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The Centre for Healthcare Engineering is pleased to announce that applications for the 2025 Stan Gasner Graduate Scholarship in Healthcare Engineering is now opened. This scholarship is made possible by generous donations from Stan Gasner (IndE 6T4). Past recipients are…
The path to engineering studies wasn’t always straightforward for Kejah Bascon (MIE PhD student). [Her] interdisciplinary passion led Bascon to pursue her PhD at U of T Engineering. She is one of the 2024 recipients of the Indigenous and Black…
As part of initiating the first American study on drones as defibrillator delivery systems, a research symposium was held in Gothenburg in September. In addition to researchers from Duke University, Timothy Chan, a professor of GIS modeling at the University…
Older adults living in a Toronto co-operative apartment building will soon have access to high-tech activity spaces designed to promote cognitive, physical and social enrichment, thanks to a new pilot project led by the University of Toronto’s Mark Chignell (MIE…
Two University of Toronto students have teamed-up with UHN’s department of Quality, Safety and Clinical Adoption to create artificial intelligence (AI) models that can improve patient safety and quality of care. The work is part of a collaboration between UHN…
Professor Mark Chignell (MIE, CHE Faculty Affiliate) is launching a new pilot project to promote healthy aging for older adults living independently in the community. With support from the Connaught Community Partnership Research Program, the new activity spaces for…
Timothy Chan, the University of Toronto’s associate vice-president and vice-provost of strategic initiatives and a CHE Faculty Affiliate, says the university pools funding and academic talent from its various divisions and applies them to interdisciplinary projects. “The goal is not…
The Black Research Network (BRN) is pleased to announce that Enid Montague, an associate professor and CHE Affiliate in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, has been named its new director. Montague, a human factors engineer in the department of…
When Professor Timothy Chan (MIE, CHE Faculty Affiliate) thinks about his impact as an industrial engineering teacher, he is proud of consistently getting his students excited about the material, whether it is optimization, analytics or operations research. Full article at:…
Developing research led by Myrtede Alfred (MIE, CHE Affiliate) offers new insight to address racial and ethnic maternal care disparities in the United States. Evaluating clinical systems issues using 528 incident reports in 476 deliveries, Alfred found that Non-Hispanic Black (NHB) patients…
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