Guest Lecturers
Lysanne Lessard
Associate professor, Telfer school of Management, University of Ottawa
Learning Health Systems Modeling Lab co-lead
Lysanne's research aims at improving how we design digitally enabled services like telehealth so that they can better address human needs. Her research program focuses on three key aspects of the design of digitally enabled services: the need for improved models and modeling techniques supporting the analysis and design of these systems; the need to articulate their sociotechnical architectures; and the need to anchor the design of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) embedded in these systems both in relevant theories and in a deep understanding of multiple stakeholder needs. Professor Lessard is a member of the LIFE Institute and of the Institut du Savoir Montfort.
Antoine Sauré
Associate professor, Telfer school of Management, University of Ottawa
Learning Health Systems Modeling Lab co-lead
Antoine's research interests include advanced modelling and decision-making under uncertainty and their applications to large-scale problems in service operations. In particular, the study of resource allocation problems in health care and other areas. From a methodological point of view, his research focuses on the development of advanced analytics techniques for dynamic resource allocation problems. Professor Sauré has over twelve years of experience developing, implementing and applying advanced analytics techniques to large-scale, real-world business problems in several industries. He is an expert in the development of advanced capacity planning and scheduling techniques and has worked with the British Columbia Cancer Agency on numerous patient scheduling projects, as well as other projects aimed to provide timely access to quality cancer care.
Niels Peek
Professor, University of Manchester
Christabel Pankhurst Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Director
Niels is Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Manchester. He has a background in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and his research focuses on translational data science for clinical risk prediction, personalised and precision medicine, patient safety, and multimorbidity. He is the former President of the Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, a member of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, and a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). Since 2021, he is director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute for Health Technology Research and Innovation, which promotes needs-led health technology research and innovation and provides end-to-end support for translation of new technologies into healthcare practice.
Sabine Van der veer
Senior lecturer, University of Manchester
Christabel Pankhurst Institute for Healthcare Innovation
Sabine works as a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Health Informatics. Her research focuses on developing, evaluating and implementing digital health technologies to collect and use patient-generated health data to improve care and outcomes for people living with long-term conditions.
John H. Holmes
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Associate director for Medical Informatics
John is or has been a principal or co-investigator on projects funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Library of Medicine, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Holmes is engaged with the Botswana-UPenn Partnership, assisting in building informatics education and clinical research capacity in Botswana. Dr. Holmes teaches courses in quantitative epidemiology, biomedical informatics, databases for clinical research, and machine learning and intelligent agents. Dr. Holmes is an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American College of Epidemiology (ACE), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).
Wojtek Michalowski
Professor Emeritus, Telfer school of Management, University of Ottawa
Telfer Health Transformation Exchange research group, Founder and Lead
Wojtek is an Emeritus Professor of Health Informatics at the Telfer School of Management. He is a founding member of the MET Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. During the 1997/98 academic year, he was the Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. In 2013, the President of the Republic of Poland granted Dr. Michalowski the state title of Professor in recognition of his outstanding research accomplishments. This honour, the highest distinction given to researchers in Poland, comes at the recommendation of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Laura Mairinoja
Instructor, University of Turku
Institute of Biomedicine
Laura has joined UTU after studies in optometry and biomedical imaging at the Karolinska Institutet and Abo Akademi University. At UTU she is pursuing doctoral studies, and has been working as teaching staff of image analysis, biomedical imaging and bioimage informatics, contributing to UTU curriculum in bioimage informatics as well as developing accessibility and visibility of biomedical education.