DoTANK
Your Healthcare Innovation Development Partner
COVID-19 has disrupted standard practices, modes of communication, and delivery of care. This has increased the burden of existing challenges and revealed new systemic challenges.
We want to help. Whether to address an existing innovation gap, take workload off your team or help with recovery, we are ready to generate rapid solutions to your healthcare related tasks, needs and problems.
Drawing on a network of experts from industry, hospitals, and academia we will help you get things DONE. We are your DO-tank!
Our Mission:
To address pressing innovation challenges by facilitating remote collaborative development of interventions that address real-world healthcare delivery and industry needs.
Our mechanisms to help:
Innovation Challenges
Submit an open challenge to have innovators, translators and entrepreneurs help you find a better or novel approach to help you meet your unmet medical or healthcare need.
Student Internships
Have a challenge that could benefit from student ingenuity? Submit an Internship challenge and we will oversee a student team to help you achieve your goals.
Agile Project Teams
Need highly qualified personnel with years of innovation, research or professional experience? Submit a professional challenge and we will assemble a team of experts to help you find your solution.
Co-Design Innovation
Need a Venture partner? Submit a Co-Design challenge and we can define a Joint-Venture to co-develop an innovative product, process, service or intervention.
Open Challenges:
Want to help?
Want to contribute your expertise? Are you a professional? A key opinion leader? Do you want to be a mentor or volunteer? Or a student looking for an internship?
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Anat Segal Shalev, MHS, BPharm
Operations
Anat improves healthcare quality and bridges gaps. She is an experienced Quality Assurance Pharmacist from the pharmaceutical industry who obtained an MSc Health Science in Translational Research. She uses her knowledge and expertise to build high quality, innovative health initiatives.
Raza Mirza, PhD
Partnerships
Raza’s goal is to generate new perspectives that motivate exploration. Focused on improving late-life well-being, he is the Network Manager for the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly and the Chair of the Central Ontario Age-Friendly Network.
Joseph Ferenbok, PhD
Strategic Advisor
Driven to improve patient care, Joseph catapults projects forward with passion, wisdom, and a contagious chuckle. He is Co-Director of the Health Innovation Hub and is the Founder and Program Director of the University of Toronto’s Translational Research Program.
Rich Foty, PhD
Scientific Director
Rich identifies and understands unmet medical needs, and how to apply scientific knowledge to answer those needs and improve health. He challenges others to champion change in our local and global communities. He is CEO of Health Edge Innovations.