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A good timefor a good causeEach year, thousandsof people support ourevents for health care,showing that it is possibleto support a good causewhile having a good time.Calgary Health Trustworks with the eventcommittees and hospitalDevelopment Councilsto put on an event thatis sure to be a night toremember.Organizing these eventsis not an easy task.Each year, thousands ofvolunteer hours are givento Calgary HealthTrust. From sitting onDevelopment Councils,chairing an event, workingbehind the scenes atour Marquee events orstuffing envelopes; thankyou to all our volunteersfor your dedication andcommitment to oursuccess.Comedians hit a Funny BoneLaughter will benefit many people lookingto live an active and healthy lifestyle.Comedians Colin Mochrieand Brad Sherwood fromthe hit TV show, Whose Lineis it Anyway? left the crowdroaring for the ArthroscopicSurgery Program at the <strong>2011</strong>Funny Bone Comedy Night.Their laughter will benefit manypeople looking to live healthy,active lifestyles.“Calgary is a city that comestogether to accomplish greatthings, and many medicaladvancements have cometo fruition because previousFunny Bone events were verysuccessful,” said Jim Reid,Co-Chair of Funny BoneComedy Night. “Still, there ismore work to do. Together wecan continue to help increasethe technology available andhelp provide the best carepossible for people in ourcommunity.”Calgary is a vibrant city, full ofpathways and parks. On anygiven day, the city’s pathwaysare full of walkers, runnersand cyclists, old and young.Any one of these people maybenefit from the donationsmade to arthroscopic surgery.“We’re trying to build acentre of excellence forsport medicine,” saidDr. Timmerman, OrthopaedicSurgeon at Peter LougheedCentre, where he and hiscolleagues focus on keepingpeople healthy and active.Sports medicine, he pointsout, is more than the treatmentof jocks and professionalathletes. “I call it sport andactive medicine.”Patients who are Olympians,NHL or CFL players are faroutnumbered by the “weekendwarriors” and kids on theplayground who suffer tornknee ligaments or torn rotatorcuffs in their shoulders.Arthroscopic treatmentcombines surgery andstate-of-the-art imagingequipment: tiny high-definitioncameras that give surgeonsan exceptional view ofdamaged bone and tissuewith minimal invasion.“The belief is the betteryou see, the better youwill do as a surgeon,”Dr. Timmerman says. “Andwhen we do better, patientshave better outcomes.” Helikens traditional orthopaedicsurgery to looking through akeyhole; “Arthroscopic surgeryis like stepping into the foyerand seeing the whole room.”“This type of support will helpus remain state-of-the-art,teach medical students, teacheach other and teach otherswho can take this knowledgeto their communities. Wecouldn’t continue to dowhat we do without thisequipment.”“We’re trying tobuild a centre ofexcellence forsport medicine.”– Dr. Timmerman,Orthopaedic Surgeonat Peter Lougheed CentreComedians Colin Mochrie (left) and Brad Sherwood (right) put laughterinto arthroscopic surgery at Peter Lougheed Centre.30 Calgary Health Trust
Music puts things in MotionCanadian singing sensation Nikki Yanofsky and jazz legend Tommy Bankshit the right note with supporters.This year’s Music in Motion hitthe right note with supportersin both Calgary and Edmontonas Canadian singing sensationNikki Yanofsky and jazzlegend Tommy Banks wowedthem with their amazingperformance. Together, theCalgary and Edmonton eventsraised more than $1 millionin support of research thatwill benefit all Albertans andimprove care and rehabilitationfor Bone and Joint Healthin Alberta.Music in Motion is a uniqueevent that brings togethersix dynamic organizations inAlberta with one commondream: to improve theopportunities available forthose with joint and soft tissueinjuries and diseases. Part ofthe proceeds went to furtherthe amazing work being doneto realize this dream throughthe research and clinical trialshappening at McCaig Institutefor Bone and Joint.“The success in Calgaryand Edmonton has unitedour province’s largest healthorganizations around a sharedpassion for bone and jointhealth research and a sharedgoal to improve the care andrehabilitation patients receivethroughout Alberta,” saidCalgary Co-Chairs M. AnnMcCaig and Marilyn McCaig.(Top) Canadian Nikki Yanofsky wows supporters intomotion for Bone and Joint health in Alberta.(Bottom) Calgary Co-Chairs Ann McCaig and Marilyn McCaigjoin Nikki Yanofsky, Tommy Banks and trumpet soloistJens Lindemann on the red carpet.$1,000,000+Philanthropy brings a Canadianfirst to McCaig Institute forBone and Joint HealthThe McCaig Institute forBone and Joint Health nowhouses the most cuttingedgediagnostic equipmentin the rheumatology researchlaboratory thanks to the moneyraised from 2010 and <strong>2011</strong>Music in Motion supporters.A single drop of blood canbe used to accurately screenfor specific proteins relatedto bone and joint diseases,including inflammatory bowelsyndrome, cancer andvasculitis disorders whichaffect the veins and arteries.Research and understandingare at the foundation ofultimately developing personalhealth profiles and therapeuticinterventions for these typesof diseases.Alberta is the first in Canadato have this technology andmany are looking to theMcCaig Institute for the betatestresults that will come fromits application.Research is the foundation for therapeutic interventionsfor bones and joints and other diseases.Your impactThank you.31
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