Meet our DASH community

DASH is featuring our members and trainees on our newsletter and website to explore the various expertise, interests, and background that each of us brings to our data science and health community.

Name:

Dr. Sian Tsuei

Title and Affiliation:

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice, UBC

Associate Faculty, School of Population and Public Health, UBC

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU
 

Role in DASH:

Members

Bio:

Sian Tsuei (“Shawn Tsu-ay”) is a practicing family physician with a Master’s of Health Sciences from UBC and Population Health Sciences PhD from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is currently Clinical Assistant Professor in UBC’s Department of Family Practice; Associate Faculty in UBC’s School of Population and Public Health; and Adjunct Professor at SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences.

Drawing on mixed methods approach and organizational behaviour theories, his research focuses on how health systems change. One of his major research directions examines how artificial intelligence will affect the health system, particularly around physician and patient behaviour and the dynamics of their interactions. He serves on the AI Advisory Group of The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), and previously served on the Scientific Planning Committee for CFPC’s Roundtable on AI for Family Medicine. Notably, he has won Presidential Scholarship at Harvard University and Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee Award.