Dr. Khaled El Emam
CEO and Founder, Privacy Analytics
Dr. Khaled El Emam is the founder and president of Privacy Analytics Inc. In 2016 Privacy Analytics was acquired by IMS Health Inc. (now IQVIA). As an entrepreneur, Khaled helped (co-)founded five companies involved with data management and data analytics. He has worked in technical and management positions in academic and business settings in Canada, England, Scotland, Germany, and Japan.
Khaled is also a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, directs the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory at the research institute, and is a full professor in the faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement, and ranked second in 2002 and 2005. He is one of only a handful of individual experts in North America qualified to anonymize Protected Health Information under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
Previously, Khaled was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Dr. Khaled El Emam is the founder and president of Privacy Analytics Inc. In 2016 Privacy Analytics was acquired by IMS Health Inc. (now IQVIA). As an entrepreneur, Khaled helped (co-)founded five companies involved with data management and data analytics. He has worked in technical and management positions in academic and business settings in Canada, England, Scotland, Germany, and Japan.
Khaled is also a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, directs the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory at the research institute, and is a full professor in the faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement, and ranked second in 2002 and 2005. He is one of only a handful of individual experts in North America qualified to anonymize Protected Health Information under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
Previously, Khaled was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
