Dr Hugo Leroux
Senior Research Scientist
Contact details:
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LVL 5 UQ HEALTH SCI BLD 901/16
HERSTON QLD 4029 AUSTRALIA
Biography
Dr Hugo Leroux is a Research Scientist within the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), a part of CSIRO’s Health & Biosecurity Business Unit.
Hugo has expertise in data integration and semantic interoperability of clinical, research and pathology data. His work has applied semantic technologies to integrate ontological information with clinical data in order to expedite querying, reasoning and visualisation techniques exposing the meaning and utility of the clinical data that is applied to biomarker and drug discovery in medicine.
Within the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and infectious diseases domains, Hugo has implemented a data integration pipeline to automate the inherently manual laboratory data reporting process into a dynamic repository based on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) paradigm that expedites the semantic interoperability and reuse of the laboratory data to facilitate their analysis and reporting.
Hugo has developed the first CDISC ODM to HL7 FHIR mapping and model in 2016 and has been an invited contributor to the HL7 biomedical research and regulations (BR&R) working group meetings (WGM) and appointed co-chair for the February 2020 WGM in Sydney, Australia. In 2018, he was appointed to lead a Nationally connected Health and Clinical Research Network in collaboration with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and comprising the NHMRC, Digital Health CRC, Office of the National Data Commissioner and key universities.
Prior to his research role, Hugo was a Software Engineer/Analyst with five years’ experience in a commercial environment, working in model-driven development, service-oriented architecture and information retrieval fields. He holds a PhD from Monash University where he investigated the effectiveness of Software Visualisation to expedite comprehension. He is a Fellow of Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) and has been elected to the state branch of the AIDH (formerly Health Informatics Society of Australia) since 2014 and appointed co-vice-chair from 2016-2018.
Academic Qualifications
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1996
Bachelor of Science (HONS) in Computing and Information Systems
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2000
Master of Computing by Research
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2006
PhD
Achievements and Awards
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2011-2011
ICT Centre Supporting Science Award for the Health Information Systems project
CSIRO -
2017-2017
Health and Biosecurity - Excellence in Support Award
CSIRO -
2018-2018
Health and Biosecurity - Outstanding Collaboration Award
CSIRO -
2018-2018
Performance Cash Reward
CSIRO -
2019-2019
Health and Biosecurity - Outstanding Collaboration Award
CSIRO
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2014-2016
Treasurer of the HISA QLD board
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2013-2014
Co-Secretary of the HISA QLD board
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2016-2018
Co-Vice-Chair of the HISA QLD board
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2018-present
Elected member of the Australasian Institute of Health Informatics
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2020-present
Fellow of Australasian Institute of Health Informatics
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2016-present
Reviewer, Journal of Medical Internet Research
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2013-present
Reviewer, Journal of Biomedical Semantics
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2013-present
Reviewer, Australasian Medical Journal
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2013-2014
Program Committee, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Health (AIH)
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2017-present
Reviewer, Plos One
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2019-present
Reviewer, Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
