Peer-reviewed Publications by the Author



Peer-reviewed Publications by MN Kamel Boulos

h-index = 49

In PubMed - open link in Edge or Chrome (80 papers as of January 2022; please note that not all of my publications are indexed in PubMed)

Journal Papers

1. Kamel Boulos MN. A demonstration of the effects of the number of fuzzy states on a control system. International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology. 2022 May; 39(1): accepted/in press.

2. Kamel Boulos MN, Kwan MP, El Emam K, Chung AL, Gao S, Richardson DB. Reconciling public health common good and individual privacy: new methods and issues in geoprivacy. Int J Health Geogr. 2022 Jan 19;21(1):1. doi: 10.1186/s12942-022-00300-9 [PubMed]

3. Kamel Boulos MN, Zhang P. Digital Twins: From Personalised Medicine to Precision Public Health. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2021; 11(8):745. doi: 10.3390/jpm11080745 [PubMed]

4. Bin Naeem S, Kamel Boulos MN. COVID-19 Misinformation Online and Health Literacy: A Brief Overview. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(15):8091. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18158091 [PubMed]

5. Shahroz M, Ahmad F, Shahzad Younis M, Ahmad N, Kamel Boulos MN, Vinuesa R, Qadir J. COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing Applications and Techniques: A Review Post Initial Deployments. Transportation Engineering. 2021; 5:100072. doi: 10.1016/j.treng.2021.100072

6. Kamel Boulos MN, Koh K. Smart city lifestyle sensing, big data, geo-analytics and intelligence for smarter public health decision-making in overweight, obesity and type 2 diabetes prevention: the research we should be doing. Int J Health Geogr. 2021; 20:12. doi: 10.1186/s12942-021-00266-0 [PubMed]

7. Kamel Boulos MN, Yang SP. Mobile physical activity planning and tracking: a brief overview of current options and desiderata for future solutions. mHealth (ISSN: 2306-9740). 2021; 7:13. doi: 10.21037/mhealth.2020.01.01 [PubMed]

8. Kamel Boulos MN, Haywood G. Opportunistic atrial fibrillation screening and detection in 'self-service health check-up stations': a brief overview of current technology potential and possibilities. mHealth (ISSN: 2306-9740). 2021; 7:12. doi: 10.21037/mhealth-19-204 [PubMed]

9. Latif S, Usman M, Manzoor S, Iqbal W, Qadir J, Tyson G, Castro I, Razi A, Kamel Boulos MN, Weller A, Crowcroft J. Leveraging Data Science to Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 2020; 1(1):85-103. doi: 10.1109/TAI.2020.3020521

10. Kamel Boulos MN, Geraghty EM. Geographical tracking and mapping of coronavirus disease COVID-19/severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic and associated events around the world: how 21st century GIS technologies are supporting the global fight against outbreaks and epidemics. Int J Health Geogr. 2020; 19:8. doi: 10.1186/s12942-020-00202-8 [PubMed]

11. Kamel Boulos MN, Peng G, VoPham T. An overview of GeoAI applications in health and healthcare. International Journal of Health Geographics. 2019; 18:7. doi: 10.1186/s12942-019-0171-2 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

12. Ijaz A, Khan MY, Ali SM, Qadir J, Kamel Boulos MN. Serious Games for Healthcare Professional Training: A Systematic Review. European Journal for Biomedical Informatics. 2019; 15(1):12-28. doi: 10.24105/ejbi.2019.15.1.3

13. Ali SM, Curralo AF, Kamel Boulos MN, Paiva S. A Framework for Improving the Engagement of Medical Practitioners in an e-Training Platform for Tuberculosis Care and Prevention. Future Internet. 2019. 11(1):6. doi: 10.3390/fi11010006

14. Giustini D, Ali SM, Fraser M, Kamel Boulos MN. Effective uses of social media in public health and medicine: a systematic review of systematic reviews. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. 2018;10(2):e215. doi: 10.5210/ojphi.v10i2.8270 [PubMed]

15. Radovick S, Hershkovitz E, Kalisvaart A, Koning M, Paridaens K, Kamel Boulos MN. Gamification Concepts to Promote and Maintain Therapy Adherence in Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency. J (ISSN 2571-8800). 2018. 1(1):71-80. doi: 10.3390/j1010008

16. Ali SM, Naureen F, Noor A, Kamel Boulos MN, Aamir J, Ishaq M, Anjum N, Ainsworth J, Rashid A, Majidulla A, Fatima I. Data Quality: A Negotiator between Paper-based and Digital Records in Pakistan’s TB Control Program. Data (ISSN 2306-5729). 2018;3(3):27. doi: 10.3390/data3030027

17. Kamel Boulos MN, Clauson K, Wilson T. Geospatial blockchain: promises, challenges and scenarios in health and healthcare. Int J Health Geogr. 2018; 17:25. doi: 10.1186/s12942-018-0144-x [PubMed/MEDLINE]

18. Jerdan S, Grindle M, Van Woerden H, Kamel Boulos MN. Head Mounted Virtual Reality and Mental Health: Critical Review of Current Research. JMIR Serious Games. 2018; 6(3):e14. doi: 10.2196/games.9226 [PubMed]

19. Aamir J, Ali SM, Kamel Boulos MN, Anjum N, Ishaq M. Enablers and inhibitors: A review of the situation regarding mHealth adoption in low- and middle-income countries. Health Policy and Technology (Elsevier). 2018 Mar; 7(1):88-97. doi: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2017.11.005

20. Ali SM, Anjum N, Kamel Boulos MN, Ishaq M, Aamir J, Haider GR. Measuring Management's Perspective of Data Quality in Pakistan's Tuberculosis Control Programme: A Test-based Approach to Identify Data Quality Dimensions. BMC Research Notes. 2018 Jan 16;11(1):40. doi: 10.1186/s13104-018-3161-8 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

21. Kamel Boulos MN, Lu Z, Guerrero P, Jennett C, Steed A. From urban planning and emergency training to Pokémon Go: applications of virtual reality GIS (VRGIS) and augmented reality GIS (ARGIS) in personal, public and environmental health. Int J Health Geogr. 2017 Feb 20; 16:7. doi: 10.1186/s12942-017-0081-0 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

22. Kamel Boulos MN, Giustini DM, Wheeler S. Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview. Future Internet. 2016; 8(3):37. doi:10.3390/fi8030037

23. Kamel Boulos MN, Le Blond J. On the road to personalised and precision geomedicine: medical geology and a renewed call for interdisciplinarity. Int J Health Geogr. 2016 Jan 28; 15:5. doi:10.1186/s12942-016-0033-0 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

