This is a past event
Aberdeen-Curtin-Calgary Event
Title: Leveraging the Richness of Alberta Health Data – Tailoring Administrative, Registry and Linked Biometric Data to Improve Health of People with Epilepsy
We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming seminar series featuring Dr Colin Josephson, Associate Professor of Neurology and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.
Dr Colin Josephson, MD, MSc (Physiology), MSc (Epidemiology), FRCPC, CSCN (EEG) is a leading expert in the application of ‘Big Data’ and advanced analytics to epilepsy research. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary in both Neurology and Community Health sciences as well as an Honorary Associate Professor of Health Informatics at University College London.
Dr Josephson is also the Associate Director of the Centre for Health Informatics and a member of the O’Brien Institute for Public Health and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary. His research primarily focuses on understanding epidemiology and predictive modelling in epilepsy using large-scale data. He is the Chair of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Big Data Task Force and leads the CANadian Observational Study of Epilepsy (CANOE). which integrates clinical, administrative, neuroimaging, neurophysiology and genomic data to advance national and international data linkage efforts.
OBJECTIVES:
* To understand the benefits and role of registry-based research
* To understand the benefits and role of administrative and electronic health records research
* To understand how we can avail ourselves of these two approaches to answer uniquely challenging questions in health research
We look forward to your participation in this insightful seminar series.
- Speaker
- Colin Bruce Josephson Associate Professor and Catherine Eastwood Associate Director of Research
- Hosted by
- Online, Teams
- Contact
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Registration Link: http://events.ucalgary.ca/centre-health-informatics/event/colin-josephson-january2025