J. Ross Mitchell
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Academic Affiliations
Industry and Research Affiliations
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Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Academic Affiliations
Industry and Research Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
Dr. Mitchell is currently a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Senior Program Director of Artificial Intelligence Adoption with AHS. He received his PhD at the University of Western Ontario and has been working in the fields of biomedical imaging, artificial intelligence, and machine learning for 30 years.
Dr. Mitchell was the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida from 2019 to 2021. There, he led efforts to develop AI tools to improve the efficiency and quality of cancer care, including models to predict patient outcomes from electronic health record data, and natural language processing to infer diagnostic codes from free-text pathology reports. He was also a Professor of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona from 2011 to 2019 and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary from 2000 to 2011.
Apr 27th 2023
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Amii Fellows Bei Jiang and J.Ross Mitchell appointed as Canada CIFAR AI Chairs.
Mar 13th 2023
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This AI Meetup discussed using federated learning in healthcare projects and beyond, feat. Amii Fellows Ross Mitchell & Randy Goebel.
Feb 3rd 2022
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Ross Mitchell returns to Alberta as the inaugural Alberta Health Services (AHS) Chair in Artificial Intelligence in Health at the University of Alberta, and a Fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
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