24. Kamel Boulos MN, Yassine A, Shirmohammadi S, Namahoot CS, Brückner M. Towards an “Internet of Food”: Food Ontologies for the Internet of Things. Future Internet. 2015; 7(4):372-392. doi:10.3390/fi7040372

25. Kamel Boulos MN, Ifeachor EC, Escudero J, Zhao P, Carroll CB, Costa P, Doppler G, Carrasco Marín L, Spiru L, Helga Gudmundsdottir K, Kosem M. LiveWell – Promoting Healthy Living and Wellbeing for Parkinson Patients through Social Network and ICT Training: Lessons Learnt and Best Practices. International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI). 2015;10(3):24-41. doi:10.4018/IJHISI.2015070102

26. Kamel Boulos MN, Gammon S, Dixon MC, MacRury SM, Fergusson MJ, Miranda Rodrigues F, Mourinho Baptista T, Yang SP. Digital games for type 1 and type 2 diabetes: underpinning theory with three illustrative examples. JMIR Serious Games. 2015;3(1):e3 - doi:10.2196/games.3930 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

27. Kamel Boulos MN, Tsouros AD, Holopainen A. 'Social, innovative and smart cities are happy and resilient': insights from the WHO EURO 2014 International Healthy Cities Conference. Int J Health Geogr. 2015 Jan 14; 14:3. [PubMed/MEDLINE]

28. Haywood GA, Davies EJ, Kamel Boulos MN, Rapanotti L; on behalf of the UK Multi-Centre Cardiac Electrophysiology Trials Group. Use of avatar virtual conferencing to co-ordinate cardiac multi-centre research. Int J Cardiol. 2014 Aug 2; pii: S0167-5273(14)01335-7. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.07.125 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

29. Kamel Boulos MN, Al-Shorbaji NM. On the Internet of Things, smart cities and the WHO Healthy Cities. Int J Health Geogr. 2014; 13:10 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

30. Kamel Boulos MN, Brewer AC, Karimkhani C, Buller DB, Dellavalle RP. Mobile medical and health apps: state of the art, concerns, regulatory control and certification. Online J Public Health Inform. 2014; 5(3):e229. doi:10.5210/ojphi.v5i3.4814 [PubMed/PMC]

31. Dahl TS, Kamel Boulos MN. Robots in health and social care: a complementary technology to home care and telehealthcare? Robotics. 2014; 3(1):1-21. doi:10.3390/robotics3010001

32. Kamel Boulos MN. Towards citizen-led health mapping. GeoConnexion: UK. 2013 (Sep/Oct); 11(5):54-56. [webcite; companion PowerPoint]

33. Kamel Boulos MN, Yang SP. Exergames for health and fitness: the roles of GPS and geosocial apps. Int J Health Geogr. 2013; 12:18 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

34. Giustini D, Kamel Boulos MN. Google Scholar is not enough to be used alone for systematic reviews. Online J Public Health Inform. 2013; 5(2):art.4623 [PubMed/PMC]

35. Kamel Boulos MN. Expert system shells for rapid clinical decision support module development: an ESTA demonstration of a simple rule-based system for the diagnosis of vaginal discharge. Healthc Inform Res. 2012; 18(4):252-258 (DOI:10.4258/hir.2012.18.4.252) [PubMed/PMC]

36. Kamel Boulos MN. Xbox 360 Kinect exergames for health. Games for Health Journal: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications. 2012; 1(5):326-330 (DOI:10.1089/g4h.2012.0041) [PubMed]

37. Kamel Boulos MN, Berry G. Real-time locating systems (RTLS) in healthcare: a condensed primer. Int J Health Geogr. 2012; 11:25 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

38. Kamel Boulos MN. Seeing through the Crowds: Crowdmaps Visualize User-Reported Data. GeoWorld. 2012 Jun; 25(6):22-25

39. Kamel Boulos MN, Anderson PF. Preliminary Survey of Leading General Medicine Journals' Use of Facebook and Twitter. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association. 2012; 33(2): 38-47 [indexed in CINAHL]

40. Jones R, Goldsmith L, Williams C, Kamel Boulos MN. Accuracy of Geographically Targeted Internet Advertisements on Google Adwords for Recruitment in a Randomized Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2012; 14(3):e84 (doi:10.2196/jmir.1991) [PubMed/MEDLINE]

41. Jones R, Goldsmith L, Hewson P, Kamel Boulos MN, Williams C. Do adverts increase the probability of finding online cognitive behavioural therapy for depression? Cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 2012;2:e000800 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

42. Kamel Boulos MN, Resch B, Crowley DN, Breslin JG, Sohn G, Burtner R, Pike WA, Jezierski E, Chuang K-YS. Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and Sensor Web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples. Int J Health Geogr. 2011; 10:67. [PubMed/MEDLINE]

43. Kamel Boulos MN. Quo vadis smartphones and apps in emergency medicine? International Hospital and Equipment (IHE). 2012 (May/Jun);38: 14-15 (IHE is published by PanGlobal Media, a Brussels-based spin-off from the Reed Elsevier publishing company)

44. Kamel Boulos MN, Blanchard BJ, Walker C, Montero J, Tripathy A, Gutierrez-Osuna R. Web GIS in practice X: a Microsoft Kinect natural user interface for Google Earth navigation. Int J Health Geogr. 2011; 10:45 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

45. AbdelMalik P, Kamel Boulos MN. Multidimensional Point Transform for Public Health Practice. Methods of Information in Medicine. 2012;51(1):63-73 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

46. Kamel Boulos MN, Wheeler S, Tavares C, Jones R. How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX. BioMed Eng OnLine. 2011; 10:24 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

47. Rocha A, Martins A, Freire JC Junior, Kamel Boulos MN, Escriche Vicente M, Feld R, van de Ven P, Nelson J, Bourke A, Ó Laighin G, Sdogati C, Jobes A, Narvaiza L, Rodriguez-Molinero A. Innovations in health care services: The CAALYX system. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2013; 82:e307-e320 (Available online 9 April 2011, ISSN 1386-5056, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.03.003) [PubMed/MEDLINE]

48. Kamel Boulos MN. Smartphones in diabetes care and management. CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation (C&R) Magazine. 2011; 4(3):20-21

49. Kamel Boulos MN. BlogBrain Ops: Proposal for a Semi-automatic Social Web Mining and Cyberinfluence Decision-support Tool for Info Ops Teams. JETWI - Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence. 2011; 3(4): 317-322. doi:10.4304/jetwi.3.4.317-322

