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Dr. Michael Vassilyadi, neurosurgeon
“It’s jello with Carnation milk. You keep it overnight in the fridge and the next day you pop it out. It’s a secret formula that simulates the texture of the real brain. My wife Tassy is the coordinator and I’m the director of Ottawa Think First/Parachute. We go to schools and community events with a team of volunteers and speak to the kids about how important it is to protect your brain. When the children actually touch this, they realize how fragile the brain really is and they think ‘wow, maybe we should be wearing a helmet to protect our brain because once our skull fractures we have no protection.’ It’s a soft organ. This is what defines us. This is what defines our personality. This is what’s responsible for our movement, for our speech, for our intellect and who we are. So we have, I think, a duty to protect this organ. So we start them off at a young age. If you do this early on, it’s much easier — they program it within themselves to do this. The results that we see now are amazing. We still see examples of children who are hospitalized for long periods, but the incidence has been reduced significantly. The children that do come to the hospital are not here as long. We do see the benefits of protecting the brain, of wearing a helmet, and we don’t see the long-term disabilities as much as in the past.”
Lynn Kelly, lab manager, CHEO Research Institute
“Every day is different. It’s always fun to come into work and see what new challenges present themselves. I make sure that everything in the lab is running properly, that everybody has what they need to do their work. I’m solving problems all the time, trying to help with experiments, trying to help repair equipment, or find things, or keep people working safely. There is all kinds of research that goes on here at the Research Institute. There’s cancer, diabetes, AIDS. And what’s really cool about the Research Institute is that we work at a molecular level. So cancer or diabetes just doesn’t follow one particular path. All the pathways in your body intersect. We work as a team. Each week, two labs present their results. And so one of the groups will be sitting there and they’ll say ‘hey, wait a minute. That pathway is really close to what we’re working on.’ And the next thing you know, there’s synergy going on. Your body is made up of thousands of pathways and when you find out that they cross, it means the science here gets advanced even faster. It’s the best job in the world. I love my job. Twenty years I’ve been here and I don’t think there’s a single day I got up and dreaded coming to work. And I’ve worked in a lot of labs. I’ve taken what I thought were the best of all those places and brought them here. And that’s how I like the lab to be run — taking the best of everything. The people are fantastic; they work together. It’s a team effort. It’s a great atmosphere.”
Katie O’Hearn, research coordinator, CHEO Intensive Care Unit
“My role involves everything from getting the study up and running — to applying for ethics; applying for Health Canada approvals. But probably the biggest and most important role is screening and talking to families and inviting them to participate in the research studies. It’s always up to the patient, but our job is to fully explain the study, explain exactly what would be involved in participating. Usually, the families are very receptive. They like to feel like they’re contributing to something that will better the care of children. There are a variety of studies going on, but definitely I prefer the studies where there is patient interaction and we are approaching the families and getting consent. We’re doing research on Vitamin D and the role it plays in critical illness. We’re doing a study looking at the role of hydrocortisone, or steroids, in the treatment of septic shock. These are both newer areas that haven’t really been studied in pediatric, critically ill children before. I like the people — both the patients, but also the people working at CHEO. Everyone’s so involved and enthusiastic about their job.”
Margaret Berry, volunteer and former nurse, parental presence at induction program
“We’re in charge of the parent, so the parent can go with the child into the operating room until they have been induced and put asleep. So once the child is asleep and the anesthesiologist says to us ‘that’s it; give your child a kiss,’ we get them out of there and they go for coffee and we go on to the next one. The program is about seven years old. It was a new program when it started here; there were only one or two other hospitals around Ontario doing it at the time. Now, I think it’s pretty much the norm that parents can stay with their child — if they choose — until their child’s asleep. It’s very good for the kids, but it’s good for the parents too, to be able to stay with their child until they’re asleep. It’s hard on some parents. And as a volunteer you have to sort of gauge that. I stand behind the parent (with hands out) just in case they pass out or are feeling weak or they’re weepy or crying. There are doctors and nurses there looking after the child; my responsibility is the parent — make sure they’re comfortable; make sure they’re properly gowned and attired, in the right place, making sure they’re not touching anything they’re not supposed to touch. And, really, their job — the parents’ job — is to pay attention to their child, and so I pay attention to them. When I first started it was just me. And now there are two volunteers in the morning and two in the afternoon. It’s absolutely wonderful to be a volunteer. You feel like you’re helping. It’s so uplifting to come and be appreciated. We’re really made to feel like the role we have is important in the working of CHEO. I just love it. I love coming and being with the children. I love the staff. It’s fun to be here. It’s a good place to be, a happy place to be.”
