About the Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering
CRHE is composed of professors, researchers, graduate students and a wide variety of industry leaders in today's healthcare labour market.
Vision
To be leaders in healthcare engineering
Mission
To provide education and research expertise in healthcare engineering
Members
- Cancer Care Ontario
- Hamilton Health Sciences Centre
- Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Health System Strategy Division
Area of Academic Focus
The Centre provides information on
- Graduate Master's of Engineering with healthcare-relevant course experience and a 4 month internship
- Graduate Courses for Engineers
- Graduate Courses for healthcare disciplines (HPME and Rotman School of Management)
- Ontario wide hospital training programs
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CRHE is committed to:
The centre offers a wide variety of educational opportunities ranging from full time graduate programs to courses, workshops, and seminars. The exchange of ideas and experience through the networking opportunity in each of the educational events enhances the learning experience of all of those involved.
The centre conducts multi-disciplinary applied research in all areas related to health care engineering, including but not limited to operational management, information systems engineering, and ergonomics/human factors engineering. While our research questions are often motivated by challenges faced in member organizations, the findings advance the whole field of health care engineering and are beneficial to the academic society, as well as various healthcare institutions and policy making authorities. We are committed to disseminating our research findings by publishing in both peer-reviewed and established professional journals.
Founder and Academic Director
Michael W. Carter, PhD
Michael Carter is a professor and scientist dedicated to the improvement, efficiency and research in healthcare resource modelling. Michael received
his Masters and Doctorate degree in Mathematics concentrating in the area of Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo. His current
research is conducted in areas that are primarily involved with the application of Operational Research and Management Science in the improvement of
Healthcare delivery. Professor Carter has been working for more then a decade in such areas as Healthcare Modelling, scheduling operating rooms and
determining the cause and relationship between overcrowding and waiting in different emergency rooms. Combined with various Masters and Doctoral students
working under his supervision in the Healthcare Resource Modelling Lab at the University of Toronto, Professor Carter's research work with hospitals
nationwide continues to move closer toward individual models of components of acute care hospitals, the improvement of accuracy, and the development
of a full-scale (regional) health system model. In addition to his work in healthcare modelling research at the University of Toronto, Michael is an
Adjunct Professor at the School of Management at the University of Ottawa as well as an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences.