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Submitted without Project overview, exception was approved by Deanna on Wed 23/05/2012 8:03 AM.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eugene Fiume

Student:

Partner:

SecureKey Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Automated escalation and incident management in healthcare during mass casualties and pandemic events (Part 2)

In healthcare, communication and clear roles and responsibilities are critical in delivering care to patients. This is difficult to achieve in the best of times; during pandemics and mass casualty events, communication is the first thing to fail, leading to inefficiency, confusion, and ultimately harm to patients. This project aims to develop an automated system that escalates critical events to the required healthcare providers in a reliable and closed-loop manner. This would replace the current manual and convoluted process in place at most hospitals, which is slow, error-prone, and often ineffective.
The interns will be involved in designing a user interface that requires minimal input, and a backend logic and algorithm that can route information to those who need to know. In the event that certain providers or communication methods are unavailable, the system will be able to adapt and escalate the urgency to find proxies and other cross-covering providers.
With the development of these systems, Hypercare will be able to strengthen its product line and value proposition to larger and more complex healthcare systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Jones

Student:

Partner:

Hypercare Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and cultural industries

University:

Ontario College of Art & Design University

Program:

Accelerate

Leveraging Community Support Services to Support Integrated Health and Social System Response to COVID-19

Social distancing due to COVID-19 has meant that older adults have not been as able to see their doctors. Older adults have chronic conditions, such as diabetes, that can flare up and cause emergencies. So, finding older adults who are unwell is very important. Community support services, such as those providing meals-on-wheels, are available to find older adults who need help. Researchers designed a self-report tool to use over the phone to see if a person needs to see a health-care worker or go to the hospital. This project will teach a community support service how to use this tool and note the steps to use the tool well. The information about how the community support service clients are doing during the pandemic will be described to help health-care and government planners understand how older adults are feeling and what help they need during the pandemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

George Heckman

Student:

Partner:

Community Care Concepts of Woolwich, Wellesley, and Wilmot Townships

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Développement et évaluation de protections individuelles contre la COVID-19 adaptées à la pratique du hockey

La pratique du hockey est actuellement interdite en raison de l’absence de mesures de protection des joueurs éprouvées contre la COVID-19. La compagnie CCM souhaite ainsi développer un dispositif de protection individuelle contre la COVID-19 pour les joueurs de hockey. Les concepts actuellement à l’étude visent à éviter la projection et l’inhalation de gouttelettes qui sont les principaux vecteurs de transmission du virus. Or, il n’existe aucun test normatif sur la protection offerte contre les projections de gouttelettes. L’objectif est de développer des tests sur la protection offerte contre les gouttelettes et leur propagation dans l’environnement, ainsi que la respirabilité, la visibilité et le confort du dispositif en condition de match. L’effet du dispositif sur la teneur en gouttelettes et en aérosols dans l’enceinte de l’environnement de match simulé sera également évalué. Ces essais permettront d’améliorer les concepts, et d’évaluer la faisabilité de reprendre la pratique du hockey de façon sécuritaire avec ce type de protection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Wagnac

Student:

Partner:

Sport Maska Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Retail trade; Wholesale trade

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Utilization of high pressure processing (HPP) to deactivate viruses and pathogens

Hospitals, diagnostic laboratories and medical research organizations have witnessed an upsurge in the generation of biohazardous medical waste during the COVID-19 pandemic. This waste is potentially detrimental to the environment and public health and needs to be adequately decontaminated and disposed. Incineration is the most routinely employed technique to treat biohazardous waste but the method generates a sizable quantity of greenhouse gas emissions and toxic by-products. The current project will assess the efficacy of high-pressure processing (HPP) to decontaminate and reduce the volume of biohazardous waste. HPP is environmentally sustainable, economical and scalable to meet the current need of Canadian hospitals and also offers the added benefit of generating source material for the development of vaccines against COVID-19. The proposed project will bring together the laboratory of Vikramaditya Yadav at the University of British Columbia, one of the leading research groups in synthetic biology and bioprocessing in Canada, and AvantGarde, which operates BC’s only tolling HPP facility, and will deliver an economical and practical solution to the medical waste disposal problem that has been compounded by COVID-19.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vikramaditya Yadav

Student:

Partner:

AvantGarde Coatings

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Deep learning-driven strategies for COVID-19 Detection and Risk Stratification

A critical step in the fight against COVID-19 is effective screening of infected patients for infection detection and risk assessment. While viral testing such as rt-PCR is the gold standard for infection detection as it is highly specific, it is moderately sensitive and is a very time-consuming, laborious, and complicated manual process that is in short supply. While faster viral testing methods are becoming available, they remain in short supply and do not provide important information on severity and extent. The goal of the proposed project is to investigate and develop deep-learning strategies for COVID-19 detection and risk stratification based on chest radiography. The objectives are designing tailored deep neural networks for COVID-19 detection for both chest X-ray and CT; risk stratification for both chest X-ray and CT, as well as strategies for secure clinical decision support.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Zelek;Alexander Wong

Student:

Partner:

Rogers Communications Inc.;DarwinAI

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Evolutionarily guided rational design of vaccines, antibody therapeutics, and accurate serological assays for COVID-19

Efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 have failed and we face an ongoing pandemic that has already infected millions of people world-wide. There are currently no drugs or vaccines that have been approved for the treatment of COVID-19, and existing blood tests for immunity suffer from inaccuracies. Moreover, since antibody or vaccine development can take several years, most of the treatments developed now by screening recovered COVID-19 patient serum to the virus will likely suffer from the rapid mutation of the virus, and may not be effective for future coronavirus mutants. This is the main reason why we cannot use therapies developed for SARS-CoV from the 2003 outbreak to the current pandemic. This project will develop evolutionarily-guided therapeutics and accurate blood tests that will account for future mutations in the virus, which could be used both against the current strain, and may also be able to prevent future pandemics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Colin Gay;Steven Plotkin

Student:

Partner:

ProMIS Neurosciences

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

COVID-19 and Bridging the Social and Physical Gap: Dynamic Digital Resources to Meet the Mental Health Support Needs of Children, Youth, and Families

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us with social isolation, financial uncertainty, and daily life disruptions. Parents and children may be uniquely impacted as parents attempt to navigate the stressors of working from home, caring for children, and, potentially, caring for their elderly parents and other family members. Children and youth, in turn, are influenced by parental anxieties that may exacerbate the child’s/youth’s own mental health concerns. The Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research (CRaNHR) is teaming up with MLD Solutions and child/youth-serving organizations to convert static resources to a dynamic client experience using the Mozaik.Global platform. Mozaik.Global has a broad range of features to easily incorporate digital material, develop quizzes, add gaming features, etc., and record keystrokes, swipes, and clicks to build a rich and vibrant picture of the users’ engagement with the digital content. The team will examine how engagement with digital mental health content best meets the support needs of children, youth, and family members during the social restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Diana Urajnik

Student:

Partner:

MLD Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Laurentian University

Program:

Accelerate

Consumer Access to Personal Health Information for Asthma Self-Management

The Centre for Global eHealth Innovation (UHN) is leading the development of a mobile web
application for asthma self-management on behalf of Ontario Lung Association, in a project
funded by Canada Health Infoway. The internship will involve the research and development
of the user-interface of this novel application, which can be accessed by users via standard
browsers on desktops and laptops to across a range of mobile devices such as smartphones
and tablets. The application aims to enhance collaborative management of asthma between
patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers, by leveraging various electronic resources
and tools for disease management, providing access to personal health information and
asthma care plan information, and allowing collection of user-entered asthma information.
This involves support for various features that allow for personalized management of their
asthma condition. This application will fill in the present void of a technological solution for
asthma self-management and will empower patients to become actively involved in their
treatment plans. It will Significantly benefit….TOBECONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ron Baecker

Student:

Partner:

Centre for Global eHealth Innovation;TELUS Health Space

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Les effets de la pandémie COVID-19 sur la vitalité culturelle du Quartier des spectacles à Montréal

L’étude proposée déterminera l’incidence des activités culturelles et créatives sur le développement du Quartier des spectacles à Montréal. La démarche permettra d’identifier et d’analyser les initiatives culturelles portées par divers acteurs locaux, dans une perspective de développement local. La vitalité culturelle du Quartier des spectacles sera mise en perspective dans le contexte de la pandémie du COVID-19 et les effets que celle-ci pourrait avoir sur le secteur culturel du territoire. Les résultats de la recherche permettront aux intervenants de mieux cibler leurs actions sur le terrain et de mieux orienter leurs objectifs et leur mission. Finalement, l’étude apportera un portrait de la vitalité culturelle du quartier qui permettra aux acteurs locaux d’inscrire ce thème dans le processus de transformation que traverse le territoire.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Juan Luis Klein

Student:

Partner:

Synapse C

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Hunt for the Super-Spreaders — A Complex Networks Approach

Contagious diseases, such as SARS and COVID-19, bring a large amount of damage to human’s life and world economy. Pathogens spread among individuals through the contact network. It is observed that most social networks show a power-law degree distribution, implying that hubs exist in these networks. Finding underlying super-spreaders (hubs) and isolating or immunizing them can decrease the pathogen spreading dramatically. In this project, we propose a new framework based on “Biased Friendship Paradox” (BFP) to identify latent super-spreaders effectively and efficiently with- out global knowledge of the network. Using this method to guide isolation and immunization will save a large amount of time and resources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yuanzhu Chen

Student:

Partner:

NASDAQ Canada Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

New and Digital Media; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; COVID-19 related Research and Solutions

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Implementation and evaluation of an online tool to support the screening and triage of people with manifestations of psychological deterioration in the context of a pandemic

In the context of a pandemic, one of the main challenges is the difficulty of meeting the needs of the population while taking into account the shortage of resources. Thus, it is imperative to innovate and create strategies that are both dynamic and interactive, in an effort to better identify those individuals most at risk and to prioritize needs, given limited resources. The aim of this project is to create a tool to identify the intensity of manifestations of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress in people to guide them towards the right health management strategies, in accordance with their level of risk. In addition, this project can be used as screening and triage system for health services in order to improve the effectiveness of their responses according the level of psychological distress of their populations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine Briand;Marie-Michèle Lord

Student:

Partner:

InoHaus

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

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