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On December 10, Toronto Public Heath declared a Norovirus outbreak on the Complex Continuing Care unit. Other units and programs are operating as usual. Click for more info.

Please note our ambulatory care services will be closed on Dec. 25-26, 2025, and Jan. 1, 2026. The day program will be closed Dec. 22-26, 2025.

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'We are hungry for neat, tidy stories.' Grief 'is much more messy'
Last year, several parents whose children had died came to Holland Bloorview staff with an idea: They wanted to hold an annual celebratio...
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Fewer disabled students are getting their needs met at school
'I make recommendations that I know realistically may not happen, and I don't know what to tell our families.'
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Mom investigates parents' role in shared medical decisions
'They're the quarterback, talking to all the clinicians who are helping their child and chatting with other families in similar situations and bringing their personal experience.'
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In humanistic approach, patients are agents of their own health care
'The client is recognized and acknowledged as the expert of their own lived experience...There's no giving advice.'
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Amber Makino, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Amber Makino has been a staff Developmental Paediatrician at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto since 2017, after completing her Paediatric Residency and Developmental Paediatrics Fellowship at the University of Toronto. Her academic interests are in the areas of quality improvement (QI) and medical education.

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A disabled sister is at the heart of a memoir about how we train doctors
'When I look at myself in the hospital as a clinician, all the things I think I do exceptionally well, my rarest gifts, they're all things I learned from her.'
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Ryan Hung, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Education & Profession

Education:

  • M.D. Queen's University, Pediatrics.  University of Western Ontario (Residency); Neurology, University of Toronto (Fellowship); FRCPC (Neurology, Pediatrics)
  • MSc, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research, University of Toronto

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'No brother or sister should grow up thinking I'm the only one'
Last year Dutch journalist Anjet van Dijken published the Brothers and Sisters Book, a first in Holland for siblings of children with dis...
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Family silence around disability complicates brothers' bond
'Everything was bottled up in our family and I modelled that. Everyone had masks on, to protect their emotions.'
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Changing the stories we tell about disability and families
Recently BLOOM reported on research about the role of hope and the invisibility of dads in children's rehab. This was produced by Parenti...
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