YU Yi
YU Yi
- Executive Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Cisco
Speech Title:
“Collaborative Care in Rural China — A Healthy Wenchuan Story”
Abstract:
In the wake of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, the challenges to the healthcare delivery in Sichuan have been immense, especially for a place like Wenchuan, which locates at the epi-center of the earthquake with large rural population. “Healthy Wenchuan” is one project of the Corporate Social Responsibility Program Connecting Sichuan, aiming to improve patient care and build healthcare capacity by deploying advanced technologies. The collaborative care network includes a countywide network with shared applications and IT services, a health emergency and operation center, a connected hospital solution for the rebuilt Wenchuan County People’s Hospital, and a mobile health clinic providing a shared diagnostic imaging capability for rural clinics.
Bio:
Dr Yu Yi joined Cisco on Nov 2008 as the Executive Director of Corporate Social Responsibility for driving Cisco’s strategic Connecting Sichuan program to help the Sichuan Earthquake Health Care Rebuilding.
Prior to that, Dr Yu was an Industry Partner responsible for the health care consulting and IT services for Global Business Services of IBM Greater China Group. Dr Yu has more than 10 years of industry and management consulting experience in the area of business and IT strategy, financial management and system implementation. He is also an industry thought leader for health economics and policy, hospital management, and public health initiatives. Dr Yu is the main author for IBM Institute of Business Value’s white paper “China Healthcare 2010”. He also served as an advisor for many health and education initiatives of China government agencies. He got his PhD from Electrical Engineering Department of National University of Singapore in 1998. He has taken postdoctoral training of cell biology of prostate cancer in the Brady Urology Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine under Prof. Donald Coffey. Dr Yu was active in academic research in the areas of information integration, biocomputing and life science. He was also an Adjunct Lecturer in National University of Singapore and a Visiting Professor to Peking University.
