Yuri Quintana

Current

• Director, Education and Informatics, International Outreach at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Associate Professor, Health Information Science, University of Victoria at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Chair, Computer Society Memphis Chapter at IEEE

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Past

• Principal Investigator at HEALNet
• Assistant Professor at University of Western Ontario
• Research Assistant - Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Group at University of Waterloo

• Software Engineer at IBM Corp
• Software Developer at Watcom

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Education

• University of Waterloo
• University of Waterloo
• University of Waterloo

• FHCI
• WCI

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Yuri Quintana’s Summary

SENIOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GLOBAL INNOVATOR

www.yuriquintana.com - yuriquintana@yahoo.com

Highly successful technology professional who spearheads the development of global innovations and growth of products and services. Proven record of success in developing award-winning technology innovations in health, multimedia, education, and web collaboration systems. Consistently develops dynamic new methods for program delivery. Leads multi-disciplinary international teams. Focuses on customer needs, team work, and emerging technologies. Fluent in English and Spanish.

RECENT AWARDS
2009 Gold e-Healthcare Leadership Award - Best Overall Internet Site (Cure4Kids)
2008 Gold W3 Award International Academy of the Visual Arts (Cure4Kids)
2007 Webby Design Award of Distinction

COMPETENCIES

Strategic Thinking, Innovation Development, International Team Management

New Product Design, Enterprise Architectures, Software Engineering, Interoperability, Usability, Informatics Research

Program Development, Lean Management, Re-engineering, Quality Improvement


ACCOMPLISHMENTS

eLearning: Leads Cure4Kids.org used by 20,000 users in 171 countries for education and collaboration. Cure4Kids is the largest online community for pediatric oncology.

eHealth / Informatics: Developed POND4Kids.org, for shared cancer records in 30 countries. Leads Consult4Kids for professional consultations.

eLearning: Launched Oncopedia, the first wikipedia-style site for collaborative clinical cases, social collaboration and peer review. Launched cancer education & prevention program for schools.

Leads the Cure4Kids Innovation Network, a global community for sharing technology innovations that includes 100 participants from 30 leading institutes.

Strategic Advisor to the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), the International Society for Pediatric Oncology (SIOP), and the United Nations International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA).

Yuri Quintana’s Specialties:

e-health, e-learning, interactive systems, search engines, multimedia, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, internet systems, decision support systems, evidence-based medicine.

Yuri Quintana’s Experience

• Director, Education and Informatics, International Outreach

  St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

  (Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  April 2002 — Present (7 years 8 months)

  Dr. Quintana leads an international team that develops global e-health and e-learning networks. Cure4Kids.org is used in 171 countries by over 20,000 health professionals for medical education and clinical collaborations. Pond4Kids.org is a web-based medical record system for pediatric cancer research used in over 100 international medical centers. Consult4Kids is a web-based second-opinion system used by health professionals for pediatric cancer and transplant cases. Cure4Kids for Kids (Cure4Kids.org/kids) is a global program for cancer education, science and healthy living education for children and parents. Dr. Quintana is building a global network of innovators for developing new interactive multi-cultural applications in e-health and e-learning. Dr. Quintana's current research projects are focused on the design of new media applications for public health and education, online clinical collaboration tools, and intelligent personalized information retrieval.

• Associate Professor, Health Information Science, University of Victoria

  St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  April 2002 — Present (7 years 8 months)

  Dr. Yuri Quintana has been collaborating with faculty and students at the University of Victoria for several years. Dr. Quintana participates in program development and curriculum design, provides mentoring to students at both the undergraduate and graduate level, assist the school in scholarly publications, and supports development of linkages with external organizations. Focus on ehealth and elearning.

• Chair, Computer Society Memphis Chapter

  IEEE

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)

  Directs the development of professional seminars and networking events for IEEE Computer Society members and local information technology professionals. (Member since 1984, IEEE Memphis CS Chair 2009-present)

• Principal Investigator

  HEALNet

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  January 1995 — December 2002 (8 years )

  Principal investigator in the HEALNet (Health Evidence Application and Linkage Network) was a national network of researchers whose common aim was to improve evidence-based decision-making at all levels in the health care system. Focus on ehealth and elearning.
  
