After 13 years as a Registered Nurse with experience in both adult and paediatric care, Justin Dockery has found his favourite unit: the Emergency Department at SickKids. "It's a lot more collaborative and team-based than other units I've worked," says Justin. "In any situation that you're in, you always have a team there to back you up." He also loves the variety, as each shift could bring a different role from triage (assessing and determining the severity of each case), to emergency response (responding to and participating in traumas and resuscitations), to working in a care team providing clinical care. For #EmergencyNursesWeek – and every day – we're celebrating incredible SickKids Nurses like Justin! To learn about nursing opportunities at SickKids, browse our current openings here ➡ https://bit.ly/3ZlzYMW
The Hospital for Sick Children
Hospitals and Health Care
Toronto, Ontario 141,632 followers
Healthier Children. A Better World.
About us
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is recognized as one of the world’s foremost paediatric health-care institutions and is Canada’s leading centre dedicated to advancing children’s health through the integration of patient care, research and education. Founded in 1875 and affiliated with the University of Toronto, SickKids is one of Canada’s most research-intensive hospitals and has generated discoveries that have helped children globally. Its mission is to provide the best in complex and specialized family-centred care; pioneer scientific and clinical advancements; share expertise; foster an academic environment that nurtures health-care professionals; and champion an accessible, comprehensive and sustainable child health system. SickKids is a founding member of Kids Health Alliance, a network of partners working to create a high quality, consistent and coordinated approach to paediatric health care that is centred around children, youth and their families. SickKids is proud of its vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.™
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http://www.sickkids.ca
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- Hospitals and Health Care
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- 5,001-10,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Ontario
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1875
- Specialties
- Paediatrics, Health care, Medicine, and Research
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555 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, CA
Employees at The Hospital for Sick Children
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Chris Stark
Director of Data Engineering | Machine Learning Specialist | Principal Software Engineer | Senior Data Scientist
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Melanie Barwick
Senior Scientist Sickkids Research Instititute
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Amar Varma
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Jay Lefton 🎗️
Partner @ Fasken M&A | Securities | Tech | Life Sciences | Israel Initiative | Opinions expressed are my personal views
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If disaster strikes in Toronto, SickKids springs into action. This is the scenario more than 160 staff solidify and practice during a hospital-wide simulation twice per year – so they can be prepared for the unimaginable. When a mass causality happens in the city, impacted children and youth are sent to SickKids, the only designated paediatric trauma hospital in the Greater Toronto Area. When this happens, a Code Orange is activated, letting staff know the hospital expects a rapid influx of patients with severe injuries and pressure to its systems as a result. “A Code Orange – disaster activation requires the entire hospital to mobilize and collaborate seamlessly on very short notice. So, simulation is an essential way to ensure we have a system in place to manage scenarios that we don’t typically encounter, but that could happen at any time,” says Dr. Natasha Collia, lead organizer of the hospital-wide exercise and trauma education and simulation lead at SickKids. Get an inside look at the simulation here ➡ https://bit.ly/3zHwHxi
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This year's #WorldMentalHealthDay is all about prioritizing mental health in the workplace. Did you know SickKids was the first in Canada to launch a hospital-wide program dedicated to promoting greater psychological health and safety amongst staff? SickKids' Peer Support and Trauma Response Program was created in 2018 to provide direct support to staff, because we know working in healthcare can have a significant impact on mental health. Since its launch, peers have provided individual and group support to staff in thousands of interactions and are considered a trusted and reliable mental health resource at SickKids. Learn more about the Peer Support and Trauma Response Program ➡ https://lnkd.in/gZdECpyr
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The rise in eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic was alarming and the need for change is urgent. In collaboration with health-care and academic partners across Canada, SickKids partnered with CHEO Research Institute on this national data and monitoring strategy to propel much-needed, data-informed, system transformation efforts to improve eating disorder care for youth, families and health care professionals.
