Today our colleagues in Calgary hosted the Seminar as part of the Aberdeen Curtin Calgary Alliance.
Dr Colin Josephson gave a presentation entitled: “Leveraging the Richness of Alberta Health Data - Tailoring Administrative, Registry and Linked Biometric Data to Improve Health of People with Epilepsy”
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.