Date of birth: 12/22/2006

Nationality: Uruguayan.

Address: Rambla República de Chile 4667 apto. 1101, Montevideo.

Telephones: +(598 2) 613 2337 / +(598 99) 689407.

Fax: +(598 2) 7100507.

Internet: margolis@mednet.org.uy  

Principal Qualifications

He began his career in the University of the Republic with Internal Practitioner's competition. He had this position as regular professor during three years, following by the Residence in Internal Medicine. He was Assistant Professor II grade of Medical Clinic and Medical Clinic Senior Professor III grade. At the moment he is Senior Professor in Continuous Medical Education Area of the School of Graduate, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Republic, Uruguay. He is also President of IMIA-LAC, Federation of Societies of Medical Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean, belonging to IMIA, World Association of Medical Informatics.
1993 - 1995 he carried out a master degree course in medical informatics in Utah, USA, one of the most acknowledge departments in that area. During five years he was (the first four years with IDB funds) medical coordinator prescribes the project of informatization of Health Management of the Uruguay Bank of Social Forecast. He has been a consultant with funds of the World Bank for FISS project (Institutional Invigoration for Sector Health) of the Ministry of Public Health, in Users Identification areas of Health public sub sector in Uruguay and Systems of Information for the ASSE Departmental Hospitals. Also he has been consultant of the Pan-American Health Organization. At the moment he is the EviMed Medical Director, a computer and educational enterprising in Health, supported by Ingenio/LATU-ORT and for the Program of Technological Development of Education and Culture Ministry.

Investigation
He has worked in on-line clinical protocols, in applications of the electronic clinical history and on Health e-education in. His results have been presented in congresses and published in United States, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Uruguay.

Education
Faculty of Medicine, Uruguay    1979-1987    Doctor in Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, Uruguay    1988-1991    Medical Internist, Dept. of Medical Informatics, Utah University
1993-1995    Master Course in Sciences in Medical Informatics

Other courses
1.     Technical Biostatistics in Health, November 1990.
2.    Course of Medicine Total Quality, 1995 (Advanced Training Program on Health Care Delivery Improvement, May - October , 1995 in Utah, directed by Brent James, MD, MStat)

Consultancies in related topics
1. Project Program of Social Security Reform URU/95/010 (BPS-BID). Position: National Senior Coordinator Consulter. Area: Systems of Information for Health management of the Social Prevision Bank. Period: October, 1997 to November, 2002 (last year with funds BPS).
2. Project PROMOSS (MSP-IDB): Position: Consultant. Area: Systems of Information for Administration. Period: February 2003-(June 2003).
3.     Contract of the Pan-American Health Organization (PHO) for the combined project with IDRC Canadian agency and Queen's University in Ontario, Canada: Development of Hospital-Based Research Systems. Position: national coordinator, phase of planning. Period: August – October, 1997.
4. Project FISS (Institutional Invigoration of Health Sector, URU/96/006).   Ministry of Public Health - International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (MSP-IBRD).   Area: Systems of Users Identification of the Ministry of Public Health. Position: National Senior Consultant. Period: Julio 1996 - August 1997.
5.    Project Medical Center Doctor (reconversion of the University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine in the University of the Republic), Stage pre feasibility. Area: Informatization of the Medical Center. Position: National Consultant. Period: December 1995 - February 1996.
6.     Applied Medical Informatics (Salt Lake City, Utah, USES). Workareas: Models of representation of the medical knowledge; existent bases of medical knowledge and their use through Internet; version of Iliad in Spanish. Period: August, 1995-March,1996. Honorary positions

President, Uruguayan Society of Health Informatics. 11/1996-11/1998
Vice-president of this Society between 11/1998 and 11/2001
 At the moment he is President of IMIA-LAC, Latin America and the Caribbean Federation of Societies of Medical Informatics, belonging to Medical Computer Informatics International Association, IMIA.

He has been and still is member of diverse consulting boards, such as: informatics Commission of the National Resources Fund, Subcommittee of e-Education of University of the Republic, MSP Commission designated to elaborate regulatory scheme for electronic clinical history, Telematic Commission and Committee Scientific Counsel of Library of Uruguay Medical Union, Organizing Committee of LatinMednet 2002, Scientific Committee of Medinfo 2007 (World Congress of Medical Informatics).