Volunteer Alexandra Taverna in a classroom in the JGH Centre for Child Development and Mental Health, where she provides educational support to pupils in the Child Psychiatry program. {Click on photo to enlarge it.)
Feature articlesJanuary 2024

Volunteer’s compassion and patience lend support to youngsters in Child Psychiatry

Henry Mietkiewicz — January 17, 2024
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Like many of the JGH’s younger volunteers, Alexandra Taverna takes pride in giving of herself to benefit others.

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During surgery at the JGH, Dr. Jason Bayne (left) and Dr. Robert James Doonan—both vascular surgeons—use IVUS technology to determine whether a tear exists in an artery where a stent had previously been placed. To generate images of the patient’s vascular system with heightened clarity, a catheter with an ultrasound probe at its tip is inserted into an artery in the groin and is then guided to the iliac artery in the abdomen. After examining the IVUS images on a high-resolution screen, the surgeons discover a tear that had not been visible in an angiogram (a type of x-ray). As a result, the surgeons decide to implant a new stent near the older one. {Click on the image to enlarge it.)
January 2024News

JGH is first hospital in Quebec to use ultrasound imaging in vascular surgery

Henry Mietkiewicz — January 11, 2024
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For the first time in Quebec, vascular surgeons are using ultrasound imaging to view blood vessels with greater clarity to improve the quality of surgical procedures.

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Dr. Marc Bienz
January 2024Milestones

Dr. Marc Bienz appointed Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine

Henry Mietkiewicz — January 9, 2024
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r. Marc Bienz, a clinician-teacher in the JGH Division of Hematology, has been named the hospital’s Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine, in addition to his appointment as an Assistant Professor at McGill University, effective February 1. Dr. Bienz completed his undergraduate medical training at the Université de Montréal, followed at …

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