Professor Georges J. E. De Moor (b. 25 August 1953, Ostend, Belgium) is a Belgian MD and head of the Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics of the University of Ghent (Ghent).
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His primary and secondary education was at Saint Barbara College in Ghent (1960-1972). In 1979 he graduated in medicine and afterwards specialized in Clinical Pathology (1979-1983) and Nuclear Medicine (1982) before obtaining a PhD, Summa Cum Laude, in Medical Information Science at the University of Ghent in 1994.
Since 1995, he is Professor in Medical Informatics and in Medical Statistics at the University of Ghent and teaches Medical Informatics, Statistics, Decision Theory and Evidence Based Medicine. In addition, he is Head of the Clinical Pathology laboratory at the Saint Elisabeth Hospital in Zottegem.
He is president of RAMIT (Research in Medical Informatics and Telematics), and has been involved in many Research and Development projects, as well as in standardization activities. He has founded a number of spin-off companies, such as MediBridge, Custodix and TeleTendo, and also chairs a number of Belgian Government Committees and Scientific and Professional Organizations, such as the Health Telematics Committee of the Belgian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. He was the founding chairman of CEN/TC251, the official Technical Committee on standardization in health informatics in Europe. In 2004, he was elected President of the European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec). Georges De Moor is vice chairman of the Belgian Medical Informatics Association. Together with Jos Devlies and Geert Thienpont, he is the author of the 2006 eHealth strategy and implementation activities in Belgium report.[1]