Research - Yuri Quintana, Ph.D.

Current Projects

  • Design and Evaluation of Online Computer Collaborative Enviroments
  • Evaluation of Interactive Continuing Health Education Cases
  • Evaluation of Interactive Breast Cancer Decision Support Web Sites
  • Personalization and Filtering in Digital Libraries
  • Development of Continuing Education for Medical Data Managers

Selected Invited Presentations

  • Advances in Telehealth: Perspectives from the Frontiers ITCH 2007 Conference, Feb 18, 2007.

  • International Outreach with Cure4Kids and POND4Kids – Invited Speaker, 3rd International Conference Cancer on the Internet, July 2006.

  • Invited Keynote Speaker at COACH 2004, Canada’s Health Informatics Conference, May 9 2004, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, “Cure4Kids – An global online medical education and collaboration center”.

  • “Development of POND4Kids, the Pediatric Oncology Network Database”, Open Source and Free Software: Concepts, Controversies, and Solutions Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 10, 2004.

Selected Refereed Publications

  • Caniza MA, Maron G, Moore EJ, Quintana Y, Liu T. Effective hand hygiene education with the use of flipcharts in a hospital in El Salvador. J Hosp Infect. 2007 Jan;65(1):58-64.

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  • Ayoub L, Fu L, Pena A, Sierra JM, Dominguez PC, Pui CH, Quintana Y, Rodriguez A, Barr RD, Ribeiro RC, Metzger ML, Wilimas JA, Howard SC. Implementation of a data management program in a pediatric cancer unit in a low income country. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 Jul 21.

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  • Quintana Y. et. al. Pond4Kids - An Multi-Site Online Pediatric Oncology Research Database for Collaborative Research, 2005 AMIA Annual Conference, Washington, DC. Oct 22-26, 2005.

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  • Quintana Y, Nambayan AG, Ribeiro RC, Bowers LJ, Shuler A, O'Brien R. "Cure4Kids - Building Online Learning and Collaboration Networks", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, (November 8-12, 2003, Washington, DC), p. 978.

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  • Quintana Y, Feightner JW, Wathen CN, Sangster LM, Marshall JN. "Providing Evidence-Based Preventive Health Information on the Internet: What Do Consumers Want?", Canadian Family Physician Journal, September 2001, Volume 47: pp. 1759-1765.

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  • Feightner JW, Marshall JN, Sangster LM, Wathen CN, Quintana Y. "Providing Evidence-Based Preventive Health Information on the Internet: What Do Physicians Want?", Canadian Family Physician Journal, August 2001, Volume 47: pp. 1577-1583.

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  • Quintana Y. "Design of Digital Health Libraries for Consumers and Practitioners A Synthesis of Empirical and Research Findings", Proceedings of ehealth2001 - The Canadian Health Informatics Conference, (May 27, 2001, Toronto, Canada), pg. 22-24

  • Quintana Y. "Intelligent Medical Information Filtering", International Journal of Medical Informatics, pp. 197-204.

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  • Quintana Y. "User Modelling and Information Filtering for Consumer Health", Proceedins of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference, (Orlando, Florida, October 12-15, 1997), pp. 4207-4210.

  • Quintana Y. "Automatic Indexing and Information Management of Health Information", Electronic Proceedings Digital Knowledge II Conference, (Toronto, October 21, 1997).

  • Quintana Y. "Organization and Retrieval in a Pictorial Digital Library", Proceedings of ACM Digital Libraries Conference, (Pittsburgh, PA, July 24-26 1997), pp. 13-20.

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  • Quintana Y, McGeachy R, Kamel M. Formal Methods for Evaluating Information Retrieval in Hypertext Systems. ACM Conference on Documentation (SIGDOC); Oct 5-8, 1993. pp. 259-272.

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Conferences Organized

  • Global Health and Education (Techsposium), Fed-Ex Institute of Technology, March 30-31, 2004

  • Digital Libraries Symposium, Toronto Science Center, Toronto, Ontario, November 28, 2001

  • Interactive Consumer Health Conference, London, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 10-11, 1999

  • Information and Media Conference - Towards the New Millennium, London, Ontario, Canada, October 2-3, 1998

More Information

    Professional Affiliations: AMIA, ACM, IEEE
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