Technology & Data Management

This committee, a collaboration of researchers from academia, government, and industry, will encourage the development, implementation, and evaluation strategies and approaches that leverage technological advances to enable more precise analysis of the genetic, developmental, behavioural, contextual, environmental, and social factors that impact sleep health and insomnia. It will promote the use, sharing, linkage and management of data collected across the research teams. 

Meet the Team

  • Thien Thanh Dang-Vu

    COORDINATOR - Concordia University

  • Chris Aimone

    Interaxon

  • Andrée-Ann Baril

    McGill University

  • Gino de Luca

    National Research Council

  • Massimiliano De Zambotti

    SRI International

  • Mohamad Forouzanfar

    École de Technologie Supérieure

  • Sheila Garland

    Memorial University

  • Samuel Gillman

    Concordia University

  • Christophe Grova

    Concordia University

  • Veronica Guadagni

    Cerebra Health

  • Mathew Henderson

    Cerebra Health

  • Jordan Hovdebo

    National Research Council

  • Tetyana Kendzerska

    University of Ottawa

  • Sam Kerr

    Interaxon

  • Andrew Lim

    Sunnybrooke Hospital

  • Jean-Marc Lina

    École de Technologie Supérieure

  • Ashley Nixon

    National Research Council

  • Matt Orr

    Dalhousie University

  • Gabrielle Rigney

    Central Queensland University

  • Rébecca Robillard

    University of Ottawa

Initiatives

  • Establish partnerships between academic, governmental and industrial organizations.

  • Facilitate the harmonization of sleep monitoring devices, analytic approaches, and metrics across research teams.

  • Investigate the use of sleep wearables in Canadians.

  • Hold consultations to identify needs, barriers, and best practices for the use of sleep technologies in clinical practice and in the general population.

  • Create, collate and curate relevant tools to:

    • Facilitate compatible data processing, and

    • Refine/expand clinical applications of sleep technologies and digital interventions.

  • Create a Canadian Sleep Bank.

  • Co-design with the Consortium Indigenous Peoples’ Health Committee, blueprints of culturally appropriate applications of sleep technologies for Indigenous communities in remote areas.

  • Stimulate research on sleep technologies through intersectoral scholarships (academia/government/industry).