Sabine Koch

Sabine Koch, Ph.D., is the first professor of health informatics at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and director of its Health Informatics Centre. She was previously associate professor and director of the Centre for eHealth at Uppsala University. Her fields of interest include models for cooperative care, human factors and usability, and evaluation of health information systems. She is the current president of the Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics and the incoming treasurer of the International Medical Informatics Association. She is a member of the editorial boards of several international medical informatics journals. In recent years, she acted as scientific expert to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare with regard to the national information infrastructure for health and social care and was involved in the development of a model for estimating the benefits of national eHealth investments on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. She holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in medical informatics from Ruprecht–Karls University Heidelberg.