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Carmel Daskalo, Shreenik Kundu, and Eve Wang, graduate students with the CommiSur Lab, have been awarded the Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Awards (GREAT Awards) from the Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University. This recognition highlights the students’ academic excellence and the lab’s commitment to fostering innovative research.

Led by Dr. Justin Sanders and Dr. Dan Poenaru, with a team (consisting of Samira Rahimi, Mohsen Amoei, David Buckeridge, Brigitte Durieux, Tibor Schuster, Martin Vallières, Armen Aprikian, Robert Gramling, Tino Kreutzer & Charlotta Lindvall), recieved CIHR funding (Project Grant Program Fall 2024) for 3 years of an annual amount of $148,333.

The project title: AI generated electronic health record summaries to promote high­quality communication and care in serious illness: a feasibility trial.

The Executive Director of BethanyKids has provided a write up to honour the work of Dr. Dan Poenaru in his work in Africa, and celebrate the honour that Dr. Poenaru achieved by being appointed to the order of Canada.

Link: https://cmdacanada.org/