Jose Florez-Arango is a Colombian physician and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, with over 20 years of experience as a clinician, educator, and researcher. His work focuses on human factors and technology-human interaction to improve healthcare outcomes in resource-constrained environments, positioning him as a thought leader in Latin American telemedicine. His research spans Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Human Factors Engineering, emphasizing minimal-code solutions for clinical decision support, knowledge transfer, and workload reduction. Key areas include telemedicine implementation, visual knowledge representation, personalized health tools, and curricular innovation for 21st-century healthcare providers, utilizing methodologies like community-based research and participatory design. Publications reveal a trend toward immersive simulations (VR for obstetrics training), NLP-driven maternal health analytics, mobile mental health screening in global contexts (e.g., Fiji), and XML-based decision support systems—all targeting low-resource settings and provider-patient experience enhancement. Scientific distinctions include: ADVANCE Administrative Fellow – Texas A&M University (2021-2022) MEEl Fellow – COM (2021) Schull Institute Scholar (2009) MFA Scholarship – UTHSC (2007) Fulbright Scholar (2005-2009) Dr. Florez-Arango mentors students within Population Health Sciences but specific advisees are unlisted; his current augmented reality mental health project implies grant activity though no funding details are provided. He leads initiatives in rapid-deployment health tech, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on tools for disaster management and prehospital care. Active lab work includes developing dynamic electronic patient authoring systems and visual knowledge representation frameworks, with a strong emphasis on field evaluation in Latin America and Pacific Island nations to ensure real-world applicability.








