Tom Eng

Tom Eng, VMD, MPH, is President of the eHealth Institute, a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve access to and quality of eHealth resources. Dr. Eng's areas of expertise include the application of emerging communication and information technology, especially the Internet, to health communication, health care, and public health. He is also President of EvaluMetrix LLC, a health technology strategic consulting and tools development company, which is developing several innovative technology tools to help consumers locate relevant online resources and to help clinicians enhance patient communication. Dr. Eng is the chair and founder of the renowned eHealth Developers' Summit, an annual forum for leading eHealth executives and funders. He is a mentor for the National Social Venture Competition, is on the National Advisory Committee of the Health e-Technologies Initiative, and serves on other advisory groups. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters, and abstracts on a wide range of health and technology issues, including the landmark books, The eHealth Landscape: A Terrain Map of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies in Health and Health Care, and Wired for Health and Well-Being: the Emergence of Interactive Health Communication. Dr. Eng is an associate editor of the Journal of Health Communication and on the editorial board of Internet Healthcare Strategies. He has worked previously at the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Peace Corps, the US Senate, and two state health departments. In addition, he has provided health-related consultations in more than a dozen countries on six continents. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.

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Date created: April 28, 2003
Last updated: April 12, 2005