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SAMINA ABIDI PERSONAL INFORMATION

Assistant Professor (Faculty of Medicine) & Adjunct Associate Professor (Faculty of Computer Science) Dalhousie University Citizenship: Canadian

Mailing Address: Division of Medical Education. Room 2L-C2, Tupper Link Building. 5849 University Avenue. PO Box 15000. Halifax, NS B3H 4R2. Canada Phone: (H) 902-4460202

(C) 902-4482447 (W) 902-494-1764

Email: [email protected] http://informatics.medicine.dal.ca EDUCATION

2010 PhD (Health Informatics) Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS Dissertation: Ontology Modelling for Handling Co-morbid Chronic Heart

Failure and Atrial Fibrillation in Decision Support Framework

Supervisor: Dr. Michael Shepherd Committee: Dr. Jafna Cox, Dr. Denis Riordan, Dr. Patrick McGrath External Examiner: Dr. David Riano, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

2001 MSc (Information Technology) Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Project: Electronic Medical Records: A Study in Requirements

Specification and Design

1992 Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) Dow Medical College, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

AWARDS

1. COACH (Canada’s Health Informatics Association) Steven Huesing Award (Nov. 2007). The award is granted to the top Canadian health informatics graduate student.

2. Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Award ($40,000/year Sept. 2006–Sept. 2009). This is the premier scholarship offered by CIHR to the top graduate students pursuing a health research project.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Health Knowledge Management, Clinical Decision Support, Health Knowledge Modeling and Computerization, Patient Oriented Care Planning, Patient Education & Self-management, Comorbid Care Planning, Knowledge Translation, , Evaluation of Health Information Systems

RESEARCH GRANTS

1. Project Title: Evidence-Informed Multimorbidity Medication Management: An E-Health Based Decision Support System for Pharmacists Role: Principal Investigator Sponsor: NSHRF Establishment Grant Duration: Submitted March 19th 2014 – Unsuccessful Grant Amount: 150000 Canadian Dollars

2. Project Title: A Computerized Special Authorization – Decision Support System for Novel Oral Anticoagulant therapy Principal Investigator: Dr. Jafna Cox. Role: Co-Principal Investigator Sponsor: Bayer’s Canada. Duration: March 2014-March 2016 Grant Amount: 15000 Canadian Dollars

3. Project Title: Integrated Management Program Advancing Community

Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (IMPACT-AF) Principal Investigator: Dr. Jafna Cox Role: Co-Investigator Sponsor: Bayer’s Canada Duration: Jan 2013-Jan 2018 Grant Amount: 5300000 Canadian Dollars

4. Project Title: D-WISE - A Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment: An E-health Solution Operationalizing Behaviour Change Models and Clinical Guidelines for Patient-centered Diabetes Self-management Principal Investigator: Samina Abidi Role: Principal Investigator Sponsor: CIHR E-Health Innovation Grant Duration: May 2013-May 2014 Grant Amount: $99,905 Canadian Dollars

5. Project Title: An Integrated Knowledge Management Framework for Supporting

Young Cancer Survivors Principal Investigator: Dr. Syed Abidi Role: Co-Investigator

Sponsor: CIHR (Catalyst Grant) Duration: May 2010 - March 2013 Grant Amount: $89,219 Canadian Dollars

6. Project Title: Decision Support Services for Managing Chronic Diseases with

Comorbidities Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Shepherd Role: Co-Principal Investigator Sponsor: Green Shield Canada Duration: May 2008 – Dec. 2011 Grant Total: $299,050 Canadian Dollars

7. Project Title: Knowledge Translation Strategy to Improve Paediatric Pain

Management in Southern Brazil Principal Investigator: Dr. Allen Finley, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University Role: Co-Investigator Sponsor: CIHR (Knowledge Translation Supplement) Grant Total: $96,455 Canadian Dollars (Unsuccessful)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. Assistant Professor (Sept. 2012 – to date)

2. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Sept. 2010 – Aug. 2012) Institution: Dalhousie University Supervisor: Prof. Michael Shepherd Funding: Green Shield Canada and CANARIE (Canada’s Advance Research

and Innovation Network)

Project 1: Usability Evaluation of Family Physicians Interaction with COMET. Job Description: (a) Converting COMET into a fully functional clinical decision Support system. (b) Designing and conduction a usability study of family physicians interaction with COMET

Project 2: Design and Development of a Personalized Patient Self-Management System for Chronic Heart Failure and its Integration with COMET. Job Description: (a) Development of personalized patient education tool for heart failure patients, that also support self-reporting of vital signs, weight, physical activity and provides feedback in the form of weekly graphs and charts along with tailored health messages. (b) Usability evaluation of the tool for its information presentation, content and tailoring features.

Project 3: Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management (POKM) Job Description: Ontological modeling of ocean and marine life knowledge to develop and maintain an ocean science ontology

3. Research Assistant (Jan, 2012 – To date) Project: TIME (Tools, Information, Motivation, Environment) for health: A

Multi-level Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating in Children and their Families

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sara Kirk, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University

Institution: Dalhousie University Funding: Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada & CIHR

4. Team Member (Jan. 2011 – May 2011) Project: Cruise Control: First Gear—Development of the Community Research

Alliance Principal Investigator: Dr. Joan Versnel, School of Occupational Therapy,

Dalhousie University Institution: Dalhousie University Funding: NSHRF (Community Alliance Development Grant)

5. Research Assistant (Jan. 2010 – June. 2010) Project: Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management (POKM) Principal Investigator: Dr. Syed Abidi, Faculty of Computer Science,

Dalhousie University Institution: Dalhousie University Funding: CANARIE (Canada’s Advance Research and Innovation Network)

6. Research Assistant (Mar. 2009 – May 2009) Project: To Investigate the Potential for Clinical Decision Support

Functionalities for the Practimax system Institution: Dalhousie University Funding: Industry Liaison and Innovation, Dalhousie University

7. Research Assistant (June 2007 – Jan. 2008) Project: Neighborhood: Personalized Care Pathways for Prostate Cancer Principal Investigator: Dr. Lorna Butler, Dept. of Nursing, Faculty of Health

Professions, Dalhousie University Institution: Dalhousie University Funding: National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC)

8. Research Assistant (April 2006 – August 2006) Project: Modeling of Breast Cancer Clinical Practice Guidelines for Decision

Support and Best Evidence Retrieval Principal Investigator: Dr. Syed Abidi, Faculty of Computer Science,

Dalhousie University Institution: Dalhousie University Funding: Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation

9. Project Team Member: (Jan 2005 – April 2005) Project: On-line survey tool as an evaluative tool to improve vaccine education

for health professionals Institution: Dalhousie University & IWK Hospital.

10. Research Assistant (June. 2000 – June 2001) Project: The Design & Development of A Tele-Healthcare Information and

Diagnostic Environment Principal Investigator: Dr. Zarin Yusoff, Faculty of Computer Sciences,

Universiti Sains Malaysia Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. Funding: Intensified Research in Priority Areas, Ministry of Science &

Technology

11. Research Assistant (Jan. 2000 – June 2000) Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. Project: Web-Accessible Database for Chemical and Biological Information Principal Investigator: Dr. Zarin Yusoff, Faculty of Computer Sciences,

Universiti Sains Malaysia Funding: World Health Organisation (WHO)

12. Resident House Surgeon (April 1998 – Oct. 1998) Institution: Sobraj Maternity Home, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation,

Karachi, Pakistan

13. General Practitioner. (Nov. 1994 – Dec. 1995) Institution: Zishan Clinic, Karachi, Pakistan

14. Resident House Surgeon (Oct. 1992 – Apr. 1993) Institution: Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

15. Resident House Surgeon (Apr. 1992 – Oct. 1992) Institution: Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.

PUBLICATIONS

Health Informatics Articles (Full-Paper Review)

2014

1. Abidi, Samina, Michael Vallis, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Helena Piccinini-Vallis, Syed Ali Imran. D-WISE: Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment: Conceptual Specification and Proposed Evaluation. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 2014;38(3):205-211

2. Russell A, Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR. Shared Decision Making: Using Theories and Technology to Engage the Patient in Their Health Journey. 25th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2014). Istanbul, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2014.

3. Stewart SA, Abidi Samina, Parker L, Bernstein M, Abidi SSR. Clinical Guideline-Driven Personalized Self-Management Diary for Paediatric Cancer Survivors. 25th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2014). Istanbul, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2014.

2013

4. Abidi, Samina, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi. A Semantic Web Framework to Computerize

and Execute Clinical Guidelines: Towards the Handling of Co-Morbidities in Clinical Decision Support Systems. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (QF-ARC) 2013. November 24-25 2013. Doha, Qatar

5. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza, Abusharek Ashraf. A Semantic Web Based Mobile Framework for Designing Personalized Patient Self-Management Interventions. Conference on Mobile and Information Technologies in Medicine and Health 2013. November 20th 2013. Prague, Czech Republic.

6. Abidi, Samina, Sam Stewart, Michael Shepherd, S.S. Raza Abidi. Usability Evaluation of Family Physicians’ Interaction with COMET: Comorbidity Ontological

Modeling and ExecuTion System. Medinfo 2013, August 20th -23th, 2013 Copenhagen.

7. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi & Abidi, Samina. An Ontology-Driven Personalization Framework for Designing Theory-Driven Self-Management Intervention. 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC ’13-Pro-Health ‘13). In conjunction with 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME ‘13). June 1st, 2013, Murcia, Spain.

2012 8. Jafarpour, B., Abidi, Samina, Abidi SSR. (2012) OWL-Based Execution of

Ontologically-Modeled Clinical Practice Guidelines. 24th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2012), August 26-29 2012, Pisa

9. Omaish, M, Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR.. Ontology-based Computerization of Acute Coronary Syndrome Clinical Guidelines for Clinical Decision Support in Emergency Departments. 24th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2012) August 26-29, 2012 Pisa.

10. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR. A Semantic Web Approach to Align Institution-Specific Clinical Pathways to Develop a Standardized Care Model. 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2012) 20-22 June 2012, Rome.

11. Abidi, Samina, Cox, J. Abidi, SSR., Shepherd. M. Semantic Web Based Clinical Guideline Modeling to Handle Comorbidities: Aligning Ontologically-Modeled Single Disease Clinical Pathways. 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2012) 20-22 June 2012, Rome.

12. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR (2012) Aligning Institution-Specific Clinical Pathways to Develop a Standardized Care Model for Prostate Cancer. 2nd Advances in Health Informatics Conference (AHIC 2012), April 25-27, 2012. Toronto

13. Jafarpour, B. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR. OWL-Based Execution of Ontologically-Modeled Clinical Practice Guidelines. Advances in Health Informatics Conference (AHIC 2012), April 25-27, 2012 Toronto.

14. Abidi, Samina, Shepherd, M., Cox, J (2012) Computerizing Comorbid Clinical Guidelines Using OWL Ontology: A Decision Support System for Cardiac Diseases. 2nd Advances in Health Informatics Conference (AHIC 2012), April 25-27, 2012. Toronto

15. Abidi, Samina, Cox, J., Shepherd, M., Abidi, SSR (2012). Using OWL ontologies for Clinical Guidelines Based Comorbid Decision Support. 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-45), Jan. 4-7, 2012, Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii

2011

16. Jafarpour, B., Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR. (2011). Exploiting OWL Reasoning Services to Execute Ontologically-modelled Clinical Practice Guidelines. 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME ’11), July 2-6, 2011, Bled, Slovenia

2010

17. Abidi, Samina. (2010). Ontology Based Knowledge Modeling to Provide Decision

Support for Comorbid Diseases. 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health-Care (KR4HC), August 2010, Lisbon.

2009

18. Daniyal, A., Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR. (2009). Computerizing Clinical Pathways:

Ontology Based Modeling and Execution. 22nd Intl. Conf. on European Federation of Medical Informatics (MIE09), August 30 – Sept. 02 2009, Sarajevo.

19. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR. (2009). Towards the Merging of Multiple Clinical Protocols and Guidelines via Ontology-Driven Modeling. In Combi C, Shahar Y, Abu-Hanna A (Eds) 12th Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, (AIME) July 18-22 2009, Verona. LNAI 5651, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

2008 20. Abidi, Samina, Shepherd, M. (2008). A Clinical Practice Guideline-Based Ontology

Driven Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Follow-Up. Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare. 2008; 6(1); pp. 23-32.

2007

21. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR., Hussain, S., Shepherd, M. ((2007). Ontology-based

Modelling of Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Follow-up Interventions at Primary Care Settings. 12th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO 07), August 20-24 2007, Brisbane. IOS Press.

22. Hussain, S., Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR. (2007). Semantic Web Framework for Knowledge-Centric Clinical Decision Support Systems. 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 07) July 07-11, Amsterdam. Springer Verlag.

23. Abidi, Samina and M. Shepherd. (2007) Ontology-Based Modeling of Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Clinical Decision Support System. International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries, Feb. 21-23 2007, Bangalore, India

24. Abidi, Samina, Shepherd, M. (2007). A CPG-Based Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Follow-up. An International conference addressing Information Technology and Communication in Health, Feb 16 -18 2007 Victoria BC.

2006

25. Elvidge, KL., Abidi, Samina, Fitzpatrick, E. (2006). Tailoring patient education

intervention: Towards a computer-tailored patient information system for minor head injuries. International Congress of European Federation of Medical Informatics (MIE 06), 27-30 August 2006, Maastricht. This paper was nominated for Erasmus Award.

26. Abidi, Samina, Chedrawy, Z., Abidi, SSR. (2006). Embedding InfoButtons in Clinical Practice Guidelines: Towards Automatic Generation of Search Queries for PubMed. 20th International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE’2006), August 27-30 2006, Maastricht, IOS Press.

27. Abidi, Samina, Elvidge, KL., Kharrazi, H., Shepherd, M., Watters, C., Duffy, J. (2006). Reformulation of Consumer Health Queries with Standard Medical Vocabularies. 11th Intl. Symp. Health Information Management Research (iSHIMR 06), July 14-16 2006, Halifax.

