SRI Magazine 2017

Trauma

In-depth with Dr. Barry McLellan

You only get one shot

Blood not so simple

Putting Humpty back together

Mild brain injury? That’s a misnomer

A fine balance

Inside trauma at Sunnybrook: photos from the front line

All POCUS, no HOCUS

Undaunted: journey through trauma

A matter of perspective

Launched: first clinical trial of focused ultrasound for Alzheimer’s

That’s a relief

The power of choice

A win-win situation

Challenging "good" cholesterol’s role in heart health

Technologies developed in-house approved for clinical use

To test or not to test

Non sequitur

A new angle on pain

Tool gives voice to women’s discomfort during labour

Culture change

Policy slashes rates of baseless urine screening before hip or knee replacement surgery

That syncing feeling

Seasonal rhythms affect gene expression in the brain; they also are linked with daily rhythms—and both are disrupted in Alzheimer's disease: study

Trainees

No doubt

Doctoral student finds his calling in science, mentoring and medicine

Ask a scientist

What is the biggest misconception about being a scientist?

Facts & stats

Quick statistics

Q&A

Dr. Carol Schuurmans

Other features

Restraining natural killer cells

Landmark discovery brings researchers closer to vanquishing virus

Engineering tomorrow's care

Two architects of medicine are reconstructing how surgery is done

No cure

And few—or no—treatments for these devastating brain diseases: Why not?

Be still my beating heart

Study is the first to enable biochemical reactions in the heart to be seen with MRI using a novel contrast agent

Messages from senior leadership

Transformative research
Messages from the President and CEO and Chair of the Board and from the Vice-President, Research

Through the wormhole

Journey into a different time in medical science

SRI Magazine 2017
Inventing the Future of Health Care

Editor
Stephanie Roberts

Design
SRI Communications

Art Direction
Stephanie Roberts

Staff writers
Eleni Kanavas, Alisa Kim, Matthew Pariselli, Stephanie Roberts, Betty Zou

Lead photographer
Nation Wong

Contributing photographers
Doug Nicholson, Kevin Van Paassen

Cover illustration
Nation Wong

SRI Magazine is published annually by the vice-president, research, Sunnybrook Research Institute and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Queries, address changes and requests for permission to copy or reprint material in this magazine should be directed to the editor at stephanie.roberts@sri.utoronto.ca or 416–480–4071.