Housing First (HF) is an approach that assists people with serious mental illness who are chronically homeless to become housed. Research has shown HF assists people in leaving homelessness and achieving stable housing. However, HF participants do not experience increased participation in the community or improved social networks. In response to these results, the present […]

Brain tumors occur in one out of each four children diagnosed with cancer. Sadly, these kids are less likely to survive their disease than those diagnosed with blood cancers. The kids that do survive brain cancer often suffer from side effects of treatment, which can hamper their ability to succeed later in life. Thus, the […]

CHORE aims at the design of a biohybrid synapse between biological neuronal cells and organic neuromorphic devices made of CHORE aims at the design of a biohybrid synapse between biological neuronal cells and organic neuromorphic devices made of a conjugated polymer-based hydrogel which is sentitive to ions released by ther biologtical counterpart. The project icludes […]

Laura Gatien & Associates is a local mental health therapy practice offering individual and group mental health counselling to individuals, couples, and families. Our team of 16 therapists have various areas of specialization and treat many unique challenges. Our counselling intern program allows us to offer low-cost counselling as well as a free walk-in clinic; […]

There is a growing need to address the rising child mental health crisis in Canada. One way is to take a personalized medicine approach which includes factors that influence an individual’s environment, genetics and their microbiome. The microbiome includes a collection of microorganisms and can live on or within the human body. Many environmental factors […]

My project aims to discover a treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disease that affects one billion people in the world. OSA is a serious chronic disorder that happens when a person’s breathing is intermittently interrupted during sleep. This is caused by an obstruction in the airways when muscles in the back of the […]

Brain wave technologies allow researchers and clinicians to monitor the brain at work. Our team has developed a new technology that uses electroencephalography (EEG) to provide an online record of different brain functions in a very short period of time. The brain waves recorded by this technology may change normally as time passes and we […]

Ce projet de recherche propose d’étudier l’origine de la latéralité humaine. En effet, la vaste majorité des humains préfère systématiquement l’utilisation d’une main relativement à l’autre tandis que nos plus proches cousins, les grands singes, n’ont pas une telle préférence. Cette préférence pour une main plutôt que l’autre est détectable dans nos os puisque ceux […]

Due to the unpredictable location of coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG), angiography for CABG patients costs catheterization labs additional time, poses an added risk to patients, and incurs extra costs, therefore using additional resources at Sunnybrook Hospital and at a national scale. The development of an assistive software product that helps cardiologists find free graft […]

Le projet sur la corrélation et sur l’inter-dépendance des indicateurs vise à accroitre la connaissance du CHUM dans l’inter-relation entre les principaux indicateurs de flux du patient et donc à anticiper les impacts d’un projet pour l’ensemble de l’organisation. Par exemple, lorsque j’améliore la durée de séjour de certaines catégories de patients dans une unité, […]

The BIPOC Leadership Energies (BLE) project will create a strategy for generating leadership networks and career advancement pathways for emerging female-identified and/or non-binary BIPOC leaders. The framework will outline goals, structure, resources and implementation steps to build and sustain multi-year inter-organizational coaching networks for BIPOC staff. BLE is a collaboration between 5 community service agencies. […]

Collogh Cares Inc is a digital health technology and advocacy start up, committed to preventing kidney failure, one family at a time .We are building an end-to-end solution to the problem of kidney disease and the inadequate follow-up of Chronic Kidney Patients. Our solution constitutes of a Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) management “ecosystem” comprising of […]