Yuri Quintana PhD
Director, Education and Informatics, IOP, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
Professional summary
Dr. Yuri Quintana is the Director for Education and Informatics in the International Outreach Program at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital where he directs several ehealth and elearning projects used by thousands of health professionals. Dr. Quintana has led multi-disciplinary teams in projects that combine engineering, informatics, health, and education. Dr. Quintana is currently focused on the development of innovative Internet technologies that empower communities of health care professionals and consumers to communicate, learn and collaborate on a worldwide basis. Dr. Quintana has engineering graduate degrees from the University of Waterloo and has worked in industry, academia, hospitals and with health organizations.
Specialties and Interests
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EHealth, eLearning, Cure4Kids, Oncopedia, education, multimedia, social networks
Education
Universities
University of Waterloo
Doctor of Philosophy, research doctorate, Systems Design Engineering
Experience
Associate Professor
Director, Education and Informatics
Honors and Awards
Webby Award of Distinction
Gold W3 Web Award
Strategic e-HealthCare Leadership Award
2007 St. Jude Clinical Improvement Award
Memberships
Member
Member
Member
Publications
Articles
"Childhood cancer epidemiology in low-income countries."
"Implementation of a data management program in a pediatric cancer unit in a low income country."
"Pond4Kids - an multi-site online Pediatric Oncology Research Database for collaborative protocol research."
"Cure4Kids - building online learning and collaboration networks."
"Interoperability of open source medical record systems."
Lectures and Presentations
Cancer on the Internet
Creating Online Collaboration Communities: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Disclosure or Conflict of Interest
Yuri Quintana PhD has nothing to disclose
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