Ernesto  E. Gozzer, MD, MSc,  IHS

Av. Pardo y Aliaga 616  Apt 303 San Isidro Lima 27 Peru.

UPCH’s phone office: +51 1 482 4353

Mobile: +51 1 993826271

ernesto.gozzer@upch.pe; egozzer@gmail.com

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Place of birth/Citizenship: Chimbote/Peru

Dr. Gozzer is a medical doctor and experienced specialist in international and global health. He has worked with people from different cultures in more than 20 countries during the last two decades. Since 2002 he has been involved in the development of new ideas to use ICT for health: mHealth and eHealth. In this field he has been involved in design, negotiation, and implementation of many innovative projects in different countries. Currently he is international independent consultant, member of Fundación Cayetano Heredia and associate professor at the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia.

His skills combine team working, problem solving approach, cultural sensitivity, training, couching, research skills and ethic leadership with sound knowledge in different public health areas like: Disease Surveillance, Mother and Child Health, Reproductive Health HIV/AIDS, Polio eradication Tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases, , and chronic diseases management.

1995             International Health Residency. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO).  

                         Washington DC, USA.                                                                                                                                           

1992-1993   MSc (Master's of Science), Community Health and Health Management in Developing

                        Countries (Now International Health).  Universität Heidelberg, Germany                                     

1979‑1987   MD (Medical Doctor), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.

OTHER RELEVANT POST GRADUATE TRAINING:

2006                       Johns Hopkins University. Strategic Leadership on Reproductive Health.   Baltimore, MD, USA.

2001                       Centro Interamericano de Estudios Seguridad Social. Quality management for hospitals. Mexico City. Mexico.

1991                                  Instituto Nacional de Capacitación/Ministry of Health of Ecuador funded by the Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana (ICI). Quito, Ecuador. International course. Health planning programming.

From 5/1998 until now: Associated Professor, School of Public Health, University Cayetano Heredia, Peru.

I teach the following courses: Health Situation Analysis, Health Information Systems, Strategic Management of Communicable Disease Control Programs,  Management of Human Resources in Health (virtual course), Health Services Organization and Health Care Projects Design with Logic Framework.

Postgraduate thesis research advisor

I also have participated in the design of master of public health programs, like the Master in Public Health with track in Reproductive Health, Diploma in Intercultural Health, Gender and Human Rights in Health and Master in Global Health.

I also lead research projects and participate in consultancies on different public health areas.

From 1/2002 until 6/2010: Senior Advisor Global Health. VOXIVA. Lima, Peru. In charge of preparing proposals, negotiating, designing and implementing mHealth projects in different areas and countries.

Senior advisor TRACnet Rwanda.HIV program indicators and patient files electronic system that uses any type of phones and internet to submit reports. The data is used for decision making at program and clinical level. Several upgrading process are going on to improve the use of the data base in program evaluation and decision making.

Coordinator and Principal Investigator. C@reNet, Peru. Chronic disease monitoring and adherence electronic system that uses any type of phones and internet to submit reports, get feedback. C@reNet is used by patients, health workers and health officials for decision making. Patients receive remainders, health tips, surveys, etc. Doctors can learn how patients are performing when they are at home. The system includes an automatic notification system when certain thresholds are surpassed among other features.

Co Investigator Increase of Blood donation among volunteer and patients relatives using an electronic system in the Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Lima. Peru. .

 Principal Investigator and Senior Advisor for Alerta Panama and Alerta Ecuador, Panama and Ecuador. Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System implemented in both countries.

Senior advisor and researcher for other eHealth and mHealth projects within Voxiva in Peru and other countries, including: eIDSR Tanzania, eIDSR Kenya, Community Health Rwanda, eBloodDonors Peru, mTB Peru, proposal preparation for projects in US and Canada.

Coordinator and training director for Alerta MINSA, an innovative disease surveillance project funded   by the World Bank’s InfoDEV program.  The project demonstrated the technical and economic feasibility of a real time electronic disease surveillance system in Peru, the first in Latin America.  Linking mobile phones, fixed lines and  Internet-connected computers, the project demonstrated the efficiency and cost effectiveness of using electronic reporting for disease surveillance.  See:  http://www.infodev.org/content/library/detail/835

Coordinator of Alerta DISAMAR, the disease surveillance application for the Health Department of the Peruvian Navy. Working with the Peruvian Navy, created the first real time national electronic disease surveillance system in Latin America. The disease surveillance was created almost from scratch, and included even training on basic epidemiology and disease surveillance system principles, beside training on the use of Alerta. The application is currently fully operating nationwide to all health facilities of this institution. The application includes collection, storage, dissemination, analysis and monitoring of the disease surveillance system. 

