Bringing Hope to Life ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 A Message From the Chair of the Board and CEO As the HSC Foundation approaches its 40th year of making a difference for patients and their families in our province and beyond, we are privileged to be involved with this facility that has touched so many lives in our community over the years. We can’t thank you enough - the people and organizations who get involved with the HSC Foundation through donating, fundraising, volunteering, helping with our events, or by informing Chair of the HSC Foundation Board, Tina Jones with President and CEO, others about the good work being carried out at the hospital. Jonathon Lyon In the pages ahead you will read how this remarkable support from our community has enabled us to build on that foundation. Together in the past year we raised more than $9.5 million for HSC Winnipeg – to fund important programs for patients and other priorities like research grants, new integrated operating rooms, and other initiatives that have a significant impact on the health care we deliver to patients. Many of you directly supported the Centre for Surgical Innovation, a focus of our fundraising efforts for good reason. The Centre contains specialized MRI equipment that saves lives and leads to faster recovery times for patients. Each year, more and more of our loved ones are benefiting from this facility and the technology inside. Earlier in the year we were also thrilled to celebrate the official opening of the integrated operating rooms with our esteemed donors, HSC and Foundation staff. These four modernized operating rooms are improving safety and efficiency in our surgical program, while increasing educational opportunities for clinical professionals at the same time. There are many more successes to share. In this report, you will hear from donors, patients, researchers, and health care practitioners who will share insights about the many ways HSC Foundation supporters have made a difference. We hope you will be inspired by the events and activities we carried out to involve the community in our efforts. We are extremely proud of what we accomplished this past year together, building on our strong history of making a difference, and bringing hope to life for countless families in our province and beyond. Thank you for your continued support and belief in the work that we do. Sincerely, Tina Jones Jonathon Lyon CHAIR OF THE BOARD PRESIDENT & CEO Your Efforts Are Bringing Hope to Life at the Centre for Surgical Innovation The Centre for Surgical Innovation (CSI), housed within the Since its unveiling in 2013, the CSI has already performed more Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine at HSC, is a key than 4,100 advanced surgical procedures and 24,600 imaging focus of the Health Sciences Centre Foundation’s fundraising procedures for patients. It’s a place that truly brings hope to efforts and a part of Manitoba’s health care system we should life through new standards of care and support for patients in all be extremely proud of. And it only exists thanks to the our community. generosity of donors. The Foundation is in the final phase of fundraising for this The CSI is a place that beams with hope, as health care teams $25 million initiative and as of March 31, 2016 has just $1.6 million utilize the unique technology inside to perform advanced left to raise. With your help, we can bring hope to life for even surgeries that save lives, and in some cases prevent additional more patients who need care at HSC every day. surgeries - which speeds up the recovery process for patients. Treatment spans many areas of care including brain tumours, To make a contribution towards the Centre for Surgical Innovation, epilepsy, spinal cord injury, strokes and aneurysms. visit hscfoundation.mb.ca or call 204-515-5612. One of only seven such configurations in the world, and the first of its kind in Canada, the CSI is also a place where researchers are able to learn about new ways to improve care even further, in areas including concussions, traumatic brain injury and multiple sclerosis. “The Centre for Surgical Innovation has had a huge impact on the care patients receive at HSC, and it’s all thanks to the support we receive from individual donors and community- minded organizations,” said Jonathon Lyon, President & CEO of the HSC Foundation. “The surgical teams at HSC tell us what a tremendous difference the Centre makes on their ability to do their jobs effectively, and the result is safer, better care for our loved ones.” The Centre for Surgical Innovation has already performed more than 4,100 advanced surgical procedures and 24,600 imaging procedures for patients. ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 1 From Silent Suffering to Outspoken Advocate MEGAN LINTON AND THE HSC ADULT EATING DISORDERS CLINIC Megan Linton 2 HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION MENTAL ILLNESS DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE. AT THE AGE OF 12, MEGAN LINTON BEGAN TO STRUGGLE WITH ANOREXIA NERVOSA. SHE SUFFERED IN SILENCE OVER THE NEXT 7 YEARS, COVERING UP HER CONDITION WITH INTENSIVE ATHLETIC TRAINING. AS A COMPETITIVE ATHLETE, SPORTS WERE THE PERFECT COVER FOR HER CONDITION. Due to the stigma often attached to mental illness, Megan Mona Linton, Megan’s mom, remembers how thorough and never felt comfortable reaching out for treatment. So she exhausting the treatment was. With weekly goals, outings, meal continued hiding this part of her life eventually graduating with requirements, and the emotional drain of recovering from an honours from St. Mary’s Academy. She received a full athletic illness that had impacted her daughter for nearly ten years. scholarship for rowing at the University of Oklahoma. Megan and her parents believe the recreation program played Shortly after her arrival, Megan slipped several disks in her back a key role in bringing Megan back to health. The recreation during training which brought her rowing career to an end. She program relies strongly on private funding for the ability to remained in Oklahoma for the rest of the year plunging her into go on outings, practice food shopping, and explore the world a deep depression that almost claimed her life. outside the confines of their group therapy room. Megan’s parents, Mona and Mike, immediately brought The amazing team of nurses, social workers and dieticians, Megan back to Winnipeg. Megan got a referral to the HSC prompted her father, Mike Linton, to encourage his workplace, Adult Eating Disorders clinic and soon began the intensive Dufresne Furniture, to make a donation toward the program so three-month treatment program. Diagnosed with anorexia, others could benefit. The Dufresne Foundation generously made Megan struggled with a great degree of shame but knew she a $50,000 gift to the HSC Foundation, designated to the Adult needed to get help. Eating Disorder Program with a focus on the recreation program. Eating disorders are often perceived as failures on the part Today, Megan is healthy and alive. A full time student at of the individual due to vanity and selfishness. However, the the University of Winnipeg, she works part time, and is an reality is that illnesses such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia advocate for mental health awareness. Megan will continue are linked to anxiety, self esteem, body consciousness and to receive outpatient treatment because both Megan and confidence issues - issues that are tackled head on at the the HSC Clinic believe that wellness is more than a one-time HSC Adult Eating Disorders Clinic. decision, it’s a life commitment. The Clinic is highly regarded as one of the best programs across Canada. Nutrition is just one of the parts of the program, which includes life skills, cognitive behavioral therapy, art therapy, coping skills, and recreation skills. Through a daily 8-hour regimen, patients are encouraged to address the psychological issues that underpin their eating disorders, and work towards developing a sense of wellness instead of punishing themselves for wrongly perceived failures. Megan’s parents, Mike and Mona Linton at Savour 2016 ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 3 2015 Research Grant Projects Have Breakthrough Potential 2015 GENERAL OPERATING GRANTS $8,536 to Bronwyn Fontaine, Cynthia Puttaert, Ashley Struthers, and Sunita Bayyavarapu Bapuji to study the impact $70,000 to Pingzhao Hu, Charles Bernstein, and Elizabeth of the MORE (Mood Disorders Occupational Therapy Spriggs to identify novel genetic risk factors of inflammatory Rehabilitation and Education) service on clients, identify bowel disease (IBD). If any risk factors are identified, they can strengths of the service, and determine ways to develop the be used to improve diagnostics of IBD patients in Manitoba. service to better meet the needs of clients. $69,455 to Magimairajan Issai Vanan and Donald Miller to $15,235 to Tanya Kozera, Michelle Horkoff, Kristy Wittmeier, determine if a specific peptide, known as HAV peptide, will Tidimogo Gaamangwe, Jessica Hartley, and Kathy Vagianos help adenanthin cross the protective wall covering the brain. to determine current research capacity in Allied Health at If successful, it will be tested if adenanthin can then block a HSC and to use findings to guide research capacity building particular protein, which causes poor treatment response in for individuals and teams. children with medulloblastoma, from entering the brain. $70,000 to Man (Ann) Yi to study 2015 DOLLY & MICHAEL new nanomedicine techniques Since 1981, HSC Foundation GEMBEY NURSING GRANT to engineer a targeted treatment of a model bronchopulmonary donors have supported $1,896 to Jannell Plouffe, Shelley Probizanski, Shelley Irvine Day, Louise dysplasia-pulmonary hypertension, nearly 400 research with the goal of creating a new tool Helbig, and Evelyn Casey to implement to reduce and prevent illness or projects, providing a patient-engagement program to death for infants with this chronic researchers and their encourage and increase staff compliance lung disease and its complications.