WE-SPARK Health Institute Releases 3rd Quarter Progress Report

WE-SPARK Health Institute Releases 3^rd Quarter Progress Report

WE-SPARK Health Institute has released its Year 3, Q3 report highlighting key metrics from November 2021 - January 2022.  The report communicates outcomes and provides accountability to its members and the Windsor-Essex community.

Highlights include:

• Increased membership by 48 from Q2 to 806 members;
• Grew Student Volunteer Network to 24 students, logging over 900 hours this quarter;
• Developed and launched a customized mobile & web app to support collaborative research projects;
• Facilitated 6 Clinical Professor Appointments and 1 Professor of Practice in the Department of Biomedical Sciences University of Windsor to support local physicians and healthcare providers build their research programs;
• Launched a WE-SPARK  “Engage” Program to provide an easy way for community members to participate in health research;
• Hosted a “mixer” event that paired medical students with researchers; and
• Developed a plan that connects and grows industry engagement in health research in collaboration with Invest WindsorEssex.

Read the Report here.

All Annual and Quarterly reports can be found here.

WE-SPARK Health Institute is a partnership between Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, St. Clair College, the University of Windsor and Windsor Regional Hospital designed to take healthcare to the next level through research.