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Profile
Ismael Cordero is a Biomedical Engineer with over 30 years of international experience planning, managing, maintaining, improving, and developing healthcare technology.
Skills
• Planning and managing medical equipment during its entire life cycle
• Evaluating, recommending, and procuring medical equipment for medical facility upgrade projects
• Designing and implementing training programs on the use, maintenance, and management of medical equipment
• Developing written and audiovisual instructional and guidance materials on the use and maintenance of medical devices
• Developing systems, policies, procedures, manuals, and guidelines for managing healthcare technology
• Performing assessments and evaluations of a healthcare institution’s technology and their ability to support it
• Troubleshooting and solving healthcare technology related malfunctions
• Maintaining, calibrating and repairing sophisticated medical devices including life support equipment such as anesthesia machines and intensive care ventilators
• Building prototypes for new medical device components and performing bench and field testing of new medical devices
• Providing expert guidance to international healthcare organizations such as the World Health Organization, ORBIS International, and The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
Professional Activities
• Past Co-Editor of the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) newsletter (2008-2011, July 2019 to July 2023)
• Past President Elect of the Board of ACCE.
• Past member of ACCE's International Committee.
• Member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)
• Past Member of the Board of the Clinical Engineering Division of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)
• Past Member of Technical Advisory Group on Health Technologies (TAGHT) for the World Health Organization (WHO)
Awards
• 2008 ACCE Professional Achievement in Management /Managerial Excellence Award
• 2014 AAMI Foundation and ACCE's Robert L. Morris Humanitatian Award.