The Hospital for Sick Children

Did you know #SKResearch helped inform the first update in more than 20 years to the clinical practice guidelines for children living with obesity?   Developed by Obesity Canada with input from experts, families and youth, and published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, this update includes evidence-based recommendations, including two significant scoping reviews led by Dr. Catherine Birken and Dr. Jill Hamilton at SickKids, emphasizing the importance of multicomponent interventions to improve the quality of life and #MentalHealth of children and adolescents living with #obesity. Learn more ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/gTaW2rYm

SickKids is home to Canada’s first neonatal MRI – an achievement 10 years in the making! ⬇️   Congratulations to SickKids’ Neonatology Neurology, and Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology teams on this incredible milestone and placing SickKids at the forefront of neonatal imaging and care. This specialized equipment is already benefiting critically ill newborn patients, like Yalman, by enabling clinical teams to make earlier diagnoses and provide more precise, individualized care all within the NICU. https://lnkd.in/gd-SRTWr

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Stinson, recipient of the Peter Gilgan Canada Gairdner Momentum Award and first nurse to receive this esteemed award! Recognized for her international leadership in digital therapeutics and training initiatives focused on pain assessment and self-management, Dr. Stinson uses her roles as both a nurse and scientist to bridge the gap between research and patient care, often co-designing interventions with the patients she supports. Read more about Dr. Stinson’s transformative #SKResearch ➡️  https://lnkd.in/gSksayzf Gairdner Foundation Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

Six SickKids researchers were recently awarded grants to support #ChildhoodCancer research — congratulations to Drs. Anirban Das, Grace Egan, Annie Huang, Lindsay Jibb, Anthony Liu and Jonathan Wasserman!   The funding will support a range of projects, from designing biomarker-guided precision trials for replication repair deficiency (RRD) gliomas to developing a tool to measure parental decisional distress in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Read more: https://lnkd.in/e5NtXqsH

Today marks an important for our #PrecisionChildHealth Partnership with Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine! For the first time, researchers, leadership teams and students from SickKids and the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, our respective Foundations and the Azrieli Foundation came together to advance paediatric precision health research.   Hosted at SickKids, the day also features presentations from teams participating in the Precision Health Translational Program, an initiative focused on turning discovery into impact by shortening the diagnostic journey, personalizing treatments, and accelerating access to innovative therapies. A jury will select the winning project, awarding a $1-million grant to support its development. Check out some of the action from today!

University of Waterloo student Laura Mereweather spent the day shadowing SickKids President and CEO, Dr. Ronald Cohn — and for the chemistry major, it was "revolutionary."     "My understanding, appreciation and perspective on both leadership and health care have all changed," says Laura.     The opportunity was part of CEOx1Day, a student leadership development program by Odgers Berndtson that offers a full day of mentorship with one of Canada's top CEOs. Laura applied for the program and was matched with Dr. Cohn.     Throughout the day, she attended a Senior Management Team meeting, where she learned about some of the issues health-care leaders work through, as well as a SickKids Foundation Board of Directors meeting, where she heard from an inspiring patient ambassador. She also walked through the hospital with Dr. Cohn and met with nurses who were on the ground level of a new program that had been launched that very morning.     "The biggest thing I learned was what it really means to be a leader," says Laura. "From my perspective, Ronni's role as a leader is more a role of guidance than authority … He has been so successful in his career because he practices what he teaches, which is patience, kindness and an open mind to those around him."    And her biggest takeaway?     "Where I see my impact as a scientist in the future," says Laura. "As a young woman who is passionate about science and research, after my day at SickKids, my heart and soul are set on leveraging science in health care."     Thank you, Laura, for spending the day with Dr. Cohn and SickKids! 

Today at SickKids, we celebrated Eid al-Fitr, recognizing the end of Ramadan with a gathering full of generosity, community and joy. Thank you to colleagues and community members for making this event meaningful and memorable. Eid Mubarak!

Are you a current or upcoming Medical Laboratory Technologist and interested in working at SickKids? We're hiring! To learn more, join SickKids' Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine for an upcoming information session: 📅 Date: April 23rd, 2025  🕒 Time:  3:30 PM – 5:00 PM 📍 Location: Virtual Register for the session here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g4Z3u5w3

No big deal, just some birthday wishes from a few of our friends... 🎈 https://lnkd.in/g7HzceM5

As an infant, Sophie was diagnosed with one of a group of rare conditions called CODE, which cause diarrhea and prevent infants from absorbing the nutrients they need to grow and thrive. Now, six years later, #SKResearch has identified new genes linked to CODE, and increased diagnosis rates from as low as 3 per cent to 48 per cent. Led by Dr. Aleixo Muise at SickKids and collaborators at Boston Children's Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and UCLA Health, the breakthrough research in the NEJM Group is providing more families like Sophie’s with much needed answers and moving researchers closer to precision therapies for the conditions.  Read ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gCjXTqVy