Writing Your Stories
I work with writers to get their work ready for publishing.
“The Power of the Picture, Poem, Prayer, and Person: Mythic Consciousness and Russian Sensibilities from the Icon and Pushkin, to Malevich and Mayakovsky”
By Dr. Mark Lipton
Website Copy Editing
Lifesaving Society Ontario
Sometimes, massive websites need a massive edit. Every five years, their courses undergo a review, which calls for an overhaul of content.
Scavengers Studio
New policies, new pages. Collaborating with management and legal to communicate change to the public. Including official statements for crisis communications.
SickKids
Sometimes, large organizations have a lot of content, and so they need a dead page hunter. Combing through a site for dead links, outdated info and copyediting.
Stories of impact. SickKids News.
A centennial coin full of memories – a SickKids patient’s Canada 150+ story.
Jennifer Rock woke up at SickKids on July 1, 1967, four days after her corrective urologic surgery, to a special gift from the hospital – a coin commemorating Canada’s centennial. Surprised by the present, she pulled herself up and joined the other children marveling at the Canada Day parade marching past their windows on Elm Street. This is how patients on the sixth floor of SickKids celebrated Canada’s 100th birthday 50 years ago.
Join the SickKids Research Institute for Doors Open Toronto!
Have you ever wondered what SickKids researchers do behind the doors of the Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning (PGCRL)? Join the SickKids Research Institute as we welcome the public on Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28 for Doors Open Toronto 2017.
Stories of Medical Leaders,
Researches in Profile.
Profile of
Dr. Victoria Forster
The sequencing of the human genome in 2003 changed everything for cancer sciences. It allowed us to compare the DNA in a patient’s cancer cells and their normal somatic DNA to find differences and changes. While at the time it cost millions to sequence one genome, we can now do it for a few hundred dollars. The increasing affordability of genome sequencing means that researchers like me can get into the nitty gritty of what causes individual cancers. When we can do that, we can finally start thinking about how to treat patients as individuals.
Profile of
Dr. Neal Sondheimer
The three-parent-embryo is a way for women who have had a child with a mitochondrial disorder to have a child that is healthy. These families are obviously very frightened about having future children. It is now technically possible, though complicated, to create embryos through in vitro fertilization and then move the nucleus from the embryo into a recipient egg where the nucleus has been removed. Through this process you actually exchange the mother’s mitochondrial DNA with the donor egg’s mitochondrial DNA.
Profile of
Melissa Polonenko
At SickKids, I study brain development in children who have asymmetric hearing loss. These children have severe to profound hearing loss (deafness) in one ear whereas the other ear has quite a variable range of hearing loss - anywhere from normal hearing to a severe hearing loss as well. The problem for these children is that they don’t meet standard criteria for a cochlear implant in the one ear but they struggle because they don’t have adequate hearing in both ears.
Profile of
Dr. Eyal Cohen
The advice that I would give someone wanting to pursue a research career is to try to focus less on external factors they have very little control over and reflect on what is it that makes you love what you do. At the end of the day that’s what’s going to drive you. That’s what motivates me to come to work every day to care for patients, teach, and do research. If you can ensure that your work motivates you inside, then everything else will sort itself out.
Profile of
Dr. Andrea Doria
There have been thousands of important scientific breakthroughs over the centuries but in my field, the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen was a turning point in diagnostics. It enabled the evaluation of internal organs and bones which were previously inaccessible for investigation. The discovery of radium and polonium has also been extremely beneficial to patients with cancer. Radiotherapy uses these elements as a therapeutic method in oncology.