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UTII (University of Toronto Industry Insights) is back and ready to aid in your future career decisions with their upcoming Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industry event set on February 27th! Event features: – Canadian Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Industry overview – NETWORK…
UTORG Distinguished Talk Screening Strategies for Patients on the Kidney Transplant Waiting List Professor Steven Shechter, Sauder School of Business, UBC When: February 16, 2017, 11:00am – 12:00pm Where: MB128, UofT St. George Campus Abstract: Patients on the kidney transplant…
Ontario is earmarking $140 million over three years for mental health and addictions services, including investments in psychotherapy and supportive housing. The Liberal government says that’s in addition to $3.7 billion that the province put toward those services in 2015-16.…
Sirens wail as responders race to apply a defibrillator shock to patients in cardiac arrest but often, they’re too late: Only 10% of people survive. But that could change, says industrial engineer Timothy Chan, a professor at the University of…
The Health System Impact Fellowship provides highly-qualified individuals with a doctorate degree in health services and policy research, or related fields, a unique opportunity to apply their research and analytic talents to critical challenges in health system and related organizations…
Seniors probably aren’t the first demographic that comes to mind when you think of virtual reality. But a few groups in Canada believe a dose of VR might just make the perfect medicine. Researchers in different parts of the country…
This article, originally appeared in the October 2016 issue of Skulematters magazine, included: Optimizing surgical schedules (Dionne Aleman) Walk this way (Jan Andrysek) Optimizing ambulance distribution and routing (Timothy Chan, Justin Boutilier) Reducing the risks of cycling (Marianne Hatzopoulou, Sabreena…
News Item – U of T MasterCard Foundation scholar Sylvia Mwangi hopes to improve health care in Kenya
When it comes to demonstrating the transformative power of higher education, it’s hard to find a better example than Sylvia Mwangi. The amount of personal growth the industrial engineering student has experienced while at U of T may be as…
Finding priorities for health research and development Today’s investments in health R&D are poorly aligned with global public health needs. As little as 1% of all funding for health R&D is allocated to diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, although…
A bold healthcare initiative by the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI) is revolutionizing the relationship between healthcare providers, patients and family members – by including families as partners in care. What started as a grassroots movement launched under the…
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