Activities for 2000 and 2001: Grünenthal GmbH, Aachen, Germany.

Responsibilities: International Product Care/Media Management
Multimedia Project Leader; Internet/Intranet directed especially towards Latin American subsidiaries; Use of electronic tools for "international packaging approval"; Collaboration with the Dept. of International Training; Much correspondence with the WHO regarding the pain field (for the worldwide morphine marketing project).
Skills acquired worth mentioning: higher knowledge of javascript, xml, css, Web Based Training. Basic knowledge of German.
Software: TRADOS; in a lesser degree APACHE/MySQL, PHP, Dynamo.
Hardware: industrial use of the digitalsender, DV camera, from scan to OCR to processing to master CD to final product, silkscreen design and worldwide distribution.  

Until December, 1999: Grünenthal Ecuatoriana C. Ltda.

Responsibilities: Librapharm
Medical adviser for the new generic drug line: Librapharm since January, 1999.  Product profile updates for PLM and Edifarm.  Printed promotional material, Creation of multimedia material  for Sales Reps training.  In charge of the Instruction, Monthly reunions and Autotraining follow-up for Sales Reps.  Reception of medical information requests.

Responsibilities: Grünenthal Medical Informatics Center - CIMEG
Director of the Center and its virtual library.   Information searches in 26 databases (Drugdex, Emergindex, Poisindex, TOMES, Medline, LILACS, ARTEMISA, SAM, Internet, etc) and impression of them (even though I have two secretaries),  National and International Mailing, Internet and E-mail short courses, Presence in Congresses and Scientific events with a portable computer, databases and printer, Reception/delivery of company e-mail twice daily.

Responsibilities: Web site
Ad honorem webmaster of Grünenthal Ecuatoriana.

Responsibilities: Scientific Department
Preparation of clinical studies from scratch to publication. Creation of multimedia applications and presentations for other Sales Reps training, Co-worker training (Windows 95 & NT, Microsoft Office, WinSpirs, LILACS, Artemisa, SAM-CD, Drugdex, Emergindex, etc).   Eventual hardware/software problem solutions in computers and printers, scanners, CD rewriter, etc, Publication of the magazine "Atrévete for secretaries" and "Atrévete for Sales Reps".  Official printer paper feeder, lost calls reorienter, E-mailman of the administrative building, graphics designer, doctor on-call in case of medical disaster, etc.

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Biographic information

Here is the reduced version.  You can also read my full resume.

Universidad Central del Ecuador
Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, promotion of 1995.

Author and coauthor of the following published chapters in medical textbooks

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Personal Interests

Medical Informatics
My English-Spanish Dictionary of Medical Terms is progressing very slowly. Now it has 195.000 terms in Spanish. Haven't taken the time to count the words in English or all the synonyms though...
My interactive medical program (which really works) was suspended at 25% because I saturated
      my free time with my work.
Virtual reality.
Chess: level 1.
Science Fiction.

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Photo Album!

6 Family photos (text in Spanish)