It’s time to chart a new course for eating disorder care in #Canada, grounded in research and data. Work led by the CHEO Research Institute and partners across Canada has identified a coordinated national data and monitoring strategy is crucial for transforming eating disorder care in Canada. The rise in eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic was alarming and the need for change is urgent. A national data and monitoring strategy will propel much-needed, data-informed, system transformation efforts to improve eating disorder care for youth, families and health care professionals. This infographic details four key priorities to enable timely responses to emerging needs in eating disorder care. #EatingDisorders #Canada #healthresearch #healthdata #CHEOresearch Frayme Eating Disorders Nova Scotia Body Peace Canada National Eating Disorder Information Centre - NEDIC The Hospital for Sick Children Montreal Childrens Hospital National Initiative for Eating Disorders (NIED) Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada CHEO CHEO Foundation WaterStone Foundation for Eating Disorders Eating Disorder Support Network of Alberta
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SickKids' Pain Centre is hosting this year’s Annual Pain Centre Conference: Building bridges to reduce disparities in paediatric pain. The event will bring together health professionals, researchers, patient partners and more to discuss how to collaboratively reduce disparities in paediatric pain. 🗓️: November 5, 2024 📍: Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning (686 Bay Street in Toronto) 🕒: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Register ➡ https://cvent.me/Ym597q
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Congratulations Drs. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton! Dr. Hinton, the godfather of AI, visited SickKids only last week and shared his thoughts on the similarities between digital intelligence and biological intelligence in a special lecture on the future of humanity, alongside Drs. J. Craig Venter and Kathryn North. Your insights spurred great conversation, and we hope to have the privilege of hearing you speak at SickKids again soon!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” This year’s two Nobel Prize laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data, and so perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures. When we talk about artificial intelligence, we often mean machine learning using artificial neural networks. This technology was originally inspired by the structure of the brain. In an artificial neural network, the brain’s neurons are represented by nodes that have different values. These nodes influence each other through connections that can be likened to synapses and which can be made stronger or weaker. The network is trained, for example by developing stronger connections between nodes with simultaneously high values. This year’s laureates have conducted important work with artificial neural networks from the 1980s onward. John Hopfield invented a network that uses a method for saving and recreating patterns. We can imagine the nodes as pixels. The Hopfield network utilises physics that describes a material’s characteristics due to its atomic spin – a property that makes each atom a tiny magnet. The network as a whole is described in a manner equivalent to the energy in the spin system found in physics, and is trained by finding values for the connections between the nodes so that the saved images have low energy. When the Hopfield network is fed a distorted or incomplete image, it methodically works through the nodes and updates their values so the network’s energy falls. The network thus works stepwise to find the saved image that is most like the imperfect one it was fed with. Geoffrey Hinton used the Hopfield network as the foundation for a new network that uses a different method: the Boltzmann machine. This can learn to recognise characteristic elements in a given type of data. Hinton used tools from statistical physics, the science of systems built from many similar components. The machine is trained by feeding it examples that are very likely to arise when the machine is run. The Boltzmann machine can be used to classify images or create new examples of the type of pattern on which it was trained. Hinton has built upon this work, helping initiate the current explosive development of machine learning. Learn more Press release: https://bit.ly/4gCTwm9 Popular information: https://bit.ly/3Bnhr9d Advanced information: https://bit.ly/3TKk1MM
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One of the deadliest brain cancers in children is diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and #SKResearch has just been awarded $300,000 to help fight it. Led by Dr. Cynthia Hawkins, the “Unlocking New Hope” project aims to develop a new drug or small molecule that can destroy DMG cells and improve survival rates for children. The funding was awarded through the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research's Cancer Therapeutics Innovation Pipeline. Read more ⤵️
News release: OICR funding aims to speed the development of new drugs for some of the most common cancers OICR’s Cancer Therapeutics Innovation Pipeline will support four new projects to accelerate development of drugs for brain, breast and blood cancers https://lnkd.in/euz3qQgF
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Researchers, scientists and clinicians from around the world came together this week for Precision Child Health: From Technology to Translation, a conference dedicated to the latest advancements in #PrecisionChildHealth and its application in diverse paediatric settings. The conference featured expert speakers and panelists on a variety of topics that highlighted the interconnected nature of #PrecisionMedicine, including artificial intelligence, genomics and paediatric oncology. After three days of inspiring talks and fruitful discussions, attendees left inspired and ready to advance the future of paediatric health care – we hope to see you again soon! Thank you to our co-hosts Nature Portfolio and Nature Medicine.
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Congratulations to SickKids’ Connected Care program on its Improved Patient Experience Award at the inaugural Ontario Health | Santé Ontario System Quality and Innovation Awards! The team is central to SickKids' strategy to create a seamless experience for children (with medical complexity) and their families as they transition home and across the paediatric health system.
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How will technology, science & health shape the future of humanity? In a historic meeting of the minds, SickKids welcomed Drs. Craig Venter, Geoffrey Hinton and Kathryn North for an engaging discussion on the promising (and challenging) developments in #AI, genomics, and #PrecisionMedicine – and how we can help ensure that these innovations are applied ethically and equitably. J. Craig Venter Institute Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)
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