Expertise and Research Interests:

Dr. Fontelo has been a Staff Scientist with the LHNCBC Office of High Performance Computing and Communications for more than ten years. He also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Biomedical Informatics Department of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). He is Board Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology by the American Board of Pathology.

His research interests include medical informatics training, telemedicine/telepathology/mHealth, digital pathology, molecular pathology, global health, Information access at the point of care and in low-resource areas, evidence-based medicine, mobile health, hematology, critical appraisal of the literature, translational research, and geographic medicine.

Dr. Fontelo is a retired Army pathologist. His last assignment was at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, where he was the Chief of Telepathology and Staff Pathologist in the Department of Gastrointestinal Pathology. Prior to that he was Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at USUHS, where he was Course Director for a number of years. He has also had numerous assignments in research and hospital pathology, including in Belgium.

• MD, University of the Philippines, College of Medicine
• Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
• Diplomate, American Board of Pathology (Anatomic and Clinical Pathology)
• Medical license: District of Columbia

Professional Activities:

• Adjunct Professor in Medical Informatics, University of the Philippines, College of Medicine
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Honors and Awards:

• 2021 NIH Director's Award for your outstanding accomplishments as a member of the Trans-NIH Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Initiative Leadership Team, "For exemplary leadership in launching and developing the Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) Initiative".
• 2020 National Institutes of Health Director’s Award for Mentoring
• 1997 Outstanding Overseas Alumni Educator, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
• 1991-1992 Outstanding Teacher Award, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD

Publications:

London SD, Chamut S, Fontelo P, Iafolla T, Dye BA. Assessment of the Quality of Current American Dental Association Clinical Practice Guidelines. JDR Clin Trans Res. 2022 Apr 2:23800844221083563. doi: 10.1177/23800844221083563.

London SD, Fontelo P, Boroumand S, Dye BA. COVID-19 provides an opportunity for integration of dentistry into the health informatics system. J Am Dent Assoc. 2022 Jan;153(1):3-8. doi: 10.1016/j.adaj.2021.11.003. Epub 2021 Nov 18.

Ben-Omran MO, Livinski AA, Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT, Boroumand S, Williams D, Weatherspoon DJ, Iafolla TJ, Fontelo P, Dye BA. The use of teledentistry in facilitating oral health for older adults: A scoping review. J Am Dent Assoc. 2021 Dec;152(12):998-1011.e17. doi: 10.1016/j.adaj.2021.06.005. Epub 2021 Sep 11.

McCall T, Ali MO, Yu F, Fontelo P, Khairat S. Development of a Mobile App to Support Self-management of Anxiety and Depression in African American Women: Usability Study. JMIR Form Res. 2021 Aug 17;5(8):e24393. doi: 10.2196/24393.

Fontelo P, Bastola MM, Zheng Z, Baik SH. A review of thromboembolic events in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Thromb J 2021;19:47. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12959-021-00298-3.

Bastola M, Locatis C, Fontelo P. Diagnostic Reliability of In-Person Versus Remote Dermatology: A Meta-Analysis. Telemed J E Health, 2021 Mar; 27(3): 247-250.

Bastola MM, Locatis C, Fontelo P. Thromboprophylaxis, Delta SOFA and Main Outcomes in Ventilated Patients: An Analysis of the MIMIC-III Clinical Database. Clinical Database, 22 September 2020, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-78878/v1]

Bastola MM, Locatis C, Fontelo P. Diagnostic Laboratory Tests for COVID-19 in US: Methodology and Performance. Res Sq [Preprint]. 2020 Jul 20:rs.3.rs-43374. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-43374/v1.

Bastola MM, Locatis C, Maisiak R, Fontelo P.. The Effectiveness of Mobile Phone-Based Text Messaging to Intervene with Problem Drinking in Youth and Younger Adult Populations: A Meta-Analysis. Telemed J E Health. 2020 Mar; 26(3): 270-277.

Janakiram C, Venkitachalam R, Fontelo P, Iafolla TJ, Dye BA. Effectiveness of herbal oral care products in reducing dental plaque & gingivitis - a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Complement Med Ther; 2020 Feb 11; 20(1):43.

