Christine Henry / en Canadian Academy of Health Sciences names eight Ă山ǿĽé researchers as fellows /news/canadian-academy-health-sciences-names-eight-u-t-researchers-fellows <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Canadian Academy of Health Sciences names eight Ă山ǿĽé researchers as fellows</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2018-09-14-Mike-Carter-resized1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=TSzbraZe 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2018-09-14-Mike-Carter-resized1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=WGZV4UJi 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2018-09-14-Mike-Carter-resized1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=WWPqGn4d 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2018-09-14-Mike-Carter-resized1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=TSzbraZe" alt="Photo of Mike Carter"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>noreen.rasbach</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2018-09-14T10:41:24-04:00" title="Friday, September 14, 2018 - 10:41" class="datetime">Fri, 09/14/2018 - 10:41</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item"> Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering Professor Michael Carter's election to the academy is an acknowledgment of his leadership in improving health-care delivery in Toronto for more than 30 years (photo by Brian Tran)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/brian-tran" hreflang="en">Brian Tran</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/christine-henry" hreflang="en">Christine Henry</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/canadian-academy-health-sciences" hreflang="en">Canadian Academy of Health Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-dentistry" hreflang="en">Faculty of Dentistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/lawrence-s-bloomberg-faculty-nursing" hreflang="en">Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/ontario-institute-studies-education" hreflang="en">Ontario Institute for Studies in Education</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Eight researchers at the University of Toronto have been named fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences – one of the highest honours for the country’s health sciences community.</p> <p>The academy brings together Canada’s leading health scientists and scholars to address critical health challenges facing Canadians. The fellows are recognized for their leadership, creativity and commitment to advancing academic health science and are drawn from a wide range of fields, from fundamental science to social science and population health.</p> <p>“The University of Toronto is proud of these eight scholars, all of whom have achieved national and international peer recognition for their meaningful contributions to the health sciences," says&nbsp;<strong>Vivek Goel</strong>, vice-president of research and innovation.</p> <p>&nbsp;“Their internationally recognized leadership and their election to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences reflect the university's strength in these fields that helps place it as one of the top research universities in the world.”</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__9240 img__view_mode__media_large attr__format__media_large" src="/sites/default/files/2018-09-14-dentist-resized.jpg" style="width: 350px; height: 433px; margin: 10px; float: left;" typeof="foaf:Image">“This is a real privilege,” says&nbsp;<strong>Michael Glogauer</strong> (pictured left), a professor in the Faculty of Dentistry and one of the eight elected to the academy. “Being a clinician-scientist is the best job in the world. There is creativity and problem-solving involved and we get to work toward answering important questions.”</p> <p>Glogauer is a leader in oral innate immunity in health and disease. As a dental clinician scientist, he focuses on understanding the impact of oral diseases on general health. He says his election into the academy will afford him the opportunity to demonstrate how important funding is to the work of dental clinician scientists – and to the lives of Canadians.</p> <p>“The oral cavity is connected to the rest of the body where health problems can be initially detected by dentists," he says. "For example, diabetes often presents with an infection in the mouth. With improved communication between the dentist and the rest of the health-care team, we can potentially carry out earlier detection of new cases of diabetes, improve patient health, and reduce costs to the health-care system.”</p> <h3><a href="https://www.dentistry.utoronto.ca/news/professor-michael-glogauer-awarded-cahs-fellowship">Read more about&nbsp;Michael Glogauer</a></h3> <p>&nbsp;Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering Professor&nbsp;<strong>Michael Carter</strong>'s election to the academy is an acknowledgment of his leadership in improving health-care delivery in Toronto for more than 30 years.</p> <p>He was one of the first academics in industrial engineering to see the need to study the way health care works in hospitals in order to find ways to deliver better care and reduce costs. Today, industrial engineers regularly team up with health-care centres, but that was not the case in the 1980s, when engineers were seen as curiosities in the hospital context.</p> <p>&nbsp;“I was one of the few researchers then," Carter says. "Today there are probably 100 professors across Canada who focus on process improvement in health care. It was an uphill battle, but this work is now a respected and increasingly popular focus of engineering research and practice."</p> <p>He cites one example of how improving a single aspect of health-care delivery can result in better resource management without costing more. “Thirty years ago, operating rooms were relatively quiet Friday afternoons because few doctors scheduled surgeries then," he says. "Staff scheduled on Fridays experienced lower workloads, while working overtime during the rest of the week. No one was looking at the balance between supply and demand."</p> <h3><a href="http://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/michael-carter-elected-fellow-of-the-canadian-academy-of-health-sciences/">Read more about Michael Carter</a></h3> <p>In the 2000s, Carter was instrumental to launching the Centre for Healthcare Engineering (CHE) – then known as the Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering – where he served as founding director. Today, CHE provides a home for industrial engineering researchers to connect, share research, and intensify their collaboration.&nbsp;</p> <p>The eight members of the Ă山ǿĽé community who have been named fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences are:</p> <p><strong>Michael Carter</strong>, professor in the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering’s department of mechanical and industrial engineering</p> <p><strong>Karen Davis</strong>, professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s department of surgery and senior scientist and head of the Division of Brain, Imaging &amp; Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience at the Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network</p> <p><strong>Cindy-Lee Dennis</strong>, professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Women’s Health Research Chair at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital</p> <p><strong>Richard Gilbert</strong>, professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s department of medicine and head of the Division of Endocrinology at St. Michael’s Hospital</p> <p><strong>Michael Glogauer</strong>, professor in the Faculty of Dentistry</p> <p><strong>Brian Hodges</strong>, professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s department of psychiatry and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and executive vice-president of education at University Health Network</p> <p><strong>Marc Jeschke</strong>, professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s department of surgery and senior scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre</p> <p><strong>Donald Redelmeier</strong>, professor at the Faculty of Medicine’s department of medicine and senior scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:41:24 +0000 noreen.rasbach 142809 at