Research Grants

Duration Grantor Type Co-Grantees Topic Amount
Dec 2008 Dec. 2011 Ont. Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Research Grant Developing a system dynamics model of the Ontario health care system $125,000
Jan. 2009 Sept 2009 Centre for Health Quality Improvement Research Contract Patient Flow Simulation Model $49,000
Sept 2008 Mar 2009 Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons Research Contract Cardiac surgery forecasting model $13,500
July 2008June 2009 Cancer Care Ontario Development of Models for Cancer Care Planning: Provincial Planning Operations Research Collaboration $129,167
Jul 2007June 2008 Cancer Care Ontario Development of Models for Cancer Care Planning: Provincial Planning Operations Research Collaboration $96,750
2009-14 NSERC Strategic Research Network David Plant Healthcare Support Through Information Technology Enhancements $6,000,000
2009-14 CIHR Team Grant Tom Noseworthy PI Total Joint Replacement: Strategic Management for Timely Care $1,500,000
2008-13 Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Team Grant Cy Frank (PI) Creating Bone & Joint Health From the Bedside to the Bench and Back Again $5,067,000
2008-2009 CIHR Workshop Funding Research Grant What is blocking patient flow? Capacity Planning Workshop $20,000
2007-2011 CHSRF - Research, Exchange, and Impact for System Support Research Grant Michael Schull PI Waiting with an Emergency (Team member) - LOI accepted; full proposal submitted $810,000
2007-2008 CIHR Timely Access to Health Care Research Grant Operations Research in Queue Management: Development of Scheduling Systems for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery $100,000
2007-2008 CIHR/HTX (Ham. Health Sci, St. Mike's, Mt. Sinai, Visual8) Research Grant A Simulation-based Peri-operative Decision Support System $110,000
2007 MITACS Workshop Martin Puterman plus 3 others Operations Research in Health Care Conference $8,000
2007 Department of Postgraduate Medicine, University of Toronto Research Contract S. Sadat Develop a system dynamics model to predict the numbers of doctors in various specialties in the future. $10,000
2006-2008 North York General Hospital Research Contract Evaluation of Urgent Care Centre and St. Michael's Hospital surge capacity protocol demonstration projects (PI) $200,000
2006-2007 Canada Health Infoway and The Scarborough Hospital Research Contract Enhancing emergency Services: A Patient-Centred Approach (Team Member) $1,220,990
2006-2007 Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Research Contract Jon Dreyer (PI) Predictors Of Workload in the Emergency Room (POWER 2) (Co investigator) $437,781
2007 Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Research Contract Environmental Scan for Hospital Bed Capacity Planning $30,000
2005-2006 Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Research Contract Jon Dreyer (PI) Predictors Of Workload in the Emergency Room (POWER 1) $399,670
2006-08 Western Canada Wait List Project RA Support Sherry Oh Prioritized Wait List Management $60,000
2006-07 Hospital for Sick Children and Philips Corp. Research Contract Pat McKeever Kids and Ambient MRI (KAMRI) Technology Research $200,000
2006-07 St. Michael's Hosp. & Hamilton Health Science RA Support Daphne Sniekers Perioperative Decision Support System $12,000
2006-07 Trillium Health Centre RA Support Rasha Rashidi Diagnostic Imaging Analysis $14,500/yr
2006-07 MITACS Network Seed Grant Marty Puterman Operations Research Models in Health Care $40,000
2006 Cardiac Care Network of Ontario RA Support Rink Krackman Systems Dynamics Model of HR Strategic Planning $5,000
2005-06 North York General Hospital RA Support Rodney Lau Modelling the Fracture Clinic $15,600
2005-06 Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Ont. Research Contract Predicting Hospital Performance and Secondary Effects in Funded Surgery Volumes for Reduction of Wait Lists $23,000
2005-08 MDS Research Grant B.Golden (P.I.) plus four others Idealized-Design in Cancer Care Delivery $500,000
2005 Toronto Western Hospital RA Support Margreet van der Drift Process Analysis in the Fracture Clinic $10,000
2004-06 Cardiac Care Network Research Grant Jean Yong Hamilton Health Sciences Simulation $28,000
2004-06 Ontario HIV Treatment Network RA Support G. Zaric HIV Resource Allocation in Sub-Saharan Africa $40,000
2004-05 Toronto Western Hospital RA Support Hannah Wong Modelling General Medicine Patient Flow $27,600
2004-05 CIHR / Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies International symposium Grant B. Sobolev, A Levy Health Care Modeling: Linking Operations and Health Services Research $43,000
2003-05 Trillium Health Centre RA Support Caroline Chan Modelling Cardiovascuscular Services $27,600
2003-05 The Ottawa Hospital RA Support Sonia Vanderby Modelling Emergency Patient Admissions $27,600
2003-05 Mt. Sinai Hospital RA Support Govind Adaikappan Modelling the Neonatal ICU $27,600
2003-05 OHA Change Foundation Grant Decision Support Simulation Model for Resource Management of an Acute Care Hospital $185,000
2003-08 NSERC Discovery Grant Healthcare Resource Utilization $125,000
2003-04 NSERC Research Tools & Instruments A Strategic Model of the Healthcare System $ 34, 222
2002-04 SSHRC Operating Grant M. Schull and G. Zaric Causes and Relationships between Overcrowding and Waiting in Different Emergency Departments: The CROWDED Study $16,000
2002-04 CIHR Operating Grant M. Schull and G. Zaric Causes and Relationships between Overcrowding and Waiting in Different Emergency Departments: The CROWDED Study $196,956
1999-03 NSERC Operating Grant Scheduling Applications $96,180
1999-00 NSERC Equipment Grant Home Care Modelling $10,333
1998-99 Ontario Quebec Exchange Health Scheduling $2,300
1997-98 Ontario-Quebec Projects of Exchange Scheduling Applications in Health Care $3,500
1995-96 Ontario-Quebec Projects of Exchange Tabu Search for Hot Strip Mill Scheduling $1,800
1994-95 Ontario-Quebec Projects of Exchange Tabu Search for Hot Strip Mill Scheduling $2,120
1995-99 NSERC Operating Grant Practical Scheduling Applications $72,000
1992-95 NSERC Operating Grant Practical Scheduling Applications $66,000
1991-92 NSERC Equipment Grant Practical Scheduling Applications $40,791
1990-92 Ontario Ministry of Health L. O'Brien-Pallas Scheduling Operating Rooms $231,780
1989-92 NSERC Operating Grant Timetabling Student Courses $52,500
1986-89 NSERC Operating Grant Timetabling Student Courses $40,500
1983-86 NSERC Operating Grant Timetabling Student Courses $19,080
1982-83 NSERC Operating Grant Timetabling Student Courses $16,000
1981-82 NSERC Operating Grant Timetabling Student Courses $6,000