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Graduates go on to hold leadership positions in clinical care, research, policy, healthcare management, and health systems both in Canada and around the world. The Princess Margaret Global Oncology Leadership Development Program is a series of lectures and interactive small group sessions designed to equip UHN Fellows with the skills, networks and opportunities to develop as leaders in cancer care at a local, regional and international level. The program's focus is on developing and strengthening cancer care leadership at a systems level.

It is particularly relevant for international Fellows at UHN who upon their return home will be responsible for growing cancer care systems, and for domestic Fellows at UHN with an interest in health systems leadership and advancing the cancer care agenda at a local, regional and global level.

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Toggle navigation Menu. Education Research. Newsroom The Newsroom is the source for media looking for information about UHN or trying to connect with one of our experts for an interview. What is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome? A brief set of questions that may help suspect the diagnosis of EDS are outlined as below: Do you have unusual symptoms related to joints and tissues and a lot of trouble with hypermobile joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles?

Do you suffer from easy bruising with trivial trauma and have multiple large bruises at any given time? Do you have a chronic functional gut disorder or malabsorption that has been diagnosed as Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Do you experience dizziness and headache symptoms when standing that are usually resolved by lying down? If you are found to have generalized joint hypermobility, your physician can make a referral to the EDS Clinic. How to Prepare Please bring copies of reports related to any genetic testing and associated consultations.

Donate Now The first of its kind in Canada, the GoodHope Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Clinic at Toronto General Hospital offers patients coordinated care from a wide spectrum of specialists, and is a single point of contact for those living with this illness. Materials and Resources to Help You. Meet Our Team. He is a physiatrist at the University of Toronto with subspecialty fellowship training in chronic pain management. His expertise involves management of complex connective tissue disorders and comprehensive multimodal pain management including USG and fluoroscopy guided interventions.

As a family physician in the GoodHope Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Clinic, his current roles include initial patient assessment and follow-up, as well as advice and strategies on pain management. She has a clinical appointment with the University of Toronto as an adjunct lecturer.

She has practiced in her professional career in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Santa Mina is also heavily involved in exploring implementation strategies for exercise into standard care. She has clinical experience in metabolic, general adult and cancer genetics. She joined the Fred A. She completed the Master of Nursing program at the University of Alberta and enjoys leading programs in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.

Aliza Weinrib , Lead Psychologist Dr. Aliza Weinrib is a clinical health psychologist with more than ten years of experience in helping people who are coping with serious medical illness to live full and rewarding lives. Weinrib practices acceptance and commitment therapy and is the Board Chair of the Ontario chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.

In addition to leading psychology programming for the GoodHope Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Clinic, she is the lead clinical psychologist for the Transitional Pain Service at Toronto General Hospital, which focuses on interdisciplinary management of acute, transitional, and persistent post-surgical pain. She is co-chair of the Opioid Crisis Task Force of the Canadian Psychological Association and adjunct professor at York University in the graduate program in clinical psychology.

Maxwell Slepian , Psychologist Dr. Max Slepian is a clinical health psychologist who specializes in helping individuals with complex and often painful medical conditions cope and even thrive in the face of adversity.

In addition to working as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Slepian conducts pain research examining biopsychosocial contributors to the experience of pain in connective tissue disorders. More specifically, his work aims to improve understanding and find ways to enhance resilience in the face of pain and connective tissue disorders.

Laura brings a background in orthopedics through her former role as a community Physiotherapist and concurrent role as an inpatient Physiotherapist at Sunnybrook, where she works with patients following various knee, hip and shoulder surgeries. Laura believes uses the most current evidence through a combination of functional movement screening, individualized exercise prescription and education to ensure injury prevention and a successful return to activities of daily living.

She specialized in training and has several years of experience conducting fitness assessments and delivering exercise programming for clinical populations with complex needs. She has been a study coordinator on numerous trials examining the role of exercise in the management of disease and treatment-related adverse effects and looks forward to bringing her skills, knowledge and experience in clinical exercise physiology to the EDS program.

Arnon Adler , Cardiologist Dr. Adler moved to Canada in Louis Liu , Gastroenterologist Dr. Liu has been actively involved in medical education in undergraduate and post-graduated programs. Yvonne Tse , Gastroenterologist Dr. She went on to complete her Internal Medicine residency training at University of Western Ontario and her gastroenterology subspecialty training at the University of Toronto. Her clinical practice focuses on neurogastroenterology and motility.

She is a well-published author and has been an invited speaker in the national conferences organized by the Canadian Associate of Gastroenterology and Canadian Liver Foundation. Colleen Parker , Gastroenterologist Dr. She received her MD degree and completed her internal medicine and gastroenterology residencies at the University of Toronto. Parker is currently a clinical associate in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University Health Network.

In addition, she is currently completing a Masters degree in the field of Clinical Epidemiology through the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Education at the University of Toronto.

She completed her undergraduate honours degree in Applied Human Nutrition at the University of Guelph in and her dietetic internship at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in She has specialized in complex chronic disease management throughout her career and has held both regional and national education and training-based leadership roles in the field of diabetes education.

Megan has previously managed a national curriculum and education program, including resources and group education workshops, in the area of self-management. She is passionate about translating research into evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes and looks forward to bringing her patient-centred approach to the role that nutrition can play in living with EDS. George Charames , Geneticist Dr. Since , Dr. Charames' research interests are in the development of genomic and proteomic strategies for the improvement of clinical molecular diagnostics.

His translational research approach aims to improve precision medicine. Dmitry Rozenberg is a Respirologist at University Health Network who works closely with patients with advanced lung disease, lung transplantation and provides respiratory consultation for the Ehlers-Danlos Program.

His research aims to understand the impact of skeletal muscle function on daily physical function, quality of life, health care utilization and transplant outcomes in patients with chronic lung disease.