RESUME RENATO MARCOS ENDRIZZI SABBATINI Born: February 20, 1947, in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nationality: Brazilian Marital status: Married, two sons EDUCATION 1977 Ph.D. (Human Physiology) School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1968 B.Sc. (Biomedical Sciences) School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. PRESENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 1987- Chairman, Medical Informatics, and Assistant Professor School of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1983- Director, Center of Biomedical Informatics State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1983- Faculty Member and Supervisor of Graduate Studies: Dept. Clinical Medicine, School of Medical Sciences Dept. Medical Genetics, School of Medical Sciences Dept. Neurology, School of Medical Sciences Dept. Physiology, Institute of Biology and Dept. Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, State University of Campinas, SP, Brazil School of Nursing, University S.Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1980-1983 Technical Director Data Processing Sector, Department of Physiology School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1979-1983 Director, Laboratory of Neuroethology, and Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 1977-1979 Visiting Scientist, Department of Primate Behavior Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry Munich, Federal Republic of Germany. 1972-1977 Instructor, Department of Physiology School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1972-1977 Instructor, Information Sciences School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1971-1972 Instructor, Chair of Physiological Psychology Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters University of S.Paulo at Ribeirao Preto 1969-1972 Research Assistant, Department of Physiology School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1967-1968 Undergraduate Research Fellow, Dept. of Physiology School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. OTHER RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 1993- Editor-in-Chief, INFORMEDICA Journal on Medical Informatics 1993- Member, National Council of Artificial Neural Networks 1993- President, Organizing Committee, 1st Brazilian Congress on Artificial Neural Networks, Campinas, Brazil, 1993. 1992- Editor, NIBNEWS, An Electronic Newsletter on Health Informatics. State University of Campinas, Brazil. 1992-1994 Secretary, Brazilian Society for Health Informatics 1988-1990 President, Brazilian Society for Health Informatics 1987-1991 Member, International Study Group on New Technologies in Gynecology and Obstetrics, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics 1987-1988 Member, Federal Commission of Health Informatics of the Special Secretary of Informatics (Federal Government) 1986-1990 Scientific Editor and Publisher Brazilian Journal of Health Informatics, IBIS Press, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1986-1988 Vice-President, Brazilian Society of Health Informatics 1985-1987 Technical Advisor, Division of Information Systems Support, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 1983- Scientific Advisor, National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) State Research Foundation of Sao Paulo (FAPESP) 1983-1986 Scientific Editor for Informatics Editora Nova Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1980-1983 Secretary General Brazilian Society of Physiology and Editor, Bulletin of the Brazilian Society of Physiology FIELDS OF RESEARCH 1. Computer applications in Neurobiology and Psychology 2. Modeling and simulation of neural network systems 3. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Biology 4. Clinical and scientific applications of computers in the Health Sciences 5. Computer-aided education in Health Sciences 6. Quantitative methods in the analysis of behavior 7. Graphical and Image Processing in Medicine ROLE IN THE CREATION OF NEW SCIENTIFIC GROUPS 1988- Created and directs the Chair of Medical Informatics of the Medical School, State University of Campinas, one of the first courses in Latin America. 1983- Created and directs the Center of Biomedical Informatics State University of Campinas, in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil; a pioneering interdisciplinary research center. 