Professor
Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval
Université Laval
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Holly Witteman, PhD, is the Canada Research Chair in Human-Centred Digital Health and a Full Professor in the Department of Family & Emergency Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. Dr. Witteman is a scientist in the VITAM Research Centre for Sustainable Health, the Research Centre of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, and an Affiliate Investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada. With an interdisciplinary background in human factors engineering and social sciences, her research is about how we can achieve human-centredness in health-related domains, including a focus on how best to adapt digital health technology to people rather than expecting people to adapt to technology. She specializes in human-computer interaction in health education, risk communication and decision making, including design methods and system changes to support inclusive user-, human- and patient-centredness. Her work as Principal Investigator has been funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI, United States), the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN), Sentinelle Nord, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). She has lived with type 1 diabetes since age 7.
Friday, November 22, 2024
10:00 - 11:15 AT Time
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