Highly successful and well established technology professional who has spearheaded development of technology innovations in Internet, healthcare, education, and the financial sector. Consistently strives to lead dynamic new methods in program delivery and management, software development, and rapid development of innovations. Proven record in developing products and services that are the market leaders. Experienced in international management, multidisciplinary teams, and fluent in English and Spanish

A top-rated research non-profit hospital with international humanitarian outreach program. Spearheads new program development for global online health and learning initiatives for specialized fields in medical research, including pediatrics and oncology. Recruits an international team of experts to facilitate development of multilingual content, medical record databases, and interface design for web launch in the global market. Administers large project budgets to build new programs using existing resources and streamline technology development goals. Organizes industry seminars and increases quality of current programs within strict development timelines.

Accomplishments:

• Established Cure4Kids.org, the world’s largest learning and collaboration site for pediatric oncology used in over 155 countries
• CureKids collaborations spaces used by 120 international groups.
• POND4Kids.org, the world’s first online collaborative international pediatric cancer registry.
• Oncopedia on Cure4Kids, the first Wikipedia style site for collaborative clinical cases and group discussions
• Consult4Kids.org, a secure online system that allows international health professionals to communicate and obtain peer-to-peer second opinions.

Strategies:

• Established key collaborations with international medical societies, and other medical content providers.
• Developed multi-lingual web portals Linux, AJAX, MySQL, PHP, and web conferencing.
• Used open source software with an international programming development team.

• Participates in program development and curriculum design
• Provides mentoring to students at both the undergraduate and graduate level
• Assist the school in scholarly publications
• Supports development of linkages with external organizations

• Associate Editor - Journal Computers in Biology and Medicine
• Editor - Citizendium.org, a new Wikipedia inspired peer-reviewed site.
• Reviewer: Journal of Medical Internet Research, Journal of Medical Informatics, Journal of Medical Decision Making
• Grant Reviewer: Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), eHealth Applications at the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

• Managed a large multi-disciplinary team.
• Obtained research funding from engineering, medical and social science research agencies.
• Supervised graduate students in information science, multimedia and user interface design topics.
• Developed algorithms for personalized information filtering of medical web pages.
• Conducted studies on Internet health searching by consumers and professionals.
• Designed and evaluated online breast cancer decision support system.
• Developed methods for personalized digital storytelling for consumer health education and behavior change.

• Created algorithms for conceptual clustering and retrieval of images
• Implemented natural language query systems using conceptual-graphs
• Developed cognitive models of online search behavior.

• Natural Language/Knowledge Engineer
• Usability and Interaction Design Specialist
• Software Engineering

• Developed and tested software interpreters and compilers (C, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal)

• Ph.D., Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo. 1995.
• M.A.Sc., Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo. 1990.
• B.A.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering with Computer Science Option, University of Waterloo, 1988.

• 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, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, October 2-3, 1998.

• "Perspectives on the Development of Global Collaboration Networks: The Cure4Kids and Pond4Kids Experience", International Informatics Colloquium, June 3, 2005, University of Victoria, Canada.

• 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.

• "Developing Multicultural Medical Education and Services", Cancer Patient Education Conference (CPEN), November 8, 2003, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

• "Implementation of a Web-based Pediatric Oncology Educational Program for Developing Countries", Annual Conference of the American Association for Cancer Education, October 30-November 1, 2003, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

Selected Publications (last 5 years)

• 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.

• Patel A, O'Brien R, Jones P, Quintana Y. "Interoperability of Open Source Medical Record Systems", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), (November 8-12, 2003, 2003, Washington, DC, USA), p. 965..

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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Fluency: English, Spanish
Nationality: American
Professional Affiliations: AMIA, ACM, IEEE
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