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SEAMO is very happy to announce the recipients of this year's Innovation Fund. 

Eyad Bitar – Pediatrics – Caffeine Therapy in Preterm Infants Born at 28-34 Weeks: A Pilot Placebo-Controlled Randomized Controlled Trial

Amer Johri – Medicine, Cardiology – Personalized Prevention – Identifying ‘Very High Risk’ People with Diabetes Using 3D Ultrasound

Diane Lougheed – Medicine, Respirology – Improving Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Primary Care: AI and the EMR

Jean Mathews – Medicine, Palliative Medicine – A bundled intervention to improve prognostic awareness and goal-concordant care for patients with advanced cancer: a pilot feasibility study

Akihiro Nakamura – Medicine, Rheumatology – Discovery of DCAF2 as a Critical Driver and Novel Therapeutic Target in Psoriatic Arthritis

Eva Purkey – Family Medicine – Connecting in Canada: Health system navigation for refugees

Neil Renwick – Pathology – Harmonizing microRNA-guided molecular diagnostics through microRNA curation and specificity analyses

Amrita Roy – Family Medicine – Development of an Indigenous learning health system: Community-engaged co-design of Indigenous-focused survey research in the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team (FLA OHT)

Shayna Watson – Family Medicine – Insomnia care for older adults in naturally occurring retirement communities

Tony Yeung – Pathology – Multiplex Imaging and Spatial Analysis to Prognosticate Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasm Development Following First-Line Standard Therapies in Multiple Myeloma