physicians trained
Responsible AI, confidentiality and adoption.
Fernando Sifuentes · Physician · Healthcare innovation, technology and strategy
Medical judgment inside strategy, from the start.
ORILLA brings clinical reality, technology and strategy together to turn real healthcare problems into decisions, products and operations teams can implement.
English C1 · near-native professional command · Working French · On-site Peru / remote worldwide
Clinical → Strategy → Technology
Frontline clinical experience. Executive perspective.
loss to follow-up
Continuity for more than 1,000 patients.
biosafety incidents
Workflow redesign and clinical leadership.
ORILLA means “shore”: the line where two realities meet and can move forward together.
About ORILLA
A shore lets you understand both sides without reducing either one.
ORILLA is Spanish for “shore”—the place where land and water meet. The name reflects how I work: bringing clinical reality, technology, product and business into the same frame, then helping ideas cross from possibility into practice. I join teams from problem discovery through pilots, governance, adoption and scale.
The name is personal too. My life and career have unfolded between Lima and Barcelona—two very different cities, both open to the sea and shaped by their shores. ORILLA also comes from learning to move between different contexts and recognize what can connect them.
CollaborativeClinically rigorousExecution focused
What ORILLA can do for your organization
Medical judgment that helps innovation and technology work in the real world.
From a focused executive working session to ongoing support, joining the team as a medical, product or strategy advisor.
Strategy and product
Healthcare innovation & technology strategy
Prioritization of opportunities, use cases—with or without AI—and an executable roadmap.
Discovery & product strategy
Problems, users, journeys, requirements and product decisions grounded in clinical reality.
Validation, pilots and governance
Clinical validation & audit
Usefulness, safety, quality, traceability, evidence and clinical boundaries before scale.
Pilot design & scale-up
Workflows, KPIs, owners, success criteria and the conditions required to move into operations.
Adoption and transformation
Governance, risk & quality
Privacy, human oversight, controls and accountability in regulated environments.
Adoption & clinical transformation
Change management, physician training and workflow redesign that drives real-world use.
Problems turned into product and operations
Concrete cases, with clear stages, outcomes and boundaries.
AI-assisted speech-to-text and clinical documentation in cardiology
Clinical discovery and validation across the full workflow: documentation quality, privacy, risk, integration and physician adoption in a regulated setting.
Continuity for people with diabetes
WhatsApp follow-up and clinical synthesis that captures what happens between visits without replacing medical judgment.
Postoperative continuity
Post-discharge follow-up, traceability and human escalation for surgical patients. Not launched or commercialized.
Discuss an advisory engagement
Tell me the problem before we talk about the solution.
Write to fernando@orillasalud.com or prepare your email here.
Selected experience
From high-complexity surgery to leading health technology and innovation.
2025—2026
Head of AI in Healthcare
Pacífico Salud · Credicorp
AI governance, prioritization and adoption in a regulated setting. AI-assisted cardiology documentation pilot and responsible-AI training for 1,000+ physicians.
2024—2025
Surgical Assistant Physician
Clínica Anglo Americana
More than 100 procedures and day-surgery protocol review, integrating safety, documentation and perioperative continuity.
2023—2024
Primary Care Physician · SERUMS
Chilca Health Center
Designed a registration, prioritization and follow-up system that reduced loss to follow-up by 40% across 1,000+ patients.
2022—2023
Project Consultant
Clínica Dr. Sonrisa
Designed patient journeys, workflows, layouts and requirements for medical centers, telemedicine and EHR initiatives.
2021—2022
Medical Director
OftalmoMedic
Led 20 professionals, reduced biosafety incidents by 30% and improved response times by 20%.
2016—2019
Resident Physician
General, Digestive & Transplant Surgery · Vall d’Hebron
High-complexity hospital training, emergency care and interdisciplinary execution under pressure.
Leading from within
I am open to conversations with organizations strengthening the way they connect healthcare, technology and innovation.
I can contribute in roles accountable for strategy, transformation, product, clinical technology, innovation or governance. AI is part of that scope, but it does not define its limits.
Areas I can lead
Director / Head of Healthcare InnovationDirector / Head of Clinical TechnologyMedical Product & Digital Strategy LeadershipHealthcare AI Strategy & Clinical GovernanceInternational clinical, executive and technology education
Clinical training
Medical Doctor
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia · CMP 072097
General, Digestive & Transplant Surgery
Vall d’Hebron University Hospital · Barcelona
Management, audit and quality
Master’s in Hospital Management
Universidad CEU San Pablo · Spain
Diploma in Medical Audit & Healthcare Quality
Universidad Científica del Sur · completed · 2025–2026
Medical Auditor Certification (CMA)
Issuance in progress
Research, digital health and AI
Research & Critical Appraisal
Yale University
Digital Health
Imperial College London
Artificial Intelligence
Global University
Contact
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30-minute introductory conversation via Google Meet.