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Foundation Models for Kawasaki Disease Diagnosis and Management

Overview: Kawasaki disease is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children, with potentially devastating cardiac consequences including coronary artery aneurysms. The disease presents significant clinical challenges: delayed diagnosis is common due to non-specific early symptoms, treatment response is […]

Lead: Cedric Manlhiot

Wearable Technology for Personalized Cardiac Monitoring

Overview: Adolescents with congenital heart disease are at risk of decline in cardiac function that can follow unpredictable time courses, from sudden deterioration to gradual progression. Current clinical scheduling relies on fixed intervals with minimal individualization, leading to suboptimal timing […]

Lead: Cedric Manlhiot

ICAI2N: AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support for Pediatric Cardiac Care

Overview: Children with congenital heart disease face significant risks during hospital stays, with unplanned ICU readmissions occurring in 4-20% of pediatric cardiac patients, rates are substantially higher than the general pediatric population. These deterioration events lead to increased length of […]

Lead: Cedric Manlhiot

Pablo Galvez-Hernandez

Accepting Students

Lina Neves-Mera

How Involuntary Hospitalizations Impact Post-Discharge Access to Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients: A Mixed Methods Study

Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people face systemic discrimination that increases their risk of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalization. Our previous research using Ontario health administrative data (at ICES) found that TGD patients were less likely to follow up with […]

Lead: June Lam

Affiliates: Paul Kurdyak

Equitable Uptake and Appropriate Use of Technologies for Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

Advanced diabetes technologies like insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring devices are the most effective tools to help people manage life with type 1 diabetes. These technologies prevent life-limiting and expensive complications and should be readily accessible to all who […]

Lead: Alanna Weisman

Affiliates: Lorraine L. Lipscombe, Rayzel Shulman

Partnerships for Evaluation and Policy Research

This collaboration with the Ontario Ministry of Health (MOH) relies on using real-time administrative data and cutting-edge quasi-experimental and econometric/causal inference methods to identify the effects of health policies on health outcomes for Ontarians, and to suggest alternative policies to […]

Lead: Audrey Laporte

Affiliates: Boriana Miloucheva, Alex Hoagland

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Marielle Boutin
Email Address: ihpme.communications@​utoronto.ca

Manages all IHPME-wide communications and marketing initiatives, including events and announcements.