Kimberlyn McGrail, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health Faculty,
Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
Kimberlyn McGrail is a faculty member at the Centre for Health Services and Policy
Research, an Assistant Professor in the School of Population and Public Health
at the University of British Columbia, and a senior researcher with Statistics
Canada. She is also scientific advisor to and a board member of Population Data
BC. Her research interests include the personal, economic and social factors
that produce health at an individual and population level, as well as the role
of the health care system in that process. She conducts collaborative research
with decision-makers, and is currently involved in a research project with the
BC Ministry of Health Services on Assisted Living in British Columbia. She received
her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Michigan and her PhD
in Health Care and Epidemiology from the University of British Columbia.
Andre Kushniruk, PhD
Director, School of Health Information
Science
University of Victoria
Dr. Andre Kushniruk is an Associate Professor and Director of the School
of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria. Dr. Kushniruk is
also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
and the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York and was previously an Associate
Professor in Information Technology at York University. Dr. Kushniruk conducts
research in a number of areas including evaluation of the effects of technology,
human-computer interaction in healthcare and other domains as well as cognitive
science. His work is known internationally and he has published widely in the
area of health informatics.
He focuses on developing new methods for the evaluation of information technology and studying human-computer interaction in health care and he has been a key researcher on a number of national and international collaborative projects. His work includes the development of novel methods for conducting video analysis of computer users and he is currently extending this research to remote study of e-health applications and advanced information technologies, including computerized patient record systems. Dr. Kushniruk has held academic positions at a number of Canadian universities and he has taught courses in areas such as human-computer interaction, database management and systems analysis and design. He holds undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Biology, as well as a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from McGill University.
Mark Morreale,
Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and eHealth Department
McMaster University
Mark is an Epidemiologist with over 10 years of experience in
the Canadian healthcare system. His career includes work in Hospital Administration,
and a number of senior positions with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Health
Canada. Prior to this, he enjoyed working as a healthcare consultant.
Mark is also a professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University,
where he instructs post-graduate students on a variety of topics including
Healthcare Performance, Health Research Methodologies, Health Services Research
Techniques and Health Informatics. Examples of his work include: Evaluation
of Care Maps, ER wait times, Patient Safety and Quality of Care research using
administrative data. In addition, he has considerable experience with the use
of balanced scorecards and strategy mapping.
Steve Papagiannis
Manager, Solution Specialists
SAS Canada
Steve Papagiannis has over 20 years experience in the IT industry; having held
a variety of positions in application development, IT management, software sales
and consulting.
He has consistently looked for ways to apply technology to understand human behaviour
(with particular interest in healthcare, automotive and retail). Using data warehousing,
statistical analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and applying different
methods to display and deliver information, he has always found ways to deliver
insight and improve decision making.