50. Kamel Boulos MN, Viangteeravat T, Anyanwu MN, Ra Nagisetty V, Kuscu E. Web GIS in practice IX: a demonstration of geospatial visual analytics using Microsoft Live Labs Pivot technology and WHO mortality data. Int J Health Geogr. 2011; 10: 19 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

51. Mathys T, Kamel Boulos MN. Geospatial resources for supporting data standards, guidance and best practice in health informatics. BMC Research Notes. 2011; 4:19 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

52. Kamel Boulos MN, Anastasiou A, Bekiaris E, Panou M. Geo-enabled technologies for independent living: examples from four European projects. Technology and Disability. 2011; 23(1):7-17. [Indexed in CINAHL]

53. Kamel Boulos DN, Ghali RR, Ibrahim EM, Kamel Boulos MN, AbdelMalik P. An eight-year snapshot of geospatial cancer research (2002-2009): clinico-epidemiological and methodological findings and trends. Medical Oncology. 2011; 28(4):1145-1162 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

54. Kamel Boulos MN, Sanfilippo AP, Corley CD, Wheeler S. Social Web Mining and Exploitation for Serious Applications: Technosocial Predictive Analytics and Related Technologies for Public Health, Environmental and National Security Surveillance. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2010; 100(1):16-23 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

55. Kamel Boulos MN, Warren J, Gong J, Yue P. Web GIS in practice VIII: HTML5 and the canvas element for interactive online mapping. Int J Health Geogr. 2010; 9:14 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

56. Kamel Boulos MN, Robinson LR. Web GIS in practice VII: stereoscopic 3-D solutions for online maps and virtual globes. Int J Health Geogr. 2009; 8:59 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

57. Kamel Boulos MN, Curtis AJ, AbdelMalik P. Musings on privacy issues in health research involving disaggregate geographic data about individuals. Int J Health Geogr. 2009; 8:46 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

58. Kamel Boulos MN, Castellot Lou R, Anastasiou A, Nugent CD, Alexandersson J, Zimmermann G, Cortes U, Casas R. Connectivity for Healthcare and Well-Being Management: Examples from Six European Projects. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2009; 6(7):1947-1971; DOI: 10.3390/ijerph6071947 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

59. Kamel Boulos MN. Semantic Wikis: A Comprehensible Introduction with Examples from the Health Sciences. JETWI - Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence. 2009 Aug; 1(1):94-96. doi:10.4304/jetwi.1.1.94-96

60. Kamel Boulos MN, Toth-Cohen S. The University of Plymouth Sexual Health SIM experience in Second Life®: evaluation and reflections after one year. Health Information and Libraries Journal. 2009; 26(4): 279-288 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

61. Kamel Boulos MN, Maramba I. Pitfalls in 3-D Virtual Worlds Health Project Evaluations: The Trap of Drug-trial-style Media Comparative Studies. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. 2009; 2(2) -

62. Toro-Troconis M, Kamel Boulos MN. Musings on the State of '3-D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare' in 2009. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. 2009; 2(2) -

63. Jones RB, Maramba I, Kamel Boulos MN, Alexander T. Use of Live Interactive Webcasting for an International Postgraduate Module in eHealth: Case Study Evaluation. J Med Internet Res. 2009; 11(4):e46. doi:10.2196/jmir.1225 [MEDLINE/PubMed]

64. Kamel Boulos MN. MEDTING: a social visual platform with potential in dermatology--brief service review. Egyptian Dermatology Online Journal. 2009 Jun; 5(1):8

65. Anastasiou A, Quarrie PA, Kamel Boulos MN. Personal location aware healthcare in Europe—the challenges from prototype to product: the CAALYX experience. eHealth International Journal. 2009; 5(1):18-29 -

66. Endacott R, Kamel Boulos MN, Manning BR, Maramba I. Geographic Information Systems for Healthcare Organizations: A Primer for Nursing Professions. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. 2009; 27(1):50-56 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

67. Kamel Boulos MN, Ramloll R, Jones R, Toth-Cohen S. Web 3D for Public, Environmental and Occupational Health: Early Examples from Second Life®. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2008; 5(4):290-317; DOI: 10.3390/ijerph5040290 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

68. Clauson KA, Polen HH, Kamel Boulos MN, Dzenowagis JH. Scope, completeness, and accuracy of drug information in Wikipedia. The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2008 Dec;42(12):1814-21 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

69. Kamel Boulos MN, Scotch M, Cheung K-H, Burden D. Web GIS in practice VI: a demo "playlist" of geo-mashups for public health neogeographers. International Journal of Health Geographics. 2008; 7:38 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

70. Huang ST, Kamel Boulos MN, Dellavalle RP. Scientific Discourse 2.0. Will Your Next Poster Session Be in Second Life ®? EMBO Reports. 2008;9(6):496–499 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

71. AbdelMalik P, Kamel Boulos MN, Jones R. The perceived impact of location privacy: a web-based survey of public health perspectives and requirements in the UK and Canada. BMC Public Health 2008;8:156 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

72. Kamel Boulos MN, Hetherington L, Wheeler S. Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3D virtual worlds in medical and health education. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2007 Dec;24(4):233–245 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

73. Kamel Boulos MN, Burden D. Web GIS in practice V: 3-D interactive and real-time mapping in Second Life. International Journal of Health Geographics 2007, 6:51 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

74. Wheeler S, Kamel Boulos MN. Mashing, Burning, Mixing and the Destructive Creativity of Web 2.0: Applications for Medical Education. RECIIS – Electronic Journal of Communication, Information and Innovation in Health 2007;1(1):27-33 (or - also available in Portuguese)

75. Kamel Boulos MN, Wheeler S. The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and healthcare education. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2007 Mar;24(1):2-23 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

76. Kamel Boulos MN, Rocha A, Martins A, Escriche Vicente M, Bolz A, Feld R, Tchoudovski I, Braecklein M, Nelson J, Ó Laighin G, Sdogati C, Cesaroni F, Antomarini M, Jobes A, Kinirons M. CAALYX: a new generation of location-based services in healthcare. International Journal of Health Geographics 2007 Mar;6:9 - doi:10.1186/1476-072X-6-9 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

77. Kamel Boulos MN, Harvey FE, Roudsari AV, Bellazzi R, Hernando Perez ME, Deutsch T, Cramp DG, Carson ER. A Proposed Semantic Framework for Diabetes Education Content Management, Customisation and Delivery within the M2DM Project. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2006;83(3):188–197 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

