Prof Gautam Srivastava of Brandon University

The healthcare industry has been at the cutting edge of technology since time immemorial. Hardware, software, medication, surgical procedures; the quality of care available to patients in 2022 has never been better. And yet, the administration and data management 
underpinning that care is severely lagging behind. In this talk, we will examine how Blockchain Technology may be a game changer for the Medical profession. The technology most commonly associated with Bitcoin could actually transform how we manage electronic 
medical records (EMR). Deploying EMR using blockchain has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the healthcare industry for good. During this tutorial, we will look at the pros as well as the cons of such implementations. We will dive into current research that is ongoing in this growing field and try to predict future directions this research may take. 

Biography:

Dr. Gautam Srivastava (Senior Member, IEEE) has extensive Editorial Experience including IEEE Trans on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Trans on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportations Systems, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, and ACM Transactions on Low-Resource Asian Languages. Dr. Gautam Srivastava was awarded a B.Sc. from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, the U.S.A. in 2004, followed by an M.Sc. and Ph.D.  from the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in the years 2006 and 2012, respectively. He then worked for 3 years at the University of Victoria in the Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Engineering), where he was regarded as one of the top Undergraduate professors in Computer Science Course Instruction at the University. From there in 2014 he started a tenure-track position at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, where he currently is an Assistant Professor. Dr. G (as he is popularly known) is active in research in the fields of Data Mining and Big Data. During his 8-year academic career, he has published a total of 400 papers in high-impact conferences and journals. He has over 7000 citations in his career and has been recognized with additional adjunct positions in Canada, Taiwan, India, and China. He has given keynote addresses at many well known conferences. Dr. Srivastava currently hold a federal grants through NSERC, MITACS, and CIRA. He also sits on many internal funding agencies as an external reviewer and is currently a Section Chair for the NSERC Discovery Grant Evaluation Group for Computer Science. 

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=qk9hEQoAAAAJ&hl=en

Address:Brandon, Canada