Keynote
David L. Buckeridge, MD Ph.D
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Bio: David Buckeridge is a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University in Montreal where he holds the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Applied Public Health Chair in eHealth Interventions. A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada with specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Dr Buckeridge practices Public Health as a Medical Consultant to the Montreal Public Health Department, the Quebec Public Health Institute, and the Quebec Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Services. As a clinician-scientist in public health, his research and practice focus on the informatics of public health surveillance and disease control. At McGill, Dr Buckeridge directs the Surveillance Lab, which is an interdisciplinary group of over twenty students and staff with a mission to develop, implement, and evaluate novel computational methods for public health surveillance. Laboratory research activities are funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr Buckeridge has consulted on surveillance to groups such as the Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada Health Infoway, the US National Academy of Medicine, the US and Chinese Centers for Disease Control, the European Centers for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization. He has a M.D. from Queen's University, a M.Sc. in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical informatics from Stanford University.
