Erin Michalak, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, received a $100,000 Catalyst Grant: eHealth Innovations from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Erin Michalak
The grant will support the development of a web-based tool to help people with bipolar disorder (BD) and their healthcare providers in the self-management and management of the condition. The web-based tool is based on a new questionnaire designed to measure quality of life specifically in people with BD.
The project will be conducted under the umbrella of the Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial issues in Bipolar Disorder (CREST.BD), a network that brings together researchers, healthcare providers and community members with a special interest in developing knowledge on BD.
The purpose of the CIHR Catalyst Grant: eHealth Innovations is to catalyze e-health innovations by integrating, augmenting and evaluating novel health information technologies to empower patients as partners in their care, create a new generation of decision tools for health professionals to enable individualized care, and monitor population health.