
Meredith Irwin
@drmeredithirwin
Paediatric Oncologist & Scientist, Chief /Chair of Pediatrics @SickKidsNews @uoftmedicine. Passionate mentor, researcher. Mom of 2 teens. Tweets are my own.
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https://www.sickkids.ca/ 03-03-2020 22:32:02
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🎉🎉 Congratulations to all the Pediatric Chairs of Canada Academic leadership award winners! including Temerty Medicine Dept of Pediatrics The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) amazing faculty Drs Stacey Bernstein, Avi Denberg & Indra Narang !! Children's Healthcare Canada 👇

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month In honour of Autumn Jean, a little girl who completed her battle with stage 4 metastatic neuroblastoma in July, my family and I will be walking/running 14km per week to raise funds for SickKids Foundation gofund.me/5d8b9c0b #GoFundMe

Excellent talk SickKids Foundation from Dr Elaine Mardis Nationwide Children's Hospital on impact of multi-genomics in #pediatriccancer & the Children’s Oncology Group National Cancer Institute molecular characterization initiative #MCI ! 🧬🔬🎗️#pediatricAACR


Great talk by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Temerty Medicine Dr Cynthia Hawkins Hawkins Lab presenting groundbreaking cell free DNA work for pediatric brain tumor patients at #PediatricAACR AACR 🧬🔬🧠


Amazing talk by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Temerty Medicine Dr Sumit Gupta Sumit Gupta at #PediatricAACR describing important findings that integrate social determinants, ancestry & biology to explain peds. ALL outcome disparities- moving towards intervention Children’s Oncology Group Garron Family Cancer Centre AACR 🎗️


Great to reunite with former @sickkidsnews Garron Family Cancer Centre fellows at #PediatricAACR 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇱🎗️


Amazing standing room only talk by former The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) onc fellow (1st in my lab!)-Dr Loretta Lau from Childrens Cancer Institute on the results from #precision guided therapy in 🇳🇱peds precision oncology program #zero


Great to attend day 1 National Cancer Institute 5th #RASInitiativeSymposium & meet @ncidirector Dr. Rathmell! Looking forward to speaking about our @sickkidsnews Garron Family Cancer Centre team's #neuroblastoma work (Dr. Ivette Valencia-Sama Madeline Hayes) at #PediatricRAS mini-symposium 👇


Great 1st day walk Pediatric Chairs of Canada following Children's Healthcare Canada in St Johns before work starts—including important discussions of pediatric workforce challenges (and opportunities) !


Congratulations to Dr. Meta van den Heuvel The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Temerty Medicine for this well deserved honor - King Charles III coronation medal- recognizing the importance and impact of your work with patients and families! 👇

👋👋 katie stegmaier Dana-Farber/Boston Children's fantastic choice for the US National Cancer Advisory Board- & great champion for #pediatric cancer 👇

👋👋Full house The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) for The Nobel Prize Gairdner Foundation winner Dr. Drew Weissman Penn Medicine presenting inspirational talk Temerty Medicine Peds Grand Rounds -the power & potential of mRNA technologies for infections, cancer, sickle cell & more- globally! 💉🧬🔬



🎉🎉Welcome to the newest (future) paediatricians of University of Toronto Paediatric Residency Program The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) ! 👇

Amazing Dept of Pediatrics Temerty Medicine The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children Grand Rounds from Robert Kahn Cincinnati Children's sharing inspirational work - a community systems approach to child health equity. Impressive outcomes and great lessons ! 👏👏




Great to host this amazing Pediatric Chairs of Canada team The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) !!


Important challenges with our 🇨🇦 pediatric workforce highlighted in Toronto Star op-ed - a high priority for Pediatric Chairs of Canada !! AMSPDC The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Ontario Medical Association Dr. A for Allergy MD Children's Healthcare Canada thestar.com/sponsored-sect…