DATA SCIENCE AND HEALTH - Key Persons


Adeera Levin

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine, Head
Dr Levin is a Professor of Medicine, Head Division of Nephrology at the University of British Columbia, and Consultant nephrologist at Providence Health Care/St Paul's Hospital, in Vancouver Canada. She has been appointed Sr Medical Lead, Integration Clinical and Academic Networks at PHC.

Alexandra (Lexie) Flatt

Job Titles:
  • Research Themes
  • Vice President, Pandemic Response, Chief Data Governance & Analytics Officer
In her role as Vice President, Pandemic Response, Lexie Flatt oversees PHSA's ongoing organizational pandemic response to COVID-19 and liaises with the Pandemic Response Department at the Ministry of Health, while collaborating with colleagues in similar roles with B.C.'s other health authorities. Lexie ensures PHSA maintains a timely, focused response to pandemic planning needs while maintaining the capacity for business continuity across all other healthcare programs and services. Lexie also holds the position of Chief Data Governance & Analytics Officer, supporting PHSA to make data-informed decisions that support the needs of both patients and care providers. With 25 years' of experience leading complex projects related to analytics, decision support, performance evaluation, funding and reporting in B.C. and Ontario, Lexie will is well-versed in leading organizations through strategy, operations and policy development. Her hands-on experience is supplemented with a strong academic background, including an MBA and advanced statistical and research, business, and finance training.

Aline Talhouk

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Assistant Professor Obstetrics & Gynecology
Dr. Talhouk is an assistant professor in the department of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She is also the director of data science and informatics at OVCARE, BC's ovarian and gynecological cancer research program. She completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of British Columbia in 2013 with a focus on computational statistics and machine learning. Since then, she has been working on developing and implementing predictive models to improve patient care in women's health and oncology. Her research focus also includes the ethics of data sharing and privacy in the era of digital health and AI modeling.

Ameen Amanian

Ameen is completing his Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery residency at the University of British Columbia. Concurrently, he is pursuing a Master of Science in Engineering at Johns Hopkins University with a focus on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. As an aspiring academic surgeon, he has a passion for integrating technology into the clinical workflow to improve surgical efficiency and optimize patient-centered outcomes. His undergraduate degree was focused on acquiring and utilizing engineering principles to apply in the healthcare field. During medical school, he was a co-founder of a healthcare innovation event, Hatching Health, designed to connect a multidisciplinary group of individuals to create novel solutions to common healthcare problems. Currently at Johns Hopkins as a Friedman Scholar, he is working on attaining the foundational and technical skills within artificial intelligence to translate into the surgical realm. Ultimately, he hopes to develop a deep learning platform that will integrate patient clinical data, image processing, and high throughput computation to optimize the perioperative care for head and neck cancer patients. Research Interests: artificial intelligence, deep learning, head and neck oncology, machine learning, medical image analysis, radiomics

Andrew Fullerton

Job Titles:
  • Student
Andrew is a Master's of Public Health student at the School of Population and Public Health concentrating in epidemiology/biostatistics. Outside of SPPH, Andrew is a 2023 Venture for Canada Fellow and part of the team behind UpBeing: a Canadian AI start-up in the emotion detection and recognition space.

Andy Tai

Research Interests Addiction & Treatment, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Mental Health

Brent Parker - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Legal Counsel
Brent has both interests in law and health research. In his role as legal counsel with Provincial Health Services Authority, he regularly advises on matters related to health research, privacy, data and informatics, AI and emerging technologies. He supports the development of research programs and initiatives within this role.

