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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · 17d

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Canadian Medical Association Needs to Join the WHO call

Israel is waging war on Palestinian health workers and facilities. The Canadian Medical Association must demand the release of Kamal Adwan hospital director Hossam Abu Safiyeh and join the World Heal...

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · 17d

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Gaza's healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent

The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with the apparent deliberate targeting of health-care infrastructure and personnel, has highlighted a profound challenge to the global medical community. ...

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Aug 21

Speak up for National Pharmacare in Canada! Save lives! Save money!

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@canadahealthwatch.ca
@uhn.ca
@utoronto.ca
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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Aug 11

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The famines in Gaza and other conflict areas are a moral failure

As scientists and members of the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium (ST4N) who have been Standing Together For Nutrition during recent crises, we use evidence of the impact of crises on nutrit...

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Jul 19

Action alert: The City of Toronto is considering restricting fossil fuel ads. These ads undermine climate action & put everyone at risk.

We have a short window of time for the City Council to act.

Take action here:
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Call on Toronto City Council to stop promoting fossil fuels - CAPE

Raise your voice and call on Toronto City Council to take a stronger stand against fossil fuel advertising.

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Jul 10

Save Canadian hemovigilance! We can't improve the safety of blood transfusion if we don't monitor the harms it causes!

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Have you seen this petition yet?

#Fight4Hemovigilance: Save Canada's Blood Safety Contribution Program

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Jul 4

@utoronto.ca has produced another stellar transfusion medicine specialist: Dr Sheharyar Raza (@transfusion.health). Keep an eye on this one, he is destined for great things

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Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine @cstm-scmt.bsky.social · Jun 27

Hemovigilance in Canada is under threat. We continue to add resources and links for advocacy - stay up to date with how you can help.
www.transfusion.ca/hemovigilance

CSTM - Hemovigilance

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Jun 27

Coming back to a long-neglected manuscript is like going back to the gym after you’ve slacked off for the past few months… you dread it, you delay, you find excuses, but then when you actually do it, it’s such a relief and you feel so much better afterwards

I need a publishing coach

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International Society of Blood Transfusion @isbt.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congrats to Karina Yazdanbakhsh on receiving the ASH Henry M. Stratton Medal for Basic Science! Her groundbreaking research in transfusion medicine and sickle cell disease is shaping the future of targeted therapies Proud to have her as Co-Chair of the Basic Transfusion Biology WP

NYBCE's KARINA YAZDANBAKHSH, PhD, HONORED WITH THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY (ASH) HENRY M. STRATTON MEDAL FOR BASIC SCIENCE

Award is among ASH’s highest honors, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of hematology. Learn more.

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Geoffrey Barnes, MD, MSc @gbarnesmd.bsky.social · Jun 25

Many people wonder if the severity of an acute PE influences VTE recurrence risk and therefore should impact DOAC dose selection? A post-hoc analysis of RENOVE study shows similar rates or recurrent VTE based on PE severity. #ISTH2025

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Jun 19

2. We need to racially diversify our blood supply. Properly matched red blood cells can be life-saving for patients with sickle cell disease, but are in constant shortage. If you are of African ethnicity, please consider becoming a blood donor. We need you!
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Am I eligible to donate blood? | Blood.ca

Great question! Take our two-minute eligibility quiz to find out if you can donate blood. If you are determined to be eligible online, you will be able to book your first appointment. Final eligibilit...

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Jun 19

1. We need more sickle cell providers! There are few hematologic diseases that are more rewarding to treat. With life-long comprehensive care, lives can be transformed and deep connections made. Come do an elective with me! www.uhn.ca/PrincessMarg...

Red Blood Cell Clinic | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre https://www.uhn.ca/PrincessMargaret/Clinics/Brain_Tumourhttps://www.uhn.ca/PrincessMargaret/Clinics/Brain_Metastasis/; https://www.uhn.ca/Prin...

The Red Blood Cell Clinic is committed to managing diseases of the blood and bone marrow.

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Jun 19

June 19th is World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. Below is a link to a good review article on the subject, and in this thread are my two wishes as a physician who treats the condition:

www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Beyond Gene Therapies: People With Sickle Cell Disease Need Comprehensive Care | Health Affairs Forefront

We can do better. We can build a system that provides coordinated high-quality care to every patient who needs it.

www.healthaffairs.org

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jun 1

The remarkable benefit of exercise was just extended to improved survival after cancer in a randomized trial
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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · May 31

Dr. Natasha Pardy making a passionate argument that patients in rural and remote communities are entitled to the same quality of health care as those in cities -- following equally persuasive presentations by Coleen Moores (hemophilia nurse) and Leonard Duﬀenais (patient) @cstm-scmt.bsky.social 2025

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · May 31

Dr. Yoelys Cruz Leal presenting her CBS Dana Devine Award Lecture the @cstm-scmt.bsky.social 2025 Annual Meeting on her research distinguishing trogocytosis from phagocytosis. Her focus was on RhIg prophylaxis, but her discoveries may also one day reveal a way to safely transfuse incompatible RBCs

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University Health Network @uhn.ca · May 30

"There is a cohort of talent unlike we have ever seen before that we can compete for."

Dr. @bradwouters.com, EVP of Science & Research at UHN, gives CBC's The National an inside look at Canada Leads, an initiative to recruit 100 top early-career scientists.

How Canada is trying to tap America’s brain drain

There’s a global rush to recruit America’s top talent as Trump administration policies push many professionals to explore career and study plans abroad. CBC’s Eli Glasner takes a closer look at effort...

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · May 31

Stacey Greeley presenting her Buchanan Award Lecture at the @cstm-scmt.bsky.social Annual Meeting. She joked that the audience might struggle with her Newfoundland brogue, but we understood perfectly as she described the rewards and challenges of providing transfusion support to rural hospitals

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · May 31

Dr. William Sheffield giving his QuidelOrtho award speech at the 2025 annual @cstm-scmt.bsky.social meeting. He reviewed his career focus on serpins, plasma and albumin, work that has done much to advance the fields of transfusion medicine and hemostasis. Funny, humble and very impressive 👏

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · May 29

American doctors look to relocate to Canada to avoid the Trump administration www.npr.org/sections/sho... @npr.org

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

illustration of sad American doctors crossing the border into Canada

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Raza @transfusion.health · May 3

Can we rationalize the way we give diuretic prophylaxis before transfusion?

Colleagues @uhntoronto.bsky.social incl talented co-fellow Dr. Rotin and @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social have made a substantial stride in dose modelling to target urine output onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #medsky

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · May 8

Was orienting a PGY2 to my clinic, chatting as I always do in a collegial, informal manner, and at the end, he says “Dr. Pendergrast , I just wanted to mention: you trained my Dad!” He showed me a picture of someone who is now an established transplant nephrologist

#feelingold

Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · May 1

This was a fun interview :-)

Reminiscing on residency: Dr. Jacob Pendergrast canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/reminiscing-...

Reminiscing on residency: Dr. Jacob Pendergrast

For this series, we’re looking to talk to doctors from all walks of medicine—asking them how they got to where they are today and what their best advice is for those MDs just reaching the intensity of...

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Jacob Pendergrast @jacobpendergrast.bsky.social · Apr 3

Do your homework, but you will find you can make a very good living here, largely free from the moral injury of having to deny care to the uninsured, and in an environment where research and academic inquiry are respected and funded.

Surge of U.S. doctors looking to Canada amid Trump turmoil

Interest from American doctors considering work in Canada has increased by 63 per cent.

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