Matthias Görges Receives Partner Appointment in APT

We are very pleased to share news about a new faculty member, our first Partner Appointment in the Department:
I would like to congratulate Matthias Görges on his appointment as Assistant Professor (Partner) in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at UBC. Matthias is a biomedical engineer with extensive clinical research experience. He is a Scientist at the Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital, where he co-leads the Clinical & Community Data, Analytics & Informatics group. He has collaborated with a number of the researchers in the Department and undertakes research in an inter-disciplinary team of engineers, computer scientists, and health care providers, where he leads a wide range of projects focusing on the development and application of new technologies primarily in pediatric anesthesia and intensive care. 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.