David Maslove is a Clinician Scientist in the Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at Queen’s University, and an Internist and Intensivist at Kingston Health Sciences Centre. His research focuses on the use of informatics, genomics, and biomedical Big Data to advance precision medicine in the ICU. Dr. Maslove...
Richard Kim
Dr. Kim received his medical degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1987. After completing an internship and residency training in Internal Medicine, he went on to carry out fellowship training in Clinical Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University from 1991-1994, and then remained at Vanderbilt as a faculty member in...
Janet Martin
Dr. Janet Martin is Associate Professor of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Canada. She is Director of MEDICI (Centre for Medical Evidence, Decision Integrity & Clinical Impact), a WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Anesthesia & Perioperative...
Michael Hillmer
Michael Hillmer is Assistant Deputy Minister of the Capacity Planning and Analytics Division of the Ministry of Health and has been part of the Ontario Public Service since 2007. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring the data and analytic needs of the health system are met; ultimately,...
Richard Weisel
Richard Weisel is an Academic Cardiovascular Surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital, an Emeritus Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute and an Emeritus Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Toronto. He trained in General Surgery at Boston University where he was an NIH trainee in...
MSU-13-006 Community Oncology Molecular Profiling in Advanced Cancers Trial (COMPACT)
Philippe Bedard
Implementation & Integration Philippe Bedard philippe.bedard@uhn.ca 416-946-4534 MSH-UHN AMOCOMPACT was the first program in Canada to provide next-generation DNA sequencing data to oncologists treating patients with advanced solid tumor malignancies. A total 836 patients from 31 Ontario hospitals and 105 community oncologists were enrolled over 3 years. Patients with...
HAH-19-003 Virtual Clinics To Improve Quality of Care and Outcomes in Heart Failure: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Harriette Van Spall
Implementation & Integration Harriette Van Spall harriette.vanspall@phri.ca Sera Whitelaw Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of death, hospitalization, and healthcare system expenditure in Canada. While care in multidisciplinary HF clinics that focus on optimal management of HF improves health outcomes in HF, there are disparities to access to...
SHS-15-002 Screening for Sleep Apnea in Stroke and TIA Patients using a Portable Sleep Monitor: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Quality and Safety Mark Boulos mark.boulos@sunnybrook.ca Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre & University of TorontoIn a randomized controlled trial of stroke/TIA patients, use of home sleep apnea testing compared to in-laboratory polysomnography increased the rate of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) diagnosis and treatment, reduced daytime sleepiness, improved functional outcomes, and...
SHS-15-003 Magnetic Occult Lesion Localization and Imaging (MOLLI)
Technological Innovations Nicole Look Hong nicole.lookhong@sunnybrook.ca 416-480-6100 x 3255 Sunnybrook Health Sciences CentreFrom 2016–2018 our team at the Odette Cancer Center, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, engineered, developed and tested a novel approach to localizing non-palpable lesions during breast conserving surgery - The Magnetic Occult Lesion Instrument (MOLLI). Using support...
Don Melady
Don has been a staff Emergency Physician for 30 years. He works at Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto and is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. He focusses his academic activities in Geriatric Emergency Medicine. He is the director of a fellowship in Geriatric Emergency...