Join Dr. Linda Barnes, Ms. Caroline Wangamati, and me for an interesting discussion of innovations from the Blood D.E.S.E.R.T. Coalition
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@utoronto.ca has produced another stellar transfusion medicine specialist: Dr Sheharyar Raza (@transfusion.health). Keep an eye on this one, he is destined for great things

Dr. Natasha Pardy making a passionate argument that patients in rural and remote communities are entitled to the same quality of health care as those in cities -- following equally persuasive presentations by Coleen Moores (hemophilia nurse) and Leonard Duffenais (patient) @cstm-scmt.bsky.social 2025

Dr. Yoelys Cruz Leal presenting her CBS Dana Devine Award Lecture the @cstm-scmt.bsky.social 2025 Annual Meeting on her research distinguishing trogocytosis from phagocytosis. Her focus was on RhIg prophylaxis, but her discoveries may also one day reveal a way to safely transfuse incompatible RBCs

Stacey Greeley presenting her Buchanan Award Lecture at the @cstm-scmt.bsky.social Annual Meeting. She joked that the audience might struggle with her Newfoundland brogue, but we understood perfectly as she described the rewards and challenges of providing transfusion support to rural hospitals

Dr. William Sheffield giving his QuidelOrtho award speech at the 2025 annual @cstm-scmt.bsky.social meeting. He reviewed his career focus on serpins, plasma and albumin, work that has done much to advance the fields of transfusion medicine and hemostasis. Funny, humble and very impressive 👏

Incredible synergies result when blood suppliers and sickle cell advocacy groups team up — each side needs the support of the other to achieve the common goal of safe and effective transfusion therapy. Thank you CBS and SCAGO for hosting a fantastic evening 🇨🇦

Ever wanted to know the ins and outs of putting together a research team? Join us on March 20th!

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An inspiring evening hosted by @uhntoronto.bsky.social honouring the Princess Margaret Hospital hall-of-fame inductees: Gary Rodin, David Mccready, Armand Keating, Donna Reece, Patrick Gullane, Steven Gallinger, Bernard Cummings, and Frances Shepherd

With Helen Ziavras at the Thalassemia Foundation of Canada’s annual gala. Helen was the first Canadian patient with beta thal major to have a child of her own, which shows how much things have changed for what was once considered a pediatric diagnosis

More data that if you build bike lanes in downtown Toronto, people will use them. And a reminder to all those who still prefer to drive downtown: getting rid of these bikes lanes will mean many of these cyclists will just get back in their cars and compete with you for road and parking space

A nice photo of the four transfusion medicine MDs at UHN, taken at a Christmas party yesterday. From left: Lani Lieberman, Christine Cserti-Gazdewich, me, and Nadia Gabarin, who joined our group in September

More evidence that air pollution (primarily from vehicle exhaust) carries significant public health costs. The obvious solution? Make it easier to travel through cities without a car, by investing in public transit and active transportation (eg., bike lanes)
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