[1] El Emam is also a senior scientist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting academic research on de-identification and re-identification risk.
He has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King's College, at the University of London, England.
[6] In 2007, El Emam founded Privacy Analytics which was acquired by IMS Health in 2016.
[7] In 2019, El Emam founded Replica Analytics, a synthetic real-world data company.
In January 2022, Replica Analytics was acquired by health care technology company Aetion.