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Innovative • Collaborative • Impactful
We are an international network of leading clinicians, engineers, experienced professionals, students, and trainees working together to reshape global health through high-level research, innovation, and policymaking
Leadership
01
Dr. Agamenón Quintero Villarreal's Group
IMAT Oncomédica Auna
Intensive care medicine (general and oncologic) and healthcare policy
02
Dr. Joseph L. Nates' Group
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Collaboration between microscopIA and the Oncologic Critical Care Research Network (ONCCC-R-NET)
03
Dr. Francisco Camargo's Group
Clínica Zayma
Intensive care medicine (general and obstetric) and anesthesiology
04
Jorge Racedo's Group
microscopIA
Health system engineering, hhealth economics, and health policy
Our Impact
in Numbers
Facts & Figures
+50 associates
+5 countries
+30 active research projects
2 ongoing community pilots
we also develop prototypes for diagnostics
automated microscope for malaria and tropical diseases
Some of our projects:
- 01
Field: Obstetric Critical Care
Status: Study Design
Description: Methodological investigation focused on developing and validating obstetric critical care severity scores to improve maternal risk stratification, early deterioration detection, and resource allocation in critically ill obstetric patients across diverse healthcare settings.
- 02
Field: Pediatrics
Status: Ethics Committee
Description: Community pilot program designed to evaluate the feasibility of coordinated school- and government-supported initiatives enabling parents to attend monthly school-based interaction days with their children to strengthen family engagement, emotional well-being, and child development.
- 03
Field: Neurology
Status: Data Collection
Description: Economic evaluation conducted in collaboration with Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá University Hospital assessing the comparative cost-effectiveness, healthcare utilization, and clinical outcomes associated with lamotrigine and levetiracetam in focal epilepsy management.
- 04
Field: Obstetric Critical Care
Status: Under review
Description: Clinical research evaluating disparities in obstetric intensive care admissions, healthcare resource utilization, and maternal–fetal outcomes between rural and urban populations within a Colombian healthcare network.
- 05
Field: Pediatric Ophthalmology
Status: Under review
Description: Multicenter real-world clinical investigation evaluating whether topical ketorolac and nepafenac administered during early-stage retinopathy of prematurity reduce disease progression and the need for advanced interventions.
- 06
Field: Pediatric Ophthalmology
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Health economic study evaluating the cost-effectiveness of introducing topical ketorolac and nepafenac prophylaxis into early-stage retinopathy of prematurity management using probabilistic sensitivity analyses.
- 07
Field: Health Economics
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Methodological investigation evaluating numerical instability, interpretability limitations, and reproducibility concerns associated with the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio in probabilistic health economic evaluations.
- 08
Field: Health Economics
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Methodological research proposing an integrated healthcare investment framework centered on net monetary benefit, return on investment, budget impact, and multicriteria decision-making approaches.
- 09
Field: Critical Care Medicine
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: National geospatial analysis evaluating prolonged travel times to intensive care services across Colombia to support healthcare network optimization and evidence-based critical care policy development.
- 10
Field: Pediatric Ophthalmology
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Multicenter economic evaluation comparing bevacizumab and ranibizumab as first-line monotherapy for advanced-stage retinopathy of prematurity, integrating retreatment rates, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), healthcare utilization, and probabilistic analyses.
- 11
Field: Pediatric Ophthalmology
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Translational clinical trial protocol describing a multicenter adaptive seamless phase 2/3 randomized controlled trial evaluating topical ketorolac 0.45% for early-stage retinopathy of prematurity.
- 12
Field: Pediatric Ophthalmology
Status: Ethics Committee and Facility Allocation
Description: Randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of topical ketorolac 0.45% in preventing progression of early-stage retinopathy of prematurity within neonatal referral networks.
- 13
Field: Oncologic Critical Care
Status: Ethics Committee and Facility Allocation
Description: Randomized controlled trial evaluating whether structured daily phototherapy interventions improve psychological well-being, recovery, and critical care outcomes among critically-ill cancer patients.
- 14
Field: Transplantation Medicine
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: National healthcare geospatial analysis evaluating graft-specific travel-time accessibility, ischemia-related constraints, and underserved regions within Colombia’s transplantation network.
- 15
Field: Pediatric Ophthalmology
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Geospatial healthcare analysis evaluating accessibility to retinopathy of prematurity screening and treatment services across Colombia using population-density and travel-time modeling.
- 16
Field: Pediatric Ophthalmology
Status: Ethics Committee and Algorithm Training
Description: Artificial intelligence–based clinical trial evaluating AI-assisted screening workflows for retinopathy of prematurity targeting neonatologists and neonatal nurses to improve referral efficiency.
- 17
Field: Pediatric Ophthalmology
Status: Prototyping
Description: Biomedical device project focused on developing a portable smartphone-based retinal imaging system integrated with AI algorithms for retinopathy of prematurity screening in resource-limited settings.
- 18
Field: Neglected Tropical Diseases
Status: Prototyping
Description: Biomedical engineering initiative developing an automated AI-assisted microscope intended to support screening of malaria and other light microscopy–based diseases in rural and underserved regions.
- 19
Field: Radiology
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Translational imaging research evaluating photon-counting detector technologies and their potential impact on mammographic image quality and diagnostic performance.
- 20
Field: Neglected Tropical Diseases
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Economic evaluation comparing empirical treatment and diagnostic-first strategies for uncinariasis management using healthcare-system and cost-effectiveness perspectives in Colombia.
- 21
Field: Neurosurgery
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: National geospatial healthcare analysis mapping endovascular neurosurgery–capable facilities and evaluating regional disparities in access to neurointerventional services.
- 22
Field: Cardiovascular and Endovascular Medicine
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Healthcare geospatial analysis evaluating the geographic distribution and travel-time of patients to hemodynamics-capable cardiovascular centers across Colombia.
- 23
Field: Nephrology
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: National geospatial analysis assessing accessibility to renal replacement therapy services and identifying underserved regions lacking nephrology critical care infrastructure.
- 24
Field: Oncologic Critical Care
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Healthcare geospatial investigation mapping oncologic critical care facilities and evaluating national disparities in access to specialized oncology ICU services.
- 25
Field: Hematology and Transfusion Medicine
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: National geospatial analysis evaluating the geographic distribution, accessibility, and regional coverage of blood bank facilities across Colombia.
- 26
Field: Obstetric Critical Care
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Healthcare geospatial study evaluating accessibility to obstetric critical care services and identifying underserved maternal healthcare regions across Colombia.
- 27
Field: Transplantation Medicine
Status: Authors' Revision
Description: Economic evaluation and diagnostic study assessing the value of combining shear wave elastography with laboratory biomarkers for post-transplant kidney monitoring.
- 28
Field: Neglected Tropical Diseases
Status: Data Collection
Description: National healthcare geospatial project evaluating the distribution and accessibility of healthcare providers involved in malaria and Chagas disease diagnosis and management across Colombia.
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