Professor Robert Tsushima will take on the role of Associate Dean, Research and Partnerships in the Faculty of Science & Engineering for a three-year term, effective Aug. 1. Tsushima, professor in 91ÑÇɫ’s Department of Biology, holds a Career Investigator Award from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario. His research program investigates the molecular and […]
How can Blackberry smartphones be used to reduce health risks? And what can head injuries teach us about how to rehabilitate our bodies? Physicians and clinicians from Southlake Regional Health Centre, and researchers from 91ÑÇÉ«, will speak at an open house Monday about how they are working together – in the hospital and in […]
"Knowledge translation", says Dr. Indy Ghosh, will be one of the greatest benefits of a partnership between 91ÑÇÉ« Central Hospital and 91ÑÇÉ« to foster research and access to research at the hospital, wrote 91ÑÇÉ«Region.com March 1: It will not only ensure patients receive leading-edge care but help build a reputation for excellence at the […]
Ensuring that heart patients get automatically referred [for rehabilitation programs] as they're leaving the hospital can make a difference, argues Sherry Grace, of 91ÑÇÉ« and the University Health Network, and her colleagues in a paper published Monday in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, wrote the Hamilton Spectator, the Waterloo Region Record, the Canadian […]
Health care practitioners can increase the number of patients referred to a cardiac rehabilitation program by more than 40 per cent, helping them to reduce their risk of dying and improve their quality of life, say researchers at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. Researchers explored multiple strategies to increase referrals to cardiac rehabilitation programs at […]
Funding will support three projects in biology, kinesiology and psychology The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded 91ÑÇÉ« $274,689 in infrastructure funding to support the research of three 91ÑÇÉ« professors. Olivier Birot, professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Science in 91ÑÇÉ«'s Faculty of Health and a member of the Muscle Health Research […]
Could screening high-risk populations for pre-diabetes and setting them up with culturally preferred fitness regimes prevent people from developing Type 2 diabetes and the secondary complications of heart and kidney disease, blindness and stroke? That’s what several 91ÑÇÉ« researchers are hoping to find out. If successful, their Pre-Diabetes Detection and Physical Activity Intervention Delivery (PRE-PAID) Program […]