Aviv Shachak

Aviv Shachak is a Professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) and the Faculty of Information. He is also a Wilson Centre Scholar and Professor at the School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria.  The ever-growing integration of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Care brings new challenges to health care. These challenges are sociotechnical in nature and include implementation and value-adding use issues as well as unintended consequences such as changing relationships between patients and clinicians, treatment burden, and clinician’s burnout. Aviv’s work at the intersection of Health Informatics and Health Professions Education seeks help realize the potential benefits of health information systems and minimize negative unintended consequences. Aviv’s work has been published in leading Medical, Health Informatics, Professional Communication and Information Science journals. He is an editorial board member of International Journal of Medical Informatics and the lead editor of a book titled “Health Professionals’ Education in the Age of Clinical Information Systems, Mobile Computing and Social Networks” (Academic Press, 20217). In 2021, Dr. Shachak was elected as Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) for his contributions to biomedical and health informatics education and research.