Narges Norouzkhani is currently a PhD candidate in Medical Informatics at the Department of Medical Informatics, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS), Iran. She obtained her MSc in information technology at Tarbiat Modares University in 2015. Her area of interests include serious games and gamification, telehealth, and patient education. Her PhD 's research thesis is in the field of mobile health using gamification techniques to design and evaluate a mobile phone application to self-management of Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients for improve quality of life and disease activity of these patients. She has papers in high-rank scientific journals.