MEDICAL

Get in touch – preparing OI kids for surgery

Dr. Argerie Tsimicalis (RN, PhD, Nurse Scientist at Shriners Hospitals for Children Canada) and Ms. Jenny Wang (RN, M.Ed., PhD Candidate at McGill University) are looking for participants to help co-design an educational virtual reality (VR) game for children with OI! We are conducting an exciting new study to create a Virtual Reality (VR) tool…

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RESEARCH

The Hospital of No Surprises

The “Puppet theatre” study is a McGill ethically-approved research study aimed at optimizing the surgical experiences of children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta. The purpose of this study is to professionally produce an animated version of a children’s play written by one of our research assistants/artists titled “The Hospital of No Surprises”, and to create an accompanying…

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ADVOCACY

The voice of children with OI

Interview with Jenny Wang, Shriners Hospitals for Children (SHC) – Canada and Khadidja Chougui, PhD candidate in clinical child and adolescent psychology at Université de Montréal, Canada Jenny Wang: My name is Yi Wen (Jenny) Wang, and I graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Science Nursing degree in 2019 and a Master of…

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