Health Information Science 2025-2026 Seminar Series
Join us for the School of Health Information Science 2025-2026 Seminar Series. This series features International experts in the field of Health Informatics. With the current global changes and demands in health care, optimizing our systems is becoming increasingly important and urgent. This seminar series will focus on how we can use advances in a range of areas like virtual and patient-centered care, AI and data science to improve health outcomes, and to streamline health care processes.
For more information, please email his@uvic.ca.
Zoom Webinar Registration Instructions
April 10, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Jonas Bambi - "Advancing Learning Health Systems: What Machine Learning Can Learn from Healthcare Data - Challenges and Opportunities" ()
April 17, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Gina Dimitropoulos - Topic TBD ()
April 24, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Tara Sampalli - Topic TBD ()
May 1, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Shen Li - Topic TBD ()
May 8, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Katherine Kim - Topic TBD ()
Past Seminars:
March 27, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Junko Fukui Innes - "Application of Data Science on Health Administrative Data to Predict a Higher-Level Care Transition Among Home Support Clients" ()
March 20, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Marcy Antonio - "The Administrative Burden of Medication Affordability Resources" ()
March 13, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Dennis Lee - "The Last Rewind: Ending ICD‑9’s Long Play in Primary Care in Canada" ()
March 6, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenters - Danielle Shin (Registerd Nurse, Postdoctoral Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital) and Gillian Strudwick (Registered Nurse, Chief Clinical Informatics Office, Senior Scientist, and Scientific Director at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) - "Co-Designing Implementation Strategies for a Suicide Prevention App with Clinicians, Patient and Care Partners"() | Link to speaker bios.
February 27, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Series Special - Graduate Student Showcase - Link to topics, speaker bios, and abstracts.
February 20, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Matthew DeCamp (Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics and Humanities & Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado) - "Ethics and Patient-facing Chatbots in Healthcare: What do patients want? What do patients need?" ()
February 13, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Craig Kuziemsky (Associate Vice President Research at MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta) - "A Systems Perspective on Digital Health Maturity" ()
February 6, 2026 Friday at 12:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Morgan Price (Associate Professor, Department of Family Practice, Island Medical Program, University of British Columbia; Affiliate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Health Information Science, 探花系列) - "Primary Care Capacity Estimator Delphi Study Simulation: How close is a Delph-AI study to human experts?" ()
November 19, 2025 Wednesday at 10:00AM Pacific Time
Presenter - Phil Gooch (PhD, Health Informatics from City St George's, University of London.) - "Using LLMs to assist with literature reviews (without cheating)" ()
November 5, 2025 Wednesday at 10:00AM Pacific Time
Presenter - Silvana Quaglini (Professor of Medical Informatics at the University of Pavia, Italy) - "Digital Technologies and Personalized Care Pathways" ()
October 29, 2025 Wednesday at 10:00AM Pacific Time
Presenter - Niels Peek (Professor of Data Science and Healthcare Improvement at THIS Institute, University of Cambridge) - "Beyond Accuracy: Evaluating Real-World Impact of Healthcare AI" ()
October 28, 2025 Tuesday at 5:00PM Pacific Time
Presenter - Lloyd Mackenzie (Chief Standards Officer, Dogwood Health Consulting) - "FHIR North - Introduction to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources" ()
October 22, 2025 Tuesday at 10:00AM Pacific Time
Presenter - Jeremy Wyatt (FACMI FRCP FBCS, Emeritus Professor of Digital Healthcare, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Chair, British Computer Society Health & Care AI Group) - "A clinical perspective on healthcare AI: where does it fit, and what traps to avoid?" () | Link to speaker bio & abstract references