Larry Frisch

Credentials

MD, MPH

Biography

Larry Frisch is a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia in the School of Population and Public Health and an adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Nova Southeastern University. A pediatrician and clinical epidemiologist, Larry is assistant director of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and serves on the board of the BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network. His research interests range from nursing language, to childhood injury, to patient safety, including elements of large database analysis, natural language processing, and longitudinal data analysis. Most of Larry's recent teaching is on-line and (in addition to “epidemiological statistics”) has included courses in communicable disease epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, global climate change, healthcare economics, and public health informatics. Larry is the co-author of a popular textbook on psychiatric mental health nursing and a chapter editor for the upcoming 2nd edition of Public Health Informatics and Information Systems. When not involved in all of the above he plays upright bass in “Bistro Jazz” and in “The Spiral Swing Orchestra.”