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Join us for our inaugural event of the Lecture Series on Ethics and Governance of AI for Health with Catherine Stinson! The event will take place 4:00pm-5:30pm on Thursday, December 13th, at Women’s College Hospital. Full announcement at: Dalla Lana…
The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, tabled in Parliament a Framework on Palliative Care in Canada. The Framework will help support improved access to palliative care by providing a useful reference point for governments, stakeholders, caregivers and communities…
SickKids Hospital is looking for a Project Manager to contribute towards driving transformational change that will deliver meaningful results by leading and supporting process improvement initiatives across Sick Kids Hospital. The successful candidate will be well skilled in the application…
A fully funded studentship awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP) commencing in 2019/20 Academic Year is available. Non-UK applicants can be considered for this studentship. The application deadline is 24th January…
Millions of Canadians rely on surgically implanted medical devices in order to function — to do everything from walk without pain to pump blood through their veins. Yet many of those devices are approved for use in Canada with scant…
Nicole Sultanum says one of the fastest ways to understand information is by sight. “We’re much faster at recognizing patterns,” says Sultanum, a University of Toronto PhD student in the department of computer science and its Dynamic Graphics Project lab.…
Recipients of the DSP are within the first four years of their appointment. They are awarded an annual grant of $75,000 per year for three years. Merve Bodur (MIE) — Conducting theoretical and applied operations research on discrete and stochastic…
As hospital emergency wait times continue to increase in Canada, Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE) believes machine intelligence and robotics can play a key role in easing the strain by streamlining the delivery of health care. In July, two identical semi-humanoid…
The global incidence of chronic wounds — holes in the skin that can persist for weeks, months or years — is rising rapidly: in the United States alone, more than 6.5 million patients live with non-healing wounds. Carlo Perez (CompE…
Video games and a robotic glove that help stroke survivors regain dexterity in their hands and arms. A robot named Casper that assists older adults with everything from fixing a tuna sandwich to communicating with loved ones. These are just…
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