Transform HF

Digital Innovation for Heart Failure Care

TRANSFORM HF aims to build, support, and seed fund a community of engineers, scientists and clinicians who will work in tandem with Indigenous health experts and patients to develop point-of-care diagnostics, wearables, and AI technologies to monitor and proactively treat people with heart failure in their homes – and empower them to be more active in their own care.

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750,000

Canadians are living with heart failure

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7

Days in hospital on average per visit

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100,000

New cases are diagnosed each year

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70,000

Canadians hospitalized per year

Heart Failure in Canada

Few chronic conditions carry as great a burden as heart failure. Yet its care in Canada is fragmented, low-tech and reactive, with glaring inequities in access, quality of care and patient outcomes. Through collaboration, integration and innovation, our diverse team will dramatically alter the management and trajectory of people with heart failure, bringing new innovations into clinical practice, and improving access to equitable high-quality care.

Together, we will break the barriers faced by Indigenous people and underserved communities. And improve care for all.

FUNDING COMPETITIONS

Now Open: 2025 Collaboration Starter Grants

TRANSFORM HF’s Collaboration Starter Grants encourage, foster, and support members of our community working collaboratively on research and project proposals that advance our mission and expand our network. Three types of supports are available:

  • Grants up to $10K for proposal development meetings, collaborative project activities, patient or Knowledge Keeper compensation and facilitation.
  • Grants up to $10K for scoping and preliminary project research and data collection.
  • Grants up to $10K for research proposal writing and editing.

Apply by January 17th, 2025.

Collaboration Starter Grant winner Angela Mashford-Pringle speaking with Anne Simard at her TRANSFORM HF-funded On the Land Indigenous Education Program

NEWS

TRANSFORM HF 2024 Trainee Award Winners, Pedro Velmovitsky, Tenzin Yangzom, and Soyun Oh

Small Changes, Big Impact

TRANSFORM HF 2023 Collaboration Starter Grant recipients Kimberly Crasta and Ellis Gao want to improve clinic workflow efficiency in outpatient settings. Working alongside a team of collaborators, their research explores how AI can be harnessed to assess and optimize healthcare delivery, and ultimately, improve care for patients.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

Call for Proposals: Joint EMHSeed and XSeed Program 

The Joint EMHSeed and XSeed Program is an interdivisional research funding program designed to promote multi-disciplinary research and catalyze new innovative partnerships between a coPI from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE) and a coPI from outside Engineering.

As a partner division, TRANSFORM HF is offering funding for up to two 2-year collaborative projects.

Poster for Joint EMHSeed and XSeed Program funding opportunity

MOVING THE NEEDLE

U of T Groundbreakers

Our University of Toronto Groundbreakers episode is live! Hear from Dr. Heather Ross, Amika Shah, and Dr. Dan Franklin to learn about some of the important work we are supporting.

Groundbreakers is a multimedia series that features U of T research superstars from the Institutional Strategic Initiatives.

Acknowledgement of Territory

We acknowledge the traditional territories of the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation, Anishnawbe, Wendat, Huron, and Haudenosaunee Indigenous Peoples on which our partner institutions stand.

The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We would also like to pay our respects to all our ancestors and to our present Elders.