The IWB Conference committee is excited to announce that Lara Killian will be the moderator of the panel discussion on Reliable and Accessible Health Information. Lara Killian is a librarian educator at the Nova Scotia Health Authority, with a focus on patient education. She holds…
The Information Without Borders Conference committee is excited to announce that Debbie Martin, of Dalhousie University's School of Health and Human Performance, will be speaking at the 2016 conference, on the topic of evolving health care data and records. Debbie Martin is a professor…
The IWB committee is excited to announce that Dr. Tara Sampalli, of the Nova Scotia Health Authority, will be presenting the 2016 conference on the topic of Information Technologies & Health Informatics. Dr. Tara Sampalli is Assistant Director for Research in Primary Healthcare, at…
The Information Without Borders Conference is excited to announce that the opening keynote speaker at the 2016 conference will be Gail Crook, CEO and Registrar of the Canadian Health Information Management Association. Gail has been a certified member of the Canadian College of Health Information…
The Information Without Borders Conference committee is excited to announce that Dr. Robert Strang, Chief Public Health Officer in Nova Scotia, will be giving a keynote presentation at the 2016 conference. Dr. Robert Strang is Chief Public Health Officer in Nova Scotia, appointed in August…
Thanks to everyone who made the 2015 Information Without Borders conference such a success! Check out the photos on the Facebook page. Looking forward to next year!
The IWB committee is delighted to announce Dr. Kumiko Azetsu-Scott who will be presenting “Ocean acidification; how data are collected and used” in the breakout session Ocean Information Systems Dr. Kumiko Azetsu-Scott is a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Department of…
The Information Without Borders conference is excited to announce that Dr. Patricia Manuel will be speaking at the 2015 conference, during the breakout session "Information in Use: Planning & Adaptation Strategies". Dr. Patricia Manuel joined Dalhousie's School of Planning in 2001 after teaching environmental…
The Information Without Borders conference is excited to announce Fred Whoriskey, who will be speaking on the subject of Oceans Information Systems at the 2015 conference. Dr. Whoriskey is the Executive Director of the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN), a global research infrastructure documenting the…
The Information Without Borders Conference is excited to announce that Carl Duivenvoorden will be our closing keynote speaker at the 2015 conference. Carl Duivenvoorden was raised on a dairy farm in northern New Brunswick. His diverse early agricultural career took him to over 25 countries, from…