09/25/2026
Before I forget, I want to thank Laila Wazne Laila for the beautiful gift and for helping me set up before everyone arrived for the annual Neonatal Hemodynamics / Targeted Neonatal Echo event at my place. Huge thanks to her for the celebratory cake and her ongoing academic and scientific contributions to NeoCardioLab and the cardiovascular mission of the NICU at MCH. We also celebrated the arrival of our new fellow, Shima AlAhmadi Dr Shima Alahmadi, and the upcoming graduation of Dr Abdullah Alghamdi. We celebrated Dr Laurence O'Malley Laurence Soucy-Giguère, who graduated in July and started at Ste-Justine. We recognized many graduate students like Ellory Ellory, Jessica, Yannick, and phoenix Phoenix, who fast-tracked to PhD. Big thanks to Daniela Science with Nani 🤓💡 for five years of constant contribution and more to come!. Thanks to colleagues present—Dr. Ryan Michelle Ryan , Dr. Nouraeyan Sheida Ebrahimpour —Dr. Spénard SarahSpd sent regrets as she was postcall. And of course, all NICU and RTC members supporting our training programs at McGill. Also present: our admin Natalie, Charlotte (research coordinator and also started PhD!) Charlotte Serrano and NeoCardioLab fellow Dr Luis Quiel Luis Quiel - big thanks to everyone for joining and congratulations to all! Missing also Mallika Palm who could not join tonight but will celebrate soon.