Dr. José
A. Caminero
Dr.
Caminero is a pulmonologist with 25 years of experience working in
the area of tuberculosis. In the past 23 years he has worked in the
Department of Pulmonology, General Hospital of Gran Canaria "
Dr. Negrin " (Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain ). Since 1995 he
has worked at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung
Disease (The Union, Paris, France) and since 2003 he is the unit
coordinator of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR -TB) for this
organization. Dr. Caminero is a member of the Green Light Committee
(World Health Organization ) since 2002. Between 1994 and 1998 he was
the chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of
Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR ).Dr. Caminero has worked in
various areas of TB (including HIV) in more than 50 developing
countries, including Latin America and others like China, India,
Philippines, Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, Namibia and South Africa, among
others. Since 1996 he has taught many courses on TB worldwide (in
English and Spanish), with emphasis on clinical management. He has
published over 150 articles, and more than 50 publications in
English. He has edited the guide to tuberculosis specialists (La
Union, 2004) and four other books associated with tuberculosis. Dr.
José A. Caminero has given more than 300 lectures at international
conferences, and has received numerous awards in various scientific
societies.
Dr. Olga
Ferrer-Roca
MD.
PhD. Born in Barcelona, studied Medicine in the Central University of
Barcelona from 1966-1972 with Honors. Got the PhD with “Cariotyping
and tissue culture of tumors” in 1974 with Honors. Specialized in
Pathology in 1974 being trained in Paris, Milwakee-USA and London.
Working as pathologist in the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona since 1972
got the Assistance Professorship in Pathology in 1974 and the Chair
of Pathology of the University of La Laguna in 1982 [...]Founded the
CATAI association in 1993, being the president since then. Got the
UNESCO Chair of Telemedicine in 1999 for the University of La Laguna.
Since 1996 train on Telemedicine the students of medicine and
Computer Science, creating the European Master of Telemedicine and
Bioengineering applied to Telemedicine in 2004, at distance [...]
Mr. Sebastián Lucas Marró
Mr. Marró is an IT Specialist and ERPs consultant. Member of GNU Solidario and
Board member of the Tryton Foundation. He is an active member of the
Argentinian Tryton Group. He actively contributes to the development
of the Tryton Localization in Argentina. He currently holds the
position of Director of Technology at Thymbra, where he cooperates
with the GNU Health Project. He has been working and promoting the
development of Free Software. He has given lectures and training
about Tryton, GNU Health and Free Software in Latin America and
Europe.
Dr. Luis
Falcón
Dr.
Falcón (Las Palmas, Spain) holds a degree in Computer Science
and Mathematics from the California State University (USA) and in
Medicine from IUCS, Buenos Aires (Argentina). Luis is
a social, animal rights and Free/Libre Software activist. In 2006 he
founded GNU Solidario, a nonprofit organization that delivers
Education and Health to developing countries with Free Software. He
is the author of GNU Health (http://health.gnu.org),
the award-winning Free/Libre Health and Hospital Information System.
He is the founder and CEO of Thymbra, a company with focus on ERP and
Health Informatics.
Mr. Thomas Karopka
Mr. Karopka studied communications engineering and worked for 10 years in the telecommunications industry before joining academia. In his academic career he worked in bioinformatics, ehealth and telemedicine. Currently he works as a project manager for BioCon Valley GmbH, a PPP responsible for life sciences and health economy in North Germany. Thomas is currently chair of the Libre/Free and Open Source Software Working Group of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI LIFOSS WG), chair of the International Medical Informatics Association Open Source Working Group (IMIA OS WG) and cochair of the Open Source Working Group of the Internationl Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (IsfTeH CCTOS WG).
Dr. Richard Fitton
Dr. Fitton, qualified
as a doctor at Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 1974 and at present is a
locum General Practitioner at Tameside and Glossop CCG. He has done
an Electronic Record Development and Implementation Pilot project
2001, was a member of the Department of Health “copying letters to
patients” working group 2004 and of the Member National Care record
Development Board 2004 to 2005. He was a member of the Wellcome Trust
working group on the secondary use of GP data for research 2006, a
member of the GMC production team of the first guidance on sharing
records with patients and a member of the Royal College of General
Practitioners and Department of Health Working group on patients
accessing their records – in 2012. Engagement with Wellmed record
USA in 1999 to 2001, the International Council of Medical compunetics
conferences in 2006, 2007, 2008 and had consultations with the UNESCO
moderator and ex secretary of the UNESCO working group on the use of
human genetic data in 2008. He has presented at the WHO FIC Trieste
2007 and at the International Conferences on Urban Health Nairobi,
New York and Manchester. He conducted the Joy Project 2003: 50
patients correcting their own record. Patients correcting records
after the Shipman murders 2005 Tameside and Glossop PCT.
Dr. Alejandro José
Sánchez Camejo
Dr. Sánchez Camejo is a
surgeon from the University of Zulia (L.U.Z.). Faculty of Medicine.
