1990 New President and Chief Executive Officer Actively Promotes Greater Role for Research and Education at Baycrest Newly appointed President and CEO, Stephen Herbert, emphasizes as part of his mandate the importance of research and education in addition to Baycrest’s excellence in care.
1991 A Vision to Integrate Basic Research with Clinical Application With the increase in scope of research, Dr. Donald Stuss becomes Vice-President of Research as well as Director of the RRI. Together, S. Herbert (CEO) and D. Stuss (VP Research) formulate the creation of a clinical research unit to function alongside the basic research conducted at the RRI.
1992 Development of a Clinical Research Unit (CRU) is the Next Logical Step Baycrest recognizes the importance of translating basic research to clinical application. As a result, a clinical research unit is deemed essential for the goal of promoting evidence-based practice. It is considered the first step towards integrating research with care.
1992 RRI Partners with Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) - Positron Emission Tomography (PET) The research partnership with CAMH establishes a long lasting collaboration between scientists in both institutions studying diseases such as frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and depression. This collaboration is enhanced by the availability of state-of-the-art PET technology at CAMH, a functional imaging tool that serves to improve clinical diagnosis and disease evaluation. Basic cognitive research using the PET led to highly significant advances in understanding how memory functions in the brain. The availability of this technology strengthens the international roles of the two institutions in normal cognition and psychiatric PET research.
1992 First Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience As the first incumbent of the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dr. Endel Tulving is recognized as a leader in memory research. He is most well known for his work in memory pertaining to personal experience (episodic memory) and continues to be a major influence in memory research.
1993 RRI and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC) - Structural and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Scientists at SHSC, one of the major imaging groups in the world specializing in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and RRI combine expertise and resources to investigate structural and functional information about brain regions involved in learning, memory, and emotion in normal individuals and patients with traumatic brain injury or dementia.
1993 First External Review - Rotman Research Institute “The scientific staff is of the highest caliber and includes senior scientists who have an international reputation as leaders in their fields of research.” -- M. Mesulam (Harvard University), S. Kosslyn (Harvard University) & M. Gazzaniga (University of California - Davis)
1994 Event-Related Potentials (ERP) Technology The availability of ERP technology at Baycrest is an exciting development that enables scientists to study neural activity in the brain during complex psychological processes such as attending to certain aspects of the environment while ignoring others, making decisions about stimuli, understanding speech, and learning new things.\
1995 Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation Unit (CEEU) With the encouragement of President and CEO, Stephen Herbert, Baycrest’s research activities expand to include the CEEU to evaluate clinical programs and conduct long-term studies on health issues affecting older adults. This development represents the second facet of Baycrest’s commitment to improving the quality of life of the elderly through research.
1995 Creation of the Nursing Collaborative Research Program: Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care (Baycrest, Bridgepoint Health, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto)
The consortium promotes collaboration to build knowledge through practice-based research grounded in the experiences of clients and staff of Long-Term Care, Complex Continuing Care & Rehabilitation settings with the goal of developing innovative mechanisms to enhance quality of life for the elderly.
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