  Research Projects that I lead:
  - Intelligent Medical Information Filtering
  - Interactive Patient Decision Support Systems
  - Multimedia Patient Education
  - Evaluation of Evidence-based Guidelines for Consumers

• Assistant Professor

  University of Western Ontario

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1995 — April 2002 (7 years 4 months)

  • Director of the New Media Research Lab - managed a large multi-disciplinary team conducting research on information retrieval, multimedia, ehealth, elearning
  
  • Obtained large grants from engineering, medical and social science research agencies
  
  • Supervised graduate students in information science, elearning, multimedia and user interface design topics
  
  • Developed algorithms for personalized information filtering of medical web pages
  
  • Conducted studies on Internet searching by consumers and health professionals
  
  • Designed and evaluated online breast cancer decision support systems
  
  • Principal Investigator in the HealNet Research Network (1995-2002)
  
  • Developed curriculum in health informatics
  
  • Designed and deployed a web-based decision support system for breast cancer patients used by the Cancer Society.
  
  • Chair of international conferences: Canadian Digital Libraries Conference (2001), Interactive eHealth (1999), Information and New media (1998).

• Research Assistant - Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Group

  University of Waterloo

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  January 1989 — January 1994 (5 years 1 month)

  Research Assistant, Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Univ. of Waterloo (1989-1994)
  
  • Developed algorithms for conceptual clustering and retrieval of images
  
  • Developed methods for natural language query systems using conceptual-graphs
  
  • Developed cognitive models of online search behaviour

• Software Engineer

  IBM Corp

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Internet industry)

  1983 — 1988 (5 years )

  Artificial Intelligence Engineer
  • Developed a natural language retrieval system online programming texts using conceptual graph matching
  
  Usability and Interaction Design Engineer
  • Made improvements to user interfaces using an observational laboratory and interaction design analysis
  
  Business Analyst
  • Initiated the graduate student program at IBM Canada Software Laboratory
  • Evaluated research programs with Canadian Universities and proposed new research and product strategies
  
  Software Engineer
  • Developed large scale financial software, and conducted software testing on compilers and interpreters

• Software Developer

  Watcom

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1982 — August 1983 (1 year 3 months)

Yuri Quintana’s Education

• University of Waterloo

  PhD , Systems Design Engineering , May 1990 — April 1995

• University of Waterloo

  MaSc , Systems Design Engineering , May 1988 — June 1990

• University of Waterloo

  BaSc , Electrical and Computer Engineering , September 1983 — April 1988

• FHCI

• WCI

Additional Information

Yuri Quintana’s Interests:

Running, Hiking, Volunteering, Coaching Junior Soccer, Fund Raising for Global Child Health initiatives.

Yuri Quintana’s Groups:

IEEE - Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE Computer Society Memphis Chapter Chair)
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery (Senior Member)
AMIA - American Medical Informatics Associations
AACE - American Association for Cancer Education
University of Waterloo Alumni
ISF - Internet Strategy Forum
ADL-WCL - DoD Advanced Distributed Learning Workforce Co-Lab
The Greater IBM Connection
Usability Professionals' Association
Open HealthCare
TakingITGlobal
International Union Against Cancer

•    Usability Professionals' Association International (UPA-I)
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Internet Strategy Forum
•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    NetSquared
•    Open HealthCare
•    TakingITGlobal
•    The Official IEEE Group
•    Waterloo Alumni
•    HITSP
•    ACM Members
•    The E-Learning Network
•    IEEE-USA
•    Waterloo Engineering Alumni
•    University of Waterloo
•    University of Waterloo Connect
•    Health 2.0
•    Global Public Health
•    AMIA members( American Medical Informatics Association)
•    Healthcare IT World
•    Electrical and Computer Engineering at Waterloo
•    e-Development Network
•    Institute for Intelligent Systems
•    Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
•    E-Learning HEADS
•    Society for International Development (SID)
•    Global Health Council
•    The 6th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.6.0)
•    The Crumple It Up Innovation Network
•    Emerging Technology Leaders' Network
•    PHICON (Public Health Informatics Consultants)
•    Health Innovation Network
•    International Union Against Cancer

Yuri Quintana’s Honors:

Awards
2009 Gold e-Healthcare Leadership Distinction Award
2008 Gold W3 Award (Cure4Kids)
2007 Webby Award for web design
2007 St. Jude Clinical Improvement Award for leadership in deploying Cure4Kids.
2007 e-Healthcare Leadership Distinction Award from industry leaders.

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