Bastola MM, Locatis C, Maisiak R, Fontelo P. Selenium, copper, zinc and hypertension: an analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2011-2016). BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2020 Jan 31;20(1):45. doi: 10.1186/s12872-020-01355-x. PMID: 32005161; PMCID: PMC6995060.

Janakiram C, Fontelo P, Huser V, Chalmers NI, Lopez Mitnik G, Brow AR, Iafolla TJ, Dye BA. Opioid Prescriptions for Acute and Chronic Pain Management Among Medicaid Beneficiaries. Am J Prev Med; 2019 09 31; 57(3):365-373. PubMed ID: 31377093.

Janakiram C, Chalmers NI, Fontelo P, Huser V, Mitnik GL, Iafolla TJ, Brow AR, Dye BA. Sex and race or ethnicity disparities in opioid prescriptions for dental diagnoses among patients receiving Medicaid. J Am Dent Assoc; 2019 Oct; 150(10):e135-e144. PMID 31561765.

Bastola MM, Locatis C, Maisiak R, Fontelo P. The Effectiveness of Mobile Phone-Based Text Messaging to Intervene with Problem Drinking in Youth and Younger Adult Population: A Meta-Analysis. Telemed J E Health; 2020 03 31; 26(3):270-277. PubMed ID: 30985258.

Zolnoori M, Fung K, Patrick DB, Fontelo P, Kharrazi H, Faiola A, Shah ND, Shirley WYS, Eldredge CE, Luo J, Conway M, Zhu J, Park SK, Xu K, Moayyed H. The PsyTAR dataset: From patients generated narratives to a corpus of adverse drug events and effectiveness of psychiatric medications. Data Brief. 2019 Mar 15;24:103838. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103838. eCollection 2019 Jun.

Zolnoori M, Fung K, Patrick TB, Fontelo P, Kharrazi H, Faiola A, Wu YSS, Eldredge CE, Luo J, Conway M, Zhu J, Park SK, Xu K, Moayyed H, Goudarzvand S. A systematic approach for developing a corpus of patient reported adverse drug events: A case study for SSRI and SNRI medications. J Biomed Inform. 2019 Feb;90:103091. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.12.005. Epub 2019 Jan 4.

Zolnoori M, Fung K, Fontelo P, Kharrazi H, Faiola A, Wu YSS, Stoffel V, Patrick T. Identifying the Underlying Factors Associated With Patients' Attitudes Toward Antidepressants: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Patient Drug Reviews. JMIR Ment Health. 2018 Sep 30;5(4):e10726. doi: 10.2196/10726.

Fontelo P, Liu F. A review of recent publication trends from top publishing countries. Syst Rev. 2018 Sep 27;7(1):147. doi: 10.1186/s13643-018-0819-1.

Sylim P, Liu F, Marcelo A, Fontelo P. Blockchain Technology for Detecting Falsified and Substandard Drugs in Distribution: Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Intervention. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 Sep 13;7(9):e10163. doi: 10.2196/10163.

Gartrell K, Brennan CW, Wallen GR, Liu F, Smith KG, Fontelo P. Clinicians' perceptions of usefulness of the PubMed4Hh mobile device application for clinical decision making at the point of care: a pilot study. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018 May 8;18(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0607-9.

Gimbel RW, Pirrallo RG, Lowe SC, Wright DW, Zhang L, Woo MJ, Fontelo P, Liu F, Connor Z. Effect of clinical decision rules, patient cost and malpractice information on clinician brain CT image ordering: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018 Mar 12;18(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0602-1.

Ghosh A, Brown GT, Fontelo P. Telepathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: A Retrospective Review of Consultations From 1996 to 1997. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2018 Feb;142(2):248-252. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2017-0055-OA. Epub 2017 Oct 2.

Janakiram C, Chalmers NI, Fontelo P, Huser V, Lopez Mitnik GL, Iafolla TJ, Brow AR, Dye BA. Gender and Race/ethnic Disparities in Opioid Prescriptions for Dental Diagnoses among Patients with Medicaid. J Am Dent Assoc, 2018. 149(4): p. 246-255.

Gavino AI, Sarmiento RFR, Santos ADF, Sylim P, Magtubo KMP, Umali MJP, Pasco PM, Fontelo P, Fernandez-Marcelo P, Marcelo AB. Use of Text Messaging and Email for Telemedicine Consultations by Remote Rural Doctors. In “eHealth: A Step Towards the Universal Health Coverage in Developing Countries”. EDUFMA: 195-201. ISBN 978-85-7862-711-9.

