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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…
Professor Enid Montague (MIE, CHE Faculty Affiliate) has been named the new director of the Black Research Network (BRN), a University of Toronto Institutional Strategic Initiative (ISI) launched in October 2021. Montague, whose research is focused on human factors engineering,…
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) 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 are represented…
“The least sexy applications, things like improving processes, streamlining back office or routine tasks, will probably have a big impact without it being noticed by the average patient,” he told CTVNews.ca over email, adding that AI “will become more and…
Research from Professor Myrtede Alfred, CHE Faculty Affiliate, highlights racial and ethnic disparities in maternal care at U.S. hospitals in a special issue on healthcare equity just published by The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (JQPS). Reviewing…
Throughout his career, Timothy Chan has been using AI to solve health-care problems. The professor at the University of Toronto and CHE Affiliate jumped at the chance to help milk banks using AI. “It’s something close to my heart as…
“We are extremely fortunate in this region to have the calibre of people and the research infrastructure of the TAHSN network. This work gives patients access to the latest therapies and enables clinicians to benefit from the latest knowledge,” says…
A team of U of T Engineering researchers, led by Professor Timothy Chan (MIE), is leveraging machine learning to optimize the macronutrient content of pooled human donor milk recipes. The researchers introduce their data-driven optimization model in a new paper…
“We were a bit surprised that the improvements appeared greater in the urban areas. There’s an historical inequity in EMS response times in rural versus urban areas, so we anticipated that drones could provide a bigger improvement in response times…
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