europe in Paris, France (April, 2010)
- Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary (May, 2010)
- Corvinus University (Management of Public Services and ICT course) in Budapest, Hungary (May, 2010))
- Pharma Medico Marketing Forum in Budapest, Hungary (June, 2010)
He has the honour of being a member of the Organizing Committee of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17 Conference taking place in Long Beach, CA in 2009.
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 Mr. Meskó presenting his slideshow at Yale, School of Medicine in 2008.
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Some of the achievements of his blogging career:
- More than 2 million hits on two medical blogs in 2 years' time. More than 300 medical blogs link to Scienceroll.
- He is the manager of two blog carnivals: Gene Genie is dedicated to human genetics and personalized medicine; Medicine 2.0 is devoted to web 2.0 and medicine.
- He is one of the founders of Medical Education Evolution, a commnunity aiming to reform medical education with useful web 2.0 tools.
- Scienceroll won the Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Category in Medgadget's Weblog Awards in January, 2008; the Best Health Blog category in Blogger’s Choice Awards in November, 2007; and the Best Individualized Blog category in Edublog Awards.
- His blog is supported by HONcode, Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics and DNA Network.
- He helped promoting medical education in Second Life. He made a weblog for the Ann Myers Medical Center and organized several scientific sessions with Jean-Claude Bradley on the island of Nature Publishing Group (SciFoo Lives On conference series).
- He started a series on personalized genetics and hopes to become one of the most reliable and useful resources in this emerging field of medicine.
Since September, 2008, he has been running a course with 20 presentations focusing on medicine and web 2.0 at the University of Debrecen. That is the first medicine 2.0 course at a medical university worldwide.
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His slideshows described why and how e-patients will shape the future of medicine:
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His slideshows described why and how e-patients will shape the future of medicine: