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.
Catalyzing Collaboration at the Intersection of Data Science & Biomedical Engineering
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.
ECHO Discovery 2024 Pitch Competition
Join us to celebrate the graduation of our 2024 ECHO Discovery cohort! Don’t miss a pitch competition for $500 and fireside chat with Dr. Abhinav Sharma.
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.
ECHO Discovery 2023 Pitch Competition & Google Health Fireside Chat
Watch four teams from our inaugural 2023 ECHO Discovery cohort pitch their novel innovative cardiovascular health solutions to judges Craig Simmons, Darshan Brahmbhatt, Julie Vizza, and Sumaiyah Rehman for a chance to win $500!
While the judges deliberate, hear from global leader in digital health technology, Jacqueline Shreibati. Dr. Shreibati discusses how she pivoted her trajectory and leveraged her diverse skillset to make real-world impact – inspirational words on the importance of finding your value, being persistent, and navigating rejection!
Drumroll please… Panorama Health (Kathryn Howe, Tenzin Yangzom, Sophie Sigfstead, Ruilin Wu, Nathan Holwell) was awarded $500 for a conversational AI app for smoking cessation! Congrats to Cardio Fi (Anat Usatinsky, Samantha Unger, John Darwin Namata, Vaswani Kumar Lukka, Tina Sokhanvar), Podiascale (Mohammed Rashidul Anwar, Rayhaan Bassawon, Jonathun Wu), and PressurePal (Daniel Davoudpour, Elizabeth Karvasarki, Amanda Mac, Megh Rathod) on their strong pitches as well.
Enlightening Panel Discussion: Navigating the Path to a Professorship Position
Are you concerned about securing a job in academia, post-COVID? Join four outstanding panelists (3 of which who have been supported by TRANSFORM HF) who will start their career as Assistant Professors this fall. Together, they will provide advice to graduate students...
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: 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.
TRANSFORM HF’s 2022 CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Sarah Lawrason & Samuel Petrie
We are pleased to announce that both TRANSFORM HF’s applicants to the 2022 CIHR Health Systems Impact Fellows (HSI) competition, Sarah Lawrason and Samuel Petrie, were successful!