Zolnoori M, Patrick TB, Fung KW, Fontelo P, Faiola A, Wu YSS, Xu K, Zhu J, Eldredge CE. Development of an Adverse Drug Reaction Corpus from Consumer Health Posts. Workshop: American Medical Informatics Association, Annual Symposium, 2017.

Ekong DU, Fontelo P. Prototype telepathology solutions that use the Raspberry Pi and mobile devices. 2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), San Jose CA, 2017: 1-4.

Gardner C, Liu F, Fontelo P, Flanagan MC, Hoang A, Burke HB. Assessing the usability by clinicians of VISION: A hierarchical display of patient-collected physiological information to clinicians. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2017 Apr 14;17(1):41. doi: 10.1186/s12911-017-0435-3.

Ekong D, Liu F, Brown G, Ghosh A, Fontelo P. Evaluation of Android Smartphones for Telepathology. J Pathol Inform. 2017 Apr 10;8:16. doi: 10.4103/jpi.jpi_93_16. eCollection 2017.

Mayer JE, Fontelo P. Meta-analysis on the effect of text message reminders for HIV-related compliance. AIDS Care. 2017 Apr;29(4):409-417. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1214674. Epub 2016 Aug 1.

Uy RC, Kury FP, Fontelo PA. The State and Trends of Barcode, RFID, Biometric and Pharmacy Automation Technologies in US Hospitals. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2015 Nov 5;2015:1242-51. eCollection 2015.

Rossi E, Fontelo P, Ackerman M, Pozzi G, Marceglia S. A Prototype of Mobile app/EHR Communication through Standards for Home Treatment of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), Dallas TX, 2015. 310-315.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Uy RC. How does evidence affect clinical decision-making? Evid Based Med. 2015 Oct;20(5):156-61. doi: 10.1136/ebmed-2015-110250. Epub 2015 Sep 2.

Marceglia S, Fontelo P, Rossi E, Ackerman MJ. A Standards-Based Architecture Proposal for Integrating Patient mHealth Apps to Electronic Health Record Systems. Appl Clin Inform. 2015 Aug 5;6(3):488-505. doi: 10.4338/ACI-2014-12-RA-0115. eCollection 2015.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Yagi Y. Evaluation of a smartphone for telepathology: Lessons learned. J Pathol Inform. 2015 Jun 23;6:35. doi: 10.4103/2153-3539.158912. eCollection 2015.

Bunt CW, Burke HB, Towbin AJ, Hoang A, Stephens MB, Fontelo P, Liu F, Gimbel RW. Point-of-Care Estimated Radiation Exposure and Imaging Guidelines Can Reduce Pediatric Radiation Burden. J Am Board Fam Med. 2015 May-Jun;28(3):343-50. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2015.03.140251.

Marceglia S, Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ. Transforming consumer health informatics: connecting CHI applications to the health-IT ecosystem. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Apr;22(e1):e210-2. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocu030. Epub 2015 Feb 8.

Burke HB, Sessums LL, Hoang A, Becher DA, Fontelo P, Liu F, Stephens M, Pangaro LN, O'Malley PG, Baxi NS, Bunt CW, Capaldi VF 2nd, Chen JM, Cooper BA, Djuric DA, Hodge JA, Kane S, Magee C, Makary ZR, Mallory RM, Miller T, Saperstein A, Servey J, Gimbel RW. Electronic health records improve clinical note quality. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Jan;22(1):199-205. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002726. Epub 2014 Oct 23.

Uy RC, Sarmiento RF, Gavino A, Fontelo P. Confidence and Information Access in Clinical Decision-Making: An Examination of the Cognitive Processes that affect the Information-seeking Behavior of Physicians. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014 Nov 14;2014:1134-40. eCollection 2014.

Burke HB, Hoang A, Becher D, Fontelo P, Liu F, Stephens M, Pangaro LN, Sessums LL, O'Malley P, Baxi NS, Bunt CW, Capaldi VF, Chen JM, Cooper BA, Djuric DA, Hodge JA, Kane S, Magee C, Makary ZR, Mallory RM, Miller T, Saperstein A, Servey J, Gimbel RW. QNOTE: an instrument for measuring the quality of EHR clinical notes. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Sep-Oct;21(5):910-6. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002321. Epub 2014 Jan 2.

