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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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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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Elena
Reale
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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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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HON
Interns
Konstantina
Kalogianni
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Konstantina is a
master's student of Medical Informatics at the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki in Greece. She 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, Denmark, in the fields of Neuroscience
and Biomedical Signal Processing.
Konstantina joined HON as an intern working on testing and improving
health websites.
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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 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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André
Ferreira-da-Silva
Research Assistant of Online Health Information
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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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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.
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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 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.
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HON
Research Assistants
Mikhail
Mizin
MA, 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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Iris
van der Heijden
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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Ilia Siatitsa
Research Assistant of
Online Health Information
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Ilia is a Member of
the Athens Bar Association. She has a law degree and a Master's in
Public International Law (University of Athens, Greece). Recently, she
finished a Master's of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Law (Geneva
Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights).
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Lauriane
Dudler
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.
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HON Afrique (Bamako, Mali)
Operating from Bamako, Mali, Team HON Afrique is promoting the
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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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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