Alvin Valeriano
de Borja Marcelo, MD, FPCS
National Telehealth Center, PGH, Taft Ave | 632-525-6501 | alvin.marcelo@telehealth.ph
Health Informatics/eHealth Consultant
Program Management
Systems Development
Health Human Resource in ICT
PROFILE
- More than 10 years experience in health informatics
- One of The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of 2005 for Medicine/Medical Informatics
- Acknowledged leader in health information management in the country
- Consultant to local and international agencies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2006-present
- Director, UP Manila National Telehealth Center
- 2006-present
- Associate professor and Chief, UP Medical Informatics Unit
- Director, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
- Manager, International Open Source Network for ASEAN+3 [a
program of the United Nations Development Programme-Asia PAcific
Development Information Programme or UNDP-APDIP]
- 1999-2000
- Postdoctoral fellow and Visiting scientist, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Program management and administration
- Project manager, Community Health Information Tracking System - Finalist at the 2006 Stockholm Challenge
- Project manager, BuddyWorks Telehealth Project
- Coordinator, Master of Science in Health Informatics (medical informatics track), UP Manila
Systems development
- Philippine Malaria Information System version 2
- Statistics, Policy, Research, and Archive Database (SPREaD) of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
- Blood Bank Information Management Program (BLIMP) for the PGH Blood Bank
Training and Staff Administration
- Introduction to Health Information Systems for Government health workers
- ICT for Health Professionals
- Building a National Disease Registry
- Ethical Considerations in the Practice of Telemedicine in the Philippines
EDUCATION
- MD, University of the Philippines 1991 (Intarmed)
- BS Basic Medical Sciences, 1988
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Philippine Medical Informatics Society, Inc.
- Philippine College of Surgeons
- Philippine Society for General Surgeons
- Couples for Christ Medical Mission Foundation-Give Kare Foundation