Today marks St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s Leadership Convention 2014. During this day, team members from across our organization come together to share and learn from one another. This year, the convention theme surrounds the concept of...

Please join us to celebrate this year’s recipient of the Father Sean O’Sullivan Research Staff Recognition Award – Ms. Laura Garrick, CCRA.  Laura is a certified clinical research associate and works in the Mood Disorder Program under the supervision of Drs. Benicio Frey and Margaret McKinnon.

Friday, May 30^th 2014 – Hamilton, ON – Overwhelmed by what felt like unsurmountable stress and the feeling of being buried beneath embarrassment, 51-year-old Brenda McDonald decided it was time to seek help for hoarding disorder. By sharing her experiences of her successful treatment, Brenda is also helping researchers at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton examine stress reactivity in individuals with hoarding disorder.

Jennifer Italiano travels by car from her community in Cayuga into work where she is a registered nurse at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s Emergency Department at Charlton Campus. In her role, she has a unique understanding of how drinking and driving resulting in a car accident can lead to trauma for patients and heartache for loved ones. 

How tall are you standing? Did you know that losing height could be a sign of osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a disease in both men and women that causes bone mass loss and deterioration.  According to Osteoporosis Canada, at least 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men will suffer from an osteoporotic fracture during their lifetime. 

Researchers at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and McMaster University have successfully tested an antibody that can improve the quality of life for individuals with asthma by relieving inflammation in the lungs.