Home > Renato M.E. Sabbatini

A pioneer and main contributor to research, development, publishing and social organization in the following areas:

• Neuroethology
• Medical informatics (computer applications in the Health Sciences, Biology and Medicine
• Internet and Web applications in medicine, biology and health
• Electronic publishing in medicine, biology and health
• Artificial Intelligence applications in biomedicine
• Artificial Neural Networks applications in biomedicine
• Computer Based Education
• Distance educationDistance education is a method of teaching in which the students are not required to be physically present at a specific location during the term. Most often, regular mail is used to send written material, videos, audiotapes, and CD-ROMs to the student an and E-learningE-learning most often means an approach to facilitate and enhance learning by means of personal computers, CDROMs, and the Internet. This includes email, discussion forums, and collaborative software, e. BSCW or CSCW. Advantages are seen in that just-in-t
• TelemedicineTelemedicine telehealth and e-health are terms that are used interchangeably. However there are some subtle differences in their definitions. Telemedicine itself can be defined as the use of telecommunication to provide diagnostic and therapeutic medical
• History of Neuroscience

1 Research & Education

Dr. Sabbatini founded the first research laboratory of neuroethology in Latin America, in 1974, in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão PretoRibeirao Preto is a city in the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil. It's nicknamed Brazilian California because of its weather. More than 500 000 people live in Ribeirao Preto, and the city was founded in 1856. External link Sao Paulo state., Brazil, where he also started one of the first Brazilian and Latin American groups of research, development and education on the computer applications to biomedicine, in 1970. After moving to the State University of CampinasThe State University of Campinas Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP is one of the three public universities of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is located in Campinas with additional campuses in Limeira and Piracicaba. As of 2000, the university in 1983, Dr. Sabbatini founded the Center for Biomedical Informatics, the first interdisciplinary group of its kind in Brazil and was appointed chairman of the newly created area of medical informatics in the Medical School and a collaborating professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In these capacities, Until his retirement from active duty with the University, 20 years later, Dr. Sabbatini supervised dozens of research projects, masters and doctoral dissertations, wrote hundreds of papers and books in many fields, and created a series of new graduate courses and disciplines in biomedical computing, artificial inteliigence, distance education, electronic publishing, Internet applications and telemedicine. He was also one of the first to establish medical informatics in the undergraduate curricula in medicine and nursing.

Starting in 1993, with the advent of the Web in Brazil, Dr. Sabbatini became a leader in the research of new technologies and in the development of a large number of on-line courses in health, using videoconferencing, satellite-based teleconferencing and the Internet. He has worked intensively in building teaching capacity in this field in Brazil. He also founded the Edumed Institute for Education in Medicine and Health, acting until this day as his CEO and Chairman of the Board, and director of its International Center for Information Technologies in Health. The Edumed Institute has organized a national consortium comprising dozens of universities and medical associations with the aim of developing a national network of distance education.