Meet Juan

For my work in the development of educational resources I was privileged to be recognised by the Open Education Consortiumas Educator of the Year in 2014.

Examples of my passion for training program development are my three successful courses on the world’s leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform, Coursera.  My course on Understanding Healthcare Statistics is ranked No.1 in its category on Class Central, the definitive repository on Open Courseware and has been ranked in the top 50 of all courses in the world for the last three years.

In support of these three very successful examples, I have created four additional courses on the popular Udemy platform, training healthcare workers on a variety of statistical and mathematical software packages. In addition to this I have published more than 1,400 lectures on YouTube and most of my open-source code is available on the GitHub repository.

• South African surgical registrar perceptions of the research project component of training: Hope for the future?

• Percutaneous Cholecystostomy Placement in Cases of Non-operative Cholecystitis: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis

• Logistical factors associated with adverse outcomes following emergency surgery in an acute care surgical unit

• A retrospective review of percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage for non-responsive or otherwise non-operable acute cholecystitis in a tertiary hospital

• An audit of the outcomes of the College of Surgeons general surgery final examinations

• Surgical resources in South Africa: an analysis of the inequalities between the public and private sector

• Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health – Coursera Course Certificates, Aug 2020

• Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials – Coursera Course Certificates, Sep 2019

• Building Deep Learning Applications with Keras 2.0 – LinkedIn, Sep 2018

• Mathematica 11 Machine Learning – Lynda.com, Jul 2018

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning – Coursera, Jun 2018

• Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra – Coursera, Mar 2018

• Meta-analysis for Data Science and Business Analytics – Lynda.com, Nov 2017

1. Predicting upper gastrointestinal rebleeding

2. The outcome of appendicitis in HIV and non HIV patients

3. The Modified Alvarado Score in acute appendicitis

4. Comorbid disease in acute care surgery

5. The technical experience of women trainees in general surgery

6. HIV in trauma

7. The impact of diabetes mellitus in acute care surgery

8. Pyogenic liver abscesses in a tertiary setting

9. The outcome of acute appendicitis in an acute care surgery setting

10. Surgical resources in South Africa

11. The use of an enduring in endoscopy

12. The outcome of patients managed by percutaneous cholecystectomy

13. The use of the tromboelastogram in trauma

14. Core needle biopsy and the outcome of suspected liver lesions

15. The outcome of emergency laparotomies in trauma

16. Audit of the final examination in General Surgery of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa

17. Comparing endorectal surgery in an academic and a private unit

18. An analysis of breast milk mucins in HIV

19. Findings at intraoperarive cholangiography and its effect on outcome

20. The outcome of damage control laparotomies in an academic unit

21. The outcome of cases of necrotising fasciitis

22. Life expectancy after lower limb amputation

23. Gastric mucins in HIV

24. The outcome of surgical intervention for gastroesophageal disease in childhood

25. Trainee workloads in general surgery

26. Dysglycemia in a defined religious population

27. Short-term outcome of lower limb amputations

28. The use of opioids in postoperative care