ABSTRACT: The world is becoming increasingly ever more complex, even as we have more information and data than ever before. The problem is not accessing information. The problem is making sense of information for effective actions and outcomes. Whether we are discussing precision medicine, AI or COVID19, undertakings in healthcare and society in general are characterized by complexity. The principal components of complexity are interdependency of relationships and uncertainty. Building on prior work in decision science, this talk provides an analysis of a sampling of decision distor-tions and derailments using the ongoing COVID19 pandemic as an illustrative case study to begin a dialogue with the pan-elists on the question: how can we leverage systems thinking and the multi-stakeholder decision making to address glob-ally relevant and complex issues? Panel Discussion: A multi-disciplinary panel will follow the presentation to advance convergence science and innova-tion on the multiscale mechanisms for behavioral change and ecosystem transformation at scale for solution to COVID19 recovery and beyond. Taking the health sector as entry point, the panel will also address challenges at the juncture with agriculture and food.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Convergent Innovation Webinar Series features cutting edge science, technology and innova-tion in agriculture, food, environment, education, medicine and other domains of everyday life where grand challenges lie at the convergence of health and economics. Powered by data science, artificial intelligence, and other digital technologies, this disciplinary knowledge bridges with behavioural, social, humanities, business, economics, social, engineering, and complexity sciences to accelerate real-world solution at scale, be it in digital or physical contexts. Initiated in the agri-food domain, the series is now encompassing other grand challenges facing modern and traditional economies and societies, such as ensuring lifelong wellness and resilience at both the individual and population levels.

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Amalia Mary Issa, PhD, MPH is an internationally renowned scien-tist in the field of precision medicine. In 2001, Dr Issa founded and continues to serve as the Director of the Personalized Medicine & Targeted Therapeu-tics CenterTM, one of the world’s first centers focused on precision medicine. She undertook some of the earliest translational and implementation re-search of what is now known as precision medicine and has been engaged in leading a systematic multidisciplinary team effort to investigate and address questions regarding the integration of precision medicine into practice and health systems and to build and develop the science of precision genomic healthcare delivery. Notably Dr. Issa pioneered the science of precision medi-cine decision science. Dr. Issa holds degrees from McGill University (Ph.D. - Dept. of Neurology & Neurosurgery), the UCLA School of Public Health (MPH), and completed fellowship training at Harvard Medical School.

June 19, 2020 1:00 pm EST (2 hrs in length)

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Chair: Laurette Dubé (Scientific Director of MCCHE)

Co-Chair & Moderator: John G. Keogh (Managing Principal, Shantalla Inc. Toronto )

Don’t Do Brain Surgery When You Get a Headache: Complexity and Multi-Stakeholder Decision Making in the Time of COVID 19

The Convergent Innovation Webinar Series: Inventing “One-World” Solutions for Lifelong Wellness and Sustainable Economic Growth

Chair: Laurette Dubé, initially trained as a nutr itionist, also holds degrees in finances (MBA), marketing (MPS), and behavioral decision-making/consumer psychology (PhD). Dr. Dubé is Full Professor at the De-sautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. Her research focuses on the study of affects, behavioral economics, and neurobehavioral processes underlying consumption, lifestyle, and health behavior. Her transla-tional research examines how such knowledge can inspire effective interventions. She is also the founder and scientific director of the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics, a unique initiative to push the boundaries of science to tackle societal and economic challenges and foster individual and collective health and wealth.

Moderator: John G. Keogh is a strategist, C-level advisor and academic researcher with 25 years of execu-tive leadership roles as Director, VP and SVP in global Supply Chain Management, Information Technology, Technology Consulting and global Supply Chain Standards. He advises the public and private sectors world-wide and is a regular subject matter expert on TV and Radio. Mr. Keogh is managing principal at Toronto-based, niche advisory and research firm Shantalla Inc. Mr. Keogh holds a PG diploma and an MBA in Manage-ment and an MSc in Business and Management Research in transparency and trust. He is currently completing doctoral research on transparency and trust in food chains at Henley School of Business, University of Reading.