78. Kamel Boulos MN. Map of Dermatology: 'first impression' user feedback and agenda for further development. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2006 Sep;23(3):203-213 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

79. Kamel Boulos MN, Maramba I, Wheeler S. Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. BMC Medical Education 2006, 6:41 (15Aug2006) [PubMed/MEDLINE]

80. Ibrahim EM, Kamel Boulos MN. Access to Online Information by Adult Saudi Cancer Patients. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet 2006;10(4):33–43 doi:10.1300/J381v10n04_04 [Indexed in CINAHL]

81. Kamel Boulos MN, Cai Q, Padget JA, Rushton G. Using Software Agents to Preserve Individual Health Data Confidentiality in Micro-scale Geographical Analyses. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2006 Apr;39(2):160-170 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

82. Kamel Boulos MN. British Internet-derived Patient Information on Diabetes Mellitus: Is it Readable? Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics 2005 Jun;7(3):528-35 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

83. Kamel Boulos MN, Taylor AD, Breton A. A Synchronous Communication Experiment within an Online Distance Learning Program: A Case Study. Telemedicine Journal and e-Health 2005;11(5):583-593 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

84. Grindlay D, Kamel Boulos MN, Williams HC. Introducing the National Library for Health Skin Conditions Specialist Library. BMC Dermatology 2005 Apr, 5:4 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

85. Kamel Boulos MN. Map of Dermatology: Web image browser for differential diagnosis in dermatology. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2006;72(1):72-4 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

86. Kamel Boulos MN, Russell C, Smith M. Web GIS in practice II: interactive SVG maps of diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases by Primary Care Trust in London, 1997 - 2003. International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 Jan, 4:4 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

87. Kamel Boulos MN, Phillipps GP. Is NHS dentistry in crisis? 'Traffic light' maps of dentists' distribution in England and Wales. International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 May, 3:10 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

88. Kamel Boulos MN. A first look at HealthCyberMap medical semantic subject search engine. Technology and Health Care 2004;12(1):33-41 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

89. Kamel Boulos MN. Towards evidence-based, GIS-driven national spatial health information infrastructure and surveillance services in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 Jan;3:1 [PubMed]

90. Kamel Boulos MN. Descriptive review of geographic mapping of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) on the Internet. International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 Jan;3:2 [PubMed]

91. Kamel Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Carson ER. HealthCyberMap: A Semantic Visual Browser of Medical Internet Resources Based on Clinical Codes and the Human Body Metaphor. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2002 Dec;19(4):189-200 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

92. Kamel Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Carson ER. A Dynamic Problem to Knowledge Linking Semantic Web Service Based on Clinical Codes. Medical Informatics & The Internet in Medicine 2002 Sep;27(3):127-137 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

93. Kamel Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Carson ER. A Simple Method for Serving Web Hypermaps with Dynamic Database Drill-down. International Journal of Health Geographics 2002 Aug;1:1 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

94. Kamel Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Carson ER. Towards a Semantic Medical Web: HealthCyberMap’s Tool for Building an RDF Metadata Base of Health Information Resources Based on the Qualified Dublin Core Metadata Set. Medical Science Monitor 2002 Jul;8(7): MT124-36 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

95. Kamel Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Carson ER. Health Geomatics: An Enabling Suite of Technologies in Health and Healthcare (Methodolical Review). Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2001 Jun;34(3):195-219 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

96. Kamel Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Gordon C, Muir Gray JA. The Use of Quality Benchmarking in Assessing Web Resources for the Dermatology Virtual Branch Library of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH). Journal of Medical Internet Research 2001 Mar;3(1):e5 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

97. Kamel Boulos MN. The use of interactive graphical maps for browsing medical/ health Internet information resources. International Journal of Health Geographics 2003 Jan;2:1 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

98. Kamel Boulos MN. Location-based health information services: a new paradigm in personalised information delivery. International Journal of Health Geographics 2003 Jan;2:2 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

99. Kamel Boulos MN. Geographic information systems and the spiritual dimension of health: a short position paper. International Journal of Health Geographics 2003 Sept; 2:6 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

100. Kamel Boulos MN. Web GIS in practice: an interactive geographical interface to English Primary Care Trust performance ratings for 2003 and 2004. International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 Jul; 3:16 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

101. Kamel Boulos MN. Research protocol: EB-GIS4HEALTH UK - foundation evidence base and ontology-based framework of modular, reusable models for UK/NHS health and healthcare GIS applications. International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 Jan; 4:2 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

102. Kamel Boulos MN. On geography and medical journalology: a study of the geographical distribution of articles published in a leading medical informatics journal between 1999 and 2004. International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 Mar; 4:7 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

103. Bellazzi R, Arcelloni M, Bensa G, Blankenfeld H, Brugues E, Carson E, Cobelli C, Cramp D, D'Annunzio G, De Cata P, De Leiva A, Deutsch T, Fratino P, Gazzaruso C, Garcia A, Gergely T, Gomez E, Harvey F, Ferrari P, Hernando E, Kamel Boulos MN, Larizza C, Ludekke H, Maran A, Nucci G, Pennati C, Ramat S, Roudsari A, Rigla M, Stefanelli M. Design, methods, and evaluation directions of a multi-access service for the management of diabetes mellitus patients. Diabetes Technol Ther 2003;5(4):621-9 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

104. Kamel Boulos MN. Book Review (of GIS in Public Health Practice. Routledge, London, 2004). The Photogrammetric Record 2005 Sep;20(111): 303–305

105. Kamel Boulos MN. Book Review of 'GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management, CRC Press, 2010'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 2011;25(11):1906-1907

106. Kamel Boulos MN. Spatially Enabling the UK National Health Service. GIS@development 2005 Jun;9(6):38-40

107. Kamel Boulos MN. Web GIS in practice III: creating a simple interactive map of England's Strategic Health Authorities using Google Maps API, Google Earth KML, and MSN Virtual Earth Map Control, Int J Health Geogr 2005 Sep, 4:22 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

108. Kamel Boulos MN, Honda K. Web GIS in practice IV: publishing your health maps and connecting to remote WMS sources using the Open Source UMN MapServer and DM Solutions MapLab, Int J Health Geogr 2006 Jan, 5:6 [PubMed/MEDLINE]

109. Kamel Boulos MN. Response by author (about: wikis, blogs and podcasts for virtual collaborative practice and learning/CPD in dermatology). Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2006;72(3):231-32