1973-1983 Created and directed the Laboratory of Neuroethology Department of Physiology of the Medical School of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; the first of its kind in Latin America. ROLE IN THE CREATION OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 1992 Initial proponent and founding member of the National Council of Artificial Neural Networks, an organization which represents eight major Brazilian scientific societies and most of the research groups working in the field; with the aim of furthering the progress of ANN research and applications in the country. Nominated President of the First Congress on ANNs, to be held in Campinas, May 1993. 1986 Founding member, and successively, vice-president, president, member of fiscal council and currently secretary of the Brazilian Society of Health Informatics, a 400-member professional organizat- ion which represents Brazil at national and international levels (International Federation of Medical Informatics). Nominated President of the First Congress on Health Informatics, held in Campinas, November 1986. On the behalf of the Society, has created several other scientific events, such as: - First Panamerican Conference on Nursing Informatics, Campinas, 1990 - First Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Medical Education Campinas, 1991 - First Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Biology, Campinas, 1993 ROLE IN THE CREATION OF NEW PUBLICATIONS AND SERVICES 1993 Created and is the editor-in-chief of INFORMEDICA: A Magazine on Medical Informatics for Physicians, a bimonthly publication with a registered circulation of 22,000 issues, dedicated to the end-user in the health care area in Brazil. INFORMEDICA is the official publication of the Center for Biomedical Informatics, State Univer- sity of Campinas. 1992 Created and is the editor-in-chief of NIBNEWS: An Electronic Bulletin on Medical Informatics, a bimonthly newsletter distributed electron- ically through the Internet and Bitnet academic networks to ca. 400 readers all over the world. 1992 Created the Public Access Repository of Medical Informatics Resources, a directory structure which can be freely accessed via the Internet academic network, offering dowloadable public domain software, documents, bibliography, etc. 1988 Created the Center for Documentation on Biomedical Informatics (CEDIB) within the Center for Biomedical Informatics of the State University of Campinas; a clearinghouse and service center for specialized literature retrieval, publications and public domain software repository in the area. 1986 Created and was the editor-in-chief from 1986 to 1989, of the Brazilian Journal of Health Informatics, the first of its kind in a developing country, with a registered circulation of 10,000 issues. The journal is still published by another group. SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISION Undergraduate research fellows: 35 Graduate research fellows: 18 Master dissertations: 15 Doctoral dissertations: 5 LECTURES AND CONGRESSES Invited Conferences, Lectures and Seminars: 345 Scientific Symposia, Congresses and Meetings: 195 EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES Grand total of 198 activities, in 62 different courses Courses Ministered at Undergraduate Level: 5 1. Physiology (Schools of Medicine and Nursing) 2. Physiological Psychology (Liberal Arts College) * 3. Scientific Methodology and Documentation (School of Medicine) * 4. Medical Informatics (Schools of Medicine and Nursing) * 5. Biomedical Statistics (School of Medicine) Courses Ministered at Graduate Level: 14 1. Methods and Instrumentation in Neurophysiology 2. Neurophysiology 3. Neurophysiology of Behavior 4. Neuropharmacology 5. Ethology and Animal Behavior 6. Neuroethology * 7. Scientific Methodology and Documentation * 8. Computer Analysis of Behavior * 9. Biomedical Informatics * 10. Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Medicine * 11. Microcomputer Applications to Research and Education * 12. Computer-based Instruction in Medicine * 13. Computer Programming Fundamentals * 14. Modeling and Simulation in Physiology and Medicine * 15. Introduction to Neural Networks * 16. Topics in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics * 17. Biomedical Statistics Courses Ministered at Continuing Education Level: 15 1. Microcomputers in Clinical Practice * 2. Informatics in Dentistry * 3. Informatics in Nursing 4. Introduction to BASIC Computer Programming in Medicine* 5. Microinformatics for Users in Health Care * 6. Basic Operation of Microcomputers * 7. Introduction to dBASE III Programming * 8. Computer Applications in Hospitals * 9. Microcomputer Applications in Health Service Management * 10. Informatics and Radiology * 11. Image Processing in Biology and Medicine 12. Quantitative Analysis of Behavior * 13. Informatics in Occupational Health * 14. Computer applications in Neurology * 15. Computer applications in Veterinary Medicine * * organized and coordinated AFFILIATION TO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 1. Association for Computing Machinery (USA) 2. Special Interest Group on Biomedical Computing (SIGBIO, USA) 3. The Computer Society (IEEE, USA) - Senior Member Elect 4. International Neural Network Society (INNS) 5. American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (USA) 6. International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) 7. New York Academy of Sciences (USA) 8. Brazilian Society of Health Informatics 9. Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering 10. Brazilian Society of Neurosciences and Behavior 11. Brazilian Society of Physiology Invited to be listed in 1994 Who's Who in the World (Technology) EXPERIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS 1. Private and university-based computer consultance projects to 45 professional associations, corporations, hospitals, universities and clinics, and governmental bureaus. 2. Has managed successfully several technology-transfer agreements between University and industry. 3. Member of the Board of Trustees, Academic Projects, of Itautec Informatics Corp., the largest Brazilian industry of computers 4. Director and owner of Dataquest Informatica Ltd. (a consultant firm), and CCNI Ltd. (a medical software firm) PROFICIENCY IN LANGUAGES 1. Portuguese - mother tongue 2. English - reads, writes, understands and speaks fluently 3. German - reads, writes, understands and speaks fluently 4. Spanish - reads, writes, understands and speaks fluently 5. Italian - reads, understands and speaks fluently, writes well. 6. French - reads, understands fluently, speaks and writes little. COMPUTER EXPERIENCE Mainframes and Superminis: Burroughs, Digital (DEC-10,VAXes), IBM Minicomputers: IBM, Digital, Unix compatible Microcomputers: MS/DOS/Windows, SUN Sparcstation Programming Languages: FORTRAN, BASIC and CLIPPER (extensive), PASCAL, MUMPS, LOGO, PROLOG, LISP, C, Visual BASIC PUBLICATIONS Grand total of 839. Books, Dissertations and Monographs ----------------------------------- - Species-specific behavior and brain electrical stimulation: a quantitative and neuroethological approach. Doctoral Dissertation, University of S.Paulo, Brazil, 1977. (in Portuguese) - The TRS-80 Resource Book. Munich, W.Germany: Vortex, 1979 - The Microcomputer in Clinical Practice. Sao Paulo Academy of Sciences, 1983 (in Portuguese) - Introduction to BASIC Microcomputer Programming. Sao Paulo: Nova Cultural, 1985 (in Portuguese) - Microcomputers Applications in Medicine: a Review. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1985 - Informatics in Medicine. Sao Paulo: McGraw-Hill, 1993 (in Portuguese). In press. - Introduction to Microcomputing in Medicine. Sao Paulo: Brazilian Institute for Health Information, 96 pp., 1988 (in Portuguese). - Course on Microinformatics to Healthcare Users. 168 pp, six editions, 1988-1993, Dataquest Informatics, Campinas, Brazil (in Portuguese). - Sabbatini, R.M.E. & Ezquerra, N. (Eds.) - Biomedical Applications of Artificial Neural Networks. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publ., 1994 (invited to publication). Book Chapters ------------- - Automation of Medical Record Systems Based on Microcomputers. In: Rodrigues, R.J. (Ed.). Informatics and the Hospital Manager. Sao Paulo: Pioneira, p. 71-82, 1987. - Chapter 3: Informatics Support for Health Programmes; Chapter 4: Informatics Support for the Provision of Health Care. Chapter 5.6: Using Computers in Training and Education. Chapter 6: The Choice of Informatics Technology. In: Informatics and Telematics in Health Care. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1987 - Sabbatini, R.M.E.; Ortiz, J. - Neural network based approach to outcome prognosis for patients with dyastolic disfunction. In: Comparative Approaches in Medical Reasoning (Cohen, M.E. and Hudson, D.L., editors), Elsevier, 1993 (invited for publication). - Sabbatini, R.M.E. - Biomedical Applications of Neural Networks. In: Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. Arbib, M. (Ed.) Cambridge: The MIT Press (invited for publication). Papers in specialized journals and proceedings ---------------------------------------------- Biomedical Informatics: - Sabbatini, R.M.E. - How to get the best out of automated information systems. World Health Forum, 8(4): 432-434, 1987. - Sabbatini, R.M.E. - A practical course on knowledge engineering for Health professionals. In: Barber, B.; Cao, D.; Qin, D.; Wagner, G. (Eds.) - Proceedings Sixth World Congress of Medical Informatics (MEDINFO'89, Beijing, China, Singapore): International Medical Informatics Association, North-Holland Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, p. 949-952, 1989. - Sabbatini, R.M.E. - A microcomputer software laboratory for teaching informatics to medical students. In: O'Moore, R.; Bengtsson, S.; Bryant, J.R. & Bryden, J.S. (Eds.) - Medical Informatics Europe'90. Proceedings, Glasgow, Scotland. