Perley Health Centre of Excellence in Frailty-Informed Care™ Webinar Series

Register now for the Perley Health Centre of Excellence in Frailty-Informed Care™ September webinar presenter by Zack van Allen, PhD, MBA

Topic: Understanding functional independence with data from large cohort studies

Biography: Zack van Allen is a Mitacs-Banting Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow with the Perley Health Centre of Excellence in Frailty-Informed Care™ and the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include predictive modelling, network dynamics, health/well-being, behaviour change, and artificial intelligence. In his PhD dissertation Zack applied machine learning and network analysis to understand how health behaviours interact over time to influence health outcomes. His postdoctoral works focuses on statistical modelling of large cohort datasets such as the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement from Europe and he is supervised by Dr. Matthieu Boisgontier.

Objectives: Zack will present the results of two research projects completed during the first year of his postdoctoral fellowship. The first project, entitled “Pre-stroke physical activity matters for functional limitations: A longitudinal control study of 12,860 participants” was recently published in the Physical Therapy Journal and explores the relationship between physical activity on functional limitations for people who have experienced stroke. The second project, “Prospective classification of functional dependence: Insights from machine learning and 39,927 participants in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging” explores the factors that are most associated with the development of functional limitations over time.

Register now using the following link: https://bit.ly/CentreofExcellenceSeptember2024Webinar