Charlene Ronquillo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor School of Nursing
Dr. Ronquillo is a Filipina scholar, Registered Nurse, and health informatician, and lead of the Health Informatics Equity Lab at the UBCO School of Nursing. The goal of Dr. Ronquillo's work is to improve equity in healthcare with thoughtful, meaningful, and inclusive technologies and improve equity in health informatics through critical approaches to health technology development, implementation, and evaluation. A key aim of Dr. Ronquillo's research is to ensure the meaningful inclusion of non-dominant groups in the conceptualization, design, development, and implementation of health technologies in health systems. Dr. Ronquillo has expertise in mixed methods, participatory, and co-production approaches, software design/development methods, and the technology lifecycle: from conceptualization to evaluation and refinement. I have experience with various aspects of health information technology in health systems and nursing, including nursing informatics competencies, usability research, user-centered design and development, rapid and exploratory prototyping, and technology adoption and usage. Dr. Ronquillo obtained their BScN from McGill University (2007), and MSN (2010) and PhD (2021) from UBC. Prior to joining UBCO, Dr. Ronquillo was a Health Service Improvement Research Fellow at the University of the West of England (2016), an Associate Research Fellow in Implementation Science at the University of Exeter Medical School (2016-19), and an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, ON (2019-21).

Dhruvi Thakkar

Job Titles:
  • Research Intern
I am Dhruvi Thakkar, a dedicated Computer Science student at Drs Kiran Pallavi Patel Global University, on track to graduate with a commendable GPA of 9.2 in May 2025. Currently, I am immersed in a research internship at the University of Colorado, where I am applying advanced AI methodologies to tackle critical medical challenges such as Alzheimer's disease and maternal health risk prediction.

Dr. Abdollah Safari

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Head, Data Analytics, Statistics and Informatics ( DASI ) Unit
Abdollah is a statistician at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences with an interest almost in every application of statistics. He has been involved in different types of projects in a wide range of areas from bioinformatics and biostatistics to marketing and advertisement, and collaborating with researchers from diverse educational backgrounds in academia and industry. In his current role with the Faculty, he heads the Data, Analytics, Statistics, and Informatics (DASI) unit. Dr. Safari received his PhD in statistics from Simon Fraser University in 2017, where he focused mainly on generalized linear mixed models and survival analysis on Big Data problems.

Dr. Alan Rabinowitz

Job Titles:
  • Cardiologist, St Paul 's Hospital Co - Founder and Chief Medical Officer, PHEMI Systems / Clinical Associate Professor / Division of Cardiology
  • Clinical Associate Professor / Cardiologist, St Paul 's Hospital Co - Founder and Chief Medical Officer, PHEMI Systems / Division of Cardiology
  • Clinical Associate Professor Division of Cardiology
  • Co - Founder of PHEMI
  • Director of the Coronary Care Unit at St Paul 's Hospital
  • Strategic Adviser
Dr. Rabinowitz is a co-founder of PHEMI and serves as Chief Medical Officer. He was formerly the Medical Director of the Coronary Care Unit and is currently a cardiologist at St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Alan Rabinowitz received his medical degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, completed his internal medicine and cardiology training at the University of Toronto and undertook subsequent training in interventional cardiology at St Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia. He is currently a cardiologist and an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia and has recently taken on roles as a strategic advisor on innovation and global partnerships in the St. Paul's Hospital redevelopment project as well as an advisory role to the CEO of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada on innovation and implementation science. Dr. Rabinowitz is a strategic adviser to the www.RCCbc.ca which coordinates healthcare on behalf of the citizens of rural British Columbia, Canada and has a strong focus on health system transformation for Indigenous and other rural populations.

Dr. Andrew Jirasek

Job Titles:
  • Department of Physics
  • Professor Department of Physics
  • Professor in the Physics Department at the University of British Columbia
Dr. Andrew Jirasek is a Professor in the Physics department at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan. In collaboration with researchers in engineering, biology, chemistry, and the BC Cancer Agency, Andrew Jirasek monitors the biological response to radiation.

Dr. Anita Palepu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Head of the Department of Medicine
  • Professor
Dr. Anita Palepu is Professor and Eric W. Hamber Chair and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and Providence Health Care. As a scientist with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Dr. Palepu's research is in urban health, with particular interest in persons who are vulnerable to poor health outcomes, such as those who use illicit substances and experience homelessness. Dr. Anita Palepu is Head of the Department of Medicine and Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UBC. She is the Physician Program Director for the St. Paul's Hospital Medicine Program and works as a General Internist.