Dr. Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant is a tenured Professor and the Research Director and the Associate Chair in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University. She received her PhD in epidemiology from McGill in 2001 and her MSc in 1996. In 2014, she was awarded the Carrie M. Derick Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Supervision for McGill University and the Faculty of Medicine Honour List for Educational Excel-lence. Dr. Bartlett specializes in primary care research and knowledge translation. Her current focus is on knowledge translation and stakeholder engagement around health care utilization and outcomes for vulnerable populations; implementation of precision medicine using patient-oriented strategies; and the use of education innovations to advance the discipline of family medicine and primary care. She is currently the Executive Direc-tor for the Network Coordinating Office of the Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations (PIHCI) Network.

Dr. Shawn Brown is the Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at the Carnegie Mellon Univer -sity. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Brown served as the Associate Director of Research Software Development at the McGill Centre of Integrative Neuroscience at the McGill Neurological Institute. Dr. Brown is an expert on high - performance computing and computational simulation. He has over 25 years of experience in devel-oping software to support the use of high-performance computing for research in areas such as chemistry, bio-informatics, and public health. In addition to managing the CBRAIN software development, his research inter-ests are in how agent-based modeling and other computational techniques can be used to provide decision sup-port in public health and chronic disease. Prior, he was the Director of Public Health Applications at the Pitts-burgh Supercomputing Center, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and Research Associate at Q-Chem, Inc. He received his PhD from the University of Georgia in 2001 in Theoretical Chemistry and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Wei Qi is an assistant professor in Operations Management at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. He is also a faculty advisor of the China’s Energy Group at the Lawrence Berkeley Nation-al Laboratory. His work has contributed to smart city operations concerning urban energy, mobility and retail logistics. His work has been supported by NSERC, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and US-China Climate Change Working Group, etc. His research has been published in Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management, as well as in the first-tier systems engineering journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Transactions on Smart Gird. Wei earned a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, an M.S. from UCLA and a B.E. from Zhejiang University, China.

Carl ’’C.J.” Unis is a Systems Engineer with over 15 years exper tise in Continuity of Operations, Conti-nuity of Business, Continuity of Government, devolution planning, infrastructure analysis, supply chain logistics and emergency management. C.J. was formerly the critical infrastructure protection program manager for the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. He is a U.S. Marine Corps Veter-an, holding numerous positions in the capacity of performing internal embassy, dignitary, motor transport spe-cialist and classified material security duties. He has also served as a federal agent in the capacity of providing classified transportation for the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration - Office of Secure Transportation. He holds an undergraduate degree in Business and has a Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering (M.Eng.) from the Stevens Institute of Technology. His degree focuses on systems-of-systems ar-chitecture and cascading failures in enterprise systems architecture.

William Sutherland, MD, is a general practice physician presently working in pr imary mental healthcare, general practice psychotherapy, and functional medicine. He is the innovator of the complexity medicine para-digm and the author of the book on the subject, Grand Rounds: Healing Wisdom for a Complex World. Complex-ity medicine, by answering the call towards greater holism, looks at the embodiment of individual, cultural, and ecological health from an aesthetic, patterned, relational, and systems-based stance. He is a graduate of the Mi-chael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University and has further completed a residency in rural family medicine. Presently, he is an adjunct faculty member through the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. Research, discussion, and teaching interests include complexity and health, second-order cybernetics, systems biology and physiology, indigenous ways of knowing, radical construc-tivism, and epistemological and ontological considerations within the complexity sciences. Chami Akmeemana is the CEO of Convergence Tech. He pursued a Ph.D. in Bioceramic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London, until deciding to forgo an academic career in favor of Law Enforcement. In 2002, he joined London’s Metropolitan Police. Chami has had 4 successful exits over the last decade and is passionate about the intersection of technology, business and social good. His experience includes serving as Fintech Advi-sor to the Ontario Securities Commission; Managing Director, Fintech and Blockchain at the Global Risk Insti-tute. Chami is also the Chairman of the Blockchain Association Australia and an Advisory Board member of doc.ai