Canada
McMaster University is one of four Canadian universities ranked among the top 75 in the world by the major global ranking systems and carries the title of being Canada’s most research-intensive university in the annual ranking of the country’s Top 50 Research Universities. McMaster’s research community comprises of individuals from around the globe: nearly 1,000 full-time faculty, more than 4,000 graduate students, almost 300 post-doctoral fellows and hundreds of skilled technicians and research associates. With significant contributions from students work with researchers on leading-edge projects, the University has earned a reputation as a hotbed of discovery and innovation.
SHCN and McMaster work together on SMILE in which McMaster will lead WP5 on the transitions between Hospital and Home. McMaster also provides one of the pilot sites and runs the clinical study in Canada to analyse and prevent adverse events for seniors during post-operative care transition.