Quebec successfully pushes back against rise in measles cases
My 💭with Steve Rukavina, CBC
The HIGH uptake of 💉in response to controlling this measles outbreak shows that the public wants 💉 & that 📈ease to access is 🔑for good vaccination rates

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Thank you Mark Holland & Gary Anandasangaree for meeting with me & Rita Suri to hear about KFoC’s National #CKD Framework to improve #kidneyhealth #access #awareness and #research in #Canada Kidney Foundation Schulich WesternU McGill_DOM CIHR

Lakshman Gunaratnam Mark Holland Gary Anandasangaree Kidney Foundation Schulich WesternU McGill_DOM CIHR Merci pour votre temps aujourd’hui Mark Holland et Gary Anandasangaree pour discuter #reinaction #santérénale et #recherchemedicale #nephrolgie Fondation du rein CSN IRSC McGill University Western University Kidney Foundation #nephrology

Wonderful to present at #ACC24 and connect with great colleagues on practice-changing science 🧬🫀 #ACCinTouch

G B John Mancini Liam Brunham Eugenia Gianos MD Erin D. Michos, M.D. Carol Kirkpatrick, PhD, MPH, RDN, CLS, FNLA Karen Aspry Rob Ostfeld, MD, MSc Pam R. Taub, MD❤️💃🏻 Diana Vikulova Josh Liberman McGill_DOM UBC Department of Medicine

Drop everything (except your cell counts🩸) and listen to our episode on pancytopenia!🎙️

Written by Dr. Jia Li (Lily) Liu and Dr. Owen Luo (IM Residents).
Reviewed by Dr. Laura Habib (Heme/Onc) and Dr. Natasha Nathoo (IM).
Infographic by Dr. Valerie Kim (IM Resident)

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This breaks my heart. Metastatic cancer in someone who had no family doc. Happening regularly these days. “Not being able to access care sooner is absolutely killing people.” We must do better Canada. Like now. 💔

Interview with Dr. Nitika Pant Pai on her WomenLift Health (WLH) Leadership Journey, a program for mid-career women in global health where she discusses networking, intersectional challenges and mentoring the next generation of global health innovators - mcgill.ca/x/Uja

Drs Takano and Piccirillo are on a mission to help children with #ChronicKidneyDisease .

Learn what their CIHR-funded study is uncovering about the immune system’s role in childhood idiopathic nephrotic syndrome.

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Humbled to be named a The Starfish Canada Top 25 Environmentalist Under 25 amongst such inspirational young environmental leaders across Canada! Energized to continue advancing planetary health #MedEd and decarbonizing healthcare McGill_DOM. thestarfish.ca/top-25-environ…

🌐Cédric Yansouni & Dao Nguyen RI-MUHC, Sara Mahshid McGill University & des collègues de la Belgique démarrent le projet ENERGISE pour améliorer les capacités de diagnostic dans les zones à faibles ressources, pour combattre la résistance aux antimicrobiens. Merci FRQNT FRQS FRQSC

Cédric Yansouni and Dao Nguyen RI-MUHC, Sara Mahshid McGill University & colleagues in Belgium will develop technologies to improve diagnostic capabilities in low-resource areas where antimicrobial resistance is an emergency. #ENERGISEproject funded by the FRQNT FRQS FRQSC #AMR

Congratulations, Dr. Marelli!

Congratulations 👏 to Dr Patrick Willemot as we celebrate his tenure as one of the most devoted and accomplished GIM residency program directors in Quebec and 🇨🇦Stephanie Cerat Natasha Nathoo ASMIQ

Le Dr Don Vinh a parlé avec Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski à Radio-Canada Info des liens existant entre plusieurs infections et d’autres syndromes ou maladies - des liens qui ne sont pas toujours bien connus du public et bien compris par les scientifiques.
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Using #MagneticResonance to measure head #muscles : An innovative method to opportunistically determine muscle mass and detect #sarcopenia . Very nice results from our ongoing collaboration between chr, Uni of Gothenburg, McGill_DOM & RI-MUHC. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

4 EUS-GE with our TTS double ballon Naja catheter. 1 live demo then 3 cases in 1 day at the incredible AIG. Thank you Sundeep Lakhtakia, Dr. Reddy, Dr. Jahangeer, Dr. Gupta, and the team. Making Eus-GE safer and scalable. ChessMedical Ali Bessissow Anthony Teoh Mouen Khashab, MD, MASGE

Kudos to Prof. Maziar Divangahi for receiving the 2024 CIHR-Canadian Thoracic Society Mid-Career Lecturer in Respiratory Sciences award! Well-deserved recognition for Maziar's publications in the area of host-pathogen interactions in the lung, including a recent paper in Nature.

🧬Announcing the appointment of Dr. William Foulkes as the JGH & MUHC Division Director for Medical Genetics, joining his leadership role as Chair of the Department of Human Genetics at McGill. mcgill.ca/x/URd

Congratulations, Dr. Foulkes, on these new positions!

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Hey this is neat! Med student Devangi Patel's paper on fidaxomicin pricing was chosen as one of the 10 best JAC-AMR top 10!

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