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 hisadmin@uvic.ca.
Zoom Webinar Registration Instructions
Upcoming Seminars:
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" (Zoom Account & Advance Zoom Registration Required)
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)" (Zoom Account & Advance Zoom Registration Required)
Past Seminars:
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" (Recording coming soon)
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" (Recording coming soon)
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?" (Recording Available) | Link to speaker bio & abstract references