Carlos Pérez-Aldana, PhD

Assistant Professor, Health Services and Information Management
252-744-6182
hylockr@ecu.edu
4340E Health Sciences Building

 

Education

• PhD, Biomedical Informatics, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 2022
• MS, Telemedicine and EHealth, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2011
• Bachelor’s degree, Electronics Engineering, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá DC, Colombia, 2007

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Program Affiliations

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Courses Taught

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Research Interests

• Social Network Analysis in Health and Public Health
• Health-related Social Media Analytics
• Consumer and Public Health Informatics
• Social Determinants of Health/Social Informatics
• Digital Health/Informatics and Health Disparities

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Service Activities and Memberships

• The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2016-Present
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), 2016-Present

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Honors and Awards

• HIMSS Steve Lieber Innovator Scholarship, 2022
• HIMSS Houston Student Scholarship, 2022
• James Turley Endowed Scholarship for Global Health, 2018
• HIMSS Houston Student Scholarship, 2017
• UTHealth McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, Student Governance Organization’s Student Award 2017
• Merrill & Joe Hafner Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2016

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Professional Experience (Academic Experience)

Date	Position
July 2023-Present	Assistant Professor, Health Services and Information Management, East Carolina University
2015-Present	Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia
2012-Present	Associate Instructor, School of Medicine/School of Sciences, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia
April 2012-December 2013	Digital Health Advisor, Bogota Health Department, Bogotá, Colombia
March 2009-September 2009	Consultant Engineer, University Hospital Erasmo Meoz, Cúcuta, Colombia
October 2007-August 2008	Project Engineer, Colombian Congress, Bogotá, Colombia