The College of Waterloo’s Well being Initiatives workforce designed the Graham Seed Fund (GSF) for researchers to submit their proposals for progressive health-care options that handle the world’s most urgent challenges.
The GSF seeks to leverage and construct well being system partnerships that stretch past academia. Empowering interdisciplinary groups of Waterloo researchers to collaborate instantly with a full vary of well being suppliers and clinicians to develop transformative well being applied sciences which can be made for real-world influence.
“Waterloo researchers continuously deliver innovative health-care solutions for real-world impact. There has never been a more important time to look at how technology can improve how we deliver health care. Collaborating with the local hospitals and Ontario Health Team shows our commitment to our community and making a difference right here where we live,” says Dr. Catherine Burns, affiliate vice-president of Well being Initiatives.
Waterloo’s Well being Initiatives process power was created as a part of the College’s dedication to main globally and nationally on the interface of society, well being and expertise. Aligned with the International Futures, Waterloo researchers are tackling Canadian and International well being challenges by working in collaboration with native hospitals and provincial health-care suppliers, trade companions, worldwide universities and organizations.
This spherical of the GSF facilities on strengthening Waterloo’s place in the neighborhood by emphasizing partnerships with the Grand River Hospital, St. Mary’s Basic Hospital, Cambridge Memorial Hospital and the KW4 Ontario Well being Crew (KW4OHT). Our deep connection and dedication to our native area and neighborhood traces again to the College’s founding.
Listed below are the eight recipient initiatives and their workforce lead:
Good information housekeeping: Constructing information methods to make Canadian hospitals AI-ready with Grand River Hospital
Newcomer app for well being and social service navigation: A discipline research with KW4OHT
Edith Legislation (Researcher)
KW4OHT (Accomplice)
Enhancing door-to-needle time in acute stroke at Grand River Hospital
Optimum working room scheduling on the Cambridge Memorial Hospital
Multisensory notion and management for robotic biohazardous materials dealing with on the Cambridge Memorial Hospital
Pre-surgical appointment scheduling at St. Mary’s Basic Hospital
Enhancing senior care with social robots: A distant well being monitoring initiative with KW4OHT
Yue Hu (Researcher)
KW4OHT (Accomplice)
Quantifying pores and skin thickness throughout populations to enhance delineation of the pores and skin throughout radiation remedy planning of breast and head & neck cancers at Grand River Hospital
The GSF is made potential by the J.W. Graham Belief Endowment Fund. Go to the Transformative Well being Applied sciences web site to be taught extra in regards to the fund.
