The Centre for Mathematical Medicine is a research initiative aimed at bringing together research expertise in mathematics and medicine to address the plethora of research questions arising at the mathematics/medicine interface. With the recent emergence of mathematical medicine as a distinct discipline, it has become abundantly clear that an interdisciplinary approach is essential for the successful application of the mathematical/computational sciences to problems arising in the medical sciences.

With the diversity of Medical Specialty Hospitals in Toronto, as well as the considerable concentration of applied mathematics departments and research groups in Ontario, a Centre encompassing all the relevant groups is the most suitable means of developing an integrated and cohesive strategy.

The Centre will provide a focus for communication between the different groups and a means of facilitating research collaborations and grant applications as well as play an educational role. This will involve a combination of workshops, discussion meetings, collaborative research projects, and short and long term visitor program - designed to stimulate interdisciplinary research both within Ontario and in collaboration with other research groups across Canada. It is envisioned that the Centre will also organize a seminar program on mathematical medicine and annual symposia at the Fields Institute.

Teaching will also be a major part of the Centre's activity, at an undergraduate and postgraduate level. This will be accomplished by coordinating teaching sessions, seminars and lectures.

The Centre will initially be comprised of members of the Teaching Hospitals in Toronto, and the Universities of Waterloo, Toronto, York and Guelph, who use mathematics to provide insights into biomedical phenomena. Our aim will be to promote the application of mathematical modeling to medicine and the biomedical sciences and to general stimulate interdisciplinary research in Ontario and across the country.

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