Goldbach H, Chang AY, Kyer A, Ketshogileng D, Taylor L, Chandra A, Dacso M, Kung SJ, Rijken T, Fontelo P, Littman-Quinn R, Seymour AK, Kovarik CL. Evaluation of generic medical information accessed via mobile phones at the point of care in resource-limited settings. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Jan-Feb;21(1):37-42. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001276. Epub 2013 Mar 27.

Fontelo P, Gavino A, Sarmiento RF. Comparing data accuracy between structured abstracts and full-text journal articles: implications in their use for informing clinical decisions. Evid Based Med. 2013 Dec;18(6):207-11. doi: 10.1136/eb-2013-101272. Epub 2013 Jun 20.

Gavino AI, Ho BL, Wee PA, Marcelo AB, Fontelo P. Information-seeking trends of medical professionals and students from middle-income countries: a focus on the Philippines. Health Info Libr J. 2013 Dec;30(4):303-17. doi: 10.1111/hir.12032. Epub 2013 Jul 23.

Fontelo P, Liu F. Mobile app versus Web app: a comparison using 2008-2012 "PubMed for Handhelds" server data. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013 Nov 16;2013:445-50. eCollection 2013.

Sheets L, Liu F, Sarmiento RF, Gavino A, Fontelo P. Optimizing the txt2MEDLINE search portal for low-resource clinical decision support. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013 Nov 16;2013:1277-81. eCollection 2013.

Johnson HL, Fontelo P, Olsen CH, Jones KD, Gimbel RW. Family nurse practitioner student perception of journal abstract usefulness in clinical decision making: a randomized controlled trial. J Am Assoc Nurse Pract. 2013 Nov;25(11):597-603. doi: 10.1111/1745-7599.12013. Epub 2013 Mar 6.

Gimbel RW, Fontelo P, Stephens MB, Olsen CH, Bunt C, Ledford CJ, Loveland Cook CA, Liu F, Burke HB. Radiation exposure and cost influence physician medical image decision making: a randomized controlled trial. Med Care. 2013 Jul;51(7):628-32. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182928fd5.

Sheets L, Gavino A, Callaghan F, Fontelo P. Do language fluency and other socioeconomic factors influence the use of PubMed and MedlinePlus? Appl Clin Inform. 2013 Apr 10;4(2):170-84. doi: 10.4338/ACI-2013-01-RA-0006. Print 2013.

Marcelo A, Gavino A, Isip-Tan IT, Apostol-Nicodemus L, Mesa-Gaerlan FJ, Firaza PN, Faustorilla JF Jr., Callaghan FM, Fontelo P. A comparison of the accuracy of clinical decisions based on full-text articles and on journal abstracts alone: a study among residents in a tertiary care hospital. Evid Based Med. 2013 Apr;18(2):48-53. doi: 10.1136/eb-2012-100537. Epub 2012 Jul 10.

Sarmiento RF, Liu F, Fontelo P. A Cross-Language Mobile Resource for Accessing MEDLINE/PubMed Based on an Open-Source, Crowdsourced Controlled Medical Vocabulary for the Philippines. Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine. 2012 Dec;1:4S:28. DOI: 10.7309/jmtm.50.

Fontelo P, Liu F. An Analysis of "PubMed for Handhelds" Server Utilization [Poster]. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2012 Nov 3-7; Chicago. p. 1736.

Liu F, Fontelo P, Gavino A. ClinicalTrials and DailyMed Links from Translational Science Search [Poster]. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2012 Nov 3-7; Chicago. p. 1841.

Gavino A, Marcelo A, Isip-Tan IT, Apostol-Nicodemus L, Mesa-Gaerlan FJ, Firaza PN, Faustorilla JF Jr., Fontelo P. Email2MEDLINE Use by Rural Health Physicians in Remote Areas of the Philippines [Poster]. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2012 Nov 3-7; Chicago. p. 1746.

Sheets L, Gavino A, Liu F, Fontelo P. Usability of Selected Databases for Low-Resource Clinical Decision Support [Poster]. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2012 Nov 3-7; Chicago. p. 1939.

