Wojtek Michalowski, PhD

Biography

Wojtek Michalowski is a Full Professor of Health Informatics and since July 2015 he is Vice-dean (Research) at the Telfer School of Management. Dr. Michalowski is a founding member of the MET Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. During the 1997/98 academic year, he was the Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. In 2013, the President of the Republic of Poland granted Dr. Michalowski the state title of Professor in recognition of his outstanding research accomplishments. This honor, the highest distinction given to researchers in Poland, comes at the recommendation of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Michalowski is member of several editorial boards of academic journals. His research interests include computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines, decision analysis and medical decision-making, clinical decision support systems, and computer modeling of interdisciplinary healthcare teams. He has written over hundred refereed papers and has published articles in a number of leading journals.

Dr. Michalowski is currently the Principal Investigator of an NSERC-funded research program that aims at making clinical practice guidelines applicable for patients with multiple diseases and developing clinical decision support systems for cross-platform applications.

Research interests

• Health Management
• Management Information Systems