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The
Health On the Net team
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Célia Boyer
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Serving
since the inception of HON, Célia Boyer, along with the
support of the Council of the Foundation, continues to carry out the
work initiated by the late Founder, Professor Scherrer and his
co-Founders.
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Célia Boyer is recognized as an expert in quality assessment
of medical information on the Internet and has taken part in several
projects and conferences, both European and International.
Célia was the Scientific and Administrative Coordinator for
the two-year project of the European Union WRAPIN (World Reliable Online
Advice for Patients and Individuals).
She has authored more than 50 original scientific publications in
peer-reviewed scientific journals including “Consumer
Informatics: Applications and Strategies for Cyber Health
Care” which was awarded the Book of the Year award in 2006 by
HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) and
contributed to the special edition of IJMI (International Newspaper of
Medical Informatics).
Her research focuses, at the international level, on the automation of
quality detection of health websites, improvement of information search
systems for better adaptation to the needs of the public, both patients
and health professionals and the social and cultural determinants on
the confidence of online health information according to geographic
area.
At the national level, she is involved in the development of services
and tools to meet the local needs which include and .
Further involvements are detection of the accessibility and
comprehension (level of complexity) of online health information.
Célia has a degree in Science and Applied Physics from the
University of Luminy of Marseilles, France and an engineering degree
from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Vincent Baujard
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Currently, Vincent is
the Senior Web Programmer and is responsible for the Development Team
at HON. He has directed web development carried out at the Foundation
for over ten years and, along with the team of the Department of
Imagery of the Cantonal Hospital of Geneva, was one of the originators
of robot MARVIN, which is to this day used by the Foundation.
He is also responsible for the development of the expert system of the
www.stop-tabac.ch site of the Institute of Preventive and Social
Medicine of Geneva.
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Sarah Cruchet
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Sarah first came to
HON as an intern where she was involved in the development of a
multilingual Questions-Response system in the medical domain.
She has now finished her internship and has joined the HON team, where
as the junior developer engineering, she continues work on the same
multilingual system.
Sarah has a degree in Medical Informatics and Information Technology
from the Engineering School of Grenoble.
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Elena
Reale
Quality Assuror for online health information
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Elena is currently in
charge of quality control and internal auditing of the HON team, in
addition to being a long standing staff member at Wal-Mart, where she
manages quality control of products and procedures.
Her expertise on the subject is a great asset to HON.
Elena has a Master’s degree in Chemistry from the University
of Florence.
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William
Belle
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William is a junior
web developer working on the various project on HON and especially on
SCAHT and Santéromande web services developer. In the past,
he has been involved in the IT department and hydraulic equipment
projects of the Services Industriels de Genève. He has a
degree in Computer Engineering from the Ecole
d’Ingénieur de Genève with mention
“Good.
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HON
current internships
Konstantina
Kalogianni
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Konstantina has worked
as an informatics tutor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Aristotle
University and a vocational institute in Greece. She has also worked as
a telesales representative for a Greek organisation of
telecommunications and as a researcher at the University of Copenhagen.
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Daniela Sinjari
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Daniela has been
working in the IT field as a Net Developer. Her professional experience
includes maintenance of financial softwares, databases, development of
new projects in the web and desktop platforms (C#, Visual Basic,
java-based). She joined the HON Team in March of 2011 as an intern of
six months. She is involved in the development of an iPhone application
for geo-localization of the physicians in Geneva. Daniela has a
University Diploma in computer science. Currently, she's going to
finish her Master's degree in computer science at the University of
Geneva.
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HON
medical advisers
Erik Montesinos MD
Research Assistant of online health information
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Erik obtained his
degree in Medicine from the Medical School of the
University of Valencia, he completed a five year specialty program in
Orthopedic Surgery in La Fe Teaching Hospital and is currently working
at
the Hospital Arnau de Vilanova in Valencia, Spain.
