Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
AI for Health Innovation
Presentation Synopsis: Healthcare is a living system that generates a significant volume of heterogeneous data. As healthcare systems are pivoting to value-based systems, intelligent and interactive analysis of health data is gaining significance for health system management and outcome improvements, health innovation and knowledge discovery. This talk will cover Health data analytics as it is being influenced by new concepts and intelligent methods. This talk will contextualize health data and health data analytics in terms of the emerging trends in artificial intelligence to achieve healthcare innovations in terms of predictive modelling, precision medicine, personalized healthcare, clinical decision support and lifetime health for all. |
Speaker Biography: Syed Sibte Raza Abidi is Professor of Computer Science and Medicine at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. He is the scientific lead of the NICHE (kNowledge Intensive Computing for Healthcare Enterprises) research group that conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of computer science and health. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare and Digital Health, with particular interests in health data analytics, health knowledge management, decision support systems and personalized health. His research has led to over 40 real-life digital health systems. His recent research focuses on knowledge modeling to computerize clinical guidelines for multi-morbidity decision support, generating data-driven healthcare intelligence using machine learning methods, and developing digital therapeutics targeting personalized patient empowerment services. He is the recipient of the Canadian Health Informatics Leadership Award, International Award for Innovation in Medical Informatics, Research Excellence Award and 6 best paper awards. He is the Board Member of Digital Health Canada and International Association of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. In his research career, he has published over 280 peer-reviewed papers at top research venues, supervised around 90 graduate students and secured around $18 million in research grants from govt. health organization and industry.
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