Team
Our interdisciplinary team is organized into four groups: Project Leads, Researchers, Clinicians, and Students.
Project Leads
Steve Drew
Role: Assistant Professor
Research focus: LLM Application / Federated Learning
Jessalyn Kathryn Holodinsky
Role: Assistant Professor
Research focus: Improving emergency care delivery and optimizing resource use in the emergency department through health data, machine learning, and health systems research.
Researchers
Steve Drew
Role: Assistant Professor
Research focus: LLM Application / Federated Learning
Jessalyn Kathryn Holodinsky
Role: Assistant Professor
Research focus: Improving emergency care delivery and optimizing resource use in the emergency department through health data, machine learning, and health systems research.
Eddy Lang
Role: Academic & Clinical Department Head, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services
Research focus: Knowledge translation, evidence-based medicine, health services research
Jiayu Zhou
Role: Associate Professor
Research focus: AI and machine learning, especially scalable and interpretable methods for complex healthcare and real-world data.
Zack Marshall
Role: Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
Research focus: 2SLGBTQ+ health equity, harm reduction, participatory research
Tracie Risling
Role: Associate Dean, Innovation & Research, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary
Research focus: Nursing informatics, digital health solutions, co-design, social media, workforce support
Tanvir Turin Chowdhury
Role: Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Research focus: Epidemiology
Tyler Williamson
Role: Director in Centre for Health Informatics
Research focus: Biostatistics
Clinicians
Eddy Lang
Role: Academic & Clinical Department Head, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services
Clinical focus: Emergency medicine leadership, knowledge translation, and implementation science
Braden Teitge
Role: Emergency Medicine Physician, Calgary Zone, Alberta Health Services
Clinical focus: Emergency Medicine / Family Medicine (CCFP-EM)
Riley Martens
Role: Registered Nurse / Master’s Student, University of Calgary
Clinical focus: Peer support, young adult cancer survivorship, social media platforms for peer support in health contexts
Students
Gerry Wu
Role: PhD Candidate
Research focus: LLM Application / Federated Learning
Samuel Wang
Role: Master Student
Research focus: LLM Application
Alexander Burn
Role: Master Student
Research focus: LLM Application
Sergiu Cociuba
Role: Master’s Student
Research focus: Machine Learning / Bioinformatics
Megan Harmon
Role: Data Analyst, Department of Emergency Medicine
Research focus: Improving emergency care delivery and optimizing resource use in the emergency department through health data, machine learning, and health systems research.
Hutton Ledingham
Role: Summer Intern
Focus: LLM Application
Swaleh Zaidi
Role: Summer Intern
Focus: LLM Application
Eldar Ibrahimov
Role: High School Student
Focus: Website Development