UPV

MontserratRoblesMontserrat Robles (female). Ph.D in Physical Sciences, 1994. Professor of Medical Informatics at UPVLC and Head Director of the ITACA Institute (http://www.itaca.upv.es). She has headed several national and European research projects. She has been WP leader of the FP6 EU projects eTUMOUR and HealthAgents. She has headed more than 50 national and European research projects. She is coauthor of more than 100 publications in the field of Biomedical Informatics. Her research interest in focused in Electronic Health Records, Machine Learning and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. She has evaluated scientific projects for several institutions. She is founding member, with Dr. Luis Martí-Bonmatí and Dr. Bernardo Celda Muñoz of the Association for Development and Research in Magnetic Resonance (ADIRM). President of the ADIRM 2003-2005. Honourable Mention in Informatics and Health 2002 (best contribution presented in the activities of the S.E.I.S. during the year- 16/01/2003). Director of the Centre of Biomedical Engineering Network (CRIB) (Feb 2005 – Feb 2006). Member of Ethics Committee of Research (UPV) from January 2006. Director of the Professorship Health Informatics (Business Chair) 2007-2008. Director of the Professorship Foundation Valencian Institute of Neurorehabilitation (2007-2011).

VicenteTraverSalcedoVicente Traver Salcedo (male). Bachelor (1998) and Ph.D. (2004) in Telecommunications Engineering by Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. General Manager of the Innovative Technologies for Health & Wellbeing (SABIEN) group at the ITACA Institute. Assistant Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Member of the Academic Board for the interuniversity Master on Biomedical Engineering at Valencia. Coordinator of the cluster Healthy Living, which combines six different R&D university groups working in the field from different approaches. Since 1998, his research focus is telemedicine, e-health and e-inclusion, especially on the provision of home health care services through ICT and the concepts of the patient empowerment and the citizen as health co-producer. He has participated in more than 30 EU funded projects (from IV till VII FP), Spanish funded projects and taken part in multiple research agreements with companies. Member of international scientific congresses committees. Member of the Editorial Board of IET – Networks. Keynote Lecturer in BIOSTEC 2010. Chairman and organizer of pHealth 2008 and the four editions of the International Workshop on Technology for Healthcare and Healthy Lifestyle (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012). Conference co-chair of the IEEE Biomedical Health Informatics 2014. Cofounder of 2 SME IT health related companies, hiring currently more than 40 people. Responsible of the 3-stars reference site in the Valencia region (EIP-AHA initiative). List of publications available in www.goo.gl/Wg2JZR.

CarlosFernández-LlatasCarlos Fernández-Llatas (male). Research coordinator of the Innovative Technologies for Health & Wellbeing (SABIEN) group at the ITACA Institute. He received the PhD degree in Computer Science in the Pattern Recognition and artificial Intelligence Program of that university. He participated in more than 20 projects through IV, V VI and VII European Framework program and Spanish Government funded projects. He has published more than 70 scientific papers. His research is mainly focused in process management, clinical pathways, representation and execution techniques as well as its automatic learning using process-mining technologies for their application in health and human behaviour modelling. He also has a wide experience on software platforms and Business Process Management technology.

MariaGuillemDr. Maria S. Guillem (female). Master’s in Biomedical Engineering (Northwestern University, NU, 2006) and PhD in Electronics Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de València, UPV, 2009) is the deputy director of ITACA Research Institute at UPV in Spain. She was a Fulbright fellow at NU. Dr. Guillem is co-author of 17 international scientific research papers, more than 100 conference papers or abstracts and tree research patents. Her research interests include the development of medical instrumentation and signal processing for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases.

Alvaro Martinez Romero (male). Alvaro Martinez Romero