Design of one application to Manage HAART programs. The aim is to collect, store, disseminate and analyze information about new cases, drug supply, indicators performance, treatment supervision, lab results monitoring, etc  to improve treatment adherence and reduce complications. Currently I am participating in the design of one application to monitor chronic patients. The aim is to collect, store, disseminate and analyze information about adverse reactions, compliance, remainders for appointments, annual exams, lab exams, etc  to improve treatment adherence, reduce complications, reduce economic costs and increase quality of life..

Participation in the design of several other applications like: Organ Transplants, Immunization, Blood Bank Management, etc.

Internal consultancy for different public health information projects within Voxiva in Canada, Colombia Ecuador, India, Kenya, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Rwanda, Tanzania, USA.

Trainer of trainers for the different health information systems applications

From 4/2006 to 7/2006.  Short Term Consultant. Preparation of the National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control 2006-2011. UNAIDS, Lima Peru.

From 2003 to 2005. Short Term Consultant. Design and coordination of virtual courses in public health for El Salvador and Mexico. Pan American Health Organization and Cayetano Heredia University.

From 1/2001 to 4/2001: Short Term Consultant. STOP Officer

. World Health Organization (WHO), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Polio Eradication Nepal. Atlanta (USA), Katmandu, Hetauda, Nepal.

My responsibilities were: to assist the deputy director of the project in the planning and implementation of immunization campaigns addressed to Polio eradication in Nepal, to collaborate in the strengthening of the Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance, including among others: micro planning, training sessions and material, social mobilization, active surveillance, case investigation, etc. 

From 5/1999 to 10/2000: Deputy Director, Strengthening of Health Care Services Program (98 million dollars health investment project funded by Peruvian Government and Inter American Development Bank IADB), Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru.

My responsibilities included: direct supervision of 10 coordinators, routine technical reports, monitoring and evaluation of the Program activities (of a very wide range: like clean water supply at household level, community participation in the health facilities management committee, waste disposal at hospitals, health care projects design, management training courses, health sector analysis, health policy proposal, etc.), mission to 10 departments (provinces)

From 1/1996 to 4/1999: National consultant (MOH in Lima), Coordinator of the Pre Investment area of the Health Care Services Strengthening Program (Investment project funded by Peruvian Government and Inter American Development Bank IADB.

My responsibilities were: supervision of 7 professional staff, approval of feasibility studies, technical missions to 6 departments (provinces), design of health care projects (i.e.: remodeling of Emergency Children’s hospital, construction of new building for Mother Child Institute, scattered population health care program, etc.)

From 1/1995 to 12/1995: Short term consultant on International Health at PAHO/WHO headquarters in Washington (USA).

From 10/1993 to 12/1994: National consultant (PAHO), Health Care Reform for Health Care Services Strengthening Program (under the agreement between MOH and PAHO/WHO).

From 1/1992 to 7/1992: Public health official (MOH in Lima). Deputy  director of the General Planning Office of the Ministry of Health.

From 8/1992 to 9/1993: Master Course (Heidelberg/Germany) including two month field research in Buea/Cameroon.

From 10/1991 to 12/1991: National Consultant  (MOH/PAHO in Lima). Design and Evaluation of Health Care Investment Projects. General Planning Office, Ministry of Public Health.

From 5/1991 to 9/1991: National Consultant.  Project: Regional Health Systems.  General Planning Office, Ministry of Public Health.

From 11/1987 to 4/1991: Medical Doctor. Coordinator of the Health Team of the Unidad Operativa  #13.  Member of the District Board on Tuberculosis and the Family Planning. Project:  Integral Primary Health Care. Instituto de Ciencias para el  Desarrollo Social (INCIDES). Sciences for Development Institute.

From 8/1987 to 10/1987: Medical doctor.  Coordinator of the Health Team of the Unidad Operativa  # 13.  Plan Unico de Salud  de  Villa  el  Salvador. (District Health Plan) Proyecto Comunidad Bienestar y  Salud. Save The Children Fund (UK)

Spanish (Mother tongue);  English. (Fluent);  French; Italian and Portuguese (Reading and listening: very good, writing and speaking: fair); German  (Basic).

·         Ernesto Gozzer, Pamela Johnson. mHealth for Disease Surveillance: A View from the Field. Poster presented at 2010 mHealth Summit, November 8-10, 2010. Washington DC USA.

