T-CAIREM wins international AIMed award for Hospital/Institution of the Year
Zoryana Salo/T-CAIREM
T-CAIREM wins international AIMed award for Hospital/Institution of the Year
Earlier this week, Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) director Muhammad Mamdani accepted the Champions Award for the Hospital/Institution of the Year from AIMed. The awards recognize leading AI in medicine researchers and teams around the world.
“This is an incredible honour for T-CAIREM at the University of Toronto,” says Mamdani. "T-CAIREM is the first centre of its kind in Canada. Through T-CAIREM's innovative and progressive programming research, education, AI infrastructure, and community-building, we’re connecting brilliant clinicians, researchers, and students who are creating the future of medicine.”
In addition to Mamdani, the T-CAIREM leadership team includes researchers and clinicians such as Anna Goldenberg, Laura Rosella, Sean Hill, Alistair Johnson, Mjaye Mazwi, Felipe Morgado, Vinyas Harish, and Zoryana Salo.
"We’re very fortunate to have supportive members who come from a range of fields and disciplines to advance AI in health,” he says. "And we’re just getting started!”
T-CAIREM's home is in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP). Department Chair Rita Kandel was delighted by the award. “It’s wonderful to see T-CAIREM recognized so early in its existence. This award speaks to the talented community of health researchers, computer scientists, clinicians, and learners in the Faculty of Medicine who are passionate about advancing AI in healthcare and created this Centre within 18 months. It could not have happened without the support of the Temerty family."
Launched in October 2020 at the height of the pandemic, T-CAIREM is based in the U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine and focuses on research, education, and enabling data environments to further the development and adoption of AI in medicine in Canada and around the world. In addition to awarding annual T-CAIREM research grants, the centre hosts a speaker series featuring renowned AI in medicine scholars, a competitive seminar series for promising UofT researchers, and a summer program for 20 students from across Canada.
The award organizer, California-based AIMed, is devoted to advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and medicine. It presented the Champions awards at this year’s Global Summit in San Francisco, USA. Previous Champions award winners include legendary cardiologist Eric Topol, data scientist Jeremy Howard, and Stanford University’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging.
“This is all about recognizing some of the great people and organizations that are helping to drive the agenda for artificial intelligence in healthcare”, said AIMed founder Anthony Chang. “Our finalists have worked tirelessly to deliver some incredible outcomes, and they are fully deserving of the accolades."
