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Thank you to Toronto Police, Toronto Fire Services 🇨🇦, Toronto Paramedic Services, and other City of Toronto 🇨🇦 emergency vehicles for surrounding University Health Network's hospitals to salute our heroic healthcare workers. During these unprecedented times, these moments of solidarity make all the difference.

"These are difficult times, and it is okay to feel stressed." Dr. Susan Abbey, University Health Network's Psychiatrist-in-Chief for Mental Health, shares some ideas of how to cope in these times of uncertainty and physical distancing. Read more → bit.ly/3bqvcSt

Congrats Suze 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thrilled and honoured to participate in this important project!

A well written review on very controversial topic. Consideration of favorable ALD candidate for LT is now accepted by many programs but in absence of prediction models selection variables associated with low risk of relapse remains only a tool doi.org/10.1002/lt.257…

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Delivers a Lesson in Decency on the House Floor newyorker.com/news/daily-com… via The New Yorker

Exciting indeed!

A great example of why lowering barriers to addiction treatment is so important. There should be no wrong door to treatment.

“Liver transplant does not cure alcohol use disorder “. Providing addiction treatment embedded within transplant programs is key to improved outcomes, rather than excluding this patient population from a life saving treatment.

Excited to see this out! Results from our pilot providing addiction treatment integrated within the University Health Network liver transplant program. Lauren Carrique Nazia Selzner Ajmera Transplant Centre UHN Trillium Gift of Life Network (Ontario Health) gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-…

Today is #InternationalOverdoseAwarenessDay. In 2020, 6,214 apparent opioid toxicity deaths occurred in Canada, approx. 17 per day. The #Pandemic has only worsened this ongoing public health crisis.

Josee Lynch presenting CASL @CanLiverMeeting #CASLSTC22 on Recommendations for Psychosocial Evaluation of the transplant candidate, moderated by Cynthia Tsien- a comprehensive and supportive approach.

Nazia Selzner Josee Lynch Cynthia Tsien and Lauren Carrique (not 📸) rounding out a formidable group for Ajmera Transplant Centre UHN CASL @CanLiverMeeting #CASLSTC22 presenting on multidisciplinary aspects of the ALD transplant protocol- tons of interest. Great seeing you all in BC!

It was a privilege to present on this important topic in the beautiful city of Rotterdam! 🌷ILTS Ajmera Transplant Centre UHN

Fabulous presentation by Zita Galvin on ways to combat imposter syndrome at the individual and systemic level ILTS

🌟 Thoroughly enjoyed 👂 to Josee Lynch 🗣️ on pre-transplant psychosocial eval in alcohol liver disease patients Assessment of Psychosocial Suitability: 🥃 Severity of AUD 🔄 Relapse hx 🤝 Willingness to commit to abstinence and engage in AUD tx 💉 Co-morbid substance use and

Animated debate on the merits of liver transplantation in persons with alcohol associated hepatitis. Josee Lynch Juan Pablo (JP) Arab, MD  Dr. Bobby Brown Tiffany Wu, MD MS Pranoti Mandrekar AASLD #TLM23

What a privilege to present with this expert #TLM23 panel!! A big thank you to our discussants for tackling some challenging case scenarios for lively deliberation, and a shout out to our fantastic attendees for joining us!💫 Much more to come with the #ALDSIG 🔜😃 AASLD