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Wojtek Michalowski is Full Professor of Health Informatics and Decision Support and Vice-dean (Research) at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Adjunct Research Professor at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, and Adjunct Researcher at the Montfort Hospital Research Institute. He is also a leader of MET Research Group at the University of Ottawa. Under his leadership this group created several mobile clinical decision support systems and developed approaches to aligning multiple clinical practice guidelines. Wojtek is author or co-author of over 150 refereed publications and his research is supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council on Canada. In 2013, in recognition of his research contributions, Wojtek was awarded State Professorship by the Polish Academy of Science, and in 2017 he was given Edgeworth-Pareto Award by the International Society of Multiple Criteria Decision Making. Wojtek's research is about clinical decision support systems, computer-based support for use of multiple clinical practice guidelines, and personalized digital educational materials to support patient’s adherence to a therapy.

Multi-morbid and Poorly Motivated Patient: How to Arrive at a Right Therapy and Help with Adhering to It

This talk will focus on these challenging issues:

· How to arrive at evidence-based therapy for a patient with multiple health conditions;

· How to support a team of healthcare practitioners in managing a patient according to the derived therapy;

· How to help a patient with therapy adherence.

Building on the research conducted by the MET Research Group at the University of Ottawa and with the collaborators at the University of Haifa, University of Minnesota, Poznan University of Technology, and the National College of Ireland, this talk will explore the use of logic-based approaches to addressing issues associated with the semi-automatic mitigation (identification and addressing) of possible adverse interactions when concurrently applying multiple clinical practice guidelines. This mitigation identifies the conflicts between evidence-based therapeutic options and removes them while considering patient’s preferences.

While a multidisciplinary healthcare team often manages a multi-morbid patient, the talk will also present how such a team can be supported in implementing evidence-based therapy.

Finally, this talk will also explore the use of knowledge discovery methods that together with behavioral theories allow for the:

· identification of a patient’s level of engagement;

· establishment of achievable targets when applying psycho-behavioral interventions to motivate a patient;

· customization of digital educational materials for a patient.

Clinical examples will ground the application of the methods and approaches presented in the talk.

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