Professor Dr. Erika Bariciak

Biography

Erika Bariciak completed her medical training at the University of Western Ontario and her Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal training at the University of Ottawa. She is an academic neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital Eastern Ontario and the Ottawa Hospital General Campus. Bariciak collaborates with computer, biomedical, and electrical engineers at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa in the development of clinical decision support and outcome alert systems for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Her investigations include novel neonatal abdominal imaging modalities and clinical studies on neonatal renal function and expanded newborn screening technologies. She has held various positions, including Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, GFT Academic Neonatologist at CHEO, Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa's Department of Pediatrics, and Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University's Department of Systems and Computer Engineering. Bariciak has co-developed several key tools, including a web-based patient information hub for parents and physicians, a preterm birth prediction model using machine learning algorithms, a thermographic imaging system for non-invasive thermal mapping, and an artificial intelligence-based mortality prediction model that utilizes real-time patient data.

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