ECHO Discovery 2023 Pitch Competition
Join us to celebrate the graduation of our inaugural ECHO Discovery cohort! Don’t miss a pitch competition for $500 and a fireside chat with global digital health leader Dr. Jacqueline Shreibati.
ECHO Discovery Fireside Chat: Commercializing Early-Stage Discoveries
Join leaders in the field discuss their experiences with commercializing university/hospital early-stage discoveries.
Designing for Equity: New Grant Advances Digital Innovation for Equitable Heart Failure Care
Breaking news: TRANSFORM HF has been awarded a $1.65 million 6-year NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience grant to train the next generation of digital health innovators to design for equity!
Translating Cardiovascular Remote Diagnostic and Monitoring Technologies for Equitable Healthcare, or CaRDM Eq, will be delivered by a multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Azadeh Yadollahi.
Together with this diverse team and 30+ collaborators, we will ensure the next innovations in digital health have equity at their core – from ideation, to design, to implementation.
TRANSFORM HF Spring Network Event
Join us for a keynote address from a leader in the field and a TechEquity-themed pitch competition for $10K PLUS network with our community of clinicians, researchers, trainees, people with lived experience, and industry partners.
ECHO Discovery Fireside Chat: Medly Therapeutics
In December 2022, Dr. Heather Ross and Dr. Joseph Cafazzo were named University Health Network’s Inventors of the Year in recognition of their development and commercialization of Medly– a remote heart failure care tool powered by software and AI. As part of #ECHODiscovery’s Fireside Chat speaker series, Heather and Joe joined us to talk all things Medly – from what’s required for a successful collaboration to what’s in store for the future of Medly Therapeutics as it spreads, scales, and integrates new features.
Collaborating Coast-to-Coast for Health Equity
By supporting members of the TRANSFORM HF community in the development of new projects, our Collaboration Starter Grants aim to advance our mission of digital innovation for equitable heart failure care.
Another key objective of these grants is to foster new research partnerships and expand our network – something Dr. Jay Shaw has been able to do on a national scale through his pan-Canadian policy analysis of virtual care technologies.
On the Land
Led by Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle, this three-day land-based course will provide TRANSFORM HF members with the opportunity to learn from Indigenous Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and Indigenous peoples with lived experience of heart failure.
New U of T Program Offers Foundational Cardiovascular Health Entrepreneurship Training
Learning about entrepreneurship is an ongoing process that should start with a program like ECHO Discovery.
Together, the Translational Biology & Engineering Program and TRANSFORM HF designed ECHO Discovery to introduce trainees to the world of ideation, research translation, and entrepreneurship.
ECHO Discovery provides an advantage to trainees who choose to pursue either a start-up or career in industry, health care, or government.
TRANSFORM HF Annual Network Meeting
Join us as we increase connection within the network, build interdisciplinary research capacity, and foster collaboration!