Stephane Bourcier, CHEO food services
“I mostly take care of the room service, but I also do some coffee shop shifts as well as some other shifts around, like receiver. I like the accuracy of our service. Kids are always happy to see food, and to see them smile, it makes you smile too. That’s a good feeling. They might not understand what they’re going through or the procedures, but at least food they understand. They can relate to food. And for hospital food, it is pretty good. We’re always looking for new options, new food. We do surveys throughout the year to get feedback so we don’t always serve the same thing. We’re always tracking what people like, what people don’t like, something they want to see on the menu. The surveys help us improve our service. There are a lot of chicken nuggets and fries. Spaghetti and meat sauce, that’s a popular one. In the morning, it’s always bacon. We accommodate dietary restrictions — diabetic, gluten-free, ketogenic. In the six years I’ve been here, we’ve always had something new around the corner — a new system or a new procedure we’ve got to follow. So we’re always up to date with what we need to do; we’re always on top of the service that we’ve got to provide, as well.”
Diane Sharp, nurse, care facilitator, vascular access team
“I’m retiring soon. I’ve been at CHEO 41 years, since it opened. We respond to calls on the floors for requests for blood work, for IV starts, for troubleshooting of central lines, for pic (peripherally inserted central catheter) requests, for care and maintenance of all those pic requests. We liaise with the community to look after lines that are out in the community. So if they have a problem with their line they call us; they come in and we meet them in emerg and solve the problem. There have been lots and lots of improvements in equipment, in programs. Things are standardized right across Canada; we all do the same thing. There is a lot of collaboration with the hospitals. And we also collaborate with the community. It’s been fun, lots of fun. I love being with the kids, that’s my favourite thing. Unfortunately, drawing blood and IV therapy are the most important diagnostic tools that the physicians have to tell them what the patient’s body is doing. We’re not doing a nice job. But when you go in and a child says ‘oh, I’m so glad it’s you,’ that’s very rewarding. And you get to know the parents. We have a lot of children who come into the hospital — and they come back, and they come back, and they come back. They may have chronic conditions. We see them a lot. You get it (the vein) on the first try and they say ‘thanks.’ You’ve got to do the best you can for it not to be a bad experience for the child. I’ve worked with some marvelous people over the years — really good operations directors who have allowed us to grow, to go to conferences where you network with other pic teams from across Canada. It’s like a camaraderie. We’re in a vascular world.”
This story was produced by Postmedia Works on behalf of CHEO for commercial purposes. Postmedia’s editorial departments had no involvement in the creation of this content.
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“It’s jello with Carnation milk. You keep it overnight in the fridge and the next day you pop it out. It’s a secret formula that simulates the texture of the real brain. My wife Tassy is the coordinator and I’m the director of Ottawa Think First/Parachute. We go to schools and community events with a team of volunteers and speak to the kids about how important it is to protect your brain. When the children actually touch this, they realize how fragile the brain really is and they think ‘wow, maybe we should be wearing a helmet to protect our brain because once our skull fractures we have no protection.’ It’s a soft organ. This is what defines us. This is what defines our personality. This is what’s responsible for our movement, for our speech, for our intellect and who we are. So we have, I think, a duty to protect this organ. So we start them off at a young age. If you do this early on, it’s much easier — they program it within themselves to do this. The results that we see now are amazing. We still see examples of children who are hospitalized for long periods, but the incidence has been reduced significantly. The children that do come to the hospital are not here as long. We do see the benefits of protecting the brain, of wearing a helmet, and we don’t see the long-term disabilities as much as in the past.”Lynn Kelly, lab manager, CHEO Research Institute
“Every day is different. It’s always fun to come into work and see what new challenges present themselves. I make sure that everything in the lab is running properly, that everybody has what they need to do their work. I’m solving problems all the time, trying to help with experiments, trying to help repair equipment, or find things, or keep people working safely. There is all kinds of research that goes on here at the Research Institute. There’s cancer, diabetes, AIDS. And what’s really cool about the Research Institute is that we work at a molecular level. So cancer or diabetes just doesn’t follow one particular path. All the pathways in your body intersect. We work as a team. Each week, two labs present their results. And so one of the groups will be sitting there and they’ll say ‘hey, wait a minute. That pathway is really close to what we’re working on.’ And the next thing you know, there’s synergy going on. Your body is made up of thousands of pathways and when you find out that they cross, it means the science here gets advanced even faster. It’s the best job in the world. I love my job. Twenty years I’ve been here and I don’t think there’s a single day I got up and dreaded coming to work. And I’ve worked in a lot of labs. I’ve taken what I thought were the best of all those places and brought them here. And that’s how I like the lab to be run — taking the best of everything. The people are fantastic; they work together. It’s a team effort. It’s a great atmosphere.”Katie O’Hearn, research coordinator, CHEO Intensive Care Unit
“My role involves everything from getting the study up and running — to applying for ethics; applying for Health Canada approvals. But probably the biggest and most important role is screening and talking to families and inviting them to participate in the research studies. It’s always up to the patient, but our job is to fully explain the study, explain exactly what would be involved in participating. Usually, the families are very receptive. They like to feel like they’re contributing to something that will better the care of children. There are a variety of studies going on, but definitely I prefer the studies where there is patient interaction and we are approaching the families and getting consent. We’re doing research on Vitamin D and the role it plays in critical illness. We’re doing a study looking at the role of hydrocortisone, or steroids, in the treatment of septic shock. These are both newer areas that haven’t really been studied in pediatric, critically ill children before. I like the people — both the patients, but also the people working at CHEO. Everyone’s so involved and enthusiastic about their job.”Margaret Berry, volunteer and former nurse, parental presence at induction program
“We’re in charge of the parent, so the parent can go with the child into the operating room until they have been induced and put asleep. So once the child is asleep and the anesthesiologist says to us ‘that’s it; give your child a kiss,’ we get them out of there and they go for coffee and we go on to the next one. The program is about seven years old. It was a new program when it started here; there were only one or two other hospitals around Ontario doing it at the time. Now, I think it’s pretty much the norm that parents can stay with their child — if they choose — until their child’s asleep. It’s very good for the kids, but it’s good for the parents too, to be able to stay with their child until they’re asleep. It’s hard on some parents. And as a volunteer you have to sort of gauge that. I stand behind the parent (with hands out) just in case they pass out or are feeling weak or they’re weepy or crying. There are doctors and nurses there looking after the child; my responsibility is the parent — make sure they’re comfortable; make sure they’re properly gowned and attired, in the right place, making sure they’re not touching anything they’re not supposed to touch. And, really, their job — the parents’ job — is to pay attention to their child, and so I pay attention to them. When I first started it was just me. And now there are two volunteers in the morning and two in the afternoon. It’s absolutely wonderful to be a volunteer. You feel like you’re helping. It’s so uplifting to come and be appreciated. We’re really made to feel like the role we have is important in the working of CHEO. I just love it. I love coming and being with the children. I love the staff. It’s fun to be here. It’s a good place to be, a happy place to be.”Stephane Bourcier, CHEO food services
“I mostly take care of the room service, but I also do some coffee shop shifts as well as some other shifts around, like receiver. I like the accuracy of our service. Kids are always happy to see food, and to see them smile, it makes you smile too. That’s a good feeling. They might not understand what they’re going through or the procedures, but at least food they understand. They can relate to food. And for hospital food, it is pretty good. We’re always looking for new options, new food. We do surveys throughout the year to get feedback so we don’t always serve the same thing. We’re always tracking what people like, what people don’t like, something they want to see on the menu. The surveys help us improve our service. There are a lot of chicken nuggets and fries. Spaghetti and meat sauce, that’s a popular one. In the morning, it’s always bacon. We accommodate dietary restrictions — diabetic, gluten-free, ketogenic. In the six years I’ve been here, we’ve always had something new around the corner — a new system or a new procedure we’ve got to follow. So we’re always up to date with what we need to do; we’re always on top of the service that we’ve got to provide, as well.”Diane Sharp, nurse, care facilitator, vascular access team
“I’m retiring soon. I’ve been at CHEO 41 years, since it opened. We respond to calls on the floors for requests for blood work, for IV starts, for troubleshooting of central lines, for pic (peripherally inserted central catheter) requests, for care and maintenance of all those pic requests. We liaise with the community to look after lines that are out in the community. So if they have a problem with their line they call us; they come in and we meet them in emerg and solve the problem. There have been lots and lots of improvements in equipment, in programs. Things are standardized right across Canada; we all do the same thing. There is a lot of collaboration with the hospitals. And we also collaborate with the community. It’s been fun, lots of fun. I love being with the kids, that’s my favourite thing. Unfortunately, drawing blood and IV therapy are the most important diagnostic tools that the physicians have to tell them what the patient’s body is doing. We’re not doing a nice job. But when you go in and a child says ‘oh, I’m so glad it’s you,’ that’s very rewarding. And you get to know the parents. We have a lot of children who come into the hospital — and they come back, and they come back, and they come back. They may have chronic conditions. We see them a lot. You get it (the vein) on the first try and they say ‘thanks.’ You’ve got to do the best you can for it not to be a bad experience for the child. I’ve worked with some marvelous people over the years — really good operations directors who have allowed us to grow, to go to conferences where you network with other pic teams from across Canada. It’s like a camaraderie. We’re in a vascular world.”This story was produced by Postmedia Works on behalf of CHEO for commercial purposes. Postmedia’s editorial departments had no involvement in the creation of this content.
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