2005 28. Abidi, SSR., Hussain, F., Abidi, Samina. (2005). Morphing Tacit and Explicit

Medical Knowledge: Providing Multi-Faceted Medical Decision Support. 10th Intl. Symp. Health Information Management Research (iSHIMR 05), Sept. 22-24 2005, Thessaloniki

2001

29. Abidi, SSR., Han, CY., Abidi, Samina. (2001). Patient Empowerment via ‘Pushed’

Delivery of Personalised Healthcare Educational Content Over the Internet. 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO 01), September 2–5 2001, London, IOS Press.

30. Abidi, SSR., Abidi, Samina. (2001). A Case For Supplementing Evidence-Based Medicine With Inductive Clinical Knowledge: Towards A Technology Enriched Integrated Clinical Evidence System. 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS 01), July 26-27 2001, Bethesda, IEEE Press.

31. Abidi, SSR., Han, CY., Abidi, Samina. (2001). An Intelligent Info-Structure for Composing and Publishing Personalized Healthcare Information Over the Internet. 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS 01), July 26-27 2001, Bethesda, IEEE Press.

Health Informatics Book Chapters (Full Paper Review)

32. Abidi, Samina. (2014). Health Informatics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Prospects. In Vaidya K & Soar J (Ed.), Health Informatics (e-Health) for the Curious: Why Study Health Informatics. City: Publisher. (ISBN 978-1-925128-71-0).

33. Abidi, Samina. Ontology-based Knowledge Modeling to Provide Decision Support for Comorbid Diseases, In Riano, D.; ten Teije, A.; Miksch, S.; Peleg, M. (Eds.), KR4HC 2010: Knowledge Representation in Health Care, LNCS 6512. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 27-39

34. Abidi, Samina. A Conceptual Framework for Ontology based Automating and Merging of Clinical Pathways of Comorbidities. In Riano, D (Eds) Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures LNCS 5626. Springer Berlin/ Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 56-66

35. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR., Hussain, S., Butler, L. (2008). Operationalizing Prostate Cancer Clinical Pathways: An Ontological Model to Computerize, Merge and Execute Institution-Specific Clinical Pathways. In Riano, D. (Ed.) Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, ECAI 2008 Workshop K4HeLP, LNAI 5626, pp. 1-12, Springer, Berlin/ Heidelberg

Inter-Disciplinary Articles (Full-Paper Review)

36. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR, Kwan, M., Daniyal, A. (2011). An Ontology Framework for Modeling Ocean Data and E-Science Semantic Web Services. International Conference on Innovation and Management, July 12-15 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

37. Abidi, SSR, Daniyal, A., Abusharekh, A., Abidi, Samina, Yeo, P., Khan, F., Kwan, M., Mehdi, F., Le, Y. (2011). A Semantic Web based E-Science Framework for Ocean Knowledge Management. International Conference on Innovation and Management, July 12-15 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

38. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR, Kwan, M., Daniyal, A. (2011). Ontology-based Modeling of Oceans Knowledge and Data: Towards Semantic Web Services for Ocean Research. International Conference on Intelligent Computational Systems, July 8-9 2011, Bangkok

39. Daniyal, A., Abidi, Samina, Abusharekh, A., Kwan, M., Abidi, SSR. (2010). A Knowledge-Centric E-Research Platform for Marine Life and Oceanographic Research. Intl. Conf. on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, Oct. 25-18 2010, Valencia.

40. Abidi, SSR., Abusharekh, A., Daniyal, A.. Kuan, M., Mehdi, F., Abidi, Samina, Abbas, F., Yeo, P., Jamal, F., Fathzadeh, R. (2010). A Service Oriented E-Research Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management. 6th IEEE World Congress on Services (Services2010), July 5-10 2010, Miami

Health Informatics Abstracts (Peer Reviewed)

41. SSR. ABIDI, S. Abidi. The ADVICE Infrastructure for Generating and Delivering Evidence-Informed Clinical Decision Support Services: A Knowledge Management Approach. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, Doha, Nov 24-25 2013 (Poster Presentation)

42. S. Abidi, SSR. ABIDI, Jafna Cox. A Semantic Web Framework to Computerize and Execute Clinical Guidelines: Towards the Handling of Co-Morbidities in Clinical Decision Support Systems. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, Doha, Nov 24-25 2013 (Poster Presentation)

43. S. Abidi, SSR. ABIDI. A Patient Education Framework for Designing Personalized Self-Management Interventions for Home-Based Chronic Disease Management. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, Doha, Nov 24-25 2013 (Poster Presentation)

44. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR, Daniyal, A., Abusharekh, A., and Kwan M. Ontology driven E-Science Platform for Ocean Sciences. IADIS International Conference, E-Society 2012. 10 - 13 March 2012. Berlin, Germany.

45. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, S.S.R., Shepherd M. (2012) Usability Evaluation of Family Physicians Interaction with COMET: Comorbidity Ontological Modeling & ExecuTion System. E-Health, May 27-30 2012, Vancouver (Under Review)

46. Abidi, Samina. (2011). Empowering Physicians to Handle Comorbidities Through Evidence-based Clinical Decision Support Systems. E-Health 2011 May 29–June 1 2011, Toronto

47. Abidi, Samina. (2011). Semantic Web based health knowledge modeling: Decision support system for handling co-morbidities. Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services, May 18 2011, Miramichi, New Brunswick

48. Abidi, SSR, Abidi, Samina, A. Daniyal. (2010). Standardizing Inter-Institution Care via Ontologically Modelled Clinical Pathways. 13th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO 2010), Sept. 12-15 2010, Cape Town, IOS Press

49. Abidi, Samina, Cox, J., Howlett, J. & Shepherd, M. (2010). Ontology Modeling for Handling Co-Morbidities in Decision Support Systems. 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO 2010), Sept. 12-15 2010, Cape Town, IOS Press

50. Abidi, Samina. (2010). Ontology-based Modelling and Alignment of Comorbid Clinical Practice Guidelines for Decision Support Purposes. E-Health 2010, May 30–June 2 2010, Vancouver

51. Abidi, SSR, Abidi, Samina, Daniyal, A. (2010). Standardizing Inter-Institution Care Via Alignment of Clinical Pathways. E-Health 2010, May 30– June 2 2010, Vancouver

52. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR., Hussain, H., Salman, A. (2009). A Clinical Decision Support System for Guideline-Based Cancer Follow-Up Care at Primary Care Setting, Cancer Research Symposium, Nov. 16 -17, 2009, Halifax, NS

53. Abidi, Samina, Abidi, SSR. (2008). Computerizing Clinical Pathways to Generate Patient-specific Care-Maps for Prostate Cancer Management, E-Health 2008, May 2008, Vancouver.

54. Abidi, Samina, Hussain S. (2007). Ontology-Based Modelling of Breast Cancer Follow-up Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Decision Support System. Virtual Student Symposium in E-Health and Health Informatics. May 27 2007, Quebec City

55. Abidi, SSR, Hussain, S., Abidi Samina. (2007). Computerizing and Operationalizing Clinical Practice Guidelines for Point of Care Clinical Decision Support. E-Health 2007, May 27–30 2007, Quebec City

56. Abidi, Samina. (2006). A CPG-Based Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Follow-Up. KR-MED 2006, International Workshop, Nov. 8 2006, Baltimore, MD, USA

57. Fitzpatrick, E., Abidi, Samina, Elvidge, K. (2006). Towards a tailored web-based information system for Minor Head Injury. 11th International Conference on Emergency Medicine, June 3-7 2006, Halifax

Health Informatics Workshop Director

Abidi SSR., Abidi, Samina. Thinking Clinical Workflows: Designing and Implementing Electronic Clinical Workflows, Half Day workshop at E-Health 2011 May 29 2011, Toronto

Health Informatics Research Exhibitor

NICHE (kNowledge Intensive Computing for Healthcare Enterprises) research exhibited at CAPHC - Canadian Association of Pediatrics Health Centers, 2009 Annual Meeting, Oct. 18-21, Halifax, NS.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 1. AFMC - Association of Faculties of Medicine in Canada. Faculty of Medicine,

Dalhousie University’s official resource person for the AFMC’s Informatics Resource Group

2. CAME – Canadian Association for Medical Education 3. CHEC – Canadian Health Education Commons 4. COACH – Canada’s Health Informatics Association 5. NIHI – National Institute of Health Informatics 6. AMIIA – American Medical Informatics Association 7. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

RESEARCH BASED DEMONSTRATOR SYSTEMS

I have both led and contributed as member of a R&D team to the design and development of the following research based computer systems:

1. System Title: COMET- Comorbidity Ontological Modeling & ExecuTion (2011)

Short Description: COMET is a web-based clinical decision support system designed to provide evidence-based recommendations to general practitioners for managing CHF, AF and co-morbid CHF and AF in primary care settings.

Role: This project is an outcome of my doctoral research Related Publications: 1, 3, 5, 18, 19, 36, 37, 39 and 40

2. System Title: Oceanographic Sciences Ontology (2011)

Short Description: The Oceanographic Sciences ontology in POKM serves as the formal semantic description of the concepts and relationships pertaining to the Marine Biology and the Oceanography domain. The ontology allows semantic interoperability between the ocean and marine life domain.

Role: Knowledge modelling, Ontology engineering Related Publications: 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33

3. System Title: Prostate Cancer Care Planning and Management System (2008)

Short Description: Role: This web-based system coordinates the patient-specific prostate cancer care activities based on an institution’s clinical pathway. The system models the clinical pathways for three different Canadian cancer care institutions in Halifax, Winnipeg and Calgary.

Role: Development of the clinical pathways, Modeling and computerization of the clinical pathways, Alignment of the three clinical pathways, System Design.

