A/Prof Clyde Matava

Transforming Paediatric Healthcare: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Informatics, and the Future of Child Health Research

Dr. Matava is a staff anaesthetist at SickKids Hospital and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the Associate Chief of Perioperative Services for Bioinformatics and the Director of Anaesthesia Informatics, Innovation and Technology in the Department of Anaesthesia at SickKids. His current work focuses on the use of informatics, standardised datasets, AI - in particular machine learning and machine vision - to improve outcomes in medical and patient care and medical education. His clinical interests include airway management and regional anaesthesia. He has served as the President of the Canadian Paediatric Anaesthesia Society and is the current President for the Society for Technology in Anaesthesia Board and past Chair of Epic’s Anaesthesia Specialty Steering Board. He is editor at the journals Paediatric Anaesthesia, the Journal of Medical Systems, and the journal Anaesthesiology.

Join Dr Matava's session on Tuesday 4 November at 1.00pm.

Prof Karen Zwi

Providing Enhanced Access for Child Health Services (PEACH): addressing inequities in hospital outcomes for Australian children from priority populations using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

Professor Karen Zwi is a consultant community paediatrician at Sydney Children’s Hospital (SCH), Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and Clinical Services Director for Child Youth and Family at Northern Sydney Local Health District.

She is a practising community paediatrician with clinical expertise in treating children from priority populations such as asylum seekers, refugees, those in out-of-home care and Aboriginal communities. She believes in developing services that promote equity and resilience, that are strengths based, co-designed by families, and effective in improving child health outcomes and the patient and family experience.

Join Prof Zwi's session on Wednesday 5 November at 1.00pm.