Latest News
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Funding Award - Preparing for Research by Engaging Public and Patient Partners (PREPPP) Due May 24
2019.04.24 - 2019.05.24
Spring 2019 funding award for public and patient engagement in health research design and grant development.
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VADA Summer School Reminds Students of American Idol
2019.05.15 - 1pm to 1pm
In an intensive two-day competitive workshop, students will be placed into teams to find solutions to complex data problems. Read more at UM Today.
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Choosing Wisely Manitoba on CTV's Medical Watch
2019.02.21 - 3pm to 3pm
CHI's Dr. Eric Bohm joins CTV News' Medical Watch to discuss Choosing Wisely Manitoba and its work to improve the use and value of laboratory testing.
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Choosing Wisely Manitoba featured in WAVE Magazine
2019.02.19 - 11am to 11am
Check out WAVE Magazine's feature on Choosing Wisely Manitoba for Jan/Feb 2019
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VADA Program Featured in UM Today
posted: 2018.12.18
The Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Program recently marked the graduation of its first master's students. Rayhan Shikder is among the first students to complete the VADA Program including an internship at the iFLYTEK Laboratory for Neural Computing for Machine Learning in Toronto. You can read more about Rayhan's experience with VADA on UM Today: http://news.umanitoba.ca/vada-program-offers-valuable-skills-in-disease-prevention/
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University of Manitoba partners with Deer Lodge Centre Foundation to improve fall-risk assessment tools
posted: 2018.12.17
A research collaboration between the University of Manitoba and Deer Lodge Centre aims to improve the tools therapists use to assess falls risk. Dr. Kathryn Sibley, Director of CHI's Knowledge Translation platform and assistant professor in the U of M's department of Community Health Sciences, will lead the project to assess an existing tool called the Mini BESTTest. In January, Sibley and her team will start training physiotherapists at Deer Lodge Centre to conduct the project, which is funded in part by a grant from the Deer Lodge Centre Foundation. You can read more about this exciting project here: https://www.deerlodgecentrefoundation.com/a-delicate-balance/
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Dr. Lisa Lix Named Canada Research Chair
posted: 2018.11.22
Dr. Lisa Lix, Director of CHI's Data Science platform, has been named Canada Research Chair in Methods for Electronic Health Data Quality. Dr. Lix is one of 10 Canada Research Chairs named at the University of Manitoba, and her research will focus on developing methods enhance and evaluate the quality of electronic health databases.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Introduction to SAS for Beginners
2019.05.16 - 2019.05.17
May 16 -17, 2019 - Register now for our upcoming Introduction to SAS for Beginners two day workshop. The workshop is intended for those with training in basic statistics, but without any SAS experience. Click here for more information or to register.
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REDCap Overview & Demonstration for PIs and Study Coordinators
posted: 2019.01.04
May 24, 2019 - REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a web-based program designed to support data capture for research studies. This session highlights key features of REDCap and describes the local implementation and guidelines for access*. At least one research team member should attend this introductory seminar before implementing a project on the UM REDCap Production or Surveys Server or before taking more advanced REDCap training sessions.
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Introduction to Systematic Reviews
2019.05.27 - 2019.05.28
May 27-28, 2019 - This course will introduce participants to systematic reviews including the role and value of systematic reviews in health-care decision making from a clinical, health policy and health system perspective.
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Dismantling Institutional Racism to Achieve Health Equity
2019.05.27 - 12pm to 1pm
May 27, 2019 - This month CHI's Grand Rounds are being co-hosted by the Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing and will feature Dr. Ronald Wyatt in a discussion on "Dismantling Institutional Racism To Achieve Health Equity: A New Framework."
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Dismantling Institutional Racism to Achieve Health Equity: A New Framework
2019.05.27 - 9am to 11am
May 27, 2019 - Join us for this workshop hosted by the Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, which focuses on institutional racism - the structures, processes and norms that result in inequitable care and outcomes. This discussion will use the five-part framework in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s paper on Achieving Health Equity, published in 2016.
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Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Summer School
2019.06.12 - 2019.06.14
June 12-14, 2019 - The 2019 VADA Summer School will consist of: a student‐led research conference, a Big Data Challenge, and professional skill development sessions.
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Introduction to Observational Reviews
2019.07.05 - 9am to 4pm
July 5, 2019 - 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.
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Introduction to Network Meta-Analysis
2019.07.12 - 8am to 4pm
July 12, 2019 - 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.