Related Publications: 4, 20, 38, 41 and 43

4. System Title: Breast Cancer Follow-up Decision Support System (2007) Short Description: The Breast Cancer Follow-up Decision Support System is based

on the computerized version of the clinical guideline for the care and treatment of breast cancer. The web-based system assists family physicians to make guideline based clinical decisions, recommendations and referrals for breast cancer survivors. The system was developed in collaboration with Cancer Care Nova Scotia.

Role: Computerization of Canadian clinical guideline for breast cancer follow-up. Development of breast cancer ontology (knowledge model) and decision rules for decision support.

Related Publications: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 42, 44, 45 and 46

5. System Title: Web-based Parents Education System for Minor Head Injury in Children Ages 0 -16 years (2006) Short Description: The system provides injury-specific advice to parents in cases

when their children suffer a minor head injury. The system provides relevant advice for home-based care or referral to the emergency department.

Role: Computerization of patient education material and decision logic for recommendations. System design in terms of database and interface design

Related Publications: 11 and 47

6. System Title: On-line Vaccine Education for Health Professionals (2005) Short Description: This web-based system contains vaccine information to help

health professionals in the delivery of vaccinations. The system provides best evidence about the diseases and response of the vaccines, and any news pertaining to the spread of the disease.

Role: Developed mechanisms (an Info-Button) to access published literature. System design in terms of user information flows, messages and interface design.

Related Publications: 12 7. System Title: Tele-Healthcare Environment for Personalized Patient Education

(2000) Short Description: Web-based personalized healthcare information is generated

based on an individual’s current health profile as recorded in his/her electronic health record.

Role: Preparation of the health education content, Development of decision logic to select relevant educational messages

Related Publications: 15

8. System Title: Web-Accessible Database for Chemical and Biological Information (2000) Short Description: Web-enabled database storing coded chemical and biological

information approved by the Malaysian Ministry of Health. Role: Coding of chemical and biological information Related Publications: 17

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

1. Empowering Physicians to Handle Co-Morbidities: Evidence based Clinical Decision Support Systems at Agha Khan Medical University, July 2011, Karachi

2. Health Informatics: Research Landscape & Opportunities at Universiti Sains Malaysia, July 2011, Penang

3. Towards Usability Evaluation of Family Physicians Interaction with COMET: Comorbidity Ontological Modelling & ExecuTion System (Health Informatics Seminar Series) at Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, October 21th 2011

4. Ontology Modeling for Handling Co-morbid Diseases in Decision Support Systems (Health Informatics Seminar Series) at Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, November 3rd 2009

5. Ontology-based Modeling of Breast Cancer Follow-up Clinical Practice Guideline for providing Clinical Decision Informatics (Health Informatics Seminar Series) at Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nov. 21th 2007

In addition to the above presentations I have presented my research work at a number of scientific conferences

TEACHING

2014 Teaching Jan. 2014-Apr. 2014

Institution: Dalhousie University Course: Research Methods (HINF 6020) Program: Masters of Health Informatics

Student Evaluation (overall performance): 3.22/5 2013 Teaching Sept. 2013 – Nov. 2013

Institution: Dalhousie University Course: Health Information Systems and Issues (HINF 6110) Program: Masters of Health Informatics

Student Evaluation (overall performance): 4.05/5 Jan. 2013-Apr. 2013

Institution: Dalhousie University Course: Research Methods (HINF 6020) Program: Masters of Health Informatics

Student Evaluation (overall performance): 4.13/5

2012 Teaching Sept. 2012-Dec. 2012


Student Evaluation (overall performance): 4.47/5 2011-2007 Teaching Sessional Lecturer (Sept. 2011 – Dec. 2011)


Student Evaluation (overall performance): 3.7/5 Sessional Lecturer (Sept. 2010 – Dec. 2010)


Student Evaluation (overall performance): 4.0/5.0

Sessional Lecturer (Sept. 2010 – Dec. 2010) Institution: Dalhousie University

Course: Health Enterprise Information System (HINF 4100) Program: Bachelor of Informatics (Health Informatics Major)


Sessional Lecturer (Jan 2010 – Apr. 2010) Institution: Dalhousie University Course: Clinical Processes and Decision Making I (HINF 2501) Program: Bachelor of Informatics (Health Informatics Major) Student Evaluation (overall performance): 4.7/5.0

Sessional Lecturer (Jan 2009 – Apr. 2009) Institution: Dalhousie University Course: Clinical Processes and Decision Making I (HINF 2501) Program: Bachelor of Informatics (Health Informatics Major) Student Evaluation (overall performance): 4.7/5.0

Sessional Lecturer (Jan 2008 – April 2008) Institution: Dalhousie University Course: Clinical Processes and Decision Making I (HINF 2501) Program: Bachelor of Informatics (Health Informatics Major)


Sessional Lecturer (Jan 2007 – April 2007) Institution: Dalhousie University Course: Clinical Processes and Decision Making I (HINF 2501) Program: Bachelor of Informatics (Health Informatics Major)

Student Evaluation (overall performance): 5.0/5.0 Following is an overview of my teaching evaluations.