Marcelo A, Isip-Tan IT, Apostol-Nicodemus L, Mesa-Gaerlan FJ, Firaza PN, Faustorilla JF Jr., Gavino A, Fontelo P. Use of Tablet Computers at the Point-of-Care: A Case Study from the Philippines [Poster]. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2012 Nov 3-7; Chicago. p. 1853.

Sheets L, Callaghan F, Gavino A, Liu F, Fontelo P. Usability of selected databases for low-resource clinical decision support. Applied Clinical Informatics. 2012;3(3):326-33. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2012-06-RA-0024.

Armstrong K, Liu F, Seymour A, Mazhani L, Littman-Quinn R, Fontelo P, Kovarik C. Evaluation of txt2MEDLINE and development of short messaging service-optimized, clinical practice guidelines in Botswana. Telemed J E Health. 2012 Jan-Feb;18(1):14-7. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2011.0014. Epub 2011 Dec 7.

Fontelo P, Faustorilla J, Gavino A, Marcelo A. Digital pathology - implementation challenges in low-resource countries. Anal Cell Pathol (Amst). 2012;35(1):31-6. doi: 10.3233/ACP-2011-0024.

Fontelo P. Consensus abstracts for evidence-based medicine. Evid Based Med. 2011 (Editor’s choice);16:36-38.

Fontelo P, Liu F. Finding translational science publications in MEDLINE/PubMed with translational science filters. Clin Transl Sci. 2011 Dec;4(6):455-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-8062.2011.00320.x. Epub 2011 Nov 7.

Fontelo P. Can journal abstracts alone be used for clinical decision making [Letter]? BMJ. 2011 Nov 2.

Liu F, Fontelo P. Using Social Networking Resources to Search MEDLINE/PubMed, a Practice Guidelines Database and Journal Club. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2011 Oct 22-26; Washington DC. p. 1864.

Sheets L, Gavino A, Fontelo P. Language Fluency and Other Predictors of International Use of PubMed and MedlinePlus. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2011 Oct 22-26; Washington DC. p. 1779.

Gavino AI, Ho BLC, Wee PAA, Marcelo AB, Fontelo P. Information-seeking practices of medical professionals and students in low and middle income countries. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2011 Oct 22-26; Washington DC. p. 1780.

Gavino AI, Tolentino PA, Bernal AB, Fontelo P, Marcelo AB. A Telemedicine Program Utilizing Short Message Service (SMS) for Remote Village Doctors. Mobile eHealth solutions for Developing Countries, International Telecommunication Union. 2010:94-98.

Cardenas I, Marcelo AB, Fontelo P. Development of a health informatics community-generated, open-source controlled medical vocabulary. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2010 Nov 13-17; Washington DC. p. 998.

Olson R, James E, Fontelo P. Information access trends among clinicians at a community hospital in northeast Georgia. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2010 Nov 13-17; Washington DC. p. 975.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Banez RJ. Mobile Devices, Smartphones and ‘PubMed for Handhelds’. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2010 Nov 13-17; Washington DC. p. 1044.

Banez RJ, Fontelo P, Marcelo AB, Liu F. QRefer: Using 2D-Barcode Technology for Patient Referral Systems. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2010 Nov 13-17; Washington DC. p. 975.

Kovarik C, Fontelo P, Liu F, Armstrong K, Littman-Quinn R, Banez R, Seymour A, Shih T, Mazhani L. txt2MEDLINE and SMS Practice Guidelines for Clinicians in Botswana. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2010 Nov 13-17; Washington DC. p. 1043.

Liu F, Fontelo P. Automatic translations of MEDLINE abstracts using Google Translate. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2010 Nov 13-17; Washington DC. p. 1148.

Fontelo P, Liu F. Are Consensus MEDLINE Abstracts Useful For Guiding Clinical Decisions? Evidence 2010 -- Transforming Healthcare; 2010 Nov 1-2; BMA House, London.

Ducut E, Liu F, Avila JM, Encinas MA, Diwa M, Fontelo P. Virtual Microscopy in a Developing Country: A Collaborative Approach to Building an Image Library. Journal of eHealth Technology and Application. 2010 Sep;8(2):112-5.

