Dr. Dan Poenaru
Academic title(s):
Professor - Department of Pediatric Surgery
Associate Member - Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine
Current research:
Dr. Poenaru heads the CommiSur Lab, a patient-centered and patient-partnered research platform focused on the communication processes between patients, healthcare providers, and technological innovation. His current areas of academic interest are patient-centered care, the application of AI, VR, and mobile health in healthcare communication, global research capacity and equity in surgical care provision for children in low-resource settings, and global medical education.
Projects:
- Machine learning use for clinical prediction rules - application to the diagnosis of appendicitis
- Image recognition applications for radiology
- Natural language programming for structuring imaging reports
- AI for improving patient management through mobile apps
- Multi-modal fusion for healthcare data streams
Selected publications:
Research areas:
Bioethics
Bioinformatics
Digestive Diseases
Pediatrics
Person-Centred Outcome
Surgery