| Ottawa Introduction |
Dr. Mucsi is a CIHR-funded clinician investigator, a transplant nephrologist at the Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on reducing ethnocultural inequities in access to kidney transplants.
Dr. Arjun Law is a Clinical Hematologist and Stem Cell Transplant Physician at Princess Margaret Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, at the University of Toronto, specializing in acute and chronic leukemia care and stem cell transplantation.
Delaney Hines has strong formative training with a professional Master of Public Health (MPH) degree focused in healthy public policy and sustainability from Western University.
Dorothy Vernon-Brown has been on a mission to create awareness, educate and help recruit young, healthy Black men and women 17-35 to join Canada’s national stem cell registry to help save the lives of desperate blood cancer and blood disorders patients.
Dr. Egbe B. Etowa is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Community Services (in FCS). He holds OHTN Winston Husbands Leadership Award in Strengthening the Response to HIV among Black Communities.
As physician lead for the CHEO Sickle Cell Disease Program, Dr. Ewurabena Simpson is a passionate mentor and educator and co-authored the 2014 Consensus Statement on the Care of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in Canada for the Canadian Haemoglobinopathy Association.
Michael Sefton is the scientific director of Medicine by Design. He is a University Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Charles Cook is a 2-time deceased donor transplant recipient. I received my heart in 2016. I received my kidney in 2017. Both of my surgeries were performed by the incredible transplant teams at Toronto General Hospital.
Dr Josephine Etowa, PhD RN RM FWACN FAAN FCAN FCAHS is a Full Professor & OHTN Chair in Black Women’s HIV Prevention and care at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing.
| Dr. Mucsi & Dr. Law Q & A |
| Organ Donation Q & A |
| Panel Discussion (Part 1) |
| Panel Discussion (Part 2) |