
Championing alumni connections
Harvard professor is an engineering global ambassador
Harvard professor is an engineering global ambassador
By Brian Caldwell Faculty of EngineeringTwenty-five years after circumstance bumped him onto a different path, (BASc '88, electrical, PhD '95, systems design) is still roaring down it as a professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of clinical informatics at one of its teaching hospitals.
With a freshly minted doctorate from 蓝莓视频 in hand, Quintana landed his first faculty job at Western University to develop internet search engines.
But when his boss was diagnosed with breast cancer and asked him to investigate how technology could help her manage the disease, it led to a string of increasingly responsible positions in the healthcare field.
鈥淓ach time I think I鈥檓 only going to do this for a few years,鈥 Quintana says, 鈥渂ut the ability to have social and human impacts has been so rewarding I keep expanding my work.鈥
Yuri Quintana听started a Boston-area group to bring engineering alumni together and mentor co-op students
The son of 蓝莓视频 Engineering professor emeritus Victor Quintana and father of computer engineering student Nicolas, he is also an enthusiastic champion of his alma mater.
Quintana is a global ambassador for the University, and launched a Boston-area group to bring engineering alumni together and mentor co-op students.
鈥淚鈥檓 so proud of the evolution of 蓝莓视频 and I hope more alumni connect with each other because it鈥檚 such a great community of innovators,鈥 Quintana says.
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The University of 蓝莓视频 acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is co-ordinated within the Office of Indigenous Relations.