Latest News
-
Indigenous Master’s Excellence Award
posted: 2018.07.04
Congratulations to Data Science's Stephanie Monkman who has received the University of Manitoba’s Indigenous Master’s Excellence Award. This award is given to Canadian Indigenous graduate students enrolled full-time in a Master’s program at the University of Manitoba. Awards are offered to meritorious graduate students who demonstrate significant research ability and scholarly potential.
-
Ed Kroeger Mentorship Award
posted: 2018.06.13
Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Lix, Director of the Data Science Platform at the Centre for Healthcare Innovation for receiving the Ed Kroeger Mentorship Award for 2018. This award is provided by the Health Sciences Graduate Students’ Association at the University of Manitoba, to recognize excellence and distinction in mentorship, teaching, and research.
-
Interstellar Initiative Award
posted: 2018.05.28
Congratulations to Dr. Pingzhao Hu of the CHI Data Science team, who was selected for the 2018 Interstellar Initiative. This is a joint program between the New York Academy of Sciences and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, which recognizes “the world's most promising Early Career Investigators in the fields of cancer, neuroscience and artificial intelligence."
-
Closing A Critical HIV Prevention Gap
posted: 2018.05.15
Demonstrating safety and effective delivery of daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as part of an HIV combination preventive intervention for sex workers in Kolkata and Mysore-Mandya, India
-
First efforts to optimize nursing see success
posted: 2018.05.04
Long-time staff member Sharon Rempel looks after a patient in Stonewall. Reduced overtime for staff was among the goals achieved by the IERHA pilot project to deliver a LEAN approach to quality improvement.
-
Examining the Implementation of Preoperative Diagnostic Testing Guidelines in Manitoba
posted: 2018.05.01
In Manitoba, as in other jurisdictions, audits have shown that many patients continue to receive unnecessary preoperative testing despite the existence of a province-wide guideline. In 2015, we undertook a multi-year project to design and implement knowledge translation strategies that we hypothesized would reduce unnecessary preoperative testing.
-
George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation and WRHA release interim evaluation of Healing our Health System plan
posted: 2018.02.13
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) released an interim evaluation of the first three months of the region's phase one of clinical consolidation.
Events & Training
-
Society for Clinical Research Associates (SoCRA) Winnipeg
2018.11.20 - 12pm to 1pm
This SoCRA workshop will describe the steps to prepare for Health Canada inspections and outline the skills to respond to inspection observations and improve practice.
-
High-Performing Health Systems - A Rapid Scan of the Evidence
2018.11.27 - 12pm to 1pm
It can be challenging to know where to begin, or how to go about making health system improvements. Working collaboratively with WRHA decision makers, we undertook an evidence scan to better understand the attributes of high-performing health systems. We will present 14 attributes of high-performing health systems and explore two case studies of high-performing health systems to provide insight into their journeys. Although there is no one-size-fits-all approach, reflecting on these cases can be used to inform the ongoing transformation process in Manitoba.
-
Where are all the patient partners? Recruiting for Engagement
2018.11.28 - 12pm to 1pm
Learn how to build meaningful partnerships between researchers and people with lived experience that inform decision-making about the health research to improve clinical and practice outcomes.
-
Engaging Ways to Engage Stakeholders
posted: 2018.10.17
This virtual conference is designed to address major strategies in the planning and implementation of effective and efficient KT measurement approaches. Participants will be able to register, view, and ask questions through the event's virtual conference platform, Adobe Connect. The event will occur over three days on Nov. 5, Nov. 7, and Nov. 9, 2018, between 1 and 5 PM (Eastern) each day.
-
Integrating Multi-Omics Data Using Regularized Regression Models
2018.12.11 - 2pm to 3pm
Bioinformatics-Biostatistics Journal Club (BBJC) is hosted by the Data Science platform at the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation. The BBJC aims to stimulate discussion of bioinformatical and statistical methods development and applications for complex health data in translation and personalized medicine. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join this monthly event.
-
Network-based Approaches for Disease Comorbidities Analysis
2018.11.22 - 2pm to 3pm
Bioinformatics-Biostatistics Journal Club (BBJC) is hosted by the Data Science platform at the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation. The BBJC aims to stimulate discussion of bioinformatical and statistical methods development and applications for complex health data in translation and personalized medicine. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join this monthly event.
-
WestGrid Research Computing
2018.11.02 - 3pm to 5pm
The workshop aims to promote health researchers in Faculty of Health Sciences to use high performance computing resources from Compute Canada for big data analysis in health data science.
-
The Nature of Nurture: Effects of Parental Genotypes
2018.10.05 - 11am to 12pm
Learn more about how the human genome interacts with the environment with Dr. Augustine Kong.
-
INFLUENCER - PLI Physician Leadership
2018.10.19 - 2018.10.20
Oct 19-20, 2018 • Two day session •8:00 am - 4:30 pm Canad Inns Health Sciences Centre, 720 William Ave, Winnipeg, MB
-
Crucial Conversations - Tools for Talking when Stakes are High
2018.11.15 - 2018.11.16
Crucial Conversations helps you master the skills you need to step up to high-stakes issues while remaining candid and respectful. Through this course, you will acquire the necessary skills to establish better relationships, gather divergent perspectives, and achieve better results – all strengths of a great leader.
-
Introduction to Observational Reviews
2018.11.23 - 9am to 4pm
Introduction to Observational Reviews will help participants understand non-randomized study designs and observational reviews while demonstrating how to prepare a review question, develop protocol and search methods, and assess study quality.
-
Introduction to Network Meta-Analysis
2018.12.07 - 9am to 4pm
Introduction to Network Meta-Analysis will teach participants what a network meta-analysis (NMA) is and the fundamental aspects to consider when preparing an NMA.
-
Grant writing/Funding opportunities in Patient-Oriented-Research
2018.09.20 - 10am to 10am
An opportunity to hear about funding opportunities, and learn some tips and tricks for putting together a successful patient-oriented grant application. Hosted by the Newfoundland and Labrador SPOR SUPPORT Unit.
-
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
2019.01.10 - 2019.04.04
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis provide participants with the knowledge and skill-set necessary to plan, conduct, analyze, and report high quality systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
-
How to Develop Guidelines Using GRADE
2019.02.19 - 2019.02.22
February 19 - 22, 2019 • 9am - 4pm • Four day workshop that takes participants through the whole process of making recommendations in guidelines.