Pediatrics Resident @UBCPediatrics |interests in policy & rural health | 2nd gen immigrant et #bilingue 🇨🇦
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined September 2011
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My family left #Yellowknife at 9 pm yesterday and have still not reached Edmonton.
24+ hours on the road and counting... Absolutely heartbreaking. #ClimateCrisis #NWTWildfires
📸 Pat Kane
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🌅 The North wakes up in all its glory. Early morning touches the tops of the trees along one of NWT's scenic highways, inviting you to experience the beauty of the boreal forest.
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Kids can't vote. We can!
Remember Ontario's kids and youth when completing your ballot this week!
#onpoli @PedsOntario
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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SKIP is pleased to announce that @EGruenwoldt and @_justinam have agreed to serve as Co-Chairs of SKIP’s new governance structure. Details of the new governance structure and its members will be confirmed and shared over the coming months—stay tuned!
ALT Photos of SKIP's new governance co-chairs, Emily Gruenwoldt and Justina Marianayagam
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📢In case you missed it! SKIP’s Western Hub Co-Lead,
@drsaminaali, and SKIP board member @_justinam offer practical advice in "Opinion: How to help your child handle a visit to the emergency department." Now available on healthing: tinyurl.com/yc7jv58w #ItDoesntHaveToHurt
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📰 Hot off the presses! 📰
SKIP’s Western Hub Co-Lead, @drsaminaali, and SKIP board member @_justinam share their insights in "Opinion: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Emergency Department." 👩👧👦🩺
Click the link to read! tinyurl.com/2eddywda
#ItDoesntHaveToHurt
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I enjoyed my conversation with @KatharineSmart – supporting researchers doing great work in child health is essential for rightsizing children’s health care! @ChildHealthCan
📣Check out the newest @ChildHealthCan SPARK: Conversations podcast where #IHDCYH’s Scientific Director @DrCChambers & host @KatharineSmart discuss the importance of research investments for improving health outcomes for children and youth!
➡️childrenshealthcarecanada.ca…
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DYK 20% of young people experience chronic pain?
Check out our updated review which confirmed that 1 in 5 children experience chronic pain.
Open access paper: tinyurl.com/PediatricChronic…
#ItDoesntHaveToHurt #ChronicPain #PainAwarenessMonth #ChildPain #WorldPainMonth
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Such an incredible group of people I’ve learned so much from over the last 5 years. 🧡 #ItDoesntHaveToHurt – at Halifax, Nova Scotia
This past month, the SKIP board convened for one last in-person meeting as an @NCE_RCE. Over the course of the meeting the team engaged in exciting discussions about SKIP's future as a @DalhousieU centre!🤩
#ItDoesntHaveToHurt
Had to sneak in a picture of what I do when I’m not being a resident… 🎣 #NorthernPike – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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Thank you for the cameo @ubcmedicine ! – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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A reminder of the world class care that Canada's children's hospitals deliver on a daily basis.
Right-sizing children's health systems enables capacity for every day miracles to occur for children, youth and families. ❣️
@BCChildrensHosp theprovince.com/health/local…
-45°C in Yellowknife… this is what we call “Arctic mascara”. #LifeUpNorth – at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
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I saw someone with frostbitten toes in the ER recently. He had slept in a stairwell when temperatures were under -30C.
He in fact did have a home, but didn’t have the money he needed to get there.
Lack of housing. Poverty.
Canadian society should be warmer than this.
#SDOH – at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
In one of the world’s richest countries, hundreds of thousands of people are without housing.
Housing First means saving lives by keeping people in housing ($3,500/month) vs in hospital ($30,000/month).
But in Canadian winter, the policy focus seems to be removing tents when people are at risk of losing fingers/toes. Housing for All is a matter of social justice and sound economics.
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🚨NEW ‘Youth in Pain’ project Resources!🚨
More Sickle Cell Disease tools are now online in EN & FR! Access a patient/caregiver focused Action Plan, Booklet, Poster & a health professional resource for the ED below⬇️
kidsinpain.ca/youth-in-pain/…
#ItDoesntHaveToHurt
ALT A screenshot of the website displaying "Sickle Cell Disease Resources" and each of the four pdfs below with a link to english and french of all four.
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I’m at the hospital with my daughter who is receiving an iron infusion.
The care has been exceptional - the nurses kind, attentive, reassuring.
A reminder that despite our challenges it is the people that remain extraordinary. 🙏🏼
#nurses #healthcare #cdnhealth
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Today, Senator Rosemary Moodie (@SenMoodie) made a statement regarding UNICEF Canada’s Report Card 18, which measures child poverty in 39 wealthy countries. Watch here:
instagram.com/p/C0u5AnlRDie/
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“1 in 5 emergency visits involved patients who went to emergency for non-urgent issues because they did not have access to a family doctor or other services”
-Ontario's acting auditor general
The #primarycare crisis effects all parts of the health system
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/o…
Bill C-35 (an Act respecting early learning and child care in Canada) represents an ongoing investment to Canadian families.
Third reading by @SenMoodie took place today in the Senate of Canada.
Text of the bill: parl.ca/LegisInfo/en/bill/44…
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Earlier today, @SenMoodie’s Bill #S282 was introduced at first reading in the Senate: ow.ly/Z5jp50Qa6kp
#SenCA #CdnPoli