110. Kamel Boulos MN, Burden D. Bringing GIS to Virtual Spaces and Virtual Worlds. PositionIT. 2008 July/August, pp.53-56

111. Kashani RM, Roberts A, Jones R, Kamel Boulos MN. Virtual Worlds, Collective Responses and Responsibilities in Health. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. 2009; 2(2) -

Book Chapters

1. Kamel Boulos MN. Geographic Informatics (Chapter 64). In: R Kamel, JSP Lumley (eds). Textbook of Tropical Surgery. London: Westminster Publishing Ltd, 2004, pp. 254-57

2. Kamel Boulos MN. Anatomy of the Skin. In: R Drugge, HA Dunn (eds). The Electronic Textbook of Dermatology. New York: The Internet Dermatology Society, Inc., 1995-2000

3. Kamel Boulos MN. Chapter 49: Principles and techniques of interactive Web cartography and Internet GIS (in addition to contributions to companion DVD). In: M Madden (Editor). Manual of Geographic Information Systems. Bethesda, Maryland: ASPRS—American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2009, pp. 935-974 (ISBN: 1-57083-086-X) -

4. Kamel Boulos MN et al. Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts (Chapter 11). In: Ravi Kumar Jain B (editor). Web 2.0--An Introduction. Hyderabad, India: The Icfai University Press, 2007, pp. 125-142 (ISBN: 81-314-0823-X)

5. Jones R, Kamel Boulos MN, Maramba C, Skirton H, Freeman J. Patient preferences for online person-person support (chapter 4). In: Panteli N (Editor). Virtual Social Networks: Mediated, Massive and Multiplayer Sites. Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 52-74 (ISBN: 978-0-230-22928-0)

6. Buchroithner M, Kamel Boulos MN, Robinson LR. Stereoscopic 3-D solutions for online maps and virtual globes. In: Buchroithner M (Editor). True-3D in Cartography—Autostereoscopic and Solid Visualisation of Geodata. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2012, Part 10, pp. 391-412 (ISBN: 978-3-642-12271-2)

7. Rapanotti L, Minocha S, Barroca L, Kamel Boulos MN, Morse DR. 3D Virtual Worlds in Higher Education (Chapter 12). In: Anders D. Olofsson and J. Ola Lindberg (Editors). Informed Design of Educational Technologies in Higher Education: Enhanced Learning and Teaching. Hershey, PA, USA: Information Science Reference, an imprint of IGI Global, 2012, pp. 212-240

8. Kamel Boulos MN. Social media and Web 2.0 – how will they impact governance for health? In: Ilona Kickbusch and David Gleicher (Editors). Governance for Health. Springer, due later in 2014 (in press - - this chapter is cited in: )

Published in September 2014 as: Kamel Boulos MN. Social media and Web 2.0: effect on governance for health (Chapter 7, under Part 4: Coproduction). In: Ilona Kickbusch and David Gleicher (Editors). Smart governance for health and well-being: the evidence. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 2014, pp.106-127 (ISBN 978 92 890 5066 1)

9. Kamel Boulos MN. Social media and mobile health (Chapter 13, under Part B: Taking action to create and strengthen health literacy-friendly settings). In: Ilona Kickbusch, Jürgen Pelikan, Franklin Apfel and Agis Tsouros (Editors). THE SOLID FACTS - Health Literacy. Copenhagen, Denmark: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 2013, pp. 63-67

10. Gálvez-Barrón CP, Kamel Boulos MN, Prescher S, Abellán Cano C, Suárez Ortega E, Font Tió A, Morales Gras J, ODonovan K, Díaz Boladeras M, Köhler F, Rodríguez-Molinero A. Telemedicine scenario for elderly people with comorbidity (Chapter 12). In: Garcia NM, Rodrigues JJPC (Editors). Ambient Assisted Living. Taylor and Francis / CRC Press (USA), June 2015, pp.293-326.

11. Miranda Rodrigues F, Mourinho Baptista T, Kamel Boulos MN. Section III/Chapter 42: E-Health and Psychology: Self-Regulation to Help Software Design. In: Cruz-Cunha MM, Miranda IM, Martinho R, Rijo R (Editors). Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine (Volume I). Hershey, Pennsylvania (USA): IGI Global, May 2016, pp.547-557. ISBN: 9781466699786. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9978-6.ch042

12. Jiménez AL, Malavé de León E, Sims G, Hiraldo-Lebrón CM, Small PJ, Kamel Boulos MN. Chapter 16: Leveraging Technology for Health Equity. In: Parekh R, Childs Ed W (Editors). Stigma and Prejudice: Touchstones in Understanding Diversity in Healthcare (Part of the series Current Clinical Psychiatry). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp.277-301. ISBN: 9783319275789. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27580-2_16

13. Simas C, Larson H, Schulz W, Kamel Boulos MN. Utilising social media to support HIV/STI prevention: evidence to inform a handbook for public health programme managers (ECDC/WHCA Project SC12 3a). Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control – ECDC, 2017.

14. Simas C, Larson H, Schulz W, Kamel Boulos MN. Utilising social media for HIV/STI prevention programmes among young people: a handbook for public health programme managers (ECDC/WHCA Project SC12 3b). Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control – ECDC, 2017.

15. Kamel Boulos MN, Ifeachor E, Escudero J, Zhao P, Carroll C, Costa P, Doppler G, Marín LC, Spiru L, Guðmundsdótti KH, Kosem M. LiveWell – Promoting Healthy Living and Wellbeing for Parkinson Patients through Social Network and ICT Training: Lessons Learnt and Best Practices (Chapter 21). In: Information Resources Management Association, USA (Ed.). Health Literacy: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017, pp. 430-445. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-1928-7.ch02

16. Zhang P, Kamel Boulos MN. Chapter 50: Blockchain solutions for healthcare. In: J Faintuch, S Faintuch (Eds). Precision Medicine for Investigators, Practitioners and Providers. Publisher: Elsevier Science/Academic Press, 2020, pp. 519-524. ISBN: 9780128191798, doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-819178-1.00050-2

Conference Papers and Abstracts

1. Kamel Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Carson ER. A Dynamic Problem-Knowledge Coupling Semantic Web Service. In: V Della Mea, CA Beltrami, J Woodall, TN Arvanitis (eds). Proceedings of the 6th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, Udine, Italy, December 2001/Technology and Health Care 2001;9(6):477-479. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

2. Bellazzi R, Carson ER, Cobelli C, Hernando E, Gomez EJ, Kamel Boulos MN, Rendschmidt T, Roudsari AV and other members of the M2DM consortium. Merging telemedicine with knowledge management: the M2DM project. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Istanbul, 25-28 October 2001. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001, pp. 4117-20 (Volume: 4)

3. Kamel Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Carson ER. HealthCyberMap: Mapping the Health Cyberspace Using Hypermedia GIS and Clinical Codes. In: Ri Maheswaran, C Reuterwall, M Martuzzi, M Craglia, JF Viel, T Kistemann (eds). Proceedings of the First European Conference for Geographic Information Sciences in Public Health, Sheffield, September 2001. Sheffield: Sheffield University Press, 2001

4. Kamel Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Carson ER. HealthCyberMap’s Dublin Core Ontology in Protégé-2000. Presented at the Fifth International Protégé Workshop, SCHIN, Newcastle, UK, July 2001.

