CEC 12
  July 6 Wednesday
  10.00-11.30

Gabrielle Derriks , was born in Africa. She joined Dialog in 1997 following a successful tenure in private education and the business world. Graduating with an MA in ‘Translation’ from the University of Mons - Belgium, Gabrielle specialized in Applied Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology. She later acquired a special certificate in the SGAV (structuro-global audio-visual) language methodology of the University of Zagreb, with which she designed and directed the development of tailor-made language courses for the top 10% of Belgian companies. In addition, Gabrielle also pioneered the development of computer-assisted language courses, for which she won a golden award.

At ProQuest Dialog she is an Information Consultant and together with24 of her colleagues of the Global Customer Support team, she is focused on providing customers with a world class customer support excellence. Gabrielle is multi-lingual and fluent in 4 languages which has enabled her to deliver training and support in various European territories, leading to the successful and effective training of literally thousands of Dialog customers, all manner of fields and specifically covering science and technology , medical and pharmaceutical, intellectual property and business intelligence.

As an extra responsibility, Gabrielle has been active delivering Quantum2 coaching sessions,holding live as well as remote sessions across Europe. She has also been in charge of the promotion and the development of the Graduate Education Programs (GEP) for all countries outside North America until 2010.

At weekends as a certified Tourist Guide, Gabrielle loves guiding visitors through the old streets of the medieval university town of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium.

In an increasingly competitive environment how do we face the ever changing challenges of information management? How do we deliver a high quality service aligned with the goals of our health institutions or organizations? How do we coordinate our efforts to make health care information accessible to the right people at the right time? What can we learn from others? How can we share our experiences and set up guidelines and best practices in order to demonstrate the value of the information services we provide? In this interactive Quantum² session we will illustrate the different steps involved in “how best” to carry out initiatives within our health institutions learning from external good practice, in order to implement a new process or enhance an existing one.