Luis Gabriel CUERVO AMORE

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Senior Advisor, Research Promotion & Development Department of Knowledge Management, Bioethics and Research Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization 525 Twenty-third Street NW, Washington, DC 20037. USA Tel: +1 (202) 974-3135 Email: CuervoLu@paho.org

Summary

A distinguished international career as a leader for health and as an agent of change and policy developer in the fields of evidence-informed health care, research for health, production and utilization of research for health, research for development, biomedical publication, research governance, clinical epidemiology and family medicine. For details, CV and scientific production visit http://www.linkedin.com/in/lgcuervo

Experience

Senior Advisor for Research Promotion & Development at Pan American Health Organization (USA). September 2005 - Present (10 years 6 months) Leader for research governance and policies on research for health. Secretary to PAHO’s Advisory Committee on Health Research (www.paho.org/achr) led the revamping of PAHO’s Ethics Review Committee and its Standard Operating Procedures in 2006. Focal point for research for WHO in the Americas. http://www.paho.org/Researchportal 17 recommendations in Linkedin

Clinical Editor, BMJ Knowledge at BMJ Publishing Group (UK) 2000 - 2005 (5 years) Contributed to the development and expansion of Clinical Evidence and the development of strategic partnerships broadening its international relevance, the contributions and reach of the publication. 4 recommendations in Linkedin

Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) 1994 – 2002 (8 years) Lectured undergraduate and postgraduate students in Medicine, Family Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Instructor in Preventive & Community Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, School of Medicine (Colombia) March 1990 - December 1990 (10 months) Group coordinator for first year medical students and leader of an extramural practice in Community Medicine and Primary Care for 4th year students. Coordinated a municipal consultation, referendum and agreement for implementation with a Municipal Council in Guatavita, Colombia.

Résumé for Luis Gabriel Cuervo

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Volunteer contributor to The Cochrane Collaboration (since 1994) and to other numerous other scientific developments participating in advisory committees, editorial boards, and organizing committees for symposia, colloquia, awards, and scholarship programs. Peer reviewer to numerous prominent indexed journals, such as BMJ, CMAJ, PLoS One, BMC (Several), and others.

Honors and Awards

Find a list of honors and awards at http://www.linkedin.com/in/lgcuervo The highlight in 2015 was delivering the EQUATOR Network Annual Lecture http://www.equator-network.org/category/events/annual-lectures/ , at the University of Edinburg, UK.

Publications

Peer reviewed publications of original studies: 23; Opinion and educational publications: 28; Book contributions and WHO HTA assessments: more than 25; Editor in >12 publications; Policy documents: 8; Contributions to WHO’s World Health Report 2013, and to the 2007 and 2012 editions of Health in the Americas. Curator of the Art for Research project (www.paho.org/artforresearch). Producer and facilitator for hundreds of multimedia files including video collections and webinars. Organized the translation of 11 collections of reference materials. List of publications available from LinkedIn profile [This section still being updated; figures are current to 2014]

ORCID Publication Record ORCID ID 0000-0003-2732-5019

SCOPUS Publication Record ID 6701669188

ResearcherID A-9464-2009

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luis_Gabriel_Cuervo/contributions

High level speeches and webinars

At least a 74 high level presentations and 27 international videoconferences during the past decade addressing a broad range of audiences ranging from students to international experts, heads of state, ministers and other high level decision makers and experts from various sectors of government. Details available from CV & scientific production at www.linkedin.com/in/lgcuervo

Luis Gabriel CUERVO AMORE

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Education

Certificate of Proficiency in English University of Cambridge ESOL examinations June 2004. English as a Second Other Language (ESOL), Bromley College of Higher and Further Education 2003 – 2004.

MSc in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics . Pontificia Universidad

Javeriana - Colombia,1999.

Residency (Specialist Degree) in Family Medicine. Universidad del Valle (Colombia), 1994. Certificate, Advanced Program on Health Management, PROADSA, Universidad del Valle, Cali. 1993.

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Medical Doctor and Surgeon (MD) 1989

Colegio San Tarsicio Bachiller Académico, High School Degree, 1982.

Recommendations

These will be provided upon request. Note that there are 21 published recommendations and numerous endorsements available in http://www.linkedin.com/in/lgcuervo

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Updated February 25, 2016