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Value and Access Manager @amgen. PhD in muscle physiology from @yorkuniversity. While I have a connection to Amgen, opinions are my own.

Toronto,ON
Joined February 2012
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To celebrate the launch of our new dedicated #CANWNT account, we're giving away five #CanadaRED prize packs. Like, RT and follow @CANWNT for your chance to win!
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The graduate students of the Muscle Health Research Centre have organized a great list of speakers to talk about their paths from grad school to diverse careers outside of academia. Open to all. Career Day, Feb. 22. yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/02/…
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Replying to @JPhysiol
@JPhysiol is fast - accepted yesterday and online today! Paper conceived by @HughesMeghan as part of her thesis. Impairments in left ventricular mitochondrial bioenergetics precede overt cardiac dysfunction and remodelling in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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Doctors injected a billion mitochondria into a baby's damaged heart, and within two days, the baby had a normal heart, strong and beating quickly. “It was amazing,”... nytimes.com/2018/07/10/healt…
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I keep harping on @EliudKipchoge's smile and the studies linking smiling and running economy, so I feel duty-bound to report that watching a half-hour sitcom does NOT cure muscle soreness or increase pain tolerance. It does make you feel good, though.
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new paper from the MHRC Altered mitochondrial bioenergetics and ultrastructure in the skeletal muscle of young adults with type 1 diabetes link.springer.com/article/10…
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Are current exercise guidelines sufficient for those with Type 1 #diabetes? New joint study with @YorkUHealth @McMasterU found active young adults with Type 1 diabetes have muscle complications. @ChrisPerryYork explains why news.yorku.ca/2018/04/18/act…
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Muscle health is an important complication to consider in Type 1 Diabetes. Are current exercise guidelines sufficient? Very proud of @CynMonaco @HughesMeghan @ConnectInMotion and all collaborators. Outstanding collaboration with @thomashawke who brought this idea forward. xitter.gq/thomashawke/status/986…
Add poor #muscle quality to the list of #T1D #diabetes complications. Great job ! @CynMonaco and @HughesMeghan. Awesome co-PI on this-@ChrisPerryYork. Got the cover image too! Thanks @ConnectInMotion for subject recruitment help!
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WHAT A RUN!!! @kristaduchene just finished 3rd at the @bostonmarathon
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Who’s going to #oep2018 this year? 🎉🤓 Wondering about the social?🍻 @Dr_Burr and I are excited to have @danistrong22 join us Saturday night 4 outdoor bon🔥, food,🥤🥂, 🎶, 🍁taffy & more...Bring your ⛸🏒, dress for ⛄️❄️🌨🌧! More details @ goo.gl/qY8VL8 Plz RT
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Brain discovery uncovers cause of heart failure symptoms cbc.ca/1.4120683 Great talk Keith! @prof_brunt @ScienceTM @Simpsonlab_UofG
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58% of elite athletes in Dutch study fail to get 20g protein at breakfast; 36% miss target at lunch too. runnersworld.com/sweat-scien…
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Our own Michael Riddell etal released landmark position in Lancet on exercise guidelines in T1 Diabetes @MHRC_YorkU @YorkUHealth @YorkUKINE xitter.gq/MCRiddell1/status/8243…
JDRF PEAK Experts Develop New Guidelines on Safe Exercise for T1D prn.to/2k3WnLK @aaronjkowalski @JDRF_Canada @JDRF
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Canadian women finish 2016 ranked fourth in FIFA world soccer rankings sprtsnt.ca/2i2p6iV
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Someone taking "Toronto vs Everybody" a little too seriously. #Jays #WildCardGame
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Secretly adding 100g (3.5oz) to shoe slows 3000m race time by 3.9s on avg. Extrapolate to marathon & that's a lot. runnersworld.com/sweat-scien…
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Ever go for a run with someone WAY faster than you? Me too. huffingtonpost.com/entry/the…
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Congrats Donna from HawkeLab! Now DR. D'souza!!!! Very proud of you!
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Congrats @scolema8!!! Myostatin inhibition demonstrates the importance of healthy muscle in #T1D control- ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2758…
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The mechanism by which salicylate-based drugs improve metabolic function in obese state. (Mitochondrial uncoupling) diabetes.diabetesjournals.or…
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