Health Informatics Laboratory

                  Contact Information:
                  Email: jmantas[at]nurs.uoa[dot]gr
                  Tel: +30 210 7461460
                  Fax: +30 210 7461461

Professor John Mantas graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Manchester in 1979 with Honours degree and received a Master's degree in Information Technology and Telecommunications. He was awarded the PhD in Computer Science in 1983. Professor John Mantas began his academic career firstly at the University of Manchester and then at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Professor Mantas is Director of the Laboratory of Health Informatics and Director of Postgraduate Studies.. He was Vice President of the Cyprus University of Technology and Dean of the School of Health Sciences; during his deanship he established in Cyprus the international Department of Public Health with the close collaboration of Harvard University. He has been President of the European Federation for Medical Informatics for the period 2010-2012 and Vice President of the International Medical Informatics Association for the European Region from 2012 to 2014. As Working Group chair on Education he led the initiative in providing the Educational Recommendations in Biomedical and Health Informatics. He is coordinator and partner in a number of national and European research programmes in the field of Health Informatics. He is a prolific writer and editor of fifteen books and of more than 250 papers in international journals and conferences. In 2016 he became Honorary Fellow of the European Federation for Medical Informatics.