Curriculum VitaeHedley Knewjen QuintanaMD, MSc, PhD Vital data Name: Hedley Knewjen Quintana Birthday: 13th July, 1978 Birthplace:Panamá City, Panamá Orcid webpage Education Medical Continuing Education BLS Issued in 2023. Expires on 2025 ACLS Issued in 2023. Expires on 2025 ATLS Issued in2023. Expires on 2027 University:(Institute of Environmental Epidemiology) PhD,Karolinska Institute (where NOBEL PRICES are awarded), 2017 Thesis link University: MSc Molecular Biology,Södertörns Högskola, 2010 University: Medical Doctor,Universidad de Panamá, 2002 University of Panama alumni finder (in Spanish langauge) High School: Instituto Fermín Naudeau, 1995 MOOC: MiríadaX,Open badges collection MOOC: Coursera,My profile in Coursera Work experience Currently working as a Researcher:Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies, since 2017 Special Professor IDepartment of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Panama, since 2021 General Practitioner:Clínica Navarro & Arango, 2009 Medical officer:Royal Caribbean -Navigator of the Seas-(USA), 2008 General Practitioner:Clínica Navarro & Arango, 2007-2008 Papers Project: Non-communicable diseases in Panama Malnutrition among Children under Age Five in Panama: Results of the ENSPA 2019 July 2024 Description of the National Mortality Register of Panama (page 155) February 2024 Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c November 2023 Compliance with Panamanian standards of care for secondary prevention of non communicable diseases. Findings from the 2019 Panama National Health Survey. September 2023 Diabetes mellitus, its prevalence, awareness, and control in Panama: Data from ENSPA 2019, a national cross-sectional study August 2023 History of the National Cancer Registry of Panama (pages 19 to 25) June 2023 Physical Inactivity and Sedentary Behaviour among Panamanian Adults: Results from the National Health Survey of Panama (ENSPA) 2019. April 2023 Prevalence of hypertension and possible risk factors of hypertension unawareness among individuals aged 30-75 years from two Panamanian provinces: Results from population-based cross-sectional studies, 2010 and 2019. November 2022 Medication Adherence in Hypertensive Individuals in Panama 2019: A National Cross-Sectional Study November 2022 Prevalence of central obesity according to different definitions in normal weight adults of two cross-sectional studies in Panama June 2022 Encuesta Nacional de Salud de Panamá (in Spanish language) January 2022 Panama a small country with a huge story of success in Tobacco Control Health Policies. December, 2019 Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017. 2019 The Tobacco Industry now openly admits that cigarettes are harmful November, 2019 Oral Presentation at 15 Conference ISPTID, Tokyo, Japan: Secular trends in tobacco use prevalence among Panamanian students aged 13-15 years, GYTS 2002-2017 November, 2019 Oral Presentation 15 Conference ISPTID, Tokyo, Japan: Dismissal of eight tobacco industry lawsuits against the Panamanian State November, 2019 Assessing the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of tobacco-associated diseases and how it is influenced by tobacco products advertisement, promotion and sponsorship while enforcing a strong and comprehensive ban in Panama: A cross-sectional study. 2019 Perception of vulnerable populations of label warnings in Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) - Panama 2018 Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 2018 Oral Presentation at 14 Conference ISPTID, Izmir, Turkey: Comparison of tobacco use prevalence between Panama nationwide and the Guna Yala Indigenous Territory October, 2018 Conocimientos, actitudes y percepciones de las enfermedades asociadas al uso de tabaco APANAC Poster: October 2018 Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 2018 Project: Myocardial infarction Fatality Comorbidities in relation to fatality of first myocardial infarction2018 Acknowledgement to Gary Kessler's File Signatures webpage2017 Doctoral thesis: Fatality of coronary events - epidemiological studies of potential determinants2017 Diabetes, hypertension, overweight and hyperlipidemia and 7-day case-fatality in first myocardial infarction2016 Agreement between Myocardial Infarction Patients and Their Spouses on Reporting of Data on 82 Cardiovascular Risk Exposures2015 Personal link in social media Github ResearchGate Linkedin Twitter Facebook Programming languages Python Java C++ R Go