1. SUNNYBROOK
FOUNDATION
REPORT
TO DONORSFOR THE YEAR 2013
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2. MORE THAN SAVING
A LIFE, IT’S GIVING
SOMEONE THE CHANCE
TO FULLY LIVE AGAIN.
MORE THAN BREAKING
GROUND,
IT’S BUILDING HOPE.
MORE THAN FORGING
NEW FRONTIERS,
IT’S HELPING PEOPLE GET
BACK TO EVERYTHING
IN THEIR LIFE
THAT IS MEANINGFUL
TO THEM.
FOR EVERY INNOVATION,
FOR EVERY DISCOVERY,
THERE ARE
COUNTLESS REASONS
WHY IT MATTERS
TO THE PEOPLE WHO
COUNT ON US.
THAT’S WHY
WE COUNT ON YOU.
CONTENTS
Inventing the Future of Health Care 3
Brain Sciences Program 4
Schulich Heart Program 8
Trauma, Emergency 12
& Critical Care Program
Research 16
Veterans & Community Program 20
Women & Babies Program 24
Odette Cancer Program 28
Holland Musculoskeletal Program 33
Kilgour Society 36
Sunnybrook Donor 37
Sunnybrook Next Generation 38
Sunnybrook Rose Award 39
Board of Directors 40
Governing Council 42
Counsel 44
Advancement Committee 44
Sunnybrook Next Generation 44
Our Donors 45

3. Left: Dr. Jon S. Dellandrea
Right: Perry Dellelce
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SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION
INVENTING
THE FUTURE OF
HEALTH CARE
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Sunnybrook isn’t just saving lives. It is help-
ing people to live fully again. It is enabling
patients to overcome often devastating
challenges, so that they can ultimately
return to the activities they love and be
there for the people who matter to them.
As donors, you’re making this possible.
Your contributions allow Sunnybrook to
fulfill its vision of inventing the future of
health care, right now.
It is a future where advanced imaging
finds disease sooner, before a life is threat-
ened. Where disease is killed without ever
making an incision. Where a person’s genes
are the roadmap for customized treatments.
Where untreatable patients are given life-
saving options that never existed before.
Your generosity provides sustainable
philanthropic support for the institutional
priorities that are crucial to the achievement
of this vision. As we look back at 2013, it is
immediately apparent how integral you are
to the hospital’s success.
In this report, you will read the stories
of lives changed by Sunnybrook and you.
For instance, there is 82-year-old
André Séguinot, a judo black belt who was
finally able to resume his weekly teaching
schedule after getting his heart’s mitral
valve repaired with a minimally invasive
procedure. Or Julia and Todd Smeed, who
were directly involved in the care of their
premature twins before bringing them home
to begin life as a family. Or Kim Stewart,
who could get on with treatment and his
life after Sunnybrook doctors used MRI
to pinpoint the prostate cancer that had
eluded others for months.
As much as they are stories of innova-
tion and breakthrough, they are stories of
lives restored, of people and families made
whole again. And above all, they are your
stories, because we count on you to make
them a reality.
Donors invested generously across
all of our care programs. Thanks to a
$10-million donation from The Slaight
Family Foundation, The Slaight Centre
for Image-Guided Brain Therapy and
Repair came into being. It is at the heart of
Sunnybrook’s efforts to create therapies
that will halt the steady advancement of
dementia, stop stroke in its tracks and
regenerate damaged brain tissue.
More than $6 million was raised to
support youth mental health programs, such
as specialized care and research for young
people with bipolar disorder. That figure
also includes over $1.2 million raised for
our Family Navigation Project through the
inaugural RBC Run for the Kids, a two-
day event that far exceeded expectations.
Because of tremendous community support
and a strong partnership between RBC
and Sunnybrook, the project is now actively
helping families by connecting teenagers
suffering mental illness or addictions to the
right care at the right time.
In the year ahead, you can be assured
we will continue to make the most of every
donor dollar. It is a responsibility we take
seriously – a fact recognized by the “A”
grade we’ve earned in each of the four years
that MoneySense magazine has scrutinized
Canada’s 100 biggest charities. Read more
about our performance by viewing our
audited financial statements at sunnybrook.
ca/foundation/statements.
Thank you for placing your trust in
Sunnybrook and for giving us the tools to
restore lives.
Perry Dellelce
Chair,
Sunnybrook Foundation
Board of Directors
Dr. Jon S. Dellandrea, C.M.
President & CEO,
Sunnybrook Foundation

4. “
BRAIN SCIENCES PROGRAM
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A Family
Affair
Teenagers Aisha, Jason and
Travis found help for their
struggles with mental illness
thanks to an exciting new
annual fundraising event
created by RBC and hosted
by Sunnybrook. The first
RBC Run for the Kids,
held last September, was
a resounding success;
more than 4,500 people
participated, making it the
fourth largest competitive
race in the GTA.
The event raised $1.2 million in support
of the Family Navigation Project (FNP),
a new resource at Sunnybrook that helps
families in crisis find the specialized
care they need for a child with mental
illness or addiction.
“Youth struggling with mental illness
need our help and so do their families
who often don’t know where to turn for
information,” says Jamie Anderson, deputy
chair, RBC Capital Markets & executive
champion of RBC Children’s Mental
Health Project. “We have partnered with
Sunnybrook because we know the Family
Navigation Project will have an immediate
impact by pairing families with navigators
who will lead them through the complexities
of the health care system and help them get
the treatment and support they need.”
Since 2008, the RBC Children’s
Mental Health Project has provided more
than $20 million to support over 350
organizations dedicated to providing early
intervention, increasing public awareness
and reducing the stigma of mental illness.
These donations are part of RBC’s Believe
in Kids Pledge – a five-year, $100-million
commitment to improve the well-being
of kids and youth in Canada.
Thanks to funds raised by RBC Run
for the Kids, the FNP is now actively helping
families. Sunnybrook navigators helped
Aisha, who was trapped in a downward
spiral of bulimia and addiction, find a
residential program that could help her.
The FNP also guided Jason and Travis,
who were struggling in school because
of depression and anxiety, to appropriate
resources. These teenagers aren’t alone.
As many as two million young people in
Canada are struggling with mental health
problems or addiction.
“Parents have told us that they’ve
waited months for help, only to be told
they’re in the wrong line. With the Family
Navigation Project, there is no wrong line,”
says Dr. Anthony Levitt, medical director
of the project.
The 2014 RBC Run for the Kids is set
for September 20 at Mel Lastman Square,
with three great challenges to choose from:
a 5k walk/run, a 15k run and a 25k run.
For more information, go to: rbcrunforthekids.ca
BRAIN SCIENCES PROGRAM
Ready or
Not
Was NHL star Sidney
Crosby ready to play when
he returned to the ice after
his first concussion? New
research underway at
Sunnybrook might have
helped answer that question.
Right now, there isn’t a simple test to
indicate whether the brain has fully healed,
so doctors often use a “try it and see”
approach.
The problem is, if people with a
concussion or mild traumatic brain injury
return to play too soon and get jostled
around, they lower their chