TRANSFORM HF was launched in 2020 in response to the grand challenge of inequity in heart failure care. With our 5th anniversary on the horizon, we sat down with Dr. Craig Simmons, TRANSFORM HF Co-Lead, to discuss the power of collaboration, how the engineering landscape has evolved, and what he hopes to see in the future of heart failure care.
Designed to spark new partnerships, our Collaboration Starter Grants provide crucial early-stage funding for research and project proposals. Say hello to our 2025 Recipients who are working to advance equitable heart failure care.
On November 8, 2024, 80+ clinicians, researchers, trainees, people with lived experience, and industry partners joined us for our 7th bi-annual meeting. In addition to fostering potential collaborations, this event clarified some best practices for digital health innovation.
Collaboration Starter Grant recipients Kimberly Crasta and Ellis Gao want to improve clinic workflow efficiency in outpatient settings. Read how they’re working with a team of collaborators to make it happen.
Collaboration Starter Grant recipient Dr. Ibukun Abejirinde wants to ensure our approach to remote patient monitoring is person-centred and equity promoting.
TRANSFORM HF is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2024 Trainee Awards! Learn more about the heart failure trainees and their projects.
Data scientist Chris McIntosh and biomedical engineer Dan Franklin first met at a TRANSFORM HF networking event. Now they’re working together with their trainees Will Gao and Matthew Kenyon Lee to develop advanced wearable devices that use AI to produce cleaner data for more reliable insights into heart function.
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.
TRANSFORM HF is pleased to present a 2024 Seed Grant to Drs. Dainty, Grunau, and their team for their proposal to build the first ever sensor to detect cardiac arrest – the ultimate heart failure.
Whether a cardiac arrest is witnessed or not is a key determinant of outcomes. Unfortunately, in over three-quarters of out-of-hospital events, no one is there to witness the event. In many cases, minutes, hours, or days pass before the emergency is recognized.
According to Drs. Katie Dainty and Brian Grunau, immediate recognition of sudden cardiac arrests could triple survival rates, saving more than 3,400 lives per year. They believe that this can be done through remote monitoring.
A team of researchers led by TRANSFORM HF’s Dr. Sahr Wali are exploring how digital tools can support pediatric cardiac care management.
Their study began by exploring clinicians’ views on the use of a digital therapeutic program to support pediatric cardiac care. Through semi-structured interviews with clinicians at SickKids, the team identified key themes to guide the development of a digital therapeutic intervention to empower adolescents with heart disease in their own care. These findings have been published in PLOS Digital Health.
