UOIT prof wins Australian award

A research chair at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology has won an award from her native land.

Dr. Carolyn McGregor, a Canada research chair in health informatics at the university, was honoured as one of the winners of the Advance Global Australian Awards, which recognize the contributions of Australians living abroad.

McGregor accepted the award at a ceremony earlier this week at the Sydney Opera House.

“I am incredibly excited and deeply honoured to receive this prestigious award from my home country,” states McGregor in a news release. “It demonstrates that the research I have led at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology is not only seen as relevant and innovative in Canada, but also internationally. It shows that what we create in Canada has potential to be used in other countries such as Australia. That is the best outcome from the research process.”

McGregor has been at UOIT since 2007, and has been a driving force behind the Artemis Project, which looks to apply real-time online big data analytics and data-mining principles to help reduce mortality rates in premature babies.