Michael Khoury
@makhoury
Pediatric Cardiologist @ualberta @stollerykids - heart transplant, preventive cardiology, and cardiac rehab
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For Heart Month❤️, we spotlighted the work of WCHRI member Michael Khoury Michael Khoury, whose research focuses on enhancing physical activity using the MedBIKE program for kids with heart disease. Read about his Stollery Kids-funded research: wchri.org/our-impact/sto… UAlberta Med & Dent
The work Big Gifts for Little Lives has done and continues to do has been nothing short of inspirational. Thank you for all of your continued support!
Such an important thread. Not screening children and young adults means missing common lifelong lipid disorders, such as FH. You can’t treat what you don’t find! Stories like these are entirely preventable. @knowFH Liam Brunham Family Heart Foundation National Lipid Association Iulia Iatan, MD PhD
While statins are used commonly in children after 🫀transplantation, early use was not found to decrease cardiac allograft vasculopathy development or improve graft survival in a propensity matched cohort of children. PHTSociety Madeleine Townsend 🔗: jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…
In healthy children, physical activity modulates health related quality of life. Does it do the same in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy? Yes - read here about the association. #AHAJournals Michael Khoury Chentel Cunningham Santokh Dhillon Jennifer Conway ahajrnls.org/4cqKA0Y
Thanks to Ottawa Citizen Elizabeth Payne for sharing our leading policy work at The Ottawa Hospital. More importantly, thanks for raising awareness of how structural ableism and inequities towards physicians with disabilities impacts quality and access to health care in Canada.