# Events

**Source**: https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/centres/centre-health-informatics/media-events/events
**Parent**: https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/centres/centre-health-informatics

## Featured events

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## Missed an event?

Check out our International Alliances Talks and Speaker Series!

Feb. 11, 2026

**CHI Speaker Series** with Dr Jennifer Vena

Alberta’s Tomorrow Project: Your Provincial Resource for Cancer and Chronic Disease Research

[Watch](https://youtu.be/RO87uK47tq4)

Dec. 2, 2025

**CHI Speaker Series:** A machine learning based approach to benchmarking post-surgical mortality in infants and children with congenital heart malformations: assessing the performance of the ANZCORS mortality risk calculator.

Presented by Dr Kim Betts

[Watch](https://youtu.be/O9mSq0Mr8ow)

Oct. 9, 2025

**CHI Speaker Series:** Clinical Decision Support Systems with Lifelong Machine Learning

Dr Omar Boursalie presents

[Watch](https://youtu.be/u5i5pOkw1I8)

Sept. 24, 2025

**CHI Speaker Series:** Trustworthy Machine Learning for Clinical Decision Support

Dr Samira Ebrahimi Kahou  presents

[Watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3YOax7Ae4)

June 10, 2025

**CHI Speaker Series:** with Mairead Whelan and Harriet Ware

Diving into the data systems behind SeroTracker, dashboard and data platform for evidence synthesis and infectious disease tracking

[Watch](https://youtu.be/F_2kg51iBJ8)

May 20, 2025

**CHI Speaker Series:** The All Our Families Study: A Longitudinal Albertan Community-Based Cohort

Dr Suzanne Tough and Dr Sheila McDonald present.

[Watch](https://youtu.be/vzkMUNTs5Cs)

April 30, 2025

**CHI International Alliances Talk:** Cardiovascular risk prediction models using electronic health records

Dr Kelvin Jordan presents.

[Watch](https://youtu.be/sNbtUfxafgo)

April 15, 2025

**CHI Speaker Series:** AI Ethics in Healthcare

Dr Mohamed Abdalla presents.

[Watch](https://youtu.be/tEqDNd7SOjE)

Feb. 20, 2025

**CHI Speaker Series:** Application of Machine Learning in Healthcare

Dr Mina Aminghafari presents.

[Watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6z1L_Srglc)

Jan. 29, 2025

**CHI International Alliances Talk:** with Dr. Colin Josephson

Leveraging the Richness of Alberta Health Data: Tailoring Administrative, Registry and Linked Biometric Data to Improve Health of People with Epilepsy

[Watch](https://vimeo.com/1052391198?share=copy)

Nov. 5, 2024

**CHI International Alliances Talk:** with Dr Blossom Stephan

Leveraging Population Data to Predict Disease Risk: Insights from Dementia Research

[Watch](https://vimeo.com/1029709735)

Oct. 2, 2024

**CHI International Alliances Talk:** with Dr Pietro Ravani

Risk Prediction of Kidney Failure and Death in People with Chronic Kidney Disease Kdpredict ™

[Watch](https://vimeo.com/1021060131)

June 17, 2021

**CHI Speaker Series:** Finding Clinical Phenotypes of Interest

Despite decades of efforts to structure clinical findings, human physicians continue to take advantage of the expressivity of natural languages to record their clinical observations.

[Watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBZr2fjEQJY)

May 31, 2021

**CHI Speaker Series:** Which Data in Supporting Patient Safety Indicators?

Understanding the complexities of health and healthcare systems is first relied to mastering the complexities of health data that is used for exploring and assessing these systems.

[Watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOTEWeoOuM0)

Feb. 4, 2021

**CHI Speaker Series:** Leveraging National Language Processing

By some estimates, up to 70% of the electronic health record consists of free text documents.

[Watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgR_56i5Ksc)

July 16, 2020

**CHI Speaker Series:** Demystifying Common Covid-19 Misconceptions

We consider controversial areas such as public health measures and interventions, public safety (i.e., screening and testing), risk factors of transmission, risk factors of severe outcomes, as well as vaccination and immunity.

[Watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vDnMPiNaN4)