·         Ernesto Gozzer, Walter Curioso, Juan Rodríguez. Phones for Diabetes MOnitoring and Tailored Education : Testing a Comprehensive mHealth Tool. Poster presented at 2010 mHealth Summit, November 8-10, 2010. Washington DC USA.

·         Walter H. Curioso, Ernesto Gozzer^, Juan Rodríguez. Acceso y uso de tecnologías de información y comunicación y percepciones hacia un sistema para mejorar la adherencia al tratamiento (Carenet) en médicos endocrinólogos de un hospital público en el Perú. Sent as original article to Peruvian Experimental Medicine Journal. December 2009

·         Curioso WH, Quistberg DA, Cabello R, Gozzer E, Garcia PJ, Holmes KK, Kurth AE. "It´s time for your life": How should we remind patients to take medicines using short text messages? AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2009 (In press). http://faculty.washington.edu/wcurioso/Curioso_AMIA_2009.pdf

·         Walter H. Curioso, MD, MPH^1,2, Ernesto Gozzer, MD, MSc¹, Maria Valderrama, MPH¹, Juan Rodriguez-Abad, MD³, Jaime E. Villena, MD^1,4, Arturo E. Villena, MD^1,4Understanding the potential role of cell phones and the Internet to support care for diabetic patients and family members in Peru. AMIA 2009 http://faculty.washington.edu/wcurioso/Curioso_Understanding_AMIA_2009.pdf

·         Walter H. Curioso^{1,2 *}, Ernesto Gozzer^1,4, María Valderrama¹,  Juan Rodríguez Abad⁴, Jaime E. Villena^1,3, Arturo E. Villena ³ Use and perceptions towards information and communication technologies in patients with diabetes in a Peruvian public hospital. Rev. perú. med. exp. salud publica. [online]. abr./jun. 2009, vol.26, no.2 http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?pid=S1726-46342009000200005&script=sci_arttext

·         Chocobar, Gotuzzo, Gozzer, Jimenez, Murrugarra, Zubko (Editors). Perú y América Latina en la Era Digital: Transformando la Sociedad. Lima, UPCH, 2007.

·         Gozzer^1,4, E; Mundaca, C¹, Morán, M³, Araujo, R¹, Diaz, C⁴, Blazes, D^1, Quispe, J³ . Information Technology for capacity building in public health: the case of Alerta DISAMAR an innovative disease surveillance system[1]. XI Congresso Mundial de Saúde Pública. Rio de Janeiro, 20 e 21 de agosto de 2006.

·         Mundaca, C; Morán, M; Ortiz, M; Saldarriaga, M; Quispe, J;  Araujo, R; Gozzer, E; Blazes, D. Self-Evaluation of an electronic disease surveillance system in a remote, resource limited setting: Alerta DISAMAR in Peru. 54^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Washington DC. USA. 2005

·         Lescano, A. G., M. Ortiz, R. Elgegren, E. Gozzer, E. Saldarriaga, I. Soriano, and others. 2003. "Alerta DISAMAR: Innovative Disease Surveillance in Peru." Paper presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Philadelphia, December 5.

·         Infante, A., y Gozzer, E. Health systems reform: What can western Europe contribute to Latin America?. Educ Med Salud. 1995 Jul-Dec;29(3-4):286-303.

·         Gozzer, E. Economic costs of delivery at two public health facilities of Tiko, Cameroon: The providers and users point of view. April-may 1993. Master's degree thesis. Universität Heidelberg. Heidelberg, Germany.

·         Gozzer, E. Evaluation of blood transfusion in the Maternity Hospital of Lima". July 1987. Degree  thesis . Universidad  Peruana  Cayetano  Heredia. Lima, Peru.

·         Gozzer, E. Local health system assessment: Villa el Salvador case study".  Instituto Nacional de Capacitación del Ministerio de Salud de Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador 1991

·         Gozzer, E. Micro‑ haematocrit : Comparative study at sea level  and  at highland  ".  July   1978. Department  of  Biology   Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Peru.

Work: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, , Cameroon, Colombia, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Rwanda, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, USA

Study: Canada, Germany, USA, Ecuador, The Netherlands and Switzerland

eHealth and mHealth

Public health programs management

Mother and child health

Communicable and non communicable diseases programs (HIV/AIDS, polio eradication, DBT, etc)

Health care projects and programs design and management

Health policy and planning

Human resources management for health care