Ceccarelli MA, Curioso WH, Liu F, Fontelo P. Do machine translations increase the usefulness of summaries of MEDLINE abstracts? A preliminary study with medical students and physicians in Peru. In: Stud Health Technol Inform [Studies in Health Technology and Informatics] -- MEDINFO 2010: Proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics; 2010 Sep 12-15; Cape Town, South Africa;160:1414.

Armstrong K, Liu F, Seymour A, Rahman M, Fontelo P, Kovarik C. Design and Evaluation of txt2MEDLINE and SMS Optimized, Searchable Clinical Guidelines for Clinicians in Botswana. Telemedicine J E Health;16(S1):S-93. American Telemedicine Association 15th Annual International Meeting and Exposition; 2010 May 16-18; San Antonio, Texas.

Banez RJ, Sarmiento R, Marcelo A, Fontelo P, Du B. An SMS Appointment Reminder System for Prenatal Care in Urban Health Care Centers in the Philippines. Telemed J E Health;16(S1):S-38. American Telemedicine Association 15th Annual International Meeting and Exposition; 2010 May 16-18; San Antonio, Texas.

Fontelo P, Liu F. A novel tool for translational research discovery. Clin Transl Sci. 2009 Dec;2(6):391. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-8062.2009.00139.x.

Kasiviswanathan K, Fontelo P. Connecting the OLPC: a Model for Developing Countries. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2009 Nov 14-18; San Francisco. p. 904.

Liu F, Fontelo P. Infobuttons Linked to Indivo, a Patient Controlled Health Record. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2009 Nov 14-18; San Francisco. p. 940.

Ducut E, Liu F, Quion N, Fontelo P. TB-SMS: A Short Messaging Service (SMS) Medication Reminder Application for DOTS. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2009 Nov 14-18; San Francisco. p. 827.

Encinas MA, Ducut E, Liu F, Avila JM, Diwa M, Fontelo P. Development of a Virtual Slide Library in a Developing Country. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2009 Nov 14-18; San Francisco. p. 836.

Fontelo P, Liu F. Consensus TBL Summaries for Clinical Decision-making. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2009 Nov 14-18; San Francisco. p. 846.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Cravedi K. Found in Translation: Tracking and Tagging Translational Research. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2009 Nov 14-18; San Francisco. p. 823.

Anne A, Bagayoko C, Fontelo P. Evaluation de BabelMeSH en Francais. IRBM 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.irbm.2009.06.006.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Zhang K, Ackerman MJ. Extending the benefits of one laptop per child to health. BMJ. 2008 Dec 1;337:a2459. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a2459.

Mahmoud MA, Al-Khafaji JT, Al-Shorbaji N, Sara K, Al-Ubaydli M, Ghazzaoui R, Liu F, Fontelo P. BabelMeSH and PICO Linguist in Arabic. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 944.

Liu F, Fontelo P, Fiszman M. Clinically-Weighted Terms in the Evaluation of MeSH Translations: BabelMeSH in Portuguese as a Model. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 1027.

Bernal AB, Tolentino PA, Gavino AI, Fontelo P, Marcelo AB. Nursing informatics: challenges to Philippine nursing curriculum. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 876.

Ducut EG, Liu F, Fontelo P. The Cost of Being Wireless: A Usage Analysis of the PubMed for Handhelds Portal at the Point-of-Care. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 936.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Ducut EG. QR Code for Medical Information Uses. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 945.

Hensel BK, Fontelo P. Physician Attitudes Toward SMS/Text Messaging in Medicine. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 965.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Zhang K, Ackerman MJ, Tolentino H. The one laptop per Child (OLPC) computer for health clinics in developing countries. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 192-6.

Gavino AI, Tolentino PA, Bernal AB, Fontelo P, Marcelo AB. Telemedicine via Short Messaging System (SMS) in Rural Philippines. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 952.

Ducut E, Fontelo P. Mobile Devices in Health Education: Current Use and Practice. J Computing in Higher Education; Fall 2008; 20(2):59-68. Published online 2008 Oct 23. DOI: 10.1007/s12528-008-9003-2.

Fontelo P, Liu F. Bringing the Medical Library Where Needed - At the Point of Care. Technical Report to the LHNCBC Board of Scientific Counselors; 2008 Sep. 61 pages.

