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Who can join us?
Undergraduate, Masters, PhD, and Post-Doctoral Fellows in Engineering, Computer Science, Science, or health related disciplines can join CREATE-BEST.
How long is the training period?
MSc students: 2 years
PhD students: 4 years
Post-Doctoral Fellows: 2 years
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Create mHealth smartphone apps from A to Z.
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Design and implement validation methods that conform with healthcare ethics boards.
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Identify a commercialization pathway to bring a mHealth app to the appropriate market.
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Share your results and ideas with multidisciplinary audiences, researchers, industry, patients and end-users, etc.
the team

Natalie Baddour
University of Ottawa
Department Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Department Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Mathematical modeling and methods
- Dynamics
- Vibrations
- Photoacoustics

Adrian Chan
Carleton University
Associate Dean and Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Associate Dean and Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
- Biomedical signal quality analysis
- Signal processing methods
- Biomedical monitoring
- Accessibility and disability

James Green
Carleton University
Associate Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
- Bioinformatics, proteomics, and prediction of protein structure, function, interaction, and post-translational modification
- Machine intelligence, pattern classification, data mining
- Development of novel assistive technology and devices

Voicu Groza
University of Ottawa
Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering
Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering
- Biomedical measurements and instrumentation
- Reconfigurable embedded systems
- Smart sensors networks

Edward Lemaire
University of Ottawa
Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Technologies to enhance mobility for people with physical disabilities
- Wearable technologies to improve mobility assessment and outcome measurement
- Biomechanical investigation of pathological human movement

Liam Peyton
University of Ottawa
Vice-Dean Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Engineering
Vice-Dean Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Engineering
- Model-driven data integration and mobile app development to support business processes and performance management.
- Decision support, quality assurance and privacy, service oriented architecture, cloud computing, complex event processing

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
University of Ottawa
Distinguished Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and University Research Chair in Ambient Interactive Media and Communications
Distinguished Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and University Research Chair in Ambient Interactive Media and Communications
- Haptics
- Service-oriented architectures
- Collaborative environments
- Ambient interactive media and communications

David Buckeridge
McGill University
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and CIHR Applied Public Health Chair eHealth Interventions
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and CIHR Applied Public Health Chair eHealth Interventions
- Informatics of public health surveillance
- Detecting disease cases automatically from electronic health records
- Detecting epidemics rapidly from multiple data streams

Robyn Tamblyn
McGill University
Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
- Identifying modifiable determinants of adverse events and improved health outcomes
- Developing and evaluating computer-enabled interventions to address these determinants
- Developing and evaluating novel surveillance systems

Hussein Al Osman
University of Ottawa
Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Affective Computing
- Human Computer Interaction
- Serious Games
- Multimedia Systems

Namrata Bagaria
University of Ottawa
Student Member of Program Committee
Student Member of Program Committee

Faisal Arafsha
CREATE-BEST
Program Manager
Program Manager
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