J. Ross Mitchell
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Academic Affiliations
Industry and Research Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
Dr. Mitchell is currently a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Senior Program Director of Artificial Intelligence Adoption with AHS. He received his PhD at the University of Western Ontario and has been working in the fields of biomedical imaging, artificial intelligence, and machine learning for 30 years.
Dr. Mitchell was the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida from 2019 to 2021. There, he led efforts to develop AI tools to improve the efficiency and quality of cancer care, including models to predict patient outcomes from electronic health record data, and natural language processing to infer diagnostic codes from free-text pathology reports. He was also a Professor of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona from 2011 to 2019 and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary from 2000 to 2011.
Jul 8th 2024
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Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Ross Mitchell and his project collaborators were recently awarded $1M, as part of The Health Care Unburdened Grant Program, presented by the Canadian Medical Association, MD Financial Management Inc. and Scotiabank. The funding will scale "Jenkins", their AI scribe tool that directly addresses the growing demands of emergency departments.
May 30th 2024
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Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Ross Mitchell discusses the huge impact that AI will have on the way we collect and use medical data and images.
Apr 27th 2023
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Amii Fellows Bei Jiang and J.Ross Mitchell appointed as Canada CIFAR AI Chairs.
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