Toronto, Canada Clinical Trials

V Vibhuti Shah, MD

Rebooting Infant Pain Assessment: Using Machine Learning to Exponentially Improve Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Practice

A multi-national multidisciplinary team will be working collaboratively to build a machine learning algorithm to distinguish between preterm infant distress states in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

G Gregory J Czarnota, PhD, MD

Photoacoustic Imaging for Characterizing Breast Masses and Breast Tumor Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

Our objective in this pilot study will be to identify PA parameters that can distinguish benign vs. malignant lesions, and also, if PA parameters change with within breast tumors during chemotherapy treatment over time.

Respiratory Muscle Structure and Function in Mechanically Ventilated Patients and Long-term Outcomes

Air is normally pumped in and out of the lungs by the muscles that contribute to inhalation and exhalation, called the respiratory muscles. The abdominal muscles help by forcing air out of your lungs during exhalation; whereas the diaphragm, the main muscle used for breathing, contracts to get air into …

J Jenna Wong, MSc

Diaphragm Structure and Pathobiology in Patients Being Bridged to Lung Transplant

This study is designed to characterize the changes in diaphragm structure, function and biology during bridging to lung transplant by mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal life support.

L Liat Hogen, MD

Frailty Assessments for Risk Assessment in Gynecologic Oncology Patients

FARGO is a prospective cohort study that aims to determine the performance of preoperative frailty assessment based on the Frailty Phenotype (FP), compared to a perioperative cardiovascular risk assessment based on the combination of preoperative Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI), age and occurrence of myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS), …

G Gregory J Czarnota, PhD, MD

Ultrasound Imaging and Spectroscopy as Early Indicators of Locally-Advanced Breast Cancer Response

This work explores the possibility of using ultrasound imaging and spectroscopy as a way of monitoring cell death, hence, tumour response to treatment. The hypothesis here is that it can be used as a way of monitoring early response to cancer treatment and predicting which patients continue on in their …

J Jenny Lee, MKin

Diverse Ancestry Study in IBD

Objective To use clinical, genetic and genome analysis to better understand and define the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to IBD in diverse ancestries: African, African American, Black, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino/a/x, Latino/a/x, Hispanic, or any other Black or Latin or indigenous ancestry.

Comprehensive Analysis Platform To Understand, Remedy and Eliminate ALS

CAPTURE ALS is a long-term data and biorepository platform that will facilitate future ALS research. CAPTURE ALS will provide the standardized systems and tools necessary to collect, store, and analyze vast amounts of multimodal information about ALS. These multimodal datasets and biosamples will be made available for use by researchers …

D Dean Elterman

Aquablation in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in Canada

To document the clinical outcome of Aquablation therapy for BPH patient in Canadian cohort.

D Daniel Killion

Longitudinal Study for Central Nervous System Vasculitis

Primary central nervous system vasculitis (CNSV) is a potentially fatal, single-organ vasculitis that often involves a spectrum of neurologic complications, including strokes, cognitive and speech impairment, visual loss, dementia, and encephalopathy. The purpose of this study is to establish a research cohort to investigate the disease process, treatments, and patient …