Dr. Colin Macarthur
Colin Macarthur MBChB, PhD completed his medical training at the University of Glasgow Scotland, and doctoral training in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University, Canada. Dr. Macarthur is currently a Senior Scientist in the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program. From 2012-2017, Dr. Macarthur was Associate Chief Clinical Research at the Hospital for Sick Children, and previous to that (2004-2011), Dr. Macarthur was Vice President Research at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and inaugural Director of the Bloorview Research Institute. Dr. Macarthur is a Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and the Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. His area of research interest is the epidemiology and prevention of childhood injury.
Dr. Macarthur has secured operating grant support from CIHR, NSERC, and ONF, and co-authored over 170 original articles. He was a founding Board Member and Chair of the Quality Committee for Parachute a national injury prevention organization and was previously an editorial board member for the journal Injury Prevention.
Dr. Dhenuka Radhakrishnan
Dr. Dhenuka Radhakrishnan is a pediatric respirologist and Director of the Asthma Program at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, and adjunct ICES Scientist. At the CHEO Research Institute, she is the Captain of the Data Driven Discoveries team and Academic Lead for Research Informatics.
Dr. Radhakrishnan’s research focus is to measure predictors of childhood respiratory morbidity and improve care delivery through the use of large data, and advanced analytics including artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Dr. Richard Webster Ph.D.
Dr. Richard Webster, Ph.D. is the Team Lead for Health Informatics and Big Data at the Ontario Child Health Support Unit. He has >40 publications and has been awarded >$500k of competitive grant funding (more than half of which as the principal awardee). He provides biostatistical oversight for many research projects. Dr. Webster is passionate about optimizing data science consulting workflows to improve productivity and client satisfaction.
His work has included tackling the pandemic through; national surveillance of COVID-19 positivity rate in kids; comparing diagnostic accuracy of nasal & saliva tests; evaluating the safety of reusing PPE masks in healthcare; and determining if single symptom screening of kids for school attendance is effective.
Contact Dr. Webster at RWebster@cheo.on.ca.