5. Bellazzi R, Brugues E, Carson E, Cobelli C, Cramp D, d'Annunzio G, De Cata P, De Leiva A, Deutsch T, Fratino P, Carmine Gazzaruso C, Tamas Gergely T, Enrique J Gomez EJ, Harvey F, Ferrari P, Friederich CH, Hernando E, Kamel Boulos MN, Larizza C, Ludekke H, Luebker M, Maran A, Nucci G, Garcia FO, Pennati C, Rendschmidt T, Roudsari A, Schutte K and Stefanelli M. Multi-Access services for the management of Diabetes Mellitus: The M2DM project. Presented at the American Diabetes Association 62nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA, US, June 2002

6. Bellazzi R, Bensa G, Brugués E, Carson E, Cobelli C, Cramp D, d'Annunzio G, De Cata P, De Leiva A, Deutsch T, Fratino P, Gazzaruso C, Garcia A, Gergely T, Gomez E, Harvey F, Ferrari P, Harras Friedrich C, Hernando E, Kamel Boulos MN, Larizza C, Luddeke H, Luebker M, Maran A, Nucci G, Ortiz Garcia F, Pennati C, Ruodsari A, Rigla M, Schutte K, Stefanelli M. Multi-Access Services for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus: the M2DM Project. AMIA 2002 Symposium (S64 Poster Session 2 - 12 Nov 2002)

7. Kamel Boulos MN. Geographic Mapping of SARS. Presented at the “Epidemiology: A Spatial Perspective” meeting organised by Telford Institute of Environmental Systems with the backing of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc, UK), University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK, 17 June 2003

8. Kamel Boulos MN. A Two-method Evaluation Approach for Web-based Health Information Services: The HealthCyberMap Experience. In: A Geissbühler, C Boyer, JW van der Slikke, TN Arvanitis (eds). Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2003/Technology and Health Care 2003;11(5):333-334. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

9. Kamel Boulos MN. EB-GIS4HEALTH UK: Foundation evidence base and modular models for UK/NHS health and healthcare GIS applications. In: Proceedings of Saudi Bio 2004 International Biotechnology Conference, Jeddah, 10-12 May 2004 (p. 76)

10. Kamel Boulos MN. Readability assessment of British Internet information resources on diabetes mellitus targeting laypersons. In: Proceedings of the Second Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 2004) held in conjunction with ECDL 2004: 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Bath, UK, 16 September 2004

11. Kamel Boulos MN. An overview of the University of Bath School for Health research portfolio in health informatics. In: Proceedings of Second Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics (MECHCI'2005), Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE, 9-10 April 2005

12. Kamel Boulos MN. Designing usable Web interfaces for health and healthcare applications: the good and the bad (Workshop). In: Proceedings of Second Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics (MECHCI'2005), Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE, 9-10 April 2005

13. Kamel Boulos MN. Towards an e-Aged Care / Health and Social Care Informatics Education and Research Agenda for Europe 2020 and Beyond. In: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Health GIS, Bangkok, Thailand, 1-2 December 2005 (invited keynote speech)

14. Kamel Boulos MN. Public Health Informatics and GIS. Presented at the 27th Annual Scientific Congress on Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, 23-24 March 2006 (invited speech)

15. Kamel Boulos MN. Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts: Emerging Tools for Virtual Collaborative Practice and Learning/CPD in Medicine. Presented at the 27th Annual Scientific Congress on Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, 23-24 March 2006 (invited WHO/EMRO Health Informatics workshop)

16. Wheeler S, Kamel Boulos MN. Do you have a Wiki Side? Evaluating Wiki Spaces as a Tool for Online Collaborative Learning. In: Proceedings of ALT-C 2006, the 13th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 5-7 September 2006

17. Kamel Boulos MN. A quick tour of the University of Plymouth’s Sexual Health Project in Second Life. In: Proceedings of Rethinking Interprofessional Education and Development Conference, Plymouth, UK, 8-9 October 2007 (pp. 27-28)

18. Quarrie P, Kamel Boulos MN, Escriche Vicente M, Rocha A, Feld R, Nelson J, Sdogati C, Rodriguez A, Jobes A. CAALYX: Location independent healthcare for the elderly. In: Proceedings of RAATE 2007—Recent Advances in Assistive Technology & Engineering 2007 (Session 9 - Telecare), Sheffield’s Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, UK, 26-27 November 2007

19. Kamel Boulos MN, Wheeler S, Toth-cohen S. Designing for learning in 3-D virtual worlds: The University of Plymouth Sexual Health SIM experience in Second Life. In: Proceedings of IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2007), 7-9 December 2007, Algarve, Portugal. Edited by Kinshuk, Sampson DG, Spector JM, Isaías P. IADIS Press, 2007, pp. 401-406 (ISBN: 978-972-8924-48-5)

20. Kamel Boulos MN, Anastasiou A, and the CAALYX Consortium. CAALYX: Personal healthcare – Anytime, anywhere! In: Proceedings of the 13th Finnish National Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth ”eHealth serving the citizen”; MS Viking Mariella Helsinki – Tukholma – Helsinki, Finland, 2-4 April 2008.

