Jose F Florez-Arango MD MSc PhD

I’m a Colombian MD, with a master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences, and a PhD on Health Informatics. Professor, researcher, Fulbright scholar clinician and entrepreneur.
I have professional experience in multiple domains including emergency medicine, prehospital care and emergency management, tropical diseases, global health, and telemedicine.
As informatician, my previous experience includes clinical decision support systems, development of health information systems based-on international standards, interoperability and controlled vocabularies.
As university professor I have participated in curricular reforms, developed curricular content, developed and implemented electronic curriculum management tools. Also, I have been involved in developing 3 simulation centers in Colombia, two virtual environments for learning, and one online master program. I’ve taught topics in practice of medicine, foreign language, human physiology, medical semiology, emergency and disaster medicine, health informatics, among other disciplines.
As researcher, my principal interest is humanizing medical encounters by technology,
As professor, I’m passionate about exploring new didactics and methods for knowledge and skills acquisition for health care professionals.
My goal as educator is to present a path of a humanistic exercise to future health professional, where patient's and community needs come before any other interest. To create health care professionals that are critical of their own knowledge, eager for learning in a constantly changing world, capable to optimize resources, and interested in cultivating their communication, intellectual and physical skills.

Usability, Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction

Conversatorio ser-no ser en el metaverso:múltiples realidades en la salud física, mental y emocional

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Usability, Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction

Entre lo real y lo virtual: reflexión acerca de la telemedicina en la atención humanizada en salud

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mHealth

Que bueno ver crecer a los pupilos

Hoy el periódico El Colombiano le hace un reconocimiento a uno de mis pupilos y su emprendimiento. VitalBox revolucina eSalud en Colombia

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Teaching

Geovisualization with Tableu Public

This is an useful example of a class. In this case using Tableu Public for Health data Geoviz.

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Invited Lectures

Conversatorio en línea - Datos de la Vida Real para Evaluación de Resultados en Salud:

Conversatorio en línea - Datos de la Vida Real para Evaluación de Resultados en Salud: Su uso en el contexto hospitalario Estaremos dando respuesta a preguntas cómo Qué son big data e Inteligencia artificial? Cómo se interesectan big data y Bussiness…

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