Your Impact

St. Joseph’s psychiatrist Dr. Don Richardson couldn’t reconcile what he was seeing in the Parkwood Institute Operational Stress Injury (OSI) Clinic with what he had always understood to be true. “As psychiatrists, we always assumed that the longer you have PTSD, the less likely you are to respond to...

As the founder and Medical Director of St. Joseph’s Transitional and Lifelong Care (TLC) program, physiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy works closely with people who have conditions that begin in childhood like cerebral palsy, spina bifida and developmental disabilities. During her residency, Dr. Cassidy...

Fern McNab has lived most of her life gracing centre stage. She started performing at age 11. She made her television debut at 15 and by 16 had cut her first record. From Loretta Lynn to Whitney Houston – she covered some of the greats, performing across the North America and in the Caribbean for...

St. Joseph’s has been a constant fixture in Lynne Cram’s life. Her earliest recollection of the hospital was a visit with her father to meet her new baby brother – just hours after he was born. Years later she would have her own three children at the hospital. In time, she started becoming more...

Breast cancer is a journey that affects 1 in 8 people in Canada every year. But new imaging equipment at St. Joseph’s is now able to detect hard-to-find tumours in breast tissue – giving patients their best shot at a good outcome. And these technologies are only possible through the generosity of...

Lawson Research Institute scientist Seema Nair Parvathy, PhD, remembers watching in 2014 while a nurse filled a kitchen blender with a donated stool sample and saline and whirred it until “it looked like chocolate milk.” The mixture was later introduced by enema into patients who had Clostridioides...

In 2022, Fereshteh Ghahremani left behind the familiar sights of Tehran to chase a dream across the globe. What she didn’t know then was that she wasn’t just embarking on a graduate degree in Canada—she was stepping into a research journey that would shape her future, and could change the lives of...

It’s a phone call Ann and Bill Fleming never expected to receive. And the surprising news left them touched and humbled. On a rather cool afternoon in early April, St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation’s President & CEO, Michelle Campbell, called the Flemings with a special request: to recognize their...

For more than a decade, the sounds of live rock music have echoed through the summer air at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute—not from a nearby festival, but from the hospital’s own patio. From 2009 to 2019, patients, residents, families, staff and volunteers gathered to enjoy Rock the Parkwood—a full...