Health Information Science 2022-2023 Seminar Series
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)
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)
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)
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"
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
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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)
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?"
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"
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)