Medicine in Social Media

Who stands behind Webicina?
Dr. Bertalan Meskó graduated from the University of Debrecen, Medical School and Health Science Center in 2009; he is now doing PhD in clinical genomics. He has been running the multiple award-winning medical blog, Scienceroll, since November, 2007, and had over 4 million hits. He thinks medical education and communication between physicians and patients will be revolutionized with the tools and services of social media.

He is a medical blogger, a microblogger, a manager of medical projects in Wikipedia and an organizer of scientific events in Second Life. He launched the first university elective course in the world that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students.

He was included in the Healthspottr Future Health 100 List and presented Webicina at the New York Stock Exchange in 2011 as a member of the Kairos Society.

He thinks medical professionals of the 21st century have to be ready to meet the expectations of e-patients and e-patients will change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered.

He or his blog have been mentioned in the above journals and sites.
He or his blog have been mentioned in the above journals and sites.

Lectures and presentations:



Dr. Meskó has given several lectures at prestigious conferences, clinics and events including:

  • the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference 16-17 (Long Beach, CA; January, 2008 and January, 2009)

  • the University of Yale, School of Medicine (February, 2008)


  • the clinics of Greenwich (February, 2008)

  • the centre of World Health Organization (July, 2008)

  • the 20th International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology in Vienna, Austria (August, 2008)

  • the Medicine 2.0 Congress in Toronto, Canada (September, 2008)

  • Web 2.0 BarCamp in Budapest, Hungary (March, 2009)

  • Acutezorg.nl event in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (March, 2009).

  • Sanidad 2.0 in Bilbao, Spain (June, 2009)

  • SciFoo in San Francisco, USA (July, 2009)

  • Pharma 2.0 event in Budapest, Hungary (October, 2009)

  • Reshape Health 2.0 event in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (October, 2009)

  • Cor 09 National Cardiology Congress in Budapest, Hungary (November, 2009)

  • Pharma in Social Media event in Berlin, Germany (February, 2010)

  • Digital Pharma Europe in Berlin, Germany (March, 2010)

  • Healthcare Social Media Unconference Camp in Berlin, Germany (March, 2010)

  • Health 2.0 Europe in Paris, France (April, 2010)

  • Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary (May, 2010)

  • Corvinus University (Management of Public Services and ICT course) in Budapest, Hungary (May, 2010))

  • Pharma Medico Marketing Forum in Budapest, Hungary (June, 2010)

  • Digital Pharma East (Philadelphia, USA, 2010)

  • Indigenus Forum (Paris, France, 2010)

  • Pharma 2.0 event (London, United Kingdom, 2010)

  • Medicine 2.0 Congress (Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2010)

  • Bayer 100 Conference (Lisbon, Portugal, 2010)

  • Diabetes in Social Media (London, United Kingdom, 2010)

  • Dermatology in Social Media (Manchester, United Kingdom, 2010)

  • 6th Annual Pharma Marketing & Branding Excellence (Milan, Italy, 2011)

  • Wall Street @Kairos Society event (New York, USA, 2011)

  • Doctors 2.0 and You (Paris, France, 2011)


He has the honour of being a member of the Organizing Committee of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17 Conference taking place in Long Beach, CA in 2009.



Bertalan Mesko Medicine 2.0 Promo - Rough from Larry Chu on Vimeo.


Since September, 2008, he has been running a course with 20 presentations focusing on medicine and web 2.0 at the University of Debrecen. That is the first medicine 2.0 course at a medical university worldwide.

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His slideshows described why and how e-patients will shape the future of medicine:

Practicing Medicine in the Web 2.0 Era