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In nursing, 'everything good comes from the heart'
Shevonne Thatham is a registered practical nurse at Holland Bloorview working with children who have complex disabilities and use ventilators to breathe.
Payal sees children's rehab from a newcomer perspective
Seven years ago, Payal Khazanchi and her family immigrated to Canada from Oman. At age five, Payal's daughter Aakanksha was diagnosed wit...
Bobbi finds her dream job in health records
Bobbi Champagne is a self-described nerd who loves technology and medicine. She came to Holland Bloorview as a George Brown health inform...
Jess translates studies into words that families understand
Jess Silver is passionate about health and how we translate research into words the average person can understand. She works as a researc...
A front pack takes Louise where she wants to go
Louise Sertsis never saw herself as an entrepreneur. But that was before she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and began using a whe...
Omar says brain injury has turned his shy personality bubbly
Rehan Siddiqui tells the chilling story of how his son and daughter were hit by a car that went through a red light. “She hit both kids...
Hope: 'We cannot take it away from parents'
Imagine coming to the scene of a car accident and being told it's your child that's been hit. But your child is not there. She's been tak...
Pushing a tube down your nose hurts. Lorry knows firsthand
Lorry Chen has a passion for promoting access to healthy food. “I wanted to solve world hunger,” she recalls of her time in dietetic ...
Refugee claimant hits roadblocks getting disabled child's care
I'm delighted to introduce the latest in our A Family Like Mine video series. Meet Ola Atanda and her three kids: Bolu, 15, Abby, 7, and R...
Nick turns to teens to help raise reporting of concussions
Nick Reed is an occupational therapist who joined Holland Bloorview as a research associate. In almost six short years, he's become a sen...
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