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Mitacs grant allows Dalhousie industrial engineering students to bring innovative solutions to Nova Scotia Health
July 2, 2024
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By: Allison Currie You could say engineering runs in the family for Dalhousie University Industrial Engineering student Grace Eisnor. Her father, a civil engineer, and her mother, a chemical engineer, are both involved with Engineers Nova Scotia and Grace was...
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Industrial engineering interns to solve health system challenges
August 2, 2023
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Health Innovation Hub drives largest-ever Mitacs health authority grant Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub and Mitacs are partnering on a $1.4 million grant to embed 42 of Dalhousie University’s top industrial engineering interns and two post-doctoral fellows within the provincial...
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‘A different energy’: Industrial engineering students shaking up healthcare delivery in Nova Scotia
June 27, 2024
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By: Heide Pearson When people think “healthcare optimization,” they may not often think of industrial engineers being one of the essential pieces of the puzzle. But in fact, industrial engineers are embedded throughout the Nova Scotia healthcare system, and put...
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Celebrating Partnerships: Significant co-investment will result in more effective and efficient health care
August 28, 2023
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Another important milestone was announced this month at the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub as engineering interns, industry, government, and academia gathered to celebrate another partnership. Through a five-year $1.4-million grant from Mitacs, 42 of Dalhousie University's top industrial engineering...
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Meet the Medventions Atlantic Team and Fellows
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The Medventions Atlantic leadership team Doris Grant Managing Director, Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub Margaret Palmeter Senior Director, Innovation, Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub Ahmed Nasef Co-Founder & Program Manager, Sunnybrook Medventions Program Dr. Clifton Johnston Medventions Atlantic Academic Advisor and Associate Professor & NSERC Chair in Design Engineering, Academic...
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Medventions Atlantic marks one year of immersing students, recent grads in the healthcare system
January 14, 2025
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The Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub is celebrating one year of a program that’s given students hands-on experience in clinical spaces with the goal of improving the patient experience in the health system. Medventions Atlantic, led by the Health Innovation...
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Meet our affiliate scientist, Dr. Zeeshan Sheikh
November 19, 2024
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By: Allison Currie Dr. Zeeshan Sheikh is an affiliate scientist with Nova Scotia Health, a Clinical Scientist in Periodontics in the departments of Biomaterials and Applied Oral Sciences and Dental Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry at Dalhousie University. He is...
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QEII Health Sciences Centre second hospital in Canada to receive orthopedic surgical robot
November 2, 2021
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HALIFAX, N.S. – Nova Scotia Health’s QEII Health Sciences Centre is now home to the Mako SmartRobotics system – the second surgical robot of its kind in Canada. The innovative robotic arm is controlled by a surgeon during hip and...
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“We are not afraid to take risks” – How Nova Scotians are getting early access to robotic surgery
June 20, 2023
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When Glen Munroe woke up in the recovery room in January after getting a partial knee replacement, he caused a bit of a stir. “Some of the nurses said, ‘Oh, you had robotic surgery!’ I almost felt like a celebrity...
