Professor Coiera is the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digital Health and leads the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Health (AAAiH). He is an internationally recognised leader in health informatics research, medically qualified, has a PhD in Computer Science (artificial intelligence) and has significant industry experience leading health technology projects. …
Professor Glasziou is a world leader in Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). His research has influenced numerous guidelines and clinical policies and practice (antibiotics, cardiovascular, screening, clinical monitoring); changes to “rules of evidence” (JAMA user guides, NHMRC guides, GRADE collaboration, clinical monitoring) and guidelines for reporting research (STARD for diagnostic tests, PRISMA for abstracts of meta-analyses, and …
Professor Runciman is a world leader in patient safety and quality research with fundamental contributions to the field in Australia and internationally. He was the Foundation Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Adelaide and Head of Department at the Royal Adelaide Hospital from 1988 to 2007. He has been President of …
Dr Hansen has been CEO of the CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre since 2011. He has worked across bioinformatics and health informatics for more than 20 years and has led CSIRO’s national e-health research program since 2008. CSIRO’s patient and administrative data analysis and medical narrative processing tools are being used in Australia and internationally.
Professor Liaw is an internationally recognised general practice and informatics practitioner, educator and researcher as indicated by his peer-reviewed and invited publications, conference presentations, consultancies, professional committees, and peer-review panels for competitive grants and scientific conferences. His research has a focus on cross-cultural and disadvantaged populations.
Professor Farah Magrabi has a background in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering with over 15 years experience in Health Informatics focusing on the design and evaluation of digital health technologies for clinicians and consumers. Farah’s research seeks to investigate the clinical safety and effectiveness of digital health technologies.
Professor Sintchenko is a leading public health microbiologist and informatician who conducts research on bio surveillance of communicable diseases. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and the Australasian College of Health Informatics. As Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology – Public Health he leads a public …
Professor Verspoor is an internationally recognized expert in text mining of biomedical texts. She has made key contributions in natural language processing of biomedical texts, strategies for use of knowledge resources such as biomedical ontologies in health analytics, development of resources for clinical natural language processing, and integration of text mining into predictive machine learning.
Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan leads a research unit in Clinical analytics and machine learning at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW. Trained as a physicist, Blanca obtained a PhD in climate modelling from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has also led the Health Analytics team at the Australian Institute of …
Dr Lau leads the most active and productive consumer informatics research program in Australia and has a national and international profile for her expertise. The RCTs she led have demonstrated a doubling rate of preventive activities through the use of consumer e-health systems. These technologies (which she is a co-inventor) have been spun off into …
Dr Tsafnat is the Founder and CSO at Evidentli Pty Ltd and a member of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH). He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University.
Dr Henry Cutler is the inaugural director of the Centre for the Health Economy at Macquarie University. In this role, Henry’s primary interest is investigating the Health Economy at the macro level, with particular focus on the interdependencies of these systems with each other, and the broader economy. His research focuses on economic evaluation, policy …
Adam Dunn is Head of Discipline and Associate Professor in the Discipline of Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. Besides supporting Discipline-related education, research, and translation programs across the Faculty, he leads research teams in clinical research informatics, aiming to improve the use …
Professor Makeham is the Associate Dean, Community and Primary Health Care at The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health. Former Chief Medical Adviser at the Australian Digital Health Agency where she led initiatives to ensure that digital health technology is designed, built and evaluated in close collaboration with the research community.. Academic general practitioner …
Dr Shah is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, at the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. His research uses machine learning, text-mining, and prior knowledge in medical ontologies to enable the learning health system. Dr Shah holds an MBBS from Baroda Medical College, India, a PhD from Penn State University and postdoctoral …
Professor Shaw is inaugural Professor of eHealth and Director of Research in Implementation Science and eHealth Group (RISe) at The University of Sydney. He is an internationally recognised leader in the impact of technology on healthcare and translation of evidence into practice. Over the last 5 years he has been CI on over 20 grants …
As Chief Information Officer, UC San Diego Health Sciences, Dr Longhurst is responsible for operations and strategic planning for information and communications technology across the multiple hospitals, clinics, and professional schools. He previously served as Chief Medical Information Officer for Stanford Children’s Health and was Clinical Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where …
