Waterloo MedTech —Working together to foster a paradigm shift in the delivery of community based health care.

Technological innovation is desperately needed in the medical field today: However, before an innovation can be adopted in medical practice, researchers must overcome significant cost and resource-heavy barriers around technology deployment. Waterloo MedTech leverages the Region's unique collaborative innovation culture to address the gap between healthcare research and its adoption in practice.

Registration is now Open!

Are you a doctor, nurse, nutritionist, therapist, administrator or a researcher with health tech startup idea or small business? Are you a developer, designer, engineer interested in the healthcare field?

Hacking Health (HH) Cafes: where ideas and people mingle.

The event is led by panel moderator, Josephine McMurray. Find her session: “So you are starting a health tech business?” recorded below:

Location: Lions Hall (attached to Lions Arena) 20 Rittenhouse Rd. Kitchener
Cost: Free
Who: By invitation only. If you are interested in attending please contact us.

What this event will be about

• Facilitate meaningful interaction and communication between researchers, industry, government, older adults and stakeholders to promote knowledge building and exchange.
• Raise awareness of regional capacity and available resources to address social inclusion for older adults through technology and innovation.
• Explore how technology could enable solutions to support socially isolated older adults within the region.

Event Agenda
*Agenda subject to change
8:30am - 9:00am  Registration
9:00am - 10:00am Opening remarks and introduction
10:00am - 10:15am  Break
10:15am - 11:45am  Solutions-focused activity
11:45am - 12:00pm  Closing Remarks
12:00pm - 1:00pm  Lunch and gallery walk

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Engaging persons with dementia in research: Toward more inclusive methods
Speaker: Elizabeth Kelson, PhD

This seminar will focus on research challenges and opportunities that arose during a recent ethnographic study of community-based supports for people living with dementia. It will develop understandings around qualitative inquiry designed to “hear the voice” of persons living with dementia, offering suggestions for more inclusive methods and ethical research practice.

Join remotely: https://zoom.us/j/7751621686 
Teleconference: 1-855-880-1246
Meeting ID: 775 162 1686

All are welcome to join and discuss the following texts: ‘What old age is really like’ by Ceridwen Dovey: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-old-age-is-really-like Additional reading by Fleur Adcock

Location: AGE-WELL Meeting Room 13th Floor (Take elevator to 12th floor reception and call for access to NMO)
Join remotely: https://zoom.us/j/529493656 
Teleconference: 1-855-880-1246
Meeting ID: 529 493 656

MIND MATTERS Women, Technology & Hearth Health

Mind Matters: Women’s Health, Technology and Aging is a compelling series of six educational and interactive events that inform individuals how to protect their brain health, how to maintain independence, good health and quality of life through education, technologies and services that increase safety and security, support independent living, and enhance social participation. Register for the first exciting seminar on women, technology and heart health.

Speakers: Dr. Heather Ross & Dr. Azadeh Yafollahi
Moderator: Dr. Elizabeth Chertkow
Location: AutoDesk, MarS Building, 101 College St.

Register here

Do you know what to do if you are contacted by a journalist? Being interviewed by the media can be nerve-wracking. It can also be an opportunity to share your expertise and spread the word about your work. This seminar will provide tips to help you make the most of a media interview. Presented by Margaret Polanyi, a former journalist who is Senior Communications Manager at AGE-WELL, the session will review the do’s and don’ts of media interviews, including advice for talking about research. For further information please contact training@agewell-nce.ca. 

This webinar is exclusive to AGE-WELL HQP. Please register here.

Location: Toronto Rehab – UHN, Room 12-026

We’ll read An Empirical Evaluation of Generic Convolutional and Recurrent Networks for Sequence Modeling by Shaojie Bai, J. Zico Kolter,and  Vladlen Koltun. AGE-WELL HQP Maziar Hafezi will lead the discussion.