Erik also completed a Medical Management Executive MBA in the National
School of Health, and works on the certification process of medical
websites and in the promotion of HON in Spain.
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André
Ferreira-da-Silva
Research Assistant of online health information
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Degree in Biology by
University of Coimbra, Portugal
PhD student of the Medical Faculty of the University of Porto and
Medical University of Geneva.
Researcher at Intitute of Pathology and Immunology of University of
Porto - IPATIMUP.
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Alejandro Vargas MD
Research Assistant of
online health information
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Alejandro obtained his
degree in Medicine from the Medical school of the University of La Paz,
Bolivia. With a scholarship holder of the Swiss Confederation,
Alejandro obtained in 2009 a degree in Medical Informatics from the
University of Geneva. Currently, he is in the second year of Medical
Informatics - MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) at the University of
Geneva; he works as a research assistant on TALISMAN project at the
Service of Medical Informatics (SIM) of University Hospital of Geneva
and on the certification process of medical websites at HON (Health on
the Net).
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Natalia Pletneva
Research Assistant of
online health information
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Natalia has degrees in
Pharmacy and Journalism from Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). After working
for a year as a healthcare journalist she did a Masters in Sustainable
Regional Health Systems in Spain, Italy and Hungary. In her studies,
Natalia researched online chronic patients community in the Basque
Country, Spain. Since then, web 2.0 applications in healthcare have
become one of her core interests. At HON, Natalia is involved in
website certification.
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HON
information assistant
Mikhail
Mizin
MA, Research Assistant of online
health information
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After graduating in
Translation and Interpretation at the Linguistic University of Moscow
Mikhail received his license at the Institute of International
Relations and
Development at the University of Geneva (international law).
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Paloma
Henao
Research Assistant of
online health information
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Paloma holds a
Bachelor of Law delivered by the University of Geneva in 2010. She
joined the HON team in November 2009.
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Iris van der Heijden
Research Assistant of
online health information
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Iris finished a
Bachelor's at the European Law School and a Master's of Globalization
and Law at
the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. Furthermore, she just
finished a Master's of Advanced Studies in International Humanitarian
Law and Human Rights at the Geneva Academy.
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Ilia Siatitsa
Research Assistant of
online health information
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Ilia is a lawyer,
Member of Athens Bar Association. She has a Law Degree and a Master in
Public International Law (University of Athens, Greece). Recently, she
finished a Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Law (Geneva
Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights).
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Elodie
Von Dach
Research Assistant of
online health information
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Elodie holds a
Bachelor and a Master in Biology from the University of Geneva. She
continued her studies in the field of the clinical trials and she holds
a DIU FIEC (Diploma inter-university of formation for Clinical Trial
Investigator) from the University of Lyon (France) and a Master in Life
Science Law from the University of Geneva. She joined the HON team in
October 2009.
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Lauriane
Dudler
Research Assistant of online health information
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Lauriane holds a
Master in Sciences regrouping the Mathematics and Biology (delivered by
the University of Geneva).
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HON Africa (Bamako, Mali)
Cheikh
Oumar Bagayoko MD
Research Assistant of online health information for
HON Africa
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Dr Bagayoko is the
head of the EQUI project in Mali and the representative of HON in
French-speaking Africa. He specializes in biomedical and health
informatics (Phd in Health Informatics).
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Seidou
Tidiane
Traoré MD
Research Assistant of
online health information for HON Africa
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Seidou who graduated
from the University of Mali, is also one of the members of REIMICOM.
He is involved in the process of certification of medical sites of HON
Africa.
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Communications
Helinä
Kalalahti
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Helinä has
studied communications at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and has
been interested in health related communications for years. Her
Master’s thesis, “Adolescents and Sexual Education
on the Internet”, combines the two aspects that define HON:
health information and the net. At HON, Helinä will be using
her knowledge of communications and PR to raise people’s
awareness of HON and its mission.
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