• Cure4Kids reaches 12650 health professionals in 158 countries - You can plot the users on a world map. (December 2007)

• Cure4Kids wins the 2007 e-Healthcare Leadership Distinction Award in the Best Overall Internet Site category. (November 2007)

• Dr. Yuri Quintana launches Cure4Kids Innovation Labs for developing global innovations and collaborations in technology and health (October 2007)

• Dr. Yuri Quintana gives an invited talk at the Fed/Ex Institute of Technology and presents at the American Cancer Education Conferece (October 2007)

• CureKids content is now on iTunes (Sept 2007)

• Cure4Kids has users in 157 countries (Aug 2007)

• Dr. Yuri Quintana gives an invited talk at Harvard Medical School (July 2007)

• Cure4Kids wins St. Jude Clinical Improvement Award (June 2007)

• Dr. Yuri Quintana appointed as Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria. (June 2007)

• Cure4Kids releases Oncopedia - inspired by Wikipedia (June 2007)

• New Multimedia Slideshows (June 2007)

• Cure4Kids Hosts Denge Fever Online Event (May 2007)
  Over 60 particpants from 10 countries took part in this global event.

• Cure4Kids surpases 1 million items downloaded and over 10,000 users from 156 countries (April 2007)

• Dr. Quintana presents Cure4Kids, POND4Kids, and chairs Telemedicine Panel at ITCH 2007 Conference (Feb 2007)

• Cure4Kids reaches 9564 Users in 155 Countries! (Feb 22 2007)

• Dr. Quintana presented at Cancer on the Internet Conference (July 10, 2006)

• Cure4Kids reaches 7300 users in 151 countries (July 1, 2006)

• Cure4Kids for Kids was launched - a program to teach children about cancer and healthy living. (April 2006)

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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. (See biographical sketch)

Current Projects

Dr. Quintana is currently developing several global online networks. Cure4Kids is a web-based learning and collaboration network used in 151 countries by thousands of health professionals. Pond4Kids is a web-based medical record system for collaborative pediatric cancer research used in over 20 countries. Consult4Kids is a web-based second-opinion system used by health professionals for pediatric cancer and transplant cases. (More on current projects). Dr. Quintana's current research projects are focused on the design of new integrated systems for online collaboration, education and information retrieval. (More on current research)

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