Andrew JE Seely is Professor of Surgery within the Divisions of Thoracic Surgery and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Scientist with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Vice-Chair Research for the Ottawa Department of Surgery, Director of Research for the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Vice-President for the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons, and Founder and Chief Science Officer of Therapeutic Monitoring Systems (TMS) Inc. Dr Seely leads research teams focused on innovative health information management to improve care, including Thoracic Surgery outcomes research and critical care monitoring using variability-derived predictive analytics. Dr Seely has supervised several MSc and PhD graduate students and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, and has been awarded over $5M in competitive grant funding. He shares his family life with Kathy Patterson and their daughters Phoebe and Ruby in Ottawa.