Placing Equity at the Heart of Healthcare
Collaboration Starter Grant recipient Dr. Ibukun Abejirinde wants to ensure our approach to remote patient monitoring is person-centred and equity promoting.
TRANSFORM HF’s 2024 Trainee Award Recipients
TRANSFORM HF is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2024 Trainee Awards! Learn more about the heart failure trainees and their projects.
Collaborating for Equity: 2024 Collaboration Starter Grant Recipients
Our Collaboration Starter Grants support members of our community working together by funding the initial activities of collaborative projects that align with the TRANSFORM HF mission. We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2024 Collaboration Starter Grants.
Visual Communications Award for Pediatric-to-Adult Care Transition Support
Congratulations to Beatrice Nai-Jung Chen, a second-year student in the Master of Science in Biomedical Communications at the University of Toronto, for receiving a Vesalius Trust Research Grant! The Vesalius Trust provides grant funding to students enrolled in...
Sahr Wali is Bridging Worldviews to Transform Care
TRANSFORM HF researcher Dr. Sahr Wali (Scientific Associate, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research) has received a CIHR Health System Impact Embedded Early Career (ECR) Researcher Award. Sahr is one of only 12 awardees across Canada.
Sahr will be working in partnership with rural and urban community organizations to develop a care pathway that provides community-first cardiac care services.
Is it Time for an Entrepreneurship Vibe Check?
Megh Rathod is a PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. He’s passionate about advancing medicine and quality of care through device innovation, and is currently working on developing a skin-tone invariant pulse oximeter in the form of a wearable.
Megh wanted to explore career paths and test his perceptions of entrepreneurship, so he applied to ECHO Discovery – a foundational education program that explores ideation, research translation, and entrepreneurship for cardiovascular health. Here’s what Megh had to say about his experience…
TRANSFORM HF’s 2023 Trainee Award Recipients
TRANSFORM HF is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2023 Trainee Awards! Learn more about the heart failure trainees and their projects.
Can managing heart failure be as easy as sleeping?
Isaac Chang and his team are developing a digital health technology called Smart Tile that can monitor a patient’s heart function while they sleep and alert clinicians, caregivers, and patients of any adverse events. Innovations like this are key for empowering people living with heart failure to manage their own care and stay out of hospital.
Transforming Heart Failure Care at Every Step, for Everyone
Our Collaboration Starter Grants support members of our community working together by funding the initial activities of collaborative projects that align with the TRANSFORM HF mission. We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2023 Collaboration Starter Grants.
Playing the Future of Digital Health by Ear
When it comes to digital innovation, Alex Mariakakis and his team are all ears! Meet our 2023 Seed Grant recipient, who’s aiming to make blood pressure monitoring more accessible using earbuds.
Earbuds have the potential to remove the cost of blood pressure cuffs, increase the ease of at-home monitoring, and could even out-perform smartwatches! Alex views earbuds as one of the next big platforms – not just for blood pressure monitoring, but for digital health in general.
