Honorary Fellows
Honorary Fellow is an honour which the Australian e-Health Research Centre may bestow upon individuals who have distinguished themselves through achievements in Health Information Technology or in activities in support of the aims and objectives of the Australian e-Health Research Centre.
Richard C. Alvarez
President and Chief Executive Officer
Canada Health Infoway
Richard Alvarez is a leader in Canadian health care. He is known for taking on challenging mandates and building successful organizations. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada Health Infoway, he has been a catalyst for accelerating the development of electronic health records in Canada. He has established strong, collaborative relationships with the federal, provincial and territorial governments and other stakeholders as the foundation for solid progress. He has articulated a broad national vision for reforming Canada's health care system through innovation and technology. On the international front, he has helped to position Canada as a world leader in health care renewal. Recently, Mr. Alvarez was recognized at the 2007 National Builder Inductee to the Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) Hall of Fame for the leadership he has exercised throughout his career (with the Government of Alberta, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and at Canada Health Infoway) in promoting the application of innovative technology to improve health care delivery for Canadians.
Prior to his role at Infoway, Mr. Alvarez also played a key role in harnessing the power of information to improve health care. As former president and chief executive officer and ex-officio board member of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), he helped CIHI evolve into a well-known and respected organization with strong ties to the research community. Mr. Alvarez is past chair of the National Health Information Council. He is a frequent speaker and facilitator at national and international health care conferences and is a past recipient of the Who's Who in Healthcare Award. He is an honorary fellow of the Australian e-Health Research Centre's (AEHRC) Advisory Committee of Australia, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Identify, Privacy and Security Initiative at the University of Toronto.
Visiting Fellows
Australian e-Health Research Centre Visiting Fellowships are designed to enable International and Australian-based researchers to be seconded from their organisations to undertake agreed collaborative projects under the auspices of the Australian e-Health Research Centre research program.
December 2007
Visiting Fellow - Dr Neil Killeen (Centre for Neuroscience, the University of Melbourne)
manages a Research Neuro-science Computational and Informatics Facility which supports researchers
from a diverse community, including the Howard Florey Institute, the University of Melbourne, NICTA
and the Melbourne Neuro-psychiatry Centre. Neil has a PhD in Astrophysics, and worked previously for
the CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility in Sydney, where he managed and developed radio
astronomy software and techniques, as well as undertaking astrophysical research. Neil played a
leading role in the Australian contribution to the International Virtual Observatory, a global
astronomy informatics program.
December 2007
Visiting Fellow - Dr IIkka Korhonen is the Chief Research Scientist of ICT for
Health at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Dr Korhonen's research interests include
use of ICT for health and wellness, biosignal interpretation methods and pervasive health care
technologies and their application in critical care patient monitoring, personal health systems,
ambient assisted living, and eHealth. He received his PhD ('97) in signal processing from Tampere
University of Technology, Finland.
August 2006
Visiting Fellow - Dr Simon Warfield is an Associate Professor of Radiology at
Harvard Medical School and Director, Computational Radiology Laboratory, Children's Hospital
Boston. His research in the field of medical image analysis has focused on methods for
quantitative image analysis through novel segmentation and registration approaches, and in
real-time image analysis, enabled by high performance computing technology, in support of
surgery. Dr Warfield graduated with a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University
of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Dr Warfield serves on the Research and Investment
Advisory Committee of the Australian e-Health Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia.
June 2006
Visiting Fellow - Dr. Murray H. Loew is Professor and Chair of the Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science Department at George Washington University. After receiving a
PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, Murray Loew spent six years in industry.
He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Washington University,
Washington, D.C. His teaching and research interests include medical image processing and analysis
(salience; multispectral infrared breast imaging; human vs. machine stereology), compression
(task-based measures of reconstructed image quality), and pattern recognition (small-sample measures
for error probability and ROC; multisensor fusion for vehicle classification). He is a Fellow of
the IEEE and of AIMBE.
March 2006
Visiting Fellow - Dr Michael Lawley is a Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland
University of Technology and is QUT's W3C Advisory Committee Representative. He is a Visiting Fellow
at the CSIRO/Queensland Government e-Health Research Centre working on e-Health Metadata and Ontologies
with a specific focus on SNOMED CT and Description Logics. He also consults in the areas of lightweight
(REST-based) systems integration, workflow analysis, and model-driven development. Previously, Dr
Lawley was a Senior Project Leader for the Pegamento Project at the Cooperative Research Centre for
Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC Pty Ltd), Brisbane, Australia. His recent work
involves research into model-driven development techniques and prototyping of tools to support
model-driven development. He was a core contributor to DSTC's work on the Object Management
Group (OMG) Meta Object Facility 2.0 Query/View/Transformation (MOF QVT).