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Dan is a professor of paediatric surgery and researcher at the Montréal Children’s Hospital and ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University. He has earned Masters degrees in both Health Professions Education and International Development, and a doctorate in Health Strategy & Management. He is a FRQS- and CIHR-funded investigator in patient-centred surgical care, head of the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ CommiSur Lab, director of the Jean-Martin Laberge Fellowship in Global Pediatric Surgery and founding member of the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (GICS). He has published over 140 scientific papers and several book chapters, and supervises multiple Masters’ and PhD students from Canada and across the world. His research in digital health includes use of ML models for clinical predictive tools in acute appendicitis, NLP in the EHR and for abstract mining, AI-based precision communication patient-centred apps, and VR for trauma simulation training.