Alvin B. Marcelo, MD, FPCS

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Current positions

Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo is a general and trauma surgeon by training and a recognized leader in medical informatics and digital health.

President of the Asia-Pacific Association of Medical Informatics (APAMI)

Director-Treasurer of the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN)

President of the Philippine Society for Digital Health

Director-Corporate Secretary at the Asia OpenRAN Academy

Professorial lecturer at the Medical Informatics Unit and Department of Surgery of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine

Founder and convener, Standards and Interoperability Lab (SILab) at UP Manila

Past positions

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) from 2011 to 2013

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer concurrent Chief Medical Information Officer of St. Luke’s Medical Center from 2017 to 2023

Director of the UP Manila National Telehealth Center from 2006 to 2010

Chief of the Medical Informatics Unit from 2001 to 2010, during which time he co-established the Master of Science in Health Informatics program

Manager, International Open Source Network for ASEAN+3, a UNDP Center of Excellence in Free and Open Source Software

Co-founder, Community Health Information Tracking System or CHITS, a Stockholm Challenge Finalist in 2006

Work experience

Dr. Marcelo has advised international organizations including the World Health Organization, Asian Development Bank, UNICEF, and USAID on eHealth and health information systems.

Education

He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical informatics at the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, with research interests in telepathology, mobile computing, and bibliometric analysis of MEDLINE content. He is one of the pioneering inventors of the RxBox and holds certifications in CGEIT, TOGAF, ArchiMate, and COBIT. He is a Fellow of the Philippine College of Surgeons.

Awards

The Outstanding Young Men 2005

Inaugural Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) in 2017

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Education and Training

• Doctor of Medicine, University of the Philippines
• Residency in General Surgery, University of the Philippines
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Medical Informatics, U.S. National Library of Medicine