Sneiderman C, Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ. XO Computer Application to Medical Science Education. J International Assoc of Medical Science Educators: Special Issue Poster Abstracts of the 12th IAMSE Annual Meeting (2008 Jul 25-29; Salt Lake City);18(supplement 2):100.

Ducut E, Liu F, Fontelo P. An Update on Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Decay in MEDLINE Abstracts and Measures for Its Mitigation. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008 Jun 11;8:23. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-23.

Tolentino H, Kamadjeu R, Fontelo P, Liu F, et al. Scanning the Emerging Infectious Diseases Horizon - Visualizing ProMED Emails Using EpiSPIDER. Advances in Disease Surveillance. 2007;2:169.

Jung B, Lee S, Fontelo P, Liu F, Kim S. Construction of Korean Version PICO Linguist and BabelMeSH. Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI) Fall Congress Proceedings 2007.

Conran R, Fontelo P, Liu F, Fontelo M, White E. Slide2Go: A Virtual Slide Collection for Pathology Education. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2007 Nov 10-14; Chicago. p. 918.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Muin M, Ducut E, Ackerman MJ, Paalan-Vasquez F. MMSPix - A Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) Medical Images Weblog. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2007 Nov 10-14; Chicago. p. 956.

Tom O, Fontelo P, Liu F. Do Computer-generated Summaries, 'The Bottom Line (TBL)' Accurately Reflect Published Journal Abstracts?. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2007 Nov 10-14; Chicago. p. 1135.

Liu F, Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ. BabelMeSH2 and PICO Linguist2: Combined Language Search for MEDLINE/PubMed. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2007 Nov 10-14; Chicago. p. 1036.

Leon SA, Fontelo P. MedlinePlus en Espaniol and Spanish-Speakers. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2007 Nov 10-14; Chicago. p. 1028.

Marcelo AB, Fontelo P. An Evaluation of the Usability of Accessing MEDLINE over Short Messaging System. In: Kuhn KA, Warren JR, Leong T-Y, editors. Stud Health Technol Inform [Studies in Health Technology and Informatics] -- MEDINFO 2007: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics -- Building Sustainable Health Systems; 2007 Aug 20-24; Brisbane, Australia:235-6. IOS Press.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Leon S, Anne A, Ackerman MJ. PICO Linguist and BabelMeSH: Development and Partial Evaluation of Evidence-based Multilanguage Search Tools for MEDLINE/PubMed. In: Kuhn KA, Warren JR, Leong T-Y, editors. Stud Health Technol Inform [Studies in Health Technology and Informatics] -- MEDINFO 2007: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics -- Building Sustainable Health Systems; 2007 Aug 20-24; Brisbane, Australia;129(Part I):817-21. IOS Press.

Schardt C, Adams MB, Owens T, Jeitz S, Fontelo P. Utilization of the PICO Framework to Improve Searching PubMed for Clinical Questions. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2007 Jun 15;7:16.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Ackerman MJ. Potential Applications of RFID Technology in Medicine. Telemed J E Health. 2007 Apr;13(2):176-7.

Leon SA, Fontelo P, Green L, Ackerman MJ, Liu F. Evidence-based Medicine Among Internal Medicine Residents in a Community Hospital Program Using Smart Phones. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2007 Feb 21;7:5. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-7-5.

Tolentino HD, Matters MD, Walop W, Law B, Tong W, Liu F, Fontelo P, Kohl K, Payne DC. A UMLS-based Spell Checker for Natural Language Processing in Vaccine Safety. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2007 Feb 12;7:3. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-7-3.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Ackerman MJ. SMS (Short Message Service) for Medline/Pubmed Access at the Point-of Care. Telemed J E Health. 2006;12(2):237.

Tolentino H, Matters M, Walop W, Law B, Tong W, Liu F, Fontelo P, Kohl K, Payne D. Concept Negation in Free Text Components of Vaccine Safety Reports. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2006 Nov 11-15; Washington DC. p. 1122.

Muin M, Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ. PubMed Interact: an Interactive Search Application for MEDLINE/PubMed. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2006 Nov 11-15; Washington DC. p. 1039.

