Dr. Matthias Görges PhD

Matthias Görges is a Principal Investigator at the Research Institute, BC Children's Hospital, where he co-leads the Digital Health and Data Analytics SuperHub and its newly-formed AI and Data Science Unit. He is a biomedical engineer with extensive clinical research experience, and an Associate Professor (Partner) in the Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics department at the University of British Columbia.

As part of an interdisciplinary team of engineers, computer scientists, and health care providers, he is involved in a wide range of projects focusing on the development and application of new technologies in the pediatric anesthesia and intensive care setting. His research interests are patient monitoring alarms, medical displays, decision support systems, mobile health applications, and data integration/communication platforms. Matthias’ goal is to extract clinically-useful information from vital signs and other clinical data, and to transform these data into information for better, more timely, and more efficient decision-making by clinicians.