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p. 416-421, 1990. - Sabbatini, R.M.E. - An improved undergraduate curriculum for teaching Medical Informatics to medical and nursing students. In: Van Bemmel, J.H. & Zvarova , J. (Eds.) - Knowledge, Information and Medical Education. Amsterdam: North Holland, p. 67-78, 1991. - Zepka, R.F.; Sabbatini, R.M.E. - Computer simulation of a quantitative model for reflex epilepsy. In: Dvorak, I.; Holden, A.V. (Eds.) - Mathematical Approaches to Brain Functioning Diagnostics. (Proceedings in Non-Linear Science). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 249-256, 1991. - Sabbatini, R.M.E. - Applications of connectionist systems in Bimedicine. In: Lun, K.C. et al. (Eds) - Proceed. VII World Congress on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO'92). Amsterdam: North Holland, 1992. - Sabbatini, R.M.E.; Lobo da Costa Jr, M.; Becker, R.A.; Tardelli, A. - A microcomputer-based system for distributed statistical analysis of mortality data using a CD-ROM database. Proceed. MIE'93 - International Congress on Medical Informatics, Jerusalem, Israel, April 1993. - Felipe Jr., P.; Sabbatini, R.M.E.; Carvalho-J£nior, P.; Beseggio, R.E.; Terzi, R.G.G. - Outcome prediction for critical patients under intensive care, using backpropagation neural networks. Anais I Forum Nacional de Ciˆncia e Tecnologia em Sa£de, Caxambu, MG, pp. 344-47, november 1992. - Sabbatini, R.M.E. - A multilayered neural network for processing 2D tomographic images in neurosurgery. Proceed. IEEE Nuclear Science and Medical Imaging Symposium, Orlando FL, USA, 1992. - Sabbatini, R.M.E. - "Artificial Neural Networks in Biomedical Engineering". Monograph. CRC Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (Ed. J. Bourne). CRC Press, 1993 (invited for publication). Neurophysiology and Behavior: - Sabbatini, R.M.E. - A head-mounted stereotaxic platform for intracranial exploration with movable electrodes. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 15(1): 65-71, 1982. - Marino Neto, J. & Sabbatini, R.M.E. - The effects of telencephalic lesions in the habituation of startle and orienting responses in the Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta splendens). Brazilian Journal of Medical Biological Research, 14: 1982. - Peron, J.E.; Fontes, J.C.S. & Sabbatini, R.M.E. - Effects of previous REM sleep deprivation on the acquisition of different topographies of discriminated avoidance in the rat. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 18:381-389, 1985. - Marino Neto, J. & Sabbatini, R.M.E. - A stereotaxic atlas for the telencephalon of the Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens). Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 21(5): 971-986, 1988 - Garcia-Cairasco, N. & Sabbatini, R.M.E. - Neuroethological evaluation of audiogenic seizures in hemidetelencephalated rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 33: 65-77, 1989. - Garcia-Cairasco, N.; Sabbatini, R.M.E. - Possible interaction between the inferior colliculus and the substantia nigra in audiogenic seizures in rats. Physiology and Behavior, 50(2): 421-427, 1991. Abstracts in Congress Proceedings: 151 Editorials and Book Reviews: 30 Technical Reports and Manuals: 95 Articles in popular and technical magazines: 184 Science articles in newspapers: 216 Translations: 43 PERSONAL REFERENCES Dr Marion J. Ball (Chancellor, Information Systems, University of Maryland at Baltimore, and President, International Medical Informatics Association). Dr Otto Rienhoff (Director, Institute of Medical Informatics, Phillips University, Bunsenstrasse 3, D-3550 Marburg, West Germany) - President-Elect, IMIA. Dr Salah Mandil (Information Systems Support Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland) Dr Dennis J. Protti (Director, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 2Y2) Dr Sergio Mascarenhas (International Center for Theoretical Physics, Chairman, College of Biophysics, P.O. Box 586, I-34100 Trieste, Italy) Dr James E. Bower (Division of Biology, Lab. Computational Neurosciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA). ADDRESS Prof.Dr. Renato M.E. Sabbatini Center of Biomedical Informatics/UNICAMP Clinics Hospital, Annex C, 1st. floor. P.O. Box 6005 Campinas, SP 13081-970, Brazil. Tel. +55 192 39-7130, +55192 39-4168 (home) FAX +55 192 39-4717, Telex +5 19 1150 E-mail: SABBATINI@BRUC.BITNET or SABBATINI@CCVAX.UNICAMP.BR -\\-