IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Lecturer - Yuri Quintana
The Coastal South Carolina Section and our joint chapter are planning an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Lecturer for September. We have confirmed Yuri Quintana, Director of Global Health Informatics in the Division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Quintana's research focuses on bioinformatics and electronic health systems.
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- Date: 29 Oct 2018
- Time: 02:00 PM UTC to 03:00 PM UTC
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- 173 Ashley Avenue
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Charleston, South Carolina
- United States 29425
- Building: Basic Science
- Room Number: Room 302
- Starts 29 October 2018 02:06 AM UTC
- Ends 29 October 2018 06:06 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Yuri Quintana
Bioinformatics for Discovery and Global Collaborations: Approaches and Lessons Learned
Changes in global disease trends and demographics are creating unprecedented challenges to the delivery of healthcare and biomedical research worldwide. New technologies have allowed us to collect large amounts of data, but making that information useful for clinical care and global research remains a challenge. This talk will present some different approaches to biomedical informatics and innovations in big-data platforms for biomedical research.
An overview will be given of the implementation of collaborative data sharing platforms for pediatrics, senior care, and oncology. Challenges in establishing and sustaining these networks in developed and developing countries will be examined.
Biography:
Yuri Quintana, Ph.D. is Director for Global Health Informatics in the Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. His research is focused on developing innovative technologies that empower patients, families and health professionals.
He is leading the development of global health networks such as InfosSAGE for elder care coordination (www.infosagehealth.org), and Alicanto, a social learning network used by OPENPediatrics (www.openpediatrics.org ), a global pediatric education network, MADCaP (www.madcapnetwork.org), a global prostate cancer and genomic research network.
Previously, he was at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where he developed Cure4Kids, a global pediatric cancer education and collaboration website used by thousands of health professionals, and Cure4Kids for Kids, an interactive mobile app and website for promoting healthy lifestyles for children. Quintana was a principal investigator in the Canadian HealNet Research Network, and also served as director of the New Media Research Lab developing innovations in interactive media and online education. He has held high-tech positions at IBM and Watcom. Quintana obtained his engineering degrees from the University of Waterloo in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems Design Engineering. Dr. Quintana is a senior member of IEEE.