Posts Categorized: News at CHE
The use of drones to deliver of goods and services is getting closer to reality every day. In health care, drones could be used to rapidly deliver life-saving automatic external defibrillators (AED) to people experiencing cardiac arrest. Techna Affiliate Scientist…
The pandemic has shone a light on the difficult decisions that must be made in order to manage hospital capacity, quality of care and patient outcomes. Helping to inform these tough calls are health-care optimization experts, such as Professors Timothy…
Every year, the CORS annual conference brings together Operations Research and Management Science academics and practitioners from Canada and abroad. It features plenaries, tutorials, hundreds of presentations, and several competitions. This year: Conference Chair: Fatma Gzara (University of Waterloo); Program…
In a new Q&A, U of T Engineering pandemic modelling expert Dionne Aleman explains the crucial role modelling plays in predicting and reducing the spread of COVID-19. Recording at: U of T Engineering Youtube Channel
First Place & The Peri Family Industrial Engineering Design Award: Stop the Spread: COVID-19 Public health Policy Decision Support Project Team: Olivia Bierman-Dyk, Clara Birch, Jean Carlos Cedeno Bravo, Catherine Grace Lloyd Client: Medical Operations Research Lab, University of Toronto…
Professor Michael Carter (MIE) is among this year’s recipients of the University of Toronto President’s Impact Award. The award recognizes faculty members whose research has made a significant impact outside of academia. Recipients receive $10,000 per year for five years to be…
Given that more adults in their 20s to 50s are becoming critically ill, “perhaps we need to have larger eligible age-bands so we aren’t always scrambling to find people to get their shot,” said Timothy Chan, a University of Toronto…
“If we want to get it done by Sept. 1, then we need up to about 115,000 doses a day,” Dr. Timothy Chan, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Toronto and CHE Director, told the…
If just 79 per cent of Canadians wanted the COVID-19 vaccine, Timothy Chan, Canada Research Chair in Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health and CHE Director, said the number of doses needed per day would drop to roughly 280,000. Chan…
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and our lives changed dramatically as we moved to remote work and online classes. Governments declared lockdowns and mandated masks, and the virus continued to spread despite our…
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