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Research in Big Data, AI, and Medical Informatics

Christos Vaitsis served as Researcher & Course Director at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden — one of the world's top 10 universities in clinical medicine and life sciences.

His research focused on Big Data and AI for clinical reasoning and decision-making, with 14 peer-reviewed publications and one book chapter. View publications on Google Scholar.

As Course Director, he designed and delivered the MSc-level course "Designing eLearning Interventions in Healthcare Education," focusing on emerging technologies in health.

Publications (Chronological)

  1. Vaitsis, C., Nilsson, G., & Zary, N. (2014). Big data in medical informatics: improving education through visual analytics. e-Health–For Continuity of Care, 1163-1167. IOS Press.
  2. Vaitsis, C., Nilsson, G., & Zary, N. (2014). Visual analytics in healthcare education: exploring novel ways to analyze and represent big data in undergraduate medical education. PeerJ, 2, e683. PeerJ Inc.
  3. Komenda, M., Schwarz, D., Švancara, J., Vaitsis, C., Zary, N., & Dušek, L. (2015). Practical use of medical terminology in curriculum mapping. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 63, 74-82. Pergamon.
  4. Komenda, M., Schwarz, D., Vaitsis, C., Zary, N., Štěrba, J., & Dušek, L. (2015). OPTIMED platform: curriculum harmonisation system for medical and healthcare education. Digital Healthcare Empowering Europeans, 511-515. IOS Press.
  5. Vaitsis, C., Nilsson, G., & Zary, N. (2015). Visual analytics in medical education: impacting analytical reasoning and decision making for quality improvement. MIE, 95-99.
  6. Nifakos, S., Vaitsis, C., & Zary, N. (2015). AUVA-augmented reality empowers visual analytics to explore medical curriculum data. Digital Healthcare Empowering Europeans, 494-498. IOS Press.
  7. Komenda, M., Víta, M., Vaitsis, C., Schwarz, D., Pokorná, A., Zary, N., & Dušek, L. (2015). Curriculum mapping with academic analytics in medical and healthcare education. PloS one, 10(12), e0143748. Public Library of Science.
  8. Vaitsis, C., Stathakarou, N., Barman, L., Zary, N., & McGrath, C. (2016). Using competency-based digital open learning activities to facilitate and promote health professions education (OLAmeD): a proposal. JMIR research protocols, 5(3), e4974. JMIR Publications Inc.
  9. Vaitsis, C., Hervatis, V., & Zary, N. (2016). Introduction to big data in education and its contribution to the quality improvement processes. Big Data on Real-World Applications, 113(8), 58. IntechOpen.
  10. Komenda, M., Karolyi, M., Pokorná, A., & Vaitsis, C. (2017). Medical and healthcare curriculum exploratory analysis. Informatics for Health: Connected Citizen-Led Wellness and Population Health, 231-235. IOS Press.
  11. Vaitsis, C., Spachos, D., Karolyi, M., Woodham, L., Zary, N., Bamidis, P., & Komenda, M. (2017). Standardization in medical education: review, collection and selection of standards to address. MEFANET journal, 5(1), 28-39. Facta Medica.
  12. Komenda, M., Karolyi, M., Vaitsis, C., Spachos, D., & Woodham, L. (2017). A pilot medical curriculum analysis and visualization according to medbiquitous standards. 2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 144-149. IEEE.
  13. Karolyi, M., Komenda, M., Woodham, L., Ščavnický, J., Vaitsis, C., & Spachos, D. (2020). Medical curriculum standards: towards relational database transformation. Health and Technology, 10(3), 759-766. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  14. Komenda, M., Karolyi, M., Woodham, L., & Vaitsis, C. (2021). The role of technical standards in healthcare education. Digital Innovations in Healthcare Education and Training, 47-59. Academic Press.

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