Dr. Anne Steino

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager of Operations, Academy of Translational Medicine

Dr. Apurva Narayan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor School of Engineering
Dr. Apurva Narayan obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo and his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 2015 and 2008 respectively. His PhD thesis was an archetype of a holistic systems approach for modeling and designing engineering systems under uncertainty. Dr. Narayan was a NSERC post-doctoral fellow with the Real-Time Embedded Systems Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Narayan's research investigates artificial intelligence/machine learning with emphasis on explainable AI/ML and quantum machine learning, data mining, data analytics, safety and security of cyber physical systems, software engineering, graph theoretic analysis of complex systems, and decision-making under uncertainty. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier ACM/IEEE conferences and journals. Dr. Narayan's current research focuses on data mining, data analytics, and machine learning in context of safety, security and understanding complex Cyber Physical Systems. He is currently interested in developing models for reverse engineering complex software systems. He is also interested in developing interpretable/explainable machine learning models. These models could be used for anomaly detection, specification mining, cyber-physical system security, and other applications.

Dr. Bhushan Gopaluni

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Bhushan Gopaluni is a professor in the department of chemical and biological engineering and an Associate Dean for Education and Professional Development in the faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia. He is also an associate faculty in the Institute of Applied Mathematics, the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems, Pulp and Paper Center and the Clean Energy Research Center. He was the Elizabeth and Leslie Gould Teaching Professor from 2014 to 2017. He is currently an associate editor for Journal of Process Control, The Journal of Franklin Institute and Results in Control and Optimization.

Dr. Chris Carlsten

Job Titles:
  • Professor Division of Respiratory Medicin

Dr. Christina Luong

Job Titles:
  • Cardiologist
  • Clinical Assistant Professor
  • MHSc, FRCPC, Cardiologist
Dr. Luong is a Clinical Assistant Professor within the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. She is the Head of Stress Echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Luong obtained her Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree at the University of Alberta and subsequently trained in Internal Medicine and Clinical Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Luong completed an additional 2 years of subspeciality training in echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She specializes in Stress Echo and has trained with the world leaders in this modality. Dr Luong is a UBC Friedman Scholar with a Master's of Health Sciences in Clinical Research. Her primary focus is on Cardiac Imaging and Ultrasound with emphasis on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. She works in collaboration with UBC robotics and biomedical engineering.

Dr. Clement Kin-Ming Tsui

Job Titles:
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
  • Principal Scientific Officer in National Centre for Infectious Diseases
Dr. Clement Kin-Ming Tsui is the Principal Scientific Officer in National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore. He is also appointed as Assistant Professor in Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada. His work includes genomics of antimicrobial resistant organisms, metagenomics for public health microbiology, and molecular epidemiology of microbial pathogens. He has been studying the microbiomes and population genetics of fungus and bacterial pathogens to plants, humans, and animals. Dr. Tsui received his PhD in mycology and ecology at University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), followed by a post-doctoral training in fungal evolution, population genetics and ecology from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) and Westmead Hospital (Sydney, Australia). As a Scientist at Sidra Medicine (Doha, Qatar) and BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory (Vancouver, Canada). He has studied the molecular epidemiology and genomics of infectious diseases. He also studied the virulence mechanisms and novel drug targets for tuberculosis.

Dr. Daniel Holmes

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor / Head and Medical Director, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, St. Paul 's Hospital / Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Clinical Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Head and Medical Director, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, St. Paul 's Hospital / Clinical Professor / Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Daniel Holmes earned his undergraduate degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Toronto. He went to medical school at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where he also did his residency in Medical Biochemistry. He is a Clinical Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC and Head and Medical Director of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. Interests include clinical endocrinology with a focus on secondary hypertension, lipidology, clinical mass spectrometry and data science in application to laboratory data automation, visualization and clinical utilization.

