Yannis Trakadis
Biography
Dr. Trakadis is a physician who specializes in genetics (medical geneticist) and practices medicine at the McGill University Health Centre.
He is active in the Canadian College of Medical Genetics, serving as chair of their Metabolics Committee and member of their Canadian Clinical Practice Guideline Development Committee.
Dr. Trakadis is a Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS) Clinical Research Scholar (mid-career), which was awarded in recognition of his research on applying machine learning (ML) to the health domain. His lab has applied ML to the analysis of genomic and downstream functional data from thousands of individuals. More specifically, the lab has developed novel ML methods for the analysis of clinical, genomic, transcriptomic and metabolomic data to enable more personalized medical care.
His academic interests include the clinical integration of novel technologies and digital health models, with the primary focus being the application of AI to advance precision medicine.