Melanie Penner, MD MSc FRCP(C) is a developmental paediatrician at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and a senior clinician scientist at the Autism Research Centre in the Bloorview Research Institute. She is the Bloorview Childrens Hospital Foundation Research Chair in Developmental Pediatrics.
Dr. Ellegood is interested in understanding of heterogeneity across and within individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders in order to implement a precision medicine approach and inform personalized solutions. Specifically, his work focuses on using structural and funtioncal MRI imaging techniques to understand how the brain develops regardless of diagnosis in an effort to subcategorize psychological disorders.
Pandemic plans exclude people with certain disabilities from being triaged for a ventilator. COVID-19 efforts need to focus on creative ways to build our supply of ventilators and other intensive-care resources, not devising 'who comes first' lists, a Canadian ethicist says.