{"id":3597,"date":"2023-11-10T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2023-11-10T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T17:02:12","slug":"dr-john-lewis-at-ccrc2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/dr-john-lewis-at-ccrc2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. John Lewis at #CCRC2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.ualberta.ca\/directory\/person\/jdlewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Dr. John Lewis<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a Professor in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/oncology\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/giving\/projects\/bird-dogs-chair-in-translational-oncology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bird Dogs Chair in Translational Oncology<\/a>. Dr. Lewis\u2019 research interests include translational prostate cancer research, and the Lewis Lab utilizes real-time intravital imaging of the tumour microenvironment to learn about the critical steps of cancer progression, including the growth of new blood vessels and the gain of tumour cell motility that leads to metastasis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Dr.-John-Lewis-at-CCRC-EN-1024x536-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Dr.-John-Lewis-at-CCRC-EN-1024x536-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Dr.-John-Lewis-at-CCRC-EN-1024x536-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Dr.-John-Lewis-at-CCRC-EN-1024x536.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using CanPath data, Dr. Lewis created predictive models for diseases using a standardized data analysis platform. These models offer insights into the factors that increase the risk of developing a particular disease.<\/p>\n<p>The platform, which has demonstrated superior accuracy in predicting prostate cancer compared to existing models, can now be applied efficiently to predict a range of diseases like cancer, heart conditions, lung diseases, diabetes, and neurological disorders using CanPath questionnaire data.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how the Lewis Lab uses CanPath data:\u00a0https:\/\/canpath.ca\/2022\/10\/webinar-november-2022\/.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lewis will be presenting at the conference plenary on AI Across the Research Spectrum on Sunday, November 12, at 4:10 pm AST. Dr. Lewis will be speaking on the\u00a0<strong>development and commercialization of machine learning models to predict disease<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Lewis\u00a0is a Professor in the\u00a0Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta\u00a0and the\u00a0Bird Dogs Chair in Translational Oncology. Dr. Lewis\u2019 research interests include translational prostate cancer research, and the Lewis Lab utilizes real-time intravital imaging of the tumour microenvironment to learn about the critical steps of cancer progression, including the growth of new blood vessels and the gain of tumour cell motility that leads to metastasis. Using CanPath data, Dr. Lewis created predictive models for diseases using a standardized data analysis platform. These models offer insights into the factors that increase the risk of developing a particular disease. The platform, which has demonstrated superior accuracy in predicting prostate cancer compared to existing models, can now be applied efficiently to predict a range of diseases like cancer, heart conditions, lung diseases, diabetes, and neurological disorders using CanPath questionnaire data. Learn more about how the Lewis Lab uses CanPath data:\u00a0https:\/\/canpath.ca\/2022\/10\/webinar-november-2022\/. Dr. Lewis will be presenting at the conference plenary on AI Across the Research Spectrum on Sunday, November 12, at 4:10 pm AST. Dr. Lewis will be speaking on the\u00a0development and commercialization of machine learning models to predict disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[60,56,11,57,129],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-albertas-tomorrow-project","tag-cancer-research","tag-canpath","tag-ccra","tag-ccrc2023"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"pathwp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}