Dr. Daniel Raff

Job Titles:
  • Family Physician
  • MDS
  • MDS / Clinical Instructor Department of Family Practice
Dr. Daniel Raff is a family physician with a clinical interest in addictions, hospital medicine, and longitudinal primary care. During his academic training, he was co-founder and board member of a healthcare innovation event, Hatching Health, designed to connect a multidisciplinary group of individuals to generate novel solutions to healthcare challenges. He is actively engaged as a data scientist consultant including a current project with UBC Digital Emergency Medicine. He is the Medical Lead for Virtual Addictions Services across Fraser Health. Dr. Raff completed his Bachelor of Science (2014), Master of Data Science (2018), Doctor of Medicine (2019), and Family Medicine Residency at UBC. He is a member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Dr. Darryl Knight - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice - President
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • Vice President, Research and Academic Affairs, Providence Health Care Research Institute
  • Vice President, Research and Academic Affairs, Providence Health Care Research Institute / Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Dr. Darryl Knight joined Providence Health Care as Vice-President, Research and Academic Affairs in 2019. His role also includes accountabilities as President, Providence Health Care Research Institute; Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; and Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. Dr. Knight obtained his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 1993. In 2004, he was recruited to UBC as the Canada Research Chair in Airway Disease. He was recruited back to Australia in 2013 and was Professor and Head of School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy at the University of Newcastle. Continuing this pattern, Dr. Knight was recruited back to Canada in 2019 taking up his current role. Dr. Knight is a cell biologist with an international reputation in the area of lung and airway remodelling. His research career has focused on understanding how abnormal epithelial cell-fibroblast interactions influence the severity and chronicity of respiratory diseases. To date, he has published over 166 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters (h-factor 55; 9120 citations - Google Scholar, May 2019). Dr. Knight has a strong track record of obtaining research grant funding (>$20 million), including leading a successful application for $7 million from the CFI in 2012. He is regularly invited to present his work and chair sessions at major national and international meetings. Dr. Knight has strong research leadership credentials. From 2009-2012 he was the Associate Director of the UBC James Hogg Research Centre and sat on the executive of the Institute for Heart and Lung Health. He sits on several national and international scientific research committees, and is on the editorial board of 5 international journals. Dr. Knight has been primary supervisor for 7 Post-doctoral fellows, 17 PhD and 2 MSc students and over 18 Graduate students.

Dr. Darwin Yeung

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Medicine
Dr. Yeung received his medical degree from the University of Toronto followed by residency training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. He completed advanced fellowships in echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital and the Mayo Clinic and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an echocardiographer at the VGH/UBCH Echo Lab and a specialist at the St. Paul's Hospital Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic. His current clinical and research interests focus on imaging of various cardiomyopathies and the application of strain imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease.

Dr. David Granville

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
  • Executive Director, VCHRI
Dr. David Granville is the executive director of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) and associate dean, research (VCHRI) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia (UBC). He is also a professor in UBC's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Granville is a principal investigator at ICORD (International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries) and associate director of the BC Professional Firefighters' Burn and Wound Healing Research Group at the UBC Division of Plastic Surgery. His research program focuses on aging, mechanisms that contribute to age-related tissue injury and impaired healing, and the discovery of novel therapeutics for age-related, chronic inflammatory conditions.

Dr. Denise Daley

Job Titles:
  • Department of Medicine
Dr. Denise Daley completed a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University in 2003, followed by post-doctoral training at the University of British Columbia . In 2008 she was awarded a Tier II Canadian Research Chair (genetic epidemiology of common complex diseases) and appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and in 2013 she promoted to Associate Professor and her Canadian Research Chair was renewed until 2018. She has received numerous awards including a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Scholar Award and the CIHR Institute of Genetics Maud Menten Prize in recognition of her outstanding achievements Dr. Daley's interests are in the study of complex diseases such as cancer, asthma, and heart disease, with a focus on gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. More recently her work has expanded into understanding epigenetic factors that contribute to complex diseases, by incorporating genetic and epigenetic risk factors into risk prediction algorithms to be used in personalized medicine and population genomics research. Dr. Daley leads a computational lab and supervises graduate students in Bioinformatics, Statistics and Experimental Medicine and she is always looking for exceptional students and post-docs to join the team.