He has a Training residency in health care at University Hospital
“Dr. Adolfo D´Empaire” surgical Department (2002-2005).
Informédica Group. Applied Telemedicine course. February 2004. Miami
– FL. USA. Final project: Teledismorphology. Applied to
Telemedicine in diagnosing congenital malformations. he has a Master
in Esthetic Medicine. Medical Aspects and Interventionists form the
Balearics University. Palma de Mallorca, February 2007-2008. He has
been giving multiple courses and workshops at national and
international level, not only in the health care residence but also
in the esthetic medicine specialization. He has published multiple
publications on international magazines, as well as, participation at
congresses as speaker at national and international level. He has
excellent computer science skills on medical area. Venezuela
Telemedicine group Founder (2005) at University Hospital Dr. Adolfo
D'Empaire. University of Zulia. Cabimas (Venezuela). Member of the
Spanish Esthetics Society (SEME). Member of the Official College of
Doctors’ from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Dr. Alberto Lazzero
Dr. Lazzero is an
Emergency Physician at West Turin Hospital Federation - Local Health
Unit TO 3, United Hospitals of Pinerolo (Turin Area). He is Professor
of Emergency Medicine at the University of Turin, Faculty of Medicine
“San Luigi”, School of Nursing. He is also Professor of Emergency
Care in Telemedicine and Telepharmacy in an International Master on
eHealth at University of Camerino, Faculty of Pharmacy. University education: Degree in
Medicine and Surgery, magna cum laude (Turin, Italy). Specialization
in Endocrinology, with special interest for critical patients, magna
cum laude (Turin, Italy). University Diploma in Chronobiology (Paris,
France). University Diploma in Emergency Medicine (Nice, France).
Master of Science in eHealth, magna cum laude (Camerino, Italy). He
is member of several scientific societies including the Federazione
delle Associazioni dei Dirigenti Medici Internisti (FADOI), the
Società Italiana di Medicina d’Emergenza e Urgenza (SIMEU) and the
International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH). In 2010
founded ZOHE - E-Health Open Zone, a no-profit association that aims
to promote health care through knowledge, research and innovation,
trying to combine sustainability, health and people with a special
interest for emerging economies.
Mr. Musa Suso
Mr. Suso is from Gambia
and started working for Ministry of Health & Social Welfare
in Gambia in 2004 . After the Health record Management training at
Royal Vitoria Teaching Hospital he was posted to Farafenni Regional
Health Team in the rural Gambia and also oversea the Farafenni
Hospital as Regional Dater Entry Clerk. In 2005 after the Data
Management training course with ICM London, he was promoted as a
Senior Data Entry and again posted to Bansang Hopital in rural
Gambia. After his BSc in Computer Science at the University Of The
Gambia full sponsored by Ministry of Health and he was promoted as a
Data Manager in the central Health Information System office and in
June 2013 he was promoted again as an ICT office for the
Ministry of Health.
Dr. Shinji Kobayashi
Dr. Kobayashi was born in
1970 Saga. He graduated from the graduate school of Kyushu university
with MD, PhD. His research area is Open Source Software in medicine
and Ruby implementation of the openEHR standards. He has been a lead
of Medical Open Source Software Council in Japan from 2003.
Mr. Jorge Raul Valera de Fez
Mr. Valera de Fez Has
a degree in
Sociology and Social Sciences (Spain, 2002). A
Master in
Science of
Labour and Education (France, 2005)
and he has a
Training as a
Specialist in
International
Marketing (Spain, 2008). Jorge has been working and applying his
knowledge in various companies, until he
began his
work with the Red Cross. He currently holds the position of Referrer
Regional Volunteer, in charge of coordination and management of
volunteers in the four counties of the island of Gran Canaria
(Spain).
Dr. Claudia Pagliari
Convenor, eHealth Interdisciplinary Research Group; Programme Director MSc in Global eHealth, The University of Edinburgh. Dr Pagliari is an interdisciplinary researcher specialising in the study, design and evaluation of eHealth. This includes studies of remote patient monitoring, mHealth, online interventions, virtual robots, personal health records, social media, and digital health in low income countries, as well as research on the ethics and public acceptability of (big) data mining and linkage. She also leads masters programmes in Health Informatics, Health Information Governance and Global eHealth, supervises PhD students and sits on several UK and international advisory boards in the area.
Health psychologist specialized in nephrology (psychonephrology). MA in
Clinical Practice in Mental Health, MA in Behavioral and Health Science
Methodology and MA in Systemic Family Therapy. Currently developing my
career in the field of chronic kidney disease, working with patients
with kidney disease at the General Hospital of Gran Canaria “Dr.
Negrín”. Founder of RenalHelp, the first complete web platform and
mobile application to support patients with chronic kidney disease (www.myrenalhelp.com).