Course Academic Term

Overall Teaching Effectiveness

Total No. of Enrollments

Number of Responses

1. HINF 6020 Winter 2014 3.22/5 11 8/11

2. HINF 6110 Fall 2013 4.05/5 15 10/15

3. HINF 6020 Winter 2013 4.13/5 8 7/8

4. HINF 6110 Fall 2012 4.47/5 19 18/19

5. HINF 6110 Fall 2011 3.7/5 19 18/19

6. HINF 6110 Fall 2010 4/5 16 15/16

7. HINF 4100 Fall 2010 5/5/ 5 5/5

8. HINF 2501 Winter 2010 4.7/5 4 4/4

9. HINF 2501 Winter 2009 4.7/5 3 3/3

10. HINF 2501 Winter 2008 4.7/5 5 5/5

11. HINF 2501 Winter 2007 5/5 5 5/5

Postgraduate Medical Education

2014

Medical Informatics Resident Elective

Delivered 11/2 hours course for Resident’s Elective at Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine

Title- Bridging the knowledge Gap through informatics: Art of Possible

Date: Feb 13th 2014

2013

Medical Informatics Resident Elective

Delivered 3 hours course for Resident’s Elective at Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine

Title- Medical Informatics: Enabling acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information in health care

Date: Feb 28th 2013

COURSE DESIGN I have designed the following courses: Program: Bachelor of Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

1. Health Enterprise Information System – HINF 4100 (2010) 2. Clinical Processes and Decision Making I - HINF 2501 (2007) 3. Clinical Processes and Decision Making II - HINF 2502 (2007)

Program: Masters of Health Informatics, Dalhousie University

1. Research Methods – HINF 6020 (2013) 2. Health Information Systems and Issues – HINF 6110 (2010)

GRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISION Masters of Health Informatics Thesis

1. Wasif Baig, Behaviour Modeling: Developing a Behaviour Change Theories based Knowledge Model for Personalized Lifestyle Interventions in Chronic Disease Management. In Progress

2. Amina Russel, A theory-based computerized framework to support shared decision making, personalized health education and self-management in patients with Hypertension. In Progress.

3. Hani Mufti, Using a predictive model to identify worst possible outcomes in patients who are 70 years or more and are going for heart surgery. In Progress

4. Mostafa Omaish. Ontology-based Knowledge Model for an ACS Management Clinical Guideline: Handling Updates and Institutional Priorities, Dec 2011

POST-DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

1. Samuel Stewart (February 2014 - ongoing)

Title of the Project: D-WISE - A Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment: An E-health Solution Operationalizing Behaviour Change Models and Clinical Guidelines for Patient-centered Diabetes Self-management

Role: Principal Supervisor

2. Borna Jafarpour (January 2014 - ongoing)

Title of the Project: Integrated Management Program Advancing Community Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (IMPACT-AF)


3. Dr. Greg Lee (April 2013-March 2014)

Title of the Project: D-WISE - A Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment: An E-health Solution Operationalizing Behavior Change Models and Clinical Guidelines for Patient-centered Diabetes Self-management


THESIS READER MHI PROGRAM 2014 Ehsan Maghsoudlou. Knowledge-centric Electronic Referral System for Spine Injury. April 2014. 2013 Nelofar Kureshi. Development of a Predictive Model for Personalized Therapeutic Interventions. August 2013

2012

1. Syed Ali Haider Zaidi. An OWL Ontology for Modeling HL-7 Compliant Electronic Patient Records for Chronic Disease Management. Dec. 2012

2. Ghdeer Tashkandi. Standardization of Predictive Factors of Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pilot Study. Dec. 2012

3. Shireen Shareef, From paper based care plans to Care Plan Ontology: A Knowledge Management Approach to Computerized Care Plans for Chronic Disease Management. April 2012

IDPHD PROGRAM 2013 1. Sam Steward. Knowledge Translation in Online Communities of Practice: Utilizing Social Network and Semantic Content Analyses to Link Healthcare Practitioners to the “Right” Knowledge Sources 2. Borna Jafarpour. Ontology Merging Using Semantically- Defined Merge Criteria and OWL Reasoning Services: Towards Execution-Time Merging of Multiple Clinical Workflows to Handle Comorbidities

2012 3. Sam Stewart (PhD Proposal). Literature Review of the Use of Web 2.0 in Knowledge Translation. Dec. 2012

OTHER SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE Supervisor for Dalhousie University Health Mentors Program (2012-2014) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

1. Program Director, Research in Medicine (RIM) Program, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University (2013-ongoing)

2. Member of (along with 3 other RIM program directors) RIM curriculum and Administrative Working Group that collectively work as RIM unit head (2014-ongoing).

