Dr. Deanna Rose

Dr. Deanna Rose helps entrepreneurs and professionals overcome burnout, optimize their energy, have full control over their health, so they can create, produce, and achieve more in business and life.

Join the conversation as Dr. Deanna shares her expertise on how we as healthcare professionals can reclaim our mental & physical health, leverage stress and optimize energy throughout our daily lives.

Carolyn Plater and Stephanie Kersta

Carolyn and Stephanie are master’s level mental health clinicians with over a decade each of experience in emergency medicine, community crisis, and private clinical practices.

Over the years Carolyn and Stephanie became increasingly concerned by the growing mental health crisis plaguing society. They also realized that much of what they were seeing clinically was a direct result of today’s modern stress-filled lifestyle.

Their desire to combat this epidemic led them to the study of mindfulness and meditation.

Join us as we discuss mental health coping mechanisms for Respiratory Therapists battling the pandemic.

Diana Tikasz

Diana Tikasz MSW, RSW, has worked in the teaching and health care sector for the past 30 years.

Her passion is to assist people in creating personal, professional, and organizational changes that promote optimal health and make them more effective helpers.

Currently she is the Resilience Integration Specialist at Hamilton Health Sciences, focused on fostering staff, team, leader, and physician resilience.

Join us as we learn how to be more resilient in these difficult times.

Jodi Van Woudenberg

Mother of 4 wonderful children. Her now 4 year old triplets were born at 25 weeks gestation. One triplet spent 328 days in the ICU before going home with a tracheostomy tube and ventilator. With these experiences Jodi is passionate about parent advocacy and promoting the well-being of families with medically fragile children.

Join us to learn more about how you as a Respiratory Therapist, can help parents who are advocating for their children to go home.

Nancy Garvey, Priscila Pequeno, Refik Saskin, Dan Chen, Jody Gatley

RTSO ICES

Led by scientists from the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, the “COPD Patients Access to Clinical Services Provided by Registered Respiratory Therapists Across Ontario” results serve the Ontario Ministry of Health, Local Health Integration Network and other planning for respiratory therapy services in healthcare settings across the continuum of care in Ontario.

This webinar will inform attendees about the purpose, rationale and methodology associated with the staffing part of the RTSO’s workforce planning initiative.

Nikki Breede

Nikki Breede has been a Registered Respiratory Therapist for over 13 years, and Certified Respiratory and Tobacco Educator for over 7 years. She works as the Respiratory Educator in the Asthma & Airway Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network.

Dr. Alan Kaplan

A Family Physician practicing in York Region, Ontario, Canada.

Medical director of LHIN Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinics

Chairperson of the Family Physician Airways Group of Canada are just a few of Dr. Kaplan’s credentials.

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Kaplan where we discuss his approach to virtual care with patients during the pandemic and how we can optimize the virtual assessment of our own patients with asthma & COPD. He will also provide us with tools and resources that are helpful for both patients and educators.

Anisah Mohamed

A Respiratory Therapist for almost 20 years but not all her years were spent at the bedside. Her RT journey spans, sales and marketing for medical device companies worldwide as well as the exploring the adventures of entrepreneurship.

Join the conversation as Anisah discusses how to advocate for yourself and your career as a Respiratory Therapist.

Rebecca Grundy

Having served as a key advisor to multiple Leaders of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party, and with three years consulting experience, Rebecca leads the Ontario government relations practice at Stosic & Associates as Vice President, Ontario

Join us as we discuss Government Advocacy and

1. Why is it important?
2. Who should you advocate to?
3. Current RTSO advocacy projects and status update
4. How can you get involved?