Highlights
- December 2024
Invited Speaker: Technology Fixes: Progress or Illusions?, December 6, 2024, Institute of Technology and Society, York University. - December 2024
Invited Speaker: Leadership of Persons with Disabilities, December 3, 2024, International Day for Persons with Disabilities, York University. - December 2024
Research Showcase: AI and Society, December 2, 2024, Queen's Park Day, Queen's Park Ontario Legislative Building, Ontario Parliament. - November 2024
Research Poster: The Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Symposium, Nov 19-20, 2024, Toronto. - November 2024
Organizer: The First AI & Disability Justice Symposium, Nov 14-15, 2024, Centre for Feminist Research, York Univesity. - October 2024
Invited Speaker: Tech Progress and False Promises? The Urgent Need for Social Sciences & Humanities, October 23, 2024, Online, Bridge Walk Lecture Series, University of Basel. - October 2024
Invited Speaker: Approaches for Developnig Responsible AI Innovatinos for Glboal Health in MENA, October 7, 2024, Online, organized by The Global Health and Artificial Intelligence Network in the Middle East and North Africa region, American University of Beirut. - 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)