21. Kamel Boulos MN, Anastasiou A. A Complete Ambient Assisted Living eXperiment (CAALYX) in Second Life®. In Proceedings of MedNet2008 - The 13th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, 15-18 October 2008, St. Petersburg State I.P. Pavlov Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia (pp.4-5) -

22. Clauson KA, Polen HH, Kamel Boulos MN, Dzenowagis JH. Accuracy and Completeness of Drug Information in Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium; Hilton Washington and Towers, Washington, DC, 8-12 November 2008 [PubMed]

23. Anastasiou A, Kamel Boulos MN, and the CAALYX consortium. Barriers to the Adoption of Telehealth and the Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment (CAALYX). In: Proceedings of RAATE 2008—Recent Advances in Assistive Technology & Engineering 2008, Coventry University Technocentre, Coventry, UK, 1 December 2008

24. Kamel Boulos MN. Novel Emergency/Public Health Situation Rooms and More Using 4-D GIS. Presented at: ISPRS WG IV/4 International Workshop on Virtual Changing Globe for Visualisation & Analysis (VCGVA2009), Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 27-28 October 2009 (Published in ISPRS Archives, Vol. XXXVIII ISSN No: 1682-1777 PART 4/W10)

25. Kamel Boulos MN and the eCAALYX Project Consortium. An Enhanced Ambient Assisted Living Experiment for Older People with Multiple Chronic Conditions. Presented at: 2nd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2009), Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 24-27 November 2009 (paper PDF from ISABEL2009 Conference CD-ROM, distributed to all conference participants: )

26. Kamel Boulos MN. eHealth service interoperability: Paying attention to interfaces! Lessons from CAALYX and eCAALYX (invited keynote speech). In: Proceedings of the Third Middle East Conference of Health Informatics, Beirut, Lebanon, 31 March-1 April 2010 - organised by in collaboration with MEAHI, the Middle East Association for Health Informatics within IMIA

27. De Freitas K, Nevill A, Jones R, Mayo M, Phippen A, Kamel Boulos MN. Embedding a horizon-scanning system to support investment decision-making for health technology adoption into an acute NHS hospital (poster). Presented at Riviera Research Day 2010, The Grand Hotel, Torquay, Devon, UK, 18 November 2010 (organised by South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Research and Development team - )

28. Kamel Boulos MN. How social media and sociable tools are impacting the way we interact and make decisions on matters that relate to our health and well-being. Presented at Governance for health at the local level: People, citizens and assets for health--WHO European Healthy Cities Networks Third Annual Business and Technical Conference: Initial consultation with local governments on the new health policy for the WHO European Region – Health 2020, Liège, Belgium, 15-18 June 2011

29. Kashani R, Jones R, Roberts A, Kamel Boulos MN. Occupational Therapists’ Expectations of a Virtual World Program for Client Education (poster and extended abstract). In: Proceedings of CyberTherapy 2011, the 16th Annual CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference (CT 16), the official conference of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR), Université du Québec en Outoauais, Gatineau, Canada, 19-22 June 2011

30. Kamel Boulos MN. Telehealthcare for older people with comorbidity: some lessons learned from the eCAALYX project. In: Proceedings of the British Society of Gerontology 40th Annual Conference, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, UK, 5-7 July 2011

31. Kashani RM, Jones R, Roberts AEK, Kamel Boulos MN. Wanted: Occupational Therapists to Apply Their Skill to Virtual Occupations, Please Apply in-World. Poster in: Proceedings of 'Occupational Science Conference: OTs Owning Occupation', Plymouth University, Devon, UK, 8-9 September 2011.

32. Kamel Boulos MN. Enhanced Ambient Assisted Living – eCAALYX: some usability considerations and desiderata for mHealth apps. In: Proceedings of Health Informatics Scotland Conference 2011, The Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, Quincentary Hall & Playfair Hall, Edinburgh, UK, 12-13 September 2011.

33. Kamel Boulos MN. Serving our cities: Delivering world-class university education with emphasis on ‘key skills’ (generic, transferable skills). In: Proceedings of UNICA International Conference: Cities and their Universities, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 25-27 September 2011

34. Kamel Boulos MN. Location-aware telehealth services: an overview of eCAALYX and how geolocation is being used in reasoning with clinical data. In: Online Proceedings of 'Location-Based Technologies in Health & Care Services', Reading, UK, 8 February 2012 (an event organised by South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA) and the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network of the UK Technology Strategy Board)

35. Kamel Boulos MN. Geosemantically-enhanced PubMed Queries Using the GeoNames Ontology and Web Services. In: Proceedings of the Invited Special Session on Geospatial Semantic Web and Ontologies within IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2012), Munich, Germany, 22-27 July 2012 - Full paper published in the peer-reviewed, official IGARSS2012 Proceedings on IEEE Xplore, pp. 2891-2893 (ISSN: 2153-6996; E-ISBN: 978-1-4673-1158-8; Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-1160-1)

36. Escudero J, Carroll C, Kamel Boulos MN, Ifeachor E. The LiveWell project: Promoting healthy living and well-being for Parkinson’s disease patients through social network and training (poster). In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognition Institute, Plymouth University, UK, 20-22 March 2013

37. Yang SP, Kamel Boulos MN, Oh Y. Location-based, outdoor exergames and geosocial apps for fun and better health. In: Proceedings of Games For Health 2013, the 9th Annual Games for Health Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 26-28 June 2013 (presented within multispeaker session on 'New Ideas for Pervasive Exergaming', Thursday, 27 June 2013, 1:30pm - 2:20pm, Room D: Freedom Room, Back Bay Events Center, Boston)

38. Kamel Boulos MN. Public engagement and participation in health geography: crowdmaps (crowdsourced maps) by citizens, for citizens. In: Proceedings of GEOMED 2013, the 8th international interdisciplinary conference on spatial epidemiology, spatial statistics and geomedical systems, The Edge—University of Sheffield conference venue, Sheffield, UK, 16-18 September 2013

39. Kamel Boulos MN. Telehealthcare for older people: barriers to large-scale roll-outs (Round table: Use of technologies to promote healthy aging and improve disability). In: Proceedings of the 1st Barcelona Conference on Healthy Aging (University of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain, 14-15 November 2013 (invited presentation)

40. Kamel Boulos MN, Livewell Project Consortium. Livewell Project (project overview and early user feedback and impressions from the summer 2014 pilot testing phase). In: Proceedings of Health Informatics Scotland 2014, Glasgow, Scotland, 2-3 September 2014

41. Kamel Boulos MN. Creating self-aware and smart healthy cities. Invited plenary keynote address followed by sub-plenary round table at: WHO/Europe 2014 International Healthy Cities Conference, Athens, Greece, 25 October 2014. DOI:10.13140/2.1.3087.3600

42. Yang SP, Kamel Boulos MN. Mobile Health (mHealth) Apps for Improved Health in Medicine. In: Proceedings of Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress, Sheraton Maui Resort, Maui, Hawaii, USA, 14 November 2014. DOI:10.13140/2.1.2719.9685

