Alvin Valeriano Marcelo
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Chief medical information officer
St. Luke’s Medical Center
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Treasurer
Asia eHealth Information Network
Overview
Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo is a general and trauma surgeon by training and currently director and treasurer of the Asia eHealth Information Network (www.aehin.org) , president of the Philippine Society for Digital Health (www.psdh.net), and director at the Asia OpenRAN Academy. He is currently directing the Standards and Interoperability Lab in UP Manila and professorial lecturer at the Medical Informatics Unit of the UP College of Medicine.
Prior to this, he served as senior vice-president and chief information officer of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). While he was director of the University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center and chief of the Medical Informatics Unit, Dr. Marcelo established the Master of Science in Health Informatics program and conducted local and international research in the field of eHealth and health information systems development. He took his postdoctoral fellowship in medical informatics at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland with research interests in telepathology, mobile computing, and bibliometric analysis of MEDLINE content. Dr Marcelo previously managed the International Open Source Network for ASEAN+3, a centre of excellence in free and/or open source software established by UNDP, and advises the Community Health Information Tracking System (or CHITS) , a Stockholm Challenge finalist in the health category in 2006. He is the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). Dr Marcelo is certified in the governance of enterprise IT (CGEIT - www.isaca.org), The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF - www.opengroup.org), Archimate, and COBIT5 Foundation/Implementation. He is also a fellow of the Philippine College of Surgeons.
In 2017, Dr. Marcelo was inducted as an inaugural fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI 2017).
Education & Training
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University of the Philippines College of Medicine, INTARMED Program* 1984-1991
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BS Basic Medical Sciences, University of the Philippines College of Medicine 1984-1988.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• 2011-2023 Executive director, Asia eHealth Information Network
Building regional alliances for health equity
Abstract
As countries move fast towards the Sustainable Development Goals, it is possible they may tend to leave the vulnerable and marginalized behind. This can happen within countries and much more across borders. It is therefore important for countries to form regional alliances to ensure that they are consciously striving to address the universal needs of the region and not just of their own borders. The Asia eHealth Information Network is a unique organization in the region that has been able to nurture a community of practice around eHealth and digital health development. Since its inception, AeHIN has assisted its member countries through the complex challenges posed by the merging of health and information technology. This talk will discuss the best practices and lessons learned of a peer network like AeHIN.