Your Impact

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...

As an Occupational and Physiotherapy Assistant at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute for 25 years, Dennis Argoso has seen countless patients with spinal cord injuries make incredible strides in their recovery. Today, patients aren’t just making strides – they’re floating forward. Thanks to generous...

Ron and Theresa Mikula have called London home for decades—and for just as long, they’ve been quietly giving back to the hospitals that care for this community. Their connection to St. Joseph’s Health Care London is personal, deep-rooted and ongoing. Theresa served as a member of St. Joseph’s Health...

Bacteria don’t really sleep. And, on some nights, neither does Diksha Boora, an imaging researcher pursuing her PhD at Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph’s Health Care London and the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. Depending on exactly when an experiment started...

Amanda Lindhout never imagined that her journalism career would lead to her being kidnapped in Somalia in 2008. Or that one day she’d become a best-selling author and international icon for resilience in the face of trauma. Taking the stage at St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation's 2025 Breakfast of...

Dr. Sheri-Lynn Kane, Jacobi Elliott, PhD, and Erin Watson share nearly 60 years of experience between them and a bottomless passion for the care of older adults. They are now sharing the leadership of the re-imagined Regional Geriatric Program of Southwestern Ontario (RGP SWO). Its mandate is to re-imagine care for older adults living across the region.

More than half your body is not actually human, according to scientists. Human cells are outnumbered by trillions of microorganisms, known as microbes. These bacteria, viruses and fungi play an important role in keeping you healthy – from fighting harmful pathogens, to affecting the way medications...

St. Joseph’s Corey Moore, MD, and Louis Ferreira, PhD, have developed a ground-breaking surgical technique using robotic technology to improve the lives of people with skin cancer.

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