DASH Event

National Health Datathon 2024

November 9 - November 10, 2024

National Health Datathon 2024: A Resounding Success!

The National Health Datathon 2024, co-hosted by DASH, Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and Shiftkey Labs, was a remarkable event held on November 9-10, 2024. This exciting two-day event brought together brilliant minds from various universities to develop machine learning models using real medical data.

The event kicked off with opening remarks and a dataset overview, followed by an intensive working session where students from medicine, computer science, data science, biomedical sciences worked together in multi-disciplinary teams on innovative solutions. The second day continued with more working sessions, culminating in presentations and judging. Teams worked on diverse datasets, including fracture detection on cervical spine CT scans and predicting patient deterioration using GIM datasets accessed through T-CAIREM’s Health Data Nexus. The second day continued with more working sessions, culminating in presentations and judging. Each team showcased their projects, demonstrating their innovative approaches and the potential impact of their solutions. 

We appreciate our judges and mentors, including Dr. Andy Tai, Dr. Najib Ayas, Justin Fu, Mohammadreza Hajipour, Dr. Aline Talhouk, and Dr. Mahmoodur Rahman, who provided invaluable guidance and feedback to the participants.

Here’s what our participants shared:

  • "Participating in the National Health Datathon was an incredibly enjoyable, educational, and eye-opening experience. As a computer science student, most of my experience is in collaborating with other students in my field, and working with artificial data. This datathon gave me a chance to work with a real, large dataset, in a far more diverse team structure, which made me realize how much I actually enjoy working with data." - Zayan Sheikh, Undergraduate Student in Computer Science

  • "I feel like I learned a new language at the Datathon—I'm now exploring ways to apply convolutional neural networks in neurology. We all found the knowledge sharing invaluable, and I'm excited to bring more health students on this data science journey." - Maya Koblanski, UBC Medicine 2027

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