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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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Frédéric
Baroz, MD
At
HON, Frédéric works on the KHRESMOI
project.
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Vincent
Baujard
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Vincent
is the Senior
Web Programmer and the head of 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.
Vincent 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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William
Belle
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William
is a Junior
Web Developer working on the various project at HON, and especially on
SCAHT and Santéromande web services. 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.
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Elisabeth
Borleffs, BSc, BA, MSc
Research Assistant of
Online Health Information
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Elisabeth
has Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Linguistics, and a
Master’s degree in Clinical and Developmental Psychology. At
HON, she works on the certification process of health websites.
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Mohammed
Bourahla, MD
Research Assistant of
Online Health Information, Medical Adviser
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Mohammed
studied
General Medicine at the Medical faculty of Algiers, following which he
worked in the field of research for a few years at the Pierre and Marie
Curie Institute of the Mustapha Hospital, Algiers. Then, he worked in a
private practice, after which he joined HON.
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Violette
Bühler
Translator, Research Assistant of
Online Health Information
At
HON, Violette does translations of the Provisu
website and works on the
certification process of health websites.
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Ljiljana
Dolamic
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At
HON, Ljiljana uses her expertise in NLP and contributes to developing
specialized search engines.
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Lauriane
Dudler, MSc
Research
Assistant of
Online Health Information
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Lauriane
holds a
Master's in Sciences regrouping Mathematics and Biology from the
University of Geneva. At HON, she works on the certification process of
health websites.
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André
Ferreira-da-Silva
Research Assistant of
Online Health Information, Medical Adviser
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André
has a
Degree in Biology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is a PhD
student at the Medical Faculty of the University of Porto and the
Medical University of Geneva.
He works as a researcher at Institute of Pathology and Immunology at
University of Porto - IPATIMUP.
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Iris
van der Heijden, LL.M.
Research Assistant of
Online Health Information, Legal Adviser
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Iris
finished a
Bachelor's degree at the European Law School and a Master's of
Globalization
and Law at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. Furthermore,
she has finished a Master's of Advanced Studies in International
Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the Geneva Academy.
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Carmen
Hernàndez Rabanal, MA, MAS
Research Assistant of Online Health
Information
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Carmen holds Master's Degrees in Information Science,
in Communication Sciences, and in Linguistics. Furthermore she holds a Master
of Advanced Studies in Romance Studies (Translation). She is currently preparing
a PhD thesis on information quality at the Universitat de Barcelona. At HON she
works on website certification and research.
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Helinä
Kalalahti, MSSc
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Helinä
has
studied communications at the University of Helsinki, Finland. At HON,
Helinä uses her knowledge of communications and PR to raise
people’s
awareness of HON and its mission.
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Nolan
Lawson, BA, MA
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Nolan holds a Bachelor's Degree
in Linguistics and a Master's Degree in Computational
Linguistics from the University of Washington in Seattle,
the United States. At HON, he is responsible for the research
and development of various text analysis programs, especially
related to the European Commission's KHRESMOI project. Previously,
he has worked as a mobile and backend developer in the United States and Canada.
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Mikhail
Mizin
Research
Assistant of Online
Health Information
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After
graduating from
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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Erik
Montesinos, MD
Research Assistant of
Online Health Information, Medical Adviser
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Erik
obtained his
degree in Medicine from the Medical School of the University of
Valencia. He has 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 has also completed a Medical Management Executive MBA in the
National School of Health, and works on the certification process of
medical websites and on the promotion of HON in Spain.
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Natalia
Pletneva, MPharm, MA, MPH
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 chronic patients online communities 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 and research
activities.
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Mayoni
Ranasinghe, MD
Research Assistant of
Online Health Information
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Mayoni
studied
Medicine at the Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Nepal. Before
coming to Geneva, she worked for over four years in Sri Lanka in
various fields, including Paediatrics, Surgery, Sexually Transmitted
Diseases and Public Health and Epidemiology.
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Elena
Reale, MChem
Quality Assuror for
Online Health Information
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Elena
is in
charge of the quality system of the Certification activity. Prior to
joining HON, she was in charge of Quality Assurance for food products
at Wal-Mart Global Procurement.
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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Rafael
Ruiz de Castañeda, PhD
Rafael has done scientific research in microbiology and evolutionary
ecology (disease ecology) in top leading European (University of St. Andrews,
Spanish National Museum of Natural History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
Université Paris-Sud) and North American (University of Ohio) Universities and research
centers. He was already initiated in research activity as an undergraduate but got fully focused
on research during his PhD (2007-2012). At HON, Rafael works on the
KHRESMOI project.
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Sevar
Soreni
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Previous to joining HON,
Sevar did a five month internship at a human rights NGO,
International Bridges to Justice, to work for the Development
Director at the administration and fundraising department.
She has a Bachelor degree in Development Studies from Södertörn
University in Stockholm and she has also studied in Budapest.
She has also worked for Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom Sweden (WIPLF Sweden). Sevar speaks Swedish, English,
Kurdish, which is her mother tongue and she has also studied French in Paris. At
HON, Sevar works on the certification of health websites.
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HON
Afrique (Bamako, Mali)
Operating from Bamako, Mali, Team HON Afrique is
promoting transparency
and trustworthiness of online health information
in French-speaking African countries.
Cheikh
Oumar Bagayoko, MD
Research Assistant
of
Online Health Information for
HON Afrique
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Dr
Bagayoko is the
head of the EQUI project in Mali and the representative of HON in
the 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 Afrique
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Seidou
graduated from
the University of Mali and 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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