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Upstream Lab: How will Artificial Intelligence affect the work of Canada's family doctors?

  • 28 Apr 2021
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Webinar

Join us in our six-part monthly webinar series that will help develop your understanding of AI, the ways it is already being used in practice, and the potential of AI and other technologies to change the ways we learn, work and care for our patients.

Hosted by Dr. Andrew Pinto, Director of Upstream Lab and DEEP Network, and presented in partnership with the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), this webinar series features leaders in our discipline in Canada with expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, ethics, and AI research.

In this fifth webinar, Dr. Muhammad Mamdani will discuss the role of machine learning for prediction of health service use.

Dr. Mamdani is Vice President of Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Unity Health Toronto and Director of the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine Centre for Artificial Intelligence Education and Research in Medicine (T-CAIREM). Dr. Mamdani’s team bridges advanced analytics including machine learning with clinical and management decision making to improve patient outcomes and hospital efficiency. Dr. Mamdani is also Professor in the Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine, the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation of the Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health. He is also adjunct Senior Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and a Faculty Affiliate of the Vector Institute, which is a leading institution for artificial intelligence research in Canada.

Dr. Mamdani was also the Founding Director of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Healthcare Analytics Research and Training (LKS-CHART) of Unity Health Toronto and the Founding Director of the Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC) of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of Unity Health Toronto, which is Toronto’s leading academic research organization focused on the design and implementation of multicentre clinical research initiatives. In 2010, Dr. Mamdani was named among Canada’s Top 40 under 40.

This group learning activity has been certified by the CFPC for one Mainpro+ credit per session. Webinars will be available in English only.


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