The Faculty of Medicine’s COVID-19 Funding Program has selected eleven projects for a grant of up to $50,000 each. The projects represent a wide variety of approaches to tackling the spread of the coronavirus and mitigating its negative consequences. They were chosen on the basis of being highly feasible with immediately achievable and important results, and providing evidence to inform clinical and public health responses or decision-making about the pandemic.
The successful projects are as follows:
Team: David Allen, Manoj Lalu, Dean Fergusson, and Alan Tinmouth
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Department of Medicine
Project Title: A Framework for Accelerated Synthesis of Trial Evidence – FAST Evidence - to assess efficacy of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19
Team: Simone Dahrouge
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Department of Family Medicine
Project Title: Supporting Primary Care Practices Re-Open Post-Covid19
Team: James Downar
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Department of Medicine, Palliative Care / Bruyère Research Institute
Project Title: Supporting family members with severe grief reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study
Team: Daniel Figeys, Alex Mackenzie and Robert Delatolla
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute (CHEO RI)
Project Title: Measuring COVID19 proteins in wastewater
Team: Wenbin Liang and Darryl Davis
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM)/University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI)
Project Title: Fundamental mechanisms underlying COVID-19 associated cardiac arrhythmias
Team: Matthew DF McInnes
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Radiology, Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health/The Ottawa Hospital
Project Title: Imaging Tests for the Diagnosis of COVID 19: A ‘Living’ Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis
Team: Amy Hsu, Heidi Sveistrup and Timon LeDain
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Department of Family Medicine
Project Title: Predicting COVID-19 risk in long-term care workers using routinely-collected healthcare data
Team: Glenn Posner, Kaitlin Endres, and Michael O’Brien
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Obstetrics & Gynecology, Department of Innovation in Medical Education (DIME)
Project Title: Pandemic-Proofing Simulation-based Education: Development and Evaluation of Interactive Virtual Educational Content for Medical Trainees
Team: Louise Sun, Marc Ruel, Sean van Diepen
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine / UOHI
Project Title: Cardiac surgery triaging tools to reduce mortality while maximizing intensive care resources during the COVID-19 crisis
Team: Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Emergency Medicine
Project Title: Virtual monitoring of COVID positive patients in the community
Team: Roger Zemek and Sharon Johnston
Faculty of Medicine Department(s)/Research Institute(s): Pediatrics, Family Medicine
Project Title: Development, validation and implementation of an innovative, evidence-based virtual concussion exam
