Team

Current Members

  • Olimpia Sienkiewicz, MSc
    • Doctor of Philosophy Student, Queen’s University
    • Project: Multi-omics approaches to classifier problems in inflammatory bowel disease
  • Kyra Fine, MSc
    • Doctor of Philosophy Student, Queen’s University
    • Project: Improving quantitative disease activity evaluation in IBD through computational molecular biology techniques
  • Monica Opoka
    • Master of Bioinformatics Student, School of Computing, Queen’s University
    • Project: Advanced modelling for scoring inflammatory bowel disease activity from routine bloodwork samples
  • Laavanya Joshi
    • Master of Bioinformatics Student, School of Computing, Queen’s University
    • Project: High dimensional proteomics uncovers the immune patterns of autoinflammatory disease
  • Ally Shi
    • Master of Bioinformatics Student, School of Computing, Queen’s University
    • Project: Automating inflammation assessment of histology and endoscopy images using machine learning

 

Previous Members

  • Eileen O’Brien
    • Master of Science Student, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University
    • Project: Cytokine multi-omics and machine learning identify mip1alpha as a novel mediator in inflammatory bowel disease
  • Eleanor Lehman, BSc
    • Master of Bioinformatics Student, School of Computing, Queen’s University
    • Project title: Advanced modeling for scoring inflammatory bowel disease activity from routine bloodwork samples (Local Cohort)
  • Julia Britton, BSc
    • Master of Bioinformatics Student, School of Computing, Queen’s University
    • Project title: Advanced modeling for scoring inflammatory bowel disease activity from routine bloodwork samples (CIDsCaNN Cohort)
  • Yuyang Liang, BSc
    • Master of Bioinformatics Student, School of Computing, Queen’s University
    • Scoring inflammation severity in inflammatory bowel disease biopsies images using machine learning
  • Aleena Amjad Hafeez, MD
    • Pediatrics Resident Research Student, Queen’s University
    • Improving pediatric urgent care flow
  • Lakshmi Subramanian, MD, PGY4
    • Pediatrics Resident Research Student, Queen’s University
    • Project: Immune-mediated Gastrointestinal Diseases are Associated with Increased Risk of Eating Disorders in Children: An Ontario Health Administrative Database Study
  • Peyton Briand
    • Master of Biomedical Informatics Student, Biomedical Informatics, School of Computing, Queen’s University
    • Project: Routinely collected bloodwork reveals immune cell patterns reflecting disease activity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
  • Mehak Kangura
    • Undergraduate Research Student, Queen’s University
    • Project: White blood cell subset patterns and their role in predicting IBD disease activity: A computational approach
  • Chinmay Potdar, BSc(H)
    • Master of Science Student, Queen’s University
    • Cytokine profiles from peripheral blood differentiate inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, demonstrating new mechanisms of disease
  • Carly van Wylick
    • Undergraduate Research Student, Queen’s University
    • Project (initially a volunteer project in 2021/2022 then a fourth year research project in 2022/2023): Explainable artificial intelligence identifies unique clinical features of inflammatory bowel disease exacerbations
    • Summer Research Assistant, Queen’s University
    • Project: Explainable artificial intelligence identifies unique clinical features of inflammatory bowel disease exacerbations
  • Lauren Lewis
    • Undergraduate Research Student, Queen’s University
    • Project: The connection between “pediatric acute hepatitis of unknown origin” and regional incidence of COVID-19
    • Summer Research Assistant, Queen’s University
    • Project: Explainable artificial intelligence identifies unique clinical and epidemiologic features of COVID-19-related liver disease
  • Reynelle Richards-James
    • Undergraduate Research Student, Queen’s University
    • Project: Explainable artificial intelligence identifies unique clinical features of inflammatory bowel disease exacerbations
  • Matthew Greenblatt, MD
    • Gastroenterology Fellow, Queen’s University
    • Estimating the local incidence, prevalence, and outcomes of primary sclerosing cholangitis patients in Kingston, Ontario