Richard Lester
MD, FRCPC
UBC Division of Infectious Diseases
UBC Rank: Associate Professor
Areas of
Focus
Dr. Lester’s work focuses on researching digital health and virtual care for patient care in local and global health environments, focusing on mobile phone use (mHealth), equity, and access.
His mission is to ensure the scale-up of evidence-based digital health services and use rigorous, innovative data science approaches such as natural language processing (NLP) and other forms of AI for continuous quality improvement and to inform guidelines.
- Infectious Diseases
- Global health
- Digital Health
- Virtual Care & Patient Engagement
- Data Science & NLP
Affiliations & Awards
- Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
- Michael Smith Health Research BC
- World Health Organization, Roster of Experts for the Digital Health Task Force
- Associate, UBC School of Population and Public Health
- Digital Health Canada
- AMMI BMS Post Doctoral Research Award (2004)
- Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award (2014)
- CHIA Digital Health Canada Clinical Innovator Award (2020)
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