Core Team

Marc Carrier
Dr. Marc Carrier (MD, MSc, FRCPC)

Marc Carrier (MD, MSc, FRCPC) is Head of the Division of Hematology at The Ottawa Hospital, a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program of The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He holds a Tier 1 Research Chair in Venous Thromboembolism and Cancer from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. His role in the MET group is to provide expertise with regards to the clinical aspects related to mitigating adverse interactions for multimorbid patients and to help in development of different models describing patients’ compliance to therapy.

Martin Michalowski
Prof. Martin Michalowski

Martin Michalowski is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and a Co-Director of the Center for Nursing Informatics at the University of Minnesota. He is a co-leader of the Digital Health Lab at the University of Minnesota, a co-leader of the Mobile Emergency Triage (MET) Research Group at the University of Ottawa, and director of machine learning research at Treatment.com. His research portfolio includes novel contributions in information integration, record linkage, heuristic-based planning, constraint satisfaction problems, large language models, and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) methods in nursing informatics research. His interdisciplinary research brings advanced AI methods and models to clinical decision support at the point of care and to personalized medicine.

Dr. Michalowski earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, where he solved automated reasoning problems using AI. In 2018, he was elected Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI); in 2021, he was named to the Fellows of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA); in 2024, he was elected to the Academy Fellows of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI). He authored and co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed articles on a range of AI-related topics. Dr. Michalowski is the organizing chair of the International Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI) that is held at the AAAI annual conference. He was co-chair of the 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2020) and served in the same role for AIME 2022. His research has received funding from the NSF, NIH, DARPA, DoD, and various private foundations. His work has resulted in two patents and several startup companies.

Wojtek Michalowski
Prof. Wojtek Michalowski

Wojtek Michalowski is Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa where he was Full Professor of Health Informatics and Decision Support. He also served as Vice-dean (Research) and Interim Dean at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Wojtek is Adjunct Research Professor at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University and Affiliated Researcher at the Montfort Hospital Research Institute. He authored or co-authored over 160 refereed publications and gave numerous invited talks. Wojtek's research interests are in clinical decision support systems, computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines for multi-morbid patients, and use of predictive modelling to support patient management.

Szymon Wilk
Prof. Szymon Wilk

Szymon Wilk is an Associate Professor in the Division of Intelligent Decision Support Systems at the Poznan University of Technology and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include design and implementation of decision support systems, data analysis and knowledge discovery based on rough set theory and decision support. Szymon has been involved in the MET research program since 1998. He implemented the first generation of the MET environment, worked on the design of MET2, and led development of the MET3 architecture. He is currently involved in developing computer-based models for reconciling clinical practice guidelines for a co-morbid situation.