Alvin Valeriano de Borja Marcelo, MD, FPCS, CGEIT, TOGAF, ArchiMate

UP Manila - Technology Transfer and Business Development Office (UPM-TTBDO), Office of the University Registrar, Padre Faura Street, Ermita, Manila  |  632-525-6501  |  alvin.marcelo@telehealth.ph




PROFILE

• More than 20 years experience in health informatics
• One of The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of 2005 for Medicine/Medical Informatics
• Consultant to local and international agencies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2015-present: Director, UP Manila - Technology Transfer and Business Development Office (UPM-TTBDO)
• 2014-present: Team leader, National eHealth Program Management Office
• 2013-2014: Consultant, World Health Organization
• 2011-2013: Senior Vice-president and Chief Information Officer, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth)
• 2011-present: Chair, Asia eHealth Information Network
• 2006-2010: Director, UP Manila National Telehealth Center
• Associate professor of Surgery and Medical Informatics
• Director, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
• Manager, International Open Source Network for ASEAN+3 [a program of the United Nations Development Programme-Asia PAcific Development Information Programme or UNDP-APDIP]
• 1999-2000: Postdoctoral fellow and Visiting scientist, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

IT Governance

• Initiated enterprise architecture activity in PhilHealth
• Advised Department of Health, Department of Science and Technology, and PhilHealth to adopt COBIT5 for IT Governance
• Established Information Security Department at PhilHealth

Enterprise architecture

• Created AeHIN-Regional Enterprise Architecture Advisory Council (REACH)
• Facilitated development of a cadre of certified COBIT5(F), TOGAF(R) and ArchiMate(R) experts in AeHIN

Program management and administration

• Project manager, Community Health Information Tracking System - Finalist at the 2006 Stockholm Challenge
• Project manager, BuddyWorks Telehealth Project
• Coordinator, Master of Science in Health Informatics (medical informatics track), UP Manila

Systems development

• Philippine Malaria Information System version 2
• Statistics, Policy, Research, and Archive Database (SPREaD) of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
• Blood Bank Information Management Program (BLIMP) for the PGH Blood Bank

Training and Staff Administration

• Introduction to Health Information Systems for Government health workers
• ICT for Health Professionals
• Building a National Disease Registry
• Ethical Considerations in the Practice of Telemedicine in the Philippines

EDUCATION

• MD, University of the Philippines 1991 (Intarmed)
• BS Basic Medical Sciences, 1988 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Philippine Medical Informatics Society, Inc.
• Philippine College of Surgeons
• Philippine Society for General Surgeons
• Couples for Christ Medical Mission Foundation-Give Kare Foundation