Dr. Dermot Kelleher

Job Titles:
  • Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Kelleher brings significant experience and is recognized internationally for innovation in academic health leadership and administration, clinical care, research and education. Dr. Kelleher joined UBC in 2015 as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Prior to his appointment at UBC, Dr. Kelleher served as Vice-President Health and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, where he also held a concurrent appointment as Dean of the Lee Kong Chian Medical School in Singapore until 2014. Dr. Kelleher has also served as Head of the School of Medicine and Vice Provost for Medical Affairs at Trinity College, Dublin. Dr. Kelleher graduated from medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1978, going on to specialize in gastroenterology. Author of 300 publications and 14 patents, Dr. Kelleher's research examines the immune response to many of the leading causes of gastrointestinal infectious disease worldwide. Over the years he has received many prestigious awards including a Fogarty Scholarship at the University of California San Diego, Wellcome Senior Fellow in Clinical Science, and most recently the Conway Medal from the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. With a strong commitment to innovation and collaboration, Dr. Kelleher has worked to found several companies supporting both translational developments in biomedical science and fostering collaboration in biomedical research in both Dublin and London. He also served as President of the Federation of European Academies of Medicine until moving to British Columbia.

Dr. Diane Gutiw

Job Titles:
  • VP Consulting, CGI
Dr. Diane Gutiw holds a PhD in Medical Information Technology Management where she conducted doctoral research on medical AI/expert system solution modeling and adoption. Diane is the Vice President of Analytics, AI and Machine Learning for CGI in Canada and leads a team of data scientists and data architects in supporting organizations implementing big data solutions. Diane has been serving as a visiting lecturer at Simon Fraser University and has over 30 years of experience in the design, development and delivery of highly integrated big data solutions including public health surveillance in the US and Canada. Diane designed the enterprise analytic and research solution for the University of California, San Francisco including the integrated design of research, medical school and clinical data. Most recently, Diane is being engaged by organizations to assist in better understanding their data through data science, AI and Machine Learning to expand the scope of evidence-based decision-making. Diane has been closely engaged on the recent COVID pandemic modeling as well as the vaccine roll out analytics and reporting for the Province of BC and continues to lead collaborative health research engagements across Canada.

Dr. Douglas Kingsford

Job Titles:
  • Chief Medical Information Officer
  • Research Themes
Dr. Kingsford is Provincial Chief Medical Information Officer at Ministry of Health in the province of British Columbia, Canada. He is a family physician with an Electronic Engineering PhD in artificial intelligence, with particular interests in artificial intelligence, machine learning, interoperability, integrated care and workflow coordination. He is a core member of the leadership team advancing the provincial Digital Health Initiative from both clinical and ecosystem architecture perspectives, co-chair of the provincial Digital Health Strategy Office and vice-chair of the provincial Clinical Leadership Committee for digital health.

Dr. Firas Moosvi

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Dr. James Olson

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Dr. Jeff Andrews

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics

Dr. Jim Russell

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. John Braun

Job Titles:
  • Department Head / Department of Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics

Dr. Lynn Hancock

Job Titles:
  • Director - Strategy, Planning, Research, and Reporting

Dr. M. Ehsan Karim

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor at the UBC School of Population
  • Assistant Professor School of Population and Public Health
Dr. M. Ehsan Karim is an Assistant Professor at the UBC School of Population and Public Health, a Scientist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS), and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Scholar. He obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from UBC, supported by a studentship from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada ( MSSOC). He completed his postgraduate training in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill, supported by a fellowship from the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies ( CNODES). His current program of research focuses on developing causal inference and pharmacoepidemiological methodologies, and applications of data science approaches in the large healthcare data analysis context to answer real-world comparative effectiveness research questions. His program of research is supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ( NSERC) and the BC SUPPORT Unit. He supervises graduate students from both SPPH and Statistics Department. He also conducts, supports, collaborates and implements patient-oriented research as well as pragmatic / clinical trial design and analysis. Within SPPH, he developed and teaches a core PhD capstone course that integrates state-of-the-art epidemiological, data science, and data analytic methods. He regularly offers workshops and webinars about emerging methods nationally and internationally. Publication list and selected services can be accessed from the current website.

