Mandate & Objectives

Research Institute Mandate
Our mandate is to demand excellence in the health care of area children and develop a professional faculty who is on the cutting edge of paediatric health care delivery; including diseases not normally found in community hospitals.

To recruit and maintain this level of sophistication, the need for independent and collaborative research into the unresolved dilemmas of debilitating and fatal diseases of children is essential. The Research Institute has created an extraordinary atmosphere of collaborative scientific inquiry and review. A stringent process of peer review of scientific proposals combined with independent approval by a medical ethics review panel maintains exceptional standards within the research community.

CHEO Research Institute only supports direct research projects and that, coupled with a program of capital investment, allows us to boast that all the dollars raised in the name of research, supports research.

Research Institute Goals
Our goal is to improve the health care of paediatric patients through innovative concepts related to prevention, intervention and curative therapy.

Research Institute Objectives
The objectives of the CHEO Research Institute are to:

• foster and promote excellence in both basic and applied health research
• foster and promote training in health research
• identify and develop the resources to carry out research
• provide a formal organization designed to facilitate communication with other institutions doing work of a similar nature
• establish representation to the public, granting agencies and universities as a hospital dedicated to child and adolescent research
• coordinate all research projects requiring the endorsement of the Hospital under the auspices of the Research Institute.

Research Institute Direction
We will establish a carefully planned, broad base of research activities to allow multiple groups of researchers to achieve excellence as staff and financial resources permit.