Luis Marco Ruiz

Luis Marco-Ruiz, Ph.D. is a senior researcher and data engineer specializing in designing and implementing innovative solutions for the secondary use of healthcare data in biomedical research. Dr. Marco-Ruiz joined the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (NSE) in 2013, where he has worked on national and international initiatives to facilitate the use of clinical data in research. He has advised the Norwegian Ministry of Health and the German consortium HiGHmed on adopting clinical information standards and biomedical ontologies for nationwide health research networks. The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic redirected his work towards the development of new methods to enable rapid data reuse for gaining knowledge on SARS-CoV-2, and he was a solution architect in the development of the German National Covid Research Infrastructure (CODEX). Currently, Dr. Marco-Ruiz is a member of the IMIA Working Group for Opensource Health Informatics and the openEHR Education Program, which actively looks for new insights in designing open digital health ecosystems.