Highlights
- June 2023
Invited Speaker: AI & Society: towards de-biasing and decolonizing AI, Religion, Culture, Higher Education and Digital Transformation Conference, June 9-10, 2023, Nicosia, Cyprus, organized by Dar Al-Kalima University and the Christian Academic Forum for Citizenship. - May 2023
Invited Speaker: Les Compétences en Santé Numérique et les Programmes de l’Université de York, La Santé Numérique, Comment s’y Former?, Association Canadienne-Française pour l'Avancement des sciences (ACFAS 2023)”, Montréal, Université de Montréal, May 12, 2023. - April 2023
Invited Speaker: A Technocentric or a Humancentric Society: Reflections on AI, April 17th, 2023, AI for Global Health Challenges and Lessons Learned, organized by Global South AI4PEP Network. - February 2023
Keynote Speaker: Smart Health and Equity: Mitigating AI Biases: the 2022 International Conference on Human-Centric Environments for Health and Well-Being (IHSH 2022), Feb 9-10, 2022, Quebec City, CanadaSEP 29, 2022 - September 2022
Invited Speaker: Health Informatics and the Equity Challenge: Role of Informatics, Sep 29, 2022, University of Victoria, Canada (online) - July 2022
Panel: AI for Health - the Equity Question, the 20th International Conference of Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare (ICIMTH 2022), July 1-3, 2022, Athens, Greece - May 2022
Presenter, Behind the Irrational Reactions to the Pandemic: Anomie, Authoritarianism, and Exploitation, Presentation at the Canadian American Theological Association Annual Meeting, the Canadian Congress of the Humanities, May 27 - 28, 2022 (program) - May 2022
Panel Discussant: Quality of Information and Social Behaviour, Navigating Information & Race in the Era of COVID-19 - May 3-4, 2022, York University, organizer Professor Jack Hang-tat Leong (Connection Grant) - March 2022
Invited Speaker: Health Informatics: Research Perspectives: Computer Applications and Technology Solutions Conference: COVID-19 - March 13, 2022, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait - December 28, 2021
New publication: a paper on the use of AI for disability Advocacy (Read online ) - Oct. 2021
Invited Speaker: Imaging Informatics Management and AI, VCA Education Solution for Health Professionals Inc., Toronto, October 2, 2021, webinar (October 2, 2021) - Nov 2020
Invited Speaker: Informatique en Médecine et en Santé, École d’Été du Centre de Santé Cognitive de Glendon, Glendon Campus, Toronto, Novembre 20, 2020, webinar (Novembre 20, 2020) - December 28, 2019
New publication: a paper on Accessibility Monitoring for People with Disabilities: A Collaborative Virtual Community (Read online ) - December 17, 2019
In the news: Professor El Morr and Ms. Susan Woollard, Vice President Clinical Services Chief Nursing Executive, at North York General hospital; were invited guest speakers at the 8th Annual Summit of Data Analytics For Healthcare on "Measurement and metrics: Learn how to better measure patient outcomes and benchmark against industry leaders..." (Read online ) - November 27, 2019
In the news: York researchers publish paper on effectiveness of mindfulness virtual community for undergraduate students (Read online ) - November 18, 2019
In the news: Professor Christo El Morr delivers critical theology presentation, participates in launch of a new magazine (Read online ) - November 11, 2019
New Publication: Design of a Mindfulness Virtual Community: A focus-group analysis. Health Informatics Journal, (Read online ) - August 29, 2019
In the news: MITACS Report about Dr. El Morr's recent project: Innovative App Enables Accessible Building: App identifies, photographs, and maps problem areas and consults with community to resolve them, (Read online ) - August 14, 2019
Interview by CBC about data privacy (Read online ) - June 6, 2019
In the news: Professor Christo El Morr was invited by the American University of Beirut to organize a workshop on "Data Driven Management in an Era of Analytics, A.I. and Big Data" during the Healthcare Leadership Academy June 17 to 19 (Read online ) - February 22, 2019
Professor MacVane Phipps (UK) writes a lauding review of Professor El Morr's book "Introduction to Health Informatics: A Canadian Perspective" (Read online) - February 6, 2019
Interview by Excalibur on campus accessibility challenges and use of IT (Read online ) - February 1, 2019
New book: with Prof. Hossam Ali-Hassan author on analytics in health care (Read online ) - September 10, 2018
New book: Publication of the ‘first-of-its-kind’ health informatics book in Canada(Read Online) - April 12, 2018
New publication: an article on eHealth as a facilitator of equitable access to primary healthcare in rural settings and refugee camps in Lebanon (Read Online) - March 28, 2018
Nw publication: a paper that identifies a new "Group Engagement" factor in a tool that measures patient engagement, within a Canadian outpatient day hospital mental health program (Read Online) - October 19, 2017
Interview by Innvatus: "Informing students about informatics" (Read Online) - June 6, 2017
In the news: York researchers want to combat student mental health, right at your fingertips (Read Online) - March 20, 2017
In the news: York U leads research on tool to assess hospital patient readmission risk (Read Online) - November 28, 2016
In the news: York research team launches Mindfulness Virtual Community project (Read Online) - March 4, 2016
In the news: York U team receives close to $1M in funding for mental-health care virtual community for students (Read Online) - March 4, 2016
In the news: York U researchers get funding to study online supportive mental-health community for students (Read Online) - February 28, 2016
Recognition as a York University Research Leader (Read Online) - April 2015
Interview by The Faculty of Health, "How can we use technology and social networks to provide patients and their families with support anytime, anywhere?" (Read Online) - September 22, 2014
In the news: Collaboration brings awareness to little known disease ( Read Online)