Centre for Health Informatics

Join us Wednesday September 28 at 12pm for a virtual information session on our Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Foothills campus. Learn about the data and how to access it!

Meet Robb Price, our Senior Advisor of Commercialization here at the Centre for Health Informatics.

Recognized as one of Calgary’s Top 40-Under-40 for success in Calgary’s business and social sectors, Robb has had a lifelong interest in technology and health. In recent years, Robb has been involved in launching health technology start-ups in the areas of monitoring normative brain function and COVID-19 symptom screening/cohort management. Robb studied business and computer science at the University of Oregon and moved on to pursue a life as a serial entrepreneur. He has lots of stories of both success and failure in the start-up world!

Robb’s combined interest in health and technology has intersected at CHI. After working on a project with CHI Director, Tyler Williamson, he was intrigued by the vast opportunities to benefit Canadian public health through commercialization of projects at CHI. Robb and his wife Ceilidh have three children and recently moved to an acreage in the Alberta Foothills. They all enjoy spending time exploring the outdoors. In his spare time you may find Robb strumming the guitar next to a campfire or attending his children’s hockey or basketball games.

Fun fact: Robb was in an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 when he was 15 and spent a lot of his youth on film and television sets!

Tyler is a member of the O’Brien Institute of Public Health and the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, as well as an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Director of the Health Data Science and Biostatistics Diploma Program.

Tyler’s educational background consists of a BSc Statistics at UofC ’05, and a PhD Biostatistics UofC ’11. He received NAPCRG New Investigator Award in 2018 for outstanding work as new primary care investigator within the North American Primary Care Research Group (the largest primary care research organization in the world).

Tyler’s research interests include health data integration, chronic disease surveillance and research using electronic medical record data, and non-canonical link functions for binomial generalized linear models. But really, data isn’t Tyler’s passion it’s the good that can be done for his family, loved ones, and the general population that being able to work with data in this way offers. In his spare time, Tyler is involved with his church and spends his time exploring the outdoors with his 4 kids and wife, Heather!