Liu F, Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ. BabelMeSH: Development of a Cross-Language Tool for MEDLINE/PubMed. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2006 Nov 11-15; Washington DC. p.1012.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Muin M, Tolentino H, Ackerman MJ. Txt2MEDLINE: Text-Messaging Access to MEDLINE/PubMed. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2006 Nov 11-15; Washington DC. p. 259-63.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Ackerman MJ, Schardt CM, Keitz SA. askMEDLINE: a Report on a Year-long Experience. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2006 Nov 11-15; Washington DC. p. 923.

Muin M, Fontelo P. Technical Development of PubMed Interact: an Improved Interface for MEDLINE/PubMed Searches. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2006 Nov 3;6:36.

Muin M, Fontelo P, Liu F, Ackerman MJ. SLIM: an alternative Web interface for MEDLINE/PubMed searches - a preliminary study. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2005 Dec 1;5:37.

Tolentino HD, Liu F, Sagaram D, Kamadjeu R, Fontelo P, Kohl K, Payne D. Creating a Vaccine Adverse Event Ontology for Public Health. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2005 Oct 22-26; Washington DC. p. 978.

Kim GR, Zambrowicz C, Zhang D, Fontelo P, Abbott PA. Promoting the Usability of Online AMIA Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2005 Oct 22-26; Washington DC. p. 1008.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Ackerman MJ. MeSH Speller + askMEDLINE: Auto-completes MeSH Terms Then Searches MEDLINE/PubMed via Free-text, Natural Language Queries. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2005 Oct 22-26; Washington DC. p. 957.

Liu F, Fontelo P, Muin M, Ackerman MJ. Virtual Evidence Cart - RP (VEC-RP). AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2005 Oct 22-26; Washington DC. p. 1034.

Muin M, Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ. PubMed informer: Monitoring MEDLINE/PubMed Through E-mail Alerts, SMS, PDA Downloads and RSS Feeds. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2005 Oct 22-26; Washington DC. p. 1057.

Ekong D, Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ. Computer Network for Health Care Organizations in Low-Resource Environments. Telemed J E Health. 2005 Apr;11(2):245.

Fontelo P, Liu F, Ackerman MJ. askMEDLINE: A Free-Text, Natural Language Query Tool for MEDLINE/PubMed. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak [BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making]. 2005 Mar 10;5:5.

Fontelo P, DiNino E, Johansen K, Khan A, Ackerman MJ. Virtual Microscopy: Potential Applications in Medical Education and Telemedicine in Countries with Developing Economies. Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; 2005 Jan 3-6; Big Island, Hawaii: 7 pages. IEEE Computer Society.

Fontelo P, Nahin A, Liu F, Kim G, Ackerman MJ. Accessing MEDLINE/PubMed with Handheld Devices: Developments and New Search Portals. Proceedings of 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; 2005 Jan 3-6; Big Island, Hawaii; Track 6:158b. DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.64.

Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ. Evidence-Based Medicine Needs Easy-To-Use Handheld Tools for Universal Utilization. MedGenMed. 2004 Sep 21;6(3):53.

Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ, Kim G. Development of evidence-based medicine resources: Bridging clinical research to medical practice. In: Sprague RH, editor. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04); 2004 Jan 5-8; Big Island, Hawaii; Track 6: 7 pages. IEEE Computer Society.

Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ, Kim G, Locatis C. The PDA as a Portal to Knowledge Sources in a Wireless Setting. Telemed J E Health. 2003 Jun;9(2):141-7. DOI: 10.1089/153056203766437480.

Locatis C, Fontelo P, Sneiderman C, Ackerman MJ, Uijtdehaage S, Candler C, Stensaas S, Dennis S. Webcasting videoconferences over IP: a synchronous communication experiment. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2003 Mar-Apr;10(2):150-3. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1170.

Locatis C, Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ, Sneiderman C. Feasibility Studies in IP Videoconferencing, Streaming, and Wireless Communication. AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2002 Nov 9-13; San Antonio, Texas. p. 1090.

Marcelo AB, Fontelo P. Web-based Health Applications on Handheld Devices. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2001 Aug;125(8):1015.

Marcelo AB, Fontelo P. A Pathology Report Metadata Registry: Framework for Semantic Interoperability Across Disparate Systems. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2001 Aug;125(8):1014-1015.

Marcelo A, Fontelo P, Parolan M, Cualing H. Effect of Image Compression on Telepathology; A Randomized Clinical Trial. AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2000 Nov 4-8; Los Angeles. p. 354-8.