Haleh Ayatollahi | Public Health Informatics | Research Excellence Award

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Dr. Haleh Ayatollahi | Public Health Informatics | Research Excellence Award

Iran University of Medical Sciences | Iran

Haleh Ayatollahi is a Professor of Medical Informatics with extensive experience in health information management, digital health, and health technology assessment. She holds a PhD in Health Informatics from the University of Sheffield (UK), an MSc and BSc in Medical Records from Iran University of Medical Sciences, and an associate degree in the same field. She has held several senior academic and executive roles, including Director of the Deputy of Research and Technology at both the School of Health Management and Information Sciences and the Health Management and Economics Research Centre, and membership on the Medical Informatics Evaluation and Examination Board. Her academic career spans teaching, research leadership, postgraduate administration, and international collaboration. Her research focuses on telemedicine, mobile health, clinical decision support systems, artificial intelligence in healthcare, digital health evaluation, health information systems, patient safety, and technology adoption, with strong contributions to policy briefs and global health studies, including the Global Burden of Disease projects. She has authored 108 peer-reviewed documents with 6,293 citations across 5,499 citing documents and an h-index of 21, reflecting sustained scholarly impact. She has contributed to high-impact journals such as The Lancet, BMC series, Digital Health, and PLOS ONE, and has received multiple academic and research recognitions for excellence in education, research productivity, and leadership in medical informatics.

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Clinicians’ Knowledge and Perception of Telemedicine Technology

– Perspectives in Health Information Management, 2015

Georgia Kourlaba | Public Health Analytics | Research Excellence Award

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Assist. Prof. Dr. Georgia Kourlaba | Public Health Analytics | Research Excellence Award

 National & Kapodistrian University of Athens | Greece

Assist. Prof. Dr. Georgia Kourlaba is an accomplished public health nursing scholar, currently serving as Assistant Professor of Public Health Nursing – Prevention at the Department of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). From 2022 to 2025, she was Assistant Professor of Research Methodology and Evidence-Based Nursing at the University of Peloponnese. She has also been an Academic Fellow at the 1st Intensive Care Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, NKUA, focusing on nosocomial infections and epidemiology, and is a founding member of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research (CLEO), where she served as Administrative Director and Deputy Scientific Director. Dr. Kourlaba is a member of the Public Health Experts Committee of the Ministry of Health, has held leadership roles at the National Public Health Organization (EODY), and served as an alternate member of the Management Board of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). She teaches epidemiology, research methodology, biostatistics, health technology assessment, and disease prevention at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research focuses on nosocomial infections, antimicrobial resistance, vaccination coverage, chronic disease epidemiology, childhood obesity, and socioeconomic burden of disease. She has participated in numerous funded projects and published 166 documents cited 3,485 times, with an h-index of 33. Dr. Kourlaba holds an MSc in Biostatistics (NKUA) and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Harokopio University).

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(2026). HPV vaccination coverage among children and adolescents in Greece using national prescription data. Vaccine.

(2025). Real-world switching patterns and associated characteristics in patients with psoriasis treated with biologics. Archives of Dermatological Research.

(2025). QuantiFERON SARS-CoV-2 assay for the evaluation of cellular immunity after immunization with mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Immunologic Research.

(2025). Early discontinuation of empiric antibiotic therapy in children treated for cancer who develop febrile neutropenia: A prospective cohort study. EJC Paediatric Oncology.

(2025). Attitudes, behaviors, opinions, and suggestions of blood donors toward blood donation in Crete, Greece. Archives of Hellenic Medicine.