Dr. Anna Goldenberg, Senior Scientist at SickKids & Assoc. Prof. at UT

Welcome to Northern Lights: Canadian Women in Tech & Business, where we spotlight the incredible journeys of Canada's most trailblazing women. In the inaugural episode, host Berlin Mathur is joined by Dr. Anna Goldenberg, Senior Scientist at SickKids Research Institute and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.

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Dr. Goldenberg earned her PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and completed her postdoctoral training at the Penn Centre for Bioinformatics and the Donnelly Centre. She holds the gerposition of the first Varma Family Chair in Biomedical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute, where she also co-leads the AI in Medicine for Kids (AIM) initiative. She is a CIFAR AI Chair and a fellow in CIFAR's Child and  Brain Development group. Additionally, she co-leads the research theme at the Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM), driving innovation in AI for medical research.

Her lab focuses on developing machine learning methods for clinical applications across various diseases and conditions, as well as quantifying variability in healthy states among individuals and populations using wearable technology.

As the Concentration Director for the Master of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) AI in Healthcare, she is responsible for developing and leading top-tier educational programs in Computational Medicine and Computational Biology. She fosters collaborations with relevant departments, the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and T-CAIREM in her educational role within LMP.

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