Women's health; Ambulatory Care; A teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, with a particular focus on Inter-Professional education

1,000 clinicians, administrative staff and researchers

Women's College Research Institute

The Women's College Research Institute has two primary research objectives, to:

• Generating knowledge about women's health and health maintenance across the lifespan
• Designing ambulatory care innovations that can translate research knowledge into improved care for women and their families.

More than 30 affiliated researchers

• First and only independent ambulatory care hospital in Ontario, and the only hospital in Ontario with a primary focus on women's health
• Research home of Dr. Steven Narod, the world's most cited breast cancer researcher
• Developed the Collaborative Graduate Program in Women's Health at the University of Toronto

• Determine the risk factors, consequences and time course of pain in osteoarthritis, with a focus on inter-relationships among pain, fatigue and mental health
• Identifying treatment and management strategies for women who develop breast and ovarian cancer associated with genetic mutations;
• Study the impact of antiretroviral therapies on HIV+ women including their virological and immunological efficacy and their associated toxicities 
• Work with emergency providers as part of Ontario's  Domestic Violence Action Plan to develop evidence-based training on domestic violence
• The pharmacological management of chronic diseases in older adults
  

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