Janette McDougall is a Bloorview Research Institute Adjunct Scientist and a Researcher based at Thames Valley Children’s Treatment Centre in London, ON.
'When families here talk about the terror they feel when they see their child seizing, I can go back to that moment when I first saw my mother seizing and thought she was dying.'
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. Danielle Baribeau leads a research program focused on clinically translating genetic advances into improved mental health care in autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.
The Children's Health Coalition welcomes the Ontario government's commitments to allocate additional funding and work with frontline pediatric health partners to identify more ways to connect children and youth to the care they need.