Michael Khoury

Check out the new CPS position statement entitled "Dyslipidemia in children: Diagnosis, evaluation, and management". Congrats to @PeterDWong @makhoury! Stay tuned for our webapp to help providers action these recommendations. cps.ca/en/documents/p…

Our new CPS Position Statement on the screening and diagnosis of pediatric lipid disorders was published today. Systematic screening strategies are needed to find and treat FH! cps.ca/en/documents/p… @CanPaedSociety @WCHRIUofA @FamilyHeartFdn

Our new paper in @NatRevCardiol highlighting the importance of finding and treating CV risk from childhood. Out now! @WCHRIUofA @FamilyHeartFdn @AHAScience @SCC_CCS @CanPaedSociety @AAPNews @AmerAcadPeds

WCHRI trainee Kaiden Conway, supervised by Michael Khoury, is making strides with the MedBIKE™ project. This home-based HIIT program aims to boost exercise capacity in kids with congenital heart disease. Read more about the @stollerykids-funded research: wchri.org/our-impact/sum… @stollerykids @makhoury @ualbertaKSR

Huge missed opportunity <25% of young adults who should be on statins for high cholesterol or ASCVD are getting them, with key driver being docs aren’t recommending them Need to improve risk prediction for young people, but also need to better implement what we already know now

Not to miss on Sunday at #CCCongress! Genetic Lipid Disorders and Premature Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease - Patients and Healthcare Providers Engagement Forum 2024. Zoom link for remote participants: phsa.zoom.us/j/68247843983?…. @iuliaiatan @LiamBrunham @makhoury @RylanMcCallum @LubaCermakova.

🔓 For a limited time until September 29, we are offering free promotional access to this new article in #CJC! 👇 2024 Update on post-vaccine myocarditis and pericarditis; Expert guidance on evaluation, management and follow-up onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-… 🌐

RT @iuliaiatan: Excellent talk by Tomas Freiberger at #FamilyHeartSummit24 on why universal FH pediatric screening should be implemented gl…

Much praise to our northern neighbors 🇨🇦 who have done it again! This article in @JAMA_current by Dr. @mjquon elegantly addresses ableism and equity. Check it out: [jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…] and give Dr. Quon a follow! 👍 #Ableism #Equity #DocsWithDisabilities

In healthy children, physical activity modulates health related quality of life. Does it do the same in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy? Yes - read here about the association. #AHAJournals @makhoury @ChentelNP @santokh_Cardio @jen_conway1 ahajrnls.org/4cqKA0Y

💡 Kids with #HypertrophicCardiomyopathy have a bright future with new child-specific risk prediction models for #SCD and gene-specific therapies in development 👉 onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-… #HCM #CJC

While statins are used commonly in children after 🫀transplantation, early use was not found to decrease cardiac allograft vasculopathy development or improve graft survival in a propensity matched cohort of children. @PHTSociety @MadeleineT12987 🔗: jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…

Help Support our friends with the Stollery Pediatric Heart Transplant Camp's 50/50 Raffle. An amazing opportunity for kids to be kids and for families to learn together about living well after a transplant! rafflebox.ca/raffle/sphtfcf

Such an important thread. Not screening children and young adults means missing common lifelong lipid disorders, such as FH. You can’t treat what you don’t find! Stories like these are entirely preventable. @knowFH @LiamBrunham @TheFHFoundation @nationallipid @iuliaiatan

The work @GiftsLives has done and continues to do has been nothing short of inspirational. Thank you for all of your continued support!

For Heart Month❤️, we spotlighted the work of WCHRI member Michael Khoury @makhoury, whose research focuses on enhancing physical activity using the MedBIKE program for kids with heart disease. Read about his @StolleryKids-funded research: wchri.org/our-impact/sto… @UAlberta_FoMD

Amazing News from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation this week! Our own Dr. Lori West will be receiving the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award at their Annual Meeting & Scientific Session! Profound congratulations, Lori!! 🙌 ishlt.org/about/news-det…

Children with tetralogy of Fallot remain insufficiently active. This #CJCPC review provides a scoping summary of the problem at hand and outlines strategy to promote physical activity in children and young adults with tetralogy of Fallot 👉 cjcpc.ca/article/S2772-…