Dr. Nadia Khan

Job Titles:
  • Scientist, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Associate Member, School of Population and Public Health / School of Population and Public Health

Dr. Najib Ayas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Professor
Dr. Ayas is a Professor in the Division of Critical Care Medicine/Respiratory Medicine and Medical Director of the UBC Hospital Sleep Disorders Program, and Associate Head of Research for the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Parveen Bhatti

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Scientist & Scientific Director BC Generations Project

Dr. Paul Gustafson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Statistics
  • Professor

Dr. Poul Sorenson

Job Titles:
  • McGill Univ )

Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor / Senior Medical Physicist, BC Cancer

Dr. Rich Lester

Job Titles:
  • Director, Infectious Disease Research Director, Neglected Global Diseases Initiative Consultant, BC Centre for Disease Control / Division of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Richard Harrigan

Job Titles:
  • Department of Medicine
  • Professor

Dr. Roger Tam

Job Titles:
  • Director, Engineers in Scrubs Program / Department of Radiology, School of Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Scott Tebbutt

Job Titles:
  • Department of Medicine
  • Professor

Dr. Thalia Field

Job Titles:
  • Director, Vancouver Stroke Program / Division of Neurology

Dr. Tibor van Rooij

Job Titles:
  • Lead, Digital Health Research Initiative

Dr. Tiffany Timbers

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching

Dr. Tricia Tang

Job Titles:
  • Division of Endocrinology

Dr. Warren Hare

Job Titles:
  • Department of Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics
  • Professor

Dr. Xiaoxiao Li PhD

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dwayne Tucker

Job Titles:
  • Research Interests
  • Scientist at the University
Dwayne Tucker is a PhD Candidate in the Women+ and Children's Health Sciences program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, co-supervised by Dr. Paul Yong and Dr. Aline Talhouk. Dwayne also holds an MSc in Oncology from the University of Nottingham, UK, and a BSc in Medical Technology from the Northern Caribbean University, Jamaica. Additionally, he worked as a senior clinical laboratory scientist at the University of the West Indies and the University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica, specializing in chemical pathology. His PhD research utilizes machine learning approaches to predict pain-related outcomes after endometriosis surgery. In general, Dwayne is interested in leveraging his skills to improve health outcomes, particularly for marginalized communities. Research Interests: Clinical predictive modelling, Data analytics, Machine learning, Health outcomes

Eric W. Hamber

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia

Freddy Francis

Job Titles:
  • Trainee, Experimental Medicine

Gary Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Student

Giulia Cocco

Job Titles:
  • Student

Gurm Dhugga

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Research and Digital Technology

Hannah James

Job Titles:
  • Master of Science Trainee, Experimental Medicine

Henry Ngo

Job Titles:
  • Data and Analytics Team Lead, Population Health Surveillance & Epidemiology

Holly Longstaff

Job Titles:
  • Director, Privacy and Access, Research and New Initiatives

Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor / Department of Radiology

Joleen Wright

Job Titles:
  • Director, Data Release & Access Management

Julie Robillard

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Division of Neurology

Juliette Langelier

Job Titles:
  • Student

Kim McGrail

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Lucy Hui

Job Titles:
  • Medical Student

Minnie Teng

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Instructor / Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

Mishal Ashraf

Job Titles:
  • Master of Science Trainee, Experimental Medicine

Nader Fallah

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor / Associate Director, Praxis Artificial Intelligence / Division of Neurology

Raymond Ng

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Rob Rohling

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Rohit Singla

Job Titles:
  • Trainee

Savvas Nicolaou

Job Titles:
  • FRCPC

Stefan Grzybowski

Job Titles:
  • FCFPC

Steven Tam

Job Titles:
  • Chief Data Governance Officer

Tamsin Tarling

Job Titles:
  • Manager, BC COVID - 19 Biobank Network Chair, Education and Training Committee, International Society for Environmental and Biological Repositories

Terri Flemming

Job Titles:
  • Director, Research Ethics BC

Tim Salcudean

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Xin Wen

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow