Digital Transformation and Equitable Global Health

Arletty Pinel is the CEO of Genos Global Consulting, in Panama. She is internationally recognized as an authority bridging health, social development, and technology globally. Her health systems strengthening expertise includes the use of new technologies to improve programmatic outcomes and creating collaborative learning networks based on inter-sectoral, multi-institutional and cross-regional co-creation. She has supported programs in most regions of the world. Her professional trajectory encompasses leadership positions at major global organizations, such as such as director of Telemedicine and eHealth at iCarnegie, a subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University; chief at Reproductive Health at the United Nations Population Fund; and founding director for Latin America and Eastern Europe at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, where she oversaw a portfolio of 1 billion USD. Dr. Pinel holds a medical degree and is a certified psychiatrist from the University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil). She pursued post-Doctorate studies at Columbia University and Cornell University (New York, USA)

Víctor López Cabrera is a full time researcher and professor at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, in Panama. His research interests are in computer science, management information systems, global software development, social robotics, artificial intelligence, databases, collaborative systems, and telemedicine. He is one of the founders of the first Internet node in Panama. Dr. Cabrera is coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Collaborative and Intelligent Information and Communication Technologies for Inclusion (GIIITICCII) - a project in conjunction with The National Science Foundation of the United States and three other universities where the collaborative learning behavior of Software Development students from four countries (US, UK, Turkey, England and Panama, 2007-2016) was studied. Professor López is currently focusing on research projects in Telemedicine for elders as well as the application of Social Robotics for Education and Health (autism and cognitive aspects in older adults).

Renato Sabbatini is a biomedical scientist, with a doctorate and a post-doctoral fellowship in neurophysiology of behavior. He was a professor of physiology and medical informatics from 1970 to 1983 at the Medical Schools of the state Universities of Sao Paulo and Campinas, Brazil. He is founder and director of the Center of Biomedical Informatics for over 20 years, and founding member and past president and director of education of the Brazilian Society of Health Informatics, and founding member and vice-president/education WG co-chair of the HL7 Institute Brazil, and former vice-president of IHE Association Brazil. Dr, Sabbatini is also founding Fellow elect of the International Academy of Health Science Informatics (IAHSI), IMIA, and Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He is currently an associate and invited professor of health informatics and telehealth at several medical and health sciences schools around Brazil, and a private consultant of HIT.