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I’m an independent scientist scientist best known for my work on creating and sharing large deidentified electronic health record data including MIMIC and eICU-CRD.

Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Critical Care

Education

  • DPhil in Healthcare Innovation, 2014

    University of Oxford

  • BEng in Biomedical & Electrical Engineering, 2009

    McMaster University

Recent & Upcoming Talks

A Practical Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Understanding the basics of natural language processing with Python examples.

Building high performance chest x-ray classification models and understanding why they are all wrong.

Understanding pitfalls of deep learning with medical imaging.

Deidentification of free-text clinical notes with pretrained bidirectional transformers

Removing patient health information from free-text notes using neural networks.

MIMIC-IV: Analysis Tutorial

A fully reproducible analysis conducted in MIMIC-IV.

MIMIC-IV: Data Tutorial

An overview of the data contained within MIMIC-IV.

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