Seminar for Graduate Students – Clinical health data and AI for responding to pandemics and other public health emergencies

The Institute for Pandemics (IfP) invites University of Toronto graduate students to learn about using clinical health data and AI in pandemic and public health emergency response.

Presentation Topic

Clinical health data and AI for responding to pandemics and other public health emergencies

This presentation will cover how routinely generated healthcare data can be a critical element in responding to pandemics and other public health emergencies.  Dr. Razak will discuss the state of these repositories and what is required to make them more accessible and timelier.  He will also discuss artificial intelligence applications that harness this data and how this may be critical to future known and emerging health threats.

About the presenter

Dr. Fahad Razak is an internist at St Michael’s Hospital (Unity Health Toronto), Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Data-Informed Health Care Improvement at the University of Toronto, Provincial Lead for Quality Improvement in General Medicine at Ontario Health, and Vice President Research at the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine. He co- founded GEMINI, the largest hospital research and quality improvement network in Canada, and has received over $80 million in grant funding as Principal Investigator. GEMINI is used by an active community of more than 1000 scientists, health system leaders, and clinicians.

Dr. Razak completed a degree in Engineering Science and Medical Doctorate at the University of Toronto, and was the first physician appointed as the David E. Bell Fellow at Harvard University. He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College and on the advisory board of the BMJ. Notable recognitions include the inaugural Canadian Society for Internal Medicine National Award for Mentorship, Dean’s Emerging Leader Award and the President’s Impact Award at the University of Toronto; the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine’s New Investigator Award; and the Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship from the PSI Foundation.

Dr. Razak served as Scientific Director for the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and contributed to over 50 science and policy briefs that shaped Ontario’s response to the pandemic. He was a member of the Federal Expert Panel on Science Advisory and Research.

NOTE: This event is only for University of Toronto graduate students. Space is limited, as this is an in-person event, so register soon!