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Save the date in your calendars for the 5th Annual QWQHC Summit. The Quality Worklife-Quality Healthcare Collaborative cordially invites you to attend this year’s Summit and engage with people and organizations in our ever- growing network as we share our successes and learn from our experiences. “Integrating Perspectives: Healthy Work Environments, Healthy Outcomes, Healthy People” will be hosted on March 2-3, 2011 in Mississauga, Ontario.
The Knowledge Translation Branch of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research presents: An Information Webinar Series on CIHR's Integrated Knowledge Translation Funding Opportunities
It is with great pleasure again in 2010 with Pfizer R&D we announce the “World Health Summit and Pfizer Award for Innovation in Biomedical Research”. This annual, international award endowed with Euro 75,000 is designed to recognise and reward young scientists at the outset of their career, promote innovation in biomedical research and encourage translation to benefits in human health.
CHSRF recognizes the importance of including patients in discussions and decisions about their care. Research shows that patient-centred care, with its focus on patient preference and experience, is a key to improving the delivery of health services. The purpose of the Patient Engagement Projects (PEP) initiative is to support activities that improve the quality of care by engaging patients in the design, delivery and evaluation of health services.
The popular What Works track is back for a second year. This track is an ideal way for busy program directors to share their teaching and assessment pearls. We are looking for abstracts for paper or poster presentations that describe ideas about effective teaching or assessment methods for one or several CanMEDS Roles.
April marks the end of the school year for university and college students around the country. As a way to celebrate, all month we will profile students reaching out to other students to educate and raise awareness about stem cell science -- check our blog and social media pages for new articles every week. We'll be interviewing students from across the country, profiling new and existing programs and posting links to great stem cell science resources.
At its most recent meeting (March 2010), the Board of Directors (BD) of the FRSQ issued its annual list of candidates recommended for funding. The names of the recipients of 2010-2011 award and grant competitions will be posted on the FRSQ's Web site (www.frsq.gouv.qc.ca) as of mid-April. However, the FRSQ wishes to inform the scientific community of a change in the way training award and career award results will be made public from now on. Until now, FRSQ award offers were all issued…
Join us in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 21 to 23, 2010 as we celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Halifax Symposium, and mark the end of this remarkable series.
Ontario Rett Syndrome association ("O.R.S.A.") is pleased to offer its research grant program (the "Program") to professionals committed to conducting novel, emerging, or innovative research in areas relevant to the cure, cause, prevention, improved treatment and/or understanding of Rett Syndrome and its implications on society.
The Cancer Research Society (CRS) is pleased to request letters of intent for its new research program in environment-cancer, the CRS GRePEC competition.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) invite individuals or teams of health researchers, health professionals and others to submit significant achievements they may have had in any area of health research. Achievements will be selected from the following four categories: (i) biomedical; (ii) clinical; (iii) health services; and (iv) population and public health.
February 25-26, 2010 / Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ottawa, ON: The Quality Worklife Quality Healthcare Collaborative’s 4th Annual Summit
We’d like to take this opportunity to advise you of an exciting initiative that Ontario Centres of Excellence’s Centre for Commercialization of Research is undertaking in collaboration with the University of Waterloo to launch a new type of collaborative training camp for young entrepreneurs. The University of Waterloo recently issued a news release announcing the VeloCity Entrepreneur BootCamp (VEB) which will allow some of the most promising young entrepreneurs in Canada to learn how to help create the country's future economy. The University of Waterloo is drawing on its widely acknowledged strengths in innovation to launch the boot camp along with some funding from Ontario Centres of Excellence’s Centre for Commercialization of Research. Waterloo joined forces with the Ontario Centres of Excellence's (OCE) Centre for Commercialization of Research to set up VEB. Other key partners include the Accelerator Centre; Communitech, which will provide programming and access to their network of mentors; and the Impact Entrepreneurship Group, which will help promote VEB on campuses across the country.
*Download PDF below text for annoucement details Coordination Action The current Coordination Action (CA) is funded under the ERA-Net scheme in FP6 2007-2010 by the European Commission. The aim of the Network of European Funding for Neuroscience Research (NEURON) project is to link 16 European national research funding programmes and funding activities in the field of disease-related neurosciences. The project is based on the activities of the pilot Specific Support Action (SSA) NEURON. In…
To help identify the scope of the patient safety challenge in home care, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute has partnered with other sponsoring organizations - including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), Institute of Aging (IA), and Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH); The Change Foundation; and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) - who are committed to supporting research that generates new knowledge and that contributes to improving the safety of home care services for Canadian home care clients.
The CIHR Partnership Award, established in 2002, recognizes partnerships between organizations that exemplify excellence by bringing health research communities together to create innovative approaches to research, develop research agendas that are responsive to the health needs of Canadians and/or accelerate the translation of knowledge for the benefit of Canadians. The emphasis of the award is on innovative cross-sectoral partnerships between organizations that promote …