Centre for Health Informatics

At the Centre for Health Informatics, we aim to make data more readily accessible to researchers.

Through partnerships with AHS and other external collaborators, CHI is able to facilitate access to high quality, relevant data that can be used to support research and drive innovations.

Meet Tyler Williamson, our Acting Director here at the Centre for Health Informatics.

Tyler is a member of the O’Brien Institute of Public Health and the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, as well as an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Director of the Health Data Science and Biostatistics Diploma Program.

Tyler’s educational background consists of a BSc Statistics at UofC ’05, and a PhD Biostatistics UofC ’11. He received NAPCRG New Investigator Award in 2018 for outstanding work as new primary care investigator within the North American Primary Care Research Group (the largest primary care research organization in the world).

Tyler’s research interests include health data integration, chronic disease surveillance and research using electronic medical record data, and non-canonical link functions for binomial generalized linear models. But really, data isn’t Tyler’s passion it’s the good that can be done for his family, loved ones, and the general population that being able to work with data in this way offers. In his spare time, Tyler is involved with his church and spends his time exploring the outdoors with his 4 kids and wife, Heather!