Catherine Convery (@catconvery) 's Twitter Profile
Catherine Convery

@catconvery

Performance Improvement Specialist at @Sunnybrook. Healthcare QI geek. Coffee enthusiast. Music nerd. Torontonian. Insatiably curious. Intermittent tweeter.

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Aris Katzourakis (@ariskatzourakis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My piece on endemicity for @nature. I wrote about the use and misuse of this term, the assumptions it is often associated with, and how we can help shape the years to come. nature.com/articles/d4158…

StressieBessie (@eprecipice) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When talking about our agendas for the day, I told my 5yo I was a little nervous about a meeting I have today. He said, “Mama, I am nervous all the time. I know what to do.” So friends, here is all the advice he could fit into the drive to school:

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (@sunnybrook) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Living through this pandemic has been extremely challenging. If you are feeling burnt out, know you are not alone ❤️ Psychiatrist-in-Chief Dr. Ari Zaretsky shares insight into burnout, and strategies for self-care during these times: health.sunnybrook.ca/mental-health/… #BellLetsTalk

Adam Grant (@adammgrant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The purpose of education isn't only to impart knowledge and skills. It's to instill a love of learning.   Intellectual curiosity is seeing as much beauty in ideas and data as you do in art and music. A mark of a great teacher is a room filled with intrinsic motivation.

Houman Khosravani (@neuroccm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sharing our QI efforts + gains - privilege to present at Provincial Stroke Rounds with Catherine Convery and Beth Linkewich this AM, "An Innovative Model of Care for #HighPerforming Hyperacute Stroke Teams" Neurovascular Innovations CollaborativE #NICE sharing results of our QI efforts to reduce time-to-intervention

Sharing our QI efforts + gains - privilege to present at Provincial Stroke Rounds with <a href="/CatConvery/">Catherine Convery</a> and Beth Linkewich this AM, "An Innovative Model of Care for #HighPerforming Hyperacute Stroke Teams" <a href="/neuroresuslab/">Neurovascular Innovations CollaborativE #NICE</a> sharing results of our QI efforts to reduce time-to-intervention
Catherine Convery (@catconvery) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great visiting with the ONUC team today, who have created an innovative model to provide excellent and compassionate urgent care to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre cancer patients! @DoctorAndySmith Sonal Gandhi

Great visiting with the ONUC team today, who have created an innovative model to provide excellent and compassionate urgent care to <a href="/Sunnybrook/">Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre</a> cancer patients! @DoctorAndySmith <a href="/dr_sgandhi/">Sonal Gandhi</a>
Susie Dent (@susie_dent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Word of the day is 'growlery' (1853, from Charles Dickens): a place you retreat to for the purposes of growling, muttering, and letting off steam.

The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete twenty years ago? That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced. And once you start to look, they're everywhere...

Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete twenty years ago?

That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced.

And once you start to look, they're everywhere...
The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bluetooth is named after a one thousand year old Danish king with rotten teeth, and its logo is based on the Viking runes for his initials. But that's all an accident - it was originally supposed to be called Personal Area Networking...

Bluetooth is named after a one thousand year old Danish king with rotten teeth, and its logo is based on the Viking runes for his initials.

But that's all an accident - it was originally supposed to be called Personal Area Networking...
Amanda Mayo (@amandamayo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre QI Patient Safety specialists Catherine Convery Claudia Wong 黃其樂 for teaching our first @cquips CQUIPS+ Masterclass on Project Management - important insights to keep projects on track - and tools Gantt charts, Driver Diagrams, Priority Matrices, and work plans