Physician, formed by the FMUSP’s Medical School, currently is an associated professor of the Discipline of Telemedicine, Department of Pathology, of the University of São Paulo (chao@usp.br). In 2000, made his Ph. D. thesis about “Computational Environment Supporting Clinical Practice”. Made his first Free-Teaching in Telemedicine at the USP’s Medicine School, in September 2003, with the thesis "Model of virtual clinic (Cyberclinic) and electronic tutor (Cybertutor) for implementation in the medical interconsultation and distance learning mediated by technology". It discussed strategies for achieving the Educational second medical opinion from a distance using advanced technologies (video) and low cost (Internet), mixed educational models, integrating the videoconference with the education system based on electronic tutor and objects of learning (Virtual Human Project). Currently he is the head of the FMUSP’s Discipline of Telemedicine, President of the Brazilian Council of Telemedicine and Telehealth (CBTms), Member of the Standing Committee of Telehealth and of the Executive Committee of Telehealth of the Ministry of Health, and Coordinator of the Center for Telemedicine and Telehealth of HC-FMUSP. He is guiding the programme of post-graduation of Pathology and Pathophysiology, USP’s Medicine School, has driven 4 doctors, 2 master and co-leader 1 doctor of UNIFESP. He was the executive responsible for the deployment of Telemedicine Millennium Institutes Program, CNPq / MCT, and is the coordinator of the São Paulo’s Center of Telematics and Telemedicine Project Supporting Primary Health Care for the Ministry of Health. Developed several works, such as the creation of the Pole of Telemedicine of the Amazon region and the creation and coordination of the Centre for Research and Innovation in Solution of Telemedicine and Telehealth. Was responsible for the structuring of the HC-FMUSP Network of Education and Research (telemedicine network based on optical fiber, which connects all units of the HC-FMUSP), and is responsible for the development of a technological structure based on videostreaming and of webconference servers, among others.

Is responsible (design and development) for the Young Doctor Project, in 2007,

which promotes the social development of poor communities through the involvement of college students with high school students in order to promote quality of life, prevention of diseases and activities in primary care. The project was implemented in the cities of Tatuí (SP), Bauru (SP), Manaus (AM), Parintins (AM) e Maceió (AL) and in two poor neighborhoods of the city of São Paulo. Received honors from the City Council of Tatuí.

Is responsible for the coordination of the HC-FMUSP unit of the University of Telemedicine Network.

Has more than 10 published studies on telemedicine, 20 papers presented at international conferences and 30 at national conferences. Gave more than 150 lectures and gave training courses in telemedicine and telehealth from 2003 to 2008.

He wrote chapters in books on telemedicine and was one of six editors of the HC-FMUSP’s collection “Clínica Médica”, set of books about internal medicine with more than 6,000 pages. Was responsible for the chapters about interactive knowledge , which have material on Telemedicine and Telehealth, Virtual Human, training of investigative reasoning based on anatomopathological discussions of autopsy and educational audios.

Was the responsible for the creation of the Virtual Human Project (use of 3D computer graphics to create dynamic sequences about the aspects of the human body) in 2003, and is the current coordinator of the project. Currently the Discipline of Telemedicine has a collection estimated at 70,000 hours of technical work, distributed in over 100 subjects. The Virtual Human Project is used for educational purposes in schools, in reports on health of the television broadcasters, by the Ministry of Health, by the Ministry of Education and by web sites, among others.

With its expansion, the Virtual Human is currently used with the objective of cultural diffusion in museums and in public schools.

Homepage: www.chaowen.med.br