卡洛斯·佩雷斯·阿尔达纳（CarlosPérez-Aldana），休斯敦德克萨斯大学健康科学中心的学生（休斯顿乌西卫生），正在使用一种新颖的方法来分析社交媒体数据来帮助年轻的癌症幸存者。

佩雷斯 beplay苹果手机能用吗- 阿尔达纳（Pérez-Aldana）说：“我的研究重点是研究这些在线社区，以了解有关癌症幸存者如何互相交流和支持的更多信息：他们使用的语言，他们提供的支持以及他们在谈论什么主题。”，一名博士生休斯敦乌西卫生的生物医学信息学。“我项目的主要目的之一是了解这些社区的动态，最终找到改善社会支持交流的方法。”

Pérez-Aldana对年轻的癌症幸存者通过诊断，治疗和缓解需要哪种社会支持特别感兴趣。

It’s a topic that has affected him personally. His wife, Kristi, was diagnosed with cancer as a young adult while they were dating and after they had both gone to graduate school together in Europe. This showed him how cancer impacts every aspect of life, especially professional and personal goals, and how essential social support is.

Pérez-Aldana’s current work is a first step in designing and creating interventions to help young people who have gone through cancer get the support they need. Cancer carries a heavy emotional weight. It can affect personal relationships, and cause mental health problems, anxiety, and worry that it could recur.

“我知道一个年轻人的癌症对生活非常破坏，这是与这个人群合作的个人动机，但是当我开始更深入研究时，我意识到，针对这种人群的研究很少，信息学和信息学具有很大的潜力来进行beplay苹果手机能用吗贡献。”他说。

Pérez-Aldana使用的信息方法可以应用于其他人群，例如患有糖尿病或其他慢性健康状况的人。他说：“这些方法也可以应用于看护人，以帮助他们支持他们。”

“Given the COVID-19 situation, and how many parts of our lives have transitioned to online, it’s a great time to be researching online communities,” he said. “Our bonds on social media are growing stronger, but it’s not always a good thing. These approaches can also be applied to study how disinformation spreads within communities as well.”

促进哥伦比亚的健康IT技术和扫盲

Prior to joining the School of Biomedical Informatics, Pérez-Aldana helped take early steps to advance the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) among Bogotá’s public hospitals, aiming to connect more than 20 health institutions to serve millions of Colombian patients, and bringing specialists to those in need.

他促进了他的祖国生物医学信息学，远程医疗和公共卫生的进步。

Pérez-Aldana’s connection to UTHealth Houston started in 2014 as a faculty member of El Bosque University in Bogotá. He was researching programs to develop a master’s degree in biomedical informatics for the Colombian university. That program was approved by the nation’s minister of education in 2018 — making it the first biomedical informatics program in Colombia.

佩雷斯·阿尔达纳（Pérez-Aldanathe 11 million people living in Bogotá’s metro area.

“其中一个主要挑战是fundin有限g to purchase an electronic health record system,” he said. “A lot of the work happened behind the scenes, evaluating what kind of modules were needed most. We were working on an interoperability model for the city’s EHRs, so the system would connect all of the hospitals so that they could talk to each other and share data. It’s not easy, but it’s ideal.”

这项工作还包括实施远程医疗能力，旨在极大地扩展与专家的访问权限。

“We were trying to figure out how to connect rural hospitals to the city through telemedicine so they could share their specialists, but it wasn’t just the rural areas. Some hospitals in the city itself did not have important specialists on staff,” Pérez-Aldana said. “Radiology was one example. Some facilities did not have 24-hour access to radiology for emergencies, and we were trying to solve that through telemedicine.”

While working on these projects, Pérez-Aldana realized more work was needed to make it successful and self-sustaining.

“我意识到人们缺乏实施健康状况的技能。这不仅是医生，而且医院中实施这些技术的IT人士需要额外的培训。”他说。“这导致我于2012年回到埃尔博斯克大学，不仅是因为它拥有著名的医学院，而且因为我能够说服我们需要开发生物医学和健康信息学计划的院长。”

It started as an elective course, one of several courses that Pérez-Aldana still teaches remotely while in the United States.

他说：“在2014年，有一个想法是开发生物医学信息学硕士学位。”“鉴于我在医学院宣传了这些主题，并且El Bosque与Uthealth达成了一致，因此我自愿参加了生物医学信息学院学习如何构建我们的课程。”

2015年，Pérez-Aldana与Uthealth Houston SBMI嘉宾组织了一次国际研讨会，2016年，他再次回到德克萨斯州 - 这次是一名学生。

他说：“对于我来说，有必要更多地了解我所教的技术和方法，并能够在信息学领域更好地设计研究。”beplay苹果手机能用吗“在与我的学术同龄人和休斯顿大学的教职员工讨论之后，我决定最好获得博士学位，以便我可以继续促进哥伦比亚的这一领域的发展。”

“I didn’t have to think too hard about coming back to UTHealth Houston. I knew the faculty, the school, and the research. I was already sold,” he said. “I knew it was a unique place of innovation.”

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佩雷斯·阿尔达纳（Pérez-Aldana）说，他很高兴能扮演他一生中最重要，最激动人心的角色 - 是他的婴儿托马斯（Thomas）的父亲。

“My first occupation is as a father with a baby at home,” he said. “Being a father is a lot of work, but it’s amazing. It will change your life. It’s not just routine, but your perspective on life. It changes everything.”

佩雷斯·阿尔达纳（Pérez-Aldana）在职业上说，他毕业时愿意接受机会。他很想继续在美国和哥伦比亚教学，随着信息学领域的扎根，越来越多的机会。

“The field is more developed in the States, but digital technology adoption is rapidly developing in Colombia,” he said. “The context is very different, and resources are limited. We can exchange successful and innovative ways of doing things, and I’m sure we can exchange a lot of information and provide learning opportunities for both students in the United States and in Colombia.”