Public Biography
Yuri Quintana, Ph.D., is Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Senior Scientist at Homewood Research Institute, and Associate Professor of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria. Dr. Quintana's research is focused on developing innovative technologies that empower communities of healthcare professionals and patients to collaborate on a worldwide basis. He is a global leader in health informatics, focusing on AI, learning health systems, and digital health equity. He developed platforms including EMPATHICA, Alicanto, and Cure4Kids, and leads the DCI Network. He advises global agencies and promotes ethical, collaborative innovation in health care. He is on the Editorial board of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, and has 124 peer reviewed publications. Learn more about him on the bio page. https://scholar.harvard.edu/yuriquintana
Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Quintana leads research on online communities of practice for education and clinical data sharing such as Cure4Kids.org, POND4Kids.org, and AlicantoCloud.com a social learning platform used by Boston Children's Hospital OPENPediatrics.org, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute MADCaPNetwork.org, MIT JWEL network (https://jwel.mit.edu). He has given 120 invited lectures, and has 65 peer-reviewed publications. He has been a leader in the field of medical informatics for over two decades. At St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, he envisioned, implemented, and managed global eHealth solutions for children with cancer that has improved the lives of countless children and made a significant contribution to global clinical informatics. Dr. Quintana led the development of Cure4Kids, the leading online network for pediatric cancer clinical education and collaboration, and POND4Kids (Pediatric Oncology Networked Database) for collaborative international clinical trials used by over 200 clinical centers in low- and middle-income countries.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2018