Biography
Alejandro Metke leads the Health Data Interoperability Team at the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) in Brisbane. The team's main focus is on health data standards, such as the Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and clinical terminologies, such as SNOMED CT. Alejandro has been heavily involved in the implementation of Ontoserver, a terminology server that has been licensed to the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) as the main component of the National Clinical Terminology Service. He is currently working on standardising clinical data in the area of genomics using FHIR, SNOMED CT and other biomedical terminologies.
Alejandro joined the AEHRC in 2012 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on clinical ontologies. His research interests also include description logics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence and information retrieval.
Alejandro received a bachelor's degree in Systems and Computing Engineering from Los Andes University in Colombia in 2003. He then received a master's degree in Information Technology from the University of Queensland in 2005. After returning to Colombia and working in industry for a couple of years he then came back to Australia to study a PhD at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) thanks to a scholarship from the Smart Services CRC.
Fields of Research
Academic Qualifications
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2003
Bachelor of Systems and Computing Engineering
Los Andes University -
2005
Master of Information Technology Studies
University of Queensland -
2012
Doctor Of Philosophy
Queensland University of Technology
Professional Experiences
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2000-2000
Teaching Assistant
Los Andes University -
2003-2003
Software Engineer
Heinsohn Software House -
2004-2005
Research Assistant
DSTC Pty Ltd -
2005-2005
Research Assistant
University of Queensland -
2006-2007
Software Engineer
VCSoft -
2007-2008
Software Architect
Heinsohn Software House -
2008-2009
SOA Architect
Colpatria Bank -
2009-2009
Teaching Assistant
Queensland University of Technology -
2010-2010
Research Associate
Queensland University of Technology -
2012-2015
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
CSIRO -
2015-Present
Research Scientist
CSIRO
Achievements and Awards
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2009-2009
Excellence in Mashing and Best Student Entry
MashupAustralia -
2010-2010
Joint First Prize
apps4nsw -
2015-2015
Outstanding Collaboration Award
CSIRO -
2017-2017
iAward for the National Clinical Terminology Service - Australian Digital Health Agency/AEHRC & CSIRO (Infrastructure & Platforms Innovation of the Year Winner)
Australia Information Industry Association