43. Baptista TM, Kamel Boulos MN, Rodrigues FM, Rocha A. E-Health, psychology and medicine: the future of a close cooperation (invited symposium). In: Proceedings of the 14th European Congress of Psychology, Milan, Italy, 7-10 July 2015

44. Kamel Boulos MN. ADAMILO—Automated Diet and Activity Monitoring for Intelligent Lifestyle Optimization (Session: eHealth in Primary and Emergency Care, Friday 8 April 2016, 09:00-10:30, Conference Room 4). Full paper in: Proceedings of Med-e-Tel - The International eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT Forum for Education, Networking and Business; an event of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH), Luxembourg, 6-8 April 2016 / Jordanova M, Lievens F (Editors). Global Telemedicine and eHealth Updates: Knowledge Resources. Grimbergen, Belgium: ISfTeH, 2016; 9:71-78 (print edition - ISSN 1998-5509 / CD-ROM: Med-e-Tel Electronic Proceedings 2016, pp.560-567 - ISSN 1818-9334) . Abstract only: JISfTeH - Journal of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISSN 2308-0310) 2016;4:eS1

45. Kamel Boulos MN. IBM Watson health: how cognitive technologies have begun transforming clinical medicine and healthcare (Oral session IV – Patient safety tools, Thursday 19 May 2016, 15:45-16:45, Hotel Puijonsarvi, Kuopio). In: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Conference on Research in Patient Safety and Quality in Healthcare (NSQH2016), Kuopio, Finland, 18-20 May 2016 (organised by University of Eastern Finland). (Proceedings (print edition): Nykanen I (ed.). The 4th Nordic Conference on Research in Patient Safety and Quality in Healthcare. Kuopio, Finland, May 18-20, 2016. Program and Abstracts. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Report and Studies in Health Sciences 21. 2016, p.29 (of 119 p.). ISBN: 978-952-61-2130-7 (nid.), ISSNL: 1798-5722, ISSN: 1798-5730.)

46. Kamel Boulos MN. Invited contribution: Results of the Game - behavioural change and clinical proof if gamification works? Part of Ferring's ESPE 2016 Satellite Symposium: 'Can You Gamify Health?', Salle Maillot - L2, Le Palais des Congrès, Paris, 11 September 2016, 13:15-14:15. In: Proceedings of the 55th Annual European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Meeting (ESPE 2016), Le Palais des Congrès, Paris, France, 10-12 September 2016. ESPE 2016 Programme Book, p.246.

47. Kamel Boulos MN. Games, Geosocial Apps, Social Media Ads and Dashboards for Sexual Health Promotion. Invited presentation at the eHealth week - Track 3 panel debate for 12 May 2017 (09:30-10:30): '#SocialMediaInHealthcare: Y it matters 4U!', Conference Room: Cettina de Cesare 3, Intercontinental Hotel, St Julian's, Malta. In: Proceedings of eHealth Week 2017 (HIMSS Europe), Intercontinental Hotel, St Julian's, Malta, 10-12 May 2017.

48. Kamel Boulos MN. Invited contribution: Algorithm-driven Health Recommendations in Medical Apps. In: Proceedings of 'Algorithm-driven Health Recommendations – A Promising Prospect for Patient Empowerment, or a Means of Digital Paternalism?' A CERES (Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics and Social Sciences of Health) and Brocher Foundation Workshop, Fondation Brocher, Geneva, Switzerland, 19-21 June 2017.

49. Kamel Boulos MN. On the promises, challenges and risks of Pokémon Go and similar geosocial (location-based) exergames (invited contribution). In: Proceedings of GEOMED 2017: International Conference on Spatial Statistics, Spatial Epidemiology & Spatial Aspects of Public Health, Porto, Portugal, 07-9 September 2017.

50. Kamel Boulos MN. From smart cities and regions to smart, healthy individuals: how the Internet of Things and People can help improve our health, well-being and quality of life (invited keynote address). In: Proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on IoT Technologies for Healthcare, Angers, France, 24–25 October 2017. < URLs: - SlideShare PPT>

51. Kamel Boulos MN. Gamification in gastroenterology: Example of an iPad game for young IBD patients that worked well (invited contribution). In: Proceedings of Connecting Mind and Gut - IBD 2017: International Conference for Gastroenterologists. Madrid Marriott Auditorium, Spain, 16-18 November 2017.

52. Kamel Boulos MN. VRGIS and big data for smarter, healthier cities (within the Invited Session on 'Digital technologies and the impact in biometry', Chair: R Assunção, Discussant: A Charpentie, Presenters: MN Kamel Boulos, J Mills Flemming, G Câmara). In: Proceedings of the XXIXth International Biometric Conference, Barcelona International Convention Centre, Barcelona, Spain, 8-13 July 2018.

53. Kamel Boulos MN. Towards precision and accuracy digital public health: informed decision-making using novel community-level physical activity indicators from app data aggregates of user populations. Invited talk at the 2019 International Geoinformatics Week, Zhujiang Hotel, Guangzhou, China, 22-25 November 2019.

54. Kamel Boulos MN. Health literacy 101--Beyond ‘lazy proxies of trust’: Evaluating the message, not the messenger. Invited Keynote at the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ‘INFODEMIC MANAGEMENT’, organised by Dept of LIS, IUB University, Bahawalpur, PK, 25-26 June 2021, via Zoom.

PhD and MSc Theses

1. Kamel Boulos MN. HealthCyberMap: Mapping the Health Cyberspace Using Hypermedia GIS and Clinical Codes (PhD Thesis). City University, Centre for Measurement and Information in Medicine (MIM), London, UK, December 2002.

2. Kamel Boulos MN. A Preparatory Study on the Dermatology Virtual Branch Library of the NeLH (MSc Thesis in Medical Informatics). GKT School of Medicine, KCL, University of London, 2000.

3. Kamel Boulos MN. The Psychological Aspects of Infertility (MSc Thesis in Dermatology and Venereology). Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1994.

Published Software

Kamel Boulos MN (Editor and Developer). DermoCAD, The Professional Dermatological Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Microsoft Windows. Cairo: MediCAD, 1998 [ISBN 977-19-6342-2]. Formerly marketed by Dermatologic Lab and Supply, Inc. (Delasco), Council Bluffs, IA 51501, US . (See screenshot below; also listed in Delasco Dermatologic Buying Guide, 2002 Printed Edition, p.183)

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N.B.: There are other submitted manuscripts by the author (still under peer-reviewing). Please refer to < >, and (open PubMed link in Edge or Chrome) for the latest updates.

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