Health Information Science 2022-2023 Seminar Series

Join us for the School of Health Information Science 2022-2023 Seminar Series. This series features International experts in the field of Health Informatics. With the current global changes and demands in health care, optimizing our systems is becoming increasingly important and urgent. This seminar series will focus on how we can use advances in a range of areas like virtual and patient-centered care, AI and data science to improve health outcomes, and to streamline health care processes.
For more information, please email his@uvic.ca 

Past Seminars:

February 15th, 2023 Wednesday at 12pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Neel Majumder, Senior Leader, Office of Virtual Health, Provincial Health Services Authority - "Virtual & Digital Health - Key Drivers & Trends" (recording available)

Poster

February 1st, 2023 Wednesday at 12pm Pacific Time

Presenters - Henry Ngo, Yao Nie, Ioana Sevcenco, & Kayla McLean, Data Scientists, Office of the Provincial Health Officer and the Ministry of Health - "A Day in the Life of a Government Data Scientist" (recording available)

Poster

January 25th, 2023 Wednesday at 12pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Xibiao Ye, Provincial Epidemiologist and Director, Population Health Surveillance & Epidemiology, Office of the Provincial Health Officer - "Population Health Metrics in BC: Current State, Challenges, and Future Perspective" (recording available)

Poster

January 18th, 2023 Wednesday at 12pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Karthik Adapa, Assistant Professor, Clinical Informatics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - "Unifying Evidence-based Frameworks To Design, Develop, Implement And Evaluate Health Information Technology Tools in Radiation Oncology"

Poster

November 24th, 2022 Thursday at 11:30 am Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Reza Berenji, Clinical Professor, University of California Los Angeles (David Geffen School of Medicine) - "Application of Artificial Intelligence in Imaging" (recording available)

Poster

November 16th, 2022 Wednesday at 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Francis Lau, Professor at the School of Information Science at the University of Victoria - "An Exploratory Field Study to Advance Patient-Centred Measurement Methods for Team-Based Care" (recording available)

Poster

November 2nd, 2022 Wednesday at 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Dillon Chrimes, Assistant Teaching Professor at the School of Information Science at the University of Victoria - "Dataset to Decision Tree of Expert Systems in Health Informatics using Public Data" (recording available)

Poster

October 26th, 2022 Wednesday at 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Alex Kuo, Professor at the School of Information Science at the University of Victoria - "Big Data Analytics in Healthcare" (recording available)

Poster

October 19th, 2022 Wednesday at 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Karen Courtney, Asscociate Professor at the School of Information Science at the University of Victoria - "Modernizing Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation (GSSO) Information in Digital Health Systems - Where Are We in Canada?" (recording available)

Poster

October 12th, 2022 Wednesday at 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Elizabeth Borycki, Professor at the School of Information Science at the University of Victoria - "Health Technology Safety Current Issues and Advances in the Science" (recording available)

Poster

October 5th, 2022 Wednesday at 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Andre Kushniruk, Professor and Director of the School of Information Science at the University of Victoria - "Health Informatics at the School of Health Information Science – Current Perspectives and Future Opportunities" (recording available)

Poster

September 28th, 2022 Wednesday at 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Christo El Morr, Associate Professor of Health Informatics at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University - "Health Informatics and the Equity Challenge: What Role Can Informaticians Play?"

Poster

September 21st, 2022 Wednesday at 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Presenter - Dr. Aviv Shachak, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) and the Faculty of Information - "Health Informatics Education at the University of Toronto: Past, Present, and Future" 

Poster

July 14th, 2022 Thursday at 11:00 am Pacific Time

Presenter - Mari Tyllinen - Doctoral Candidate at Aalto University (Finland), visiting researcher at UVic and a UX Manager at Oy Apotti Ab - "Including Usability in the Public Procurement Process of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS)" (recording available)

Poster