3. Chair of RIM committee for evaluation of student learning group (2014-ongoing). 4. Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University’s official resource person for AFMC

(Association of Faculties of Medicine in Canada) Informatics Resource Group (2012-ongoing)

ACCREDITATION

1. University Teaching and Learning Certificate program (Certified June 2008) Institution: The Centre of Teaching and Learning, Dalhousie University. Achievements: Developed 2 Bachelor level Medical Informatics Courses

2. CIHR Strategic Training Program (Certified Jan. 2007) Institution: Dalhousie University. Project: Web Based Parents Education Intervention for Minor Head Injury in Children

3. Certificate of Medical Registration (Certified 1992) Institution: Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, Islamabad, Pakistan

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Conference Program Committee Member

2014

1. The International Workshop on Intelligent Technologies for HealthCare (ITCare-14)”. (ITCare-14). 22-25 September 2014, Halifax Canada

2. The 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ITCH). Sept. 22-25, Halifax, NS. Canada.

3. 2014 International Conference on Brain Informatics and Health (BIH'14). August 11-14, 2014, Warsaw, Poland

4. 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC 2014). July 21, 2014, Vienna, Austria 2013 1. The 3rd International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2013). October 21-24, 2013, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

2. 16th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2013) to take place on the 26-28 June 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Research Paper Review

2014

1. Reviewer for 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC 2014). July 21, 2014, Vienna, Austria

2. Reviewer for The 2014 International Conference on Brain Informatics & Health (BIH'14) August 11-14, 2014, Warsaw, Poland (2)

3. Reviewer for 25th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE 2014) - Istanbul, Aug. 31st – Sept. 3rd, 2014 (3)

4. Reviewer for 2014 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics (5) 5. Reviewer for International Journal of Medical Informatics (4)

2013

1. Reviewer for Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Journal) 2. Reviewer International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,

2013 3. Reviewer for 16th International Symposium on Health Information Management

Research 2013 (ISHIMR 2013). June 26-28, 2013, Halifax, NS 4. Reviewer for ITCH (Information Technology and Communications in Health)

2013, Feb. 21-23, Victoria, BC. 5. Reviewer for The 2013 International Conference on Brain and Health Informatics

Conference (BHI 2013). October 29-31, 2013, Maebashi, Japan. 6. Reviewer for International Review of Social Research (IRSR) (2013) 7. Reviewer for International Journal of Medical Informatics (9)

2012

1. Reviewer for International Journal of Medical Informatics 2. Reviewer for Dalhousie Medical Journal 3. Reviewer for Medical Informatics Europe, MIE (2012). PISA Italy, August 26-29

2012. 4. Reviewed a research grant for Physician’s Services Incorporated Foundation,

Toronto, Ontario (2012). 5. Reviewer for 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, Jan

28, 2012 - Jan 30, 2012, Miami, Florida

2011

1. Reviewer for International Journal of Medical Informatics 2. Reviewer for User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of

Personalization Research 3. Reviewer for 23rd International Conference of EFMI - the European Federation

for Medical Informatics (MIE 2011), August 28 –31, 2011, Oslo, Norway 4. Reviewer for 24th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical

Systems (CBMS 2011), June 27-30, Bristol, UK 5. Reviewer for IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer

Engineering, May 8-11, 2011, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada 6. Reviewer for ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium,

November 9-11, 2010, Miami, Florida

2010

1. Reviewer for 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health-Care (KR4HC 2010) at 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, August 16-20 2010

2. Reviewer for Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health-Care: Data, Processes and Guidelines at Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, July 18-22, Verona, 2009

3. Reviewer for 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 07), June 20 - 22, 2007 Maribor, Slovenia

Research Grant Application Review

2013

1. Title: Rapid Learning for Individualized Lung Cancer Treatment

Granting Agency: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO): Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Vidi 2013 STW

2.Title: Improving the impact of guidelines on clinical decision-making: first do no harm

Granting Agency: PSI (Physician Services Incorporated) Foundation. Ontario, Canada.

January 2014

Title: DXPhone - Mobile Diagnostic Platform for Diabetes

Institution/Organization: Janacare Solutions Private Limited (India)

Principal Investigator: Sidhant Jena, Michal Depa

Granting Agency: CIHR Grand Challenges Canada – Stars in Global Health Transition to Scale – Phase II

May 2014

Title: Scaling Maternal wristbands and non-invasive glucometer and hemoglobin monitors for improving health of the population

Institution/Organization: Tech4Life (Pakistan & Canada)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Shariq Khoja

Granting Agency: CIHR Grand Challenges Canada – Stars in Global Health Transition to Scale – Phase II

Academic Advisory Body Membership

2014-Ongoing

Advisor for International Inter-disciplinary Peer-review and Advisory Panel (IIPAP)

IIPAP is an advisory body of academics for any advice regarding the publication of the book and results/analyses with the view of publishing the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Education, Research and Practice in the future.

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