Health Matters
Health Matters Series
Join host McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation President Julie Quenneville as she sits down with the physicians and researchers on the front lines of today’s urgent medical challenges.
The global effort for a COVID-19 vaccine
When will there be a COVID-19 vaccine, and will it be safe? These are the questions on everyone’s minds as we live through another wave of coronavirus outbreaks. MUHC vaccines expert and MI4 scientist Dr. Brian Ward is a key player in development of a COVID-19...
Volunteer Spotlight: Marc Parent – Dream Big Campaign Co-Chair
Marc Parent is President and CEO of CAE, a global leader in training for civil aviation, defence and security, and health care based in Montreal. Born in Verdun and raised in Ottawa and on the South Shore of Montreal, his keen interest in aviation led him to get his...
Donor Spotlight: The Hewitt Foundation supports new frontiers in medicine
Created in 2017, the Hewitt Foundation has quickly become an important player in Canadian philanthropy. The Hewitt Family created the foundation out of a desire to give back to the communities that supported their business, Hewitt Equipment. The foundation supports...
MUHC Breast Clinic Wellness Program goes virtual
A breast cancer diagnosis is always gut-wrenching. For Brandi Lee Hicks, it was made all the worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, which added a new level of uncertainty to an already stressful time. “I remember writing all of my many, many appointments into my calendar,...
One Woman’s Commitment to the Cause
Gaëlle Vuillaume is used to being behind the camera, snapping pictures of people to help tell their stories. A career photographer, she has been volunteering for Pink in the City’s Raise Craze for several years. This year though, it was different for Gaëlle. This year...
MUHC Foundation launches $200M Dream Big Campaign
The Dream Big Campaign to change the course of lives and medicine supports the priorities of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). The MUHC Foundation’s $200 million goal is key to transforming the MUHC, one of the world’s most advanced teaching hospital...
$1.4M to support vulnerable populations
Trottier Family Foundation supports new online research initiatives in the fight against COVID-19 The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation is proud to announce a donation of $1.4M by the Trottier Family Foundation in support of CanCOVID, a country-wide,...
Raising money and inspiring tomorrow’s changemakers
“I thought people would listen, but not as much as they did.” Marilena Papadopoulos is humbled and grateful for her community’s response to her personal fundraising efforts. The 21-year-old teaching attendant cut off over 10 inches from her hair, raising over $9,000...
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Let’s do this, Montreal—we’re more than halfway through Giving Tuesday and we need every one of you to help us reach our $70,000 goal. 🙌 Support Dr. Gilbert, Joanne, Lawrie and the entire The DOVEE Project's Giving Tuesday dream of stopping ovarian and endometrial cancers. Combined, more than 3,000 Canadian women die each year from these cancers—but it doesn’t have to be this way. Let’s stop these deadly killers, once and for all.
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Plus de 3 000 Canadiennes succombent chaque année à ces deux cancers, mais nous pouvons les sauver. Arrêtons ces tueurs silencieux, une fois pour toutes.
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À l’occasion de « Mardi je donne », votre contribution sera égalée jusqu’à concurrence de 50 000 $ grâce à la générosité d’un grand donateur anonyme! La Dre Gilbert et ses collègues Centre universitaire de santé McGill - McGill University Health Centre ont mis au point un test sécuritaire et moins invasif qui permet de dépister les cancers de l’ovaire et de l’endomètre de façon plus précoce que jamais auparavant.
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It's Giving Tuesday, and your donation today will be doubled up to $50,000 thanks to a generous anonymous donor. Dr. Gilbert and her colleagues @ The DOVEE Project have developed a test that offers a safe, less invasive way to detect ovarian and endometrial cancers earlier than ever before. The answer for moving this test into clinical implementation? Generous Giving Tuesday supporters like you. ❤️
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Demain, c’est la journée « Mardi je donne ». Voici un message important de Lawrie Shahbazian, une coordonnatrice du projet DOvEEgene The DOVEE Project
« Les femmes qui reçoivent un diagnostic de cancer de l’ovaire ou de l’endomètre se posent souvent cette question : ‘ J’ai pris soin de ma santé. J’ai passé les examens, les tests Pap et les mammographies. Qu’est-ce que j’aurais pu faire de plus?’ La réponse, c’est DOvEEgene. Notre test minimalement invasif fonctionne, ici et maintenant. Nous en sommes à la dernière étape de notre marathon, le passage aux essais cliniques de stade trois. En tant que jeune femme, je compte bien voir les résultats et les bienfaits de notre travail acharné de mon vivant. Avec votre aide, nous sauverons des vies.”
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Ahead of #GivingTuesday tomorrow, we’re sharing an important message Lawrie Shahbazian, a project coordinator The DOVEE Project :
“The question women diagnosed with ovarian or endometrial cancer often ask is: 'I took care of my health. I did my screenings, my pap tests, and my mammograms. What else could I have done?' DOvEEgene is the answer. Our minimally invasive test will work here and now. This is the last leg of our marathon, getting it to a stage three clinical trial. As a young woman, I plan to see the results and benefits of all this hard work in my lifetime. We will save lives.” 🙌❤️
Help make the DOvEEgene test the standard of care.
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On this week’s Health Matters: It’s dubbed the silent killer, learn how Dr. Lucy Gilbert, the Centre universitaire de santé McGill - McGill University Health Centre’s Director of the Gynecologic Oncology Division, is working to eliminate ovarian and endometrial cancers through early detection with the The DOVEE Project. Plus, Joanne Photiades, an ovarian cancer survivor, shares her personal mission to ensure every woman has the chance to be diagnosed early enough to survive the disease. Learn more about how you can help this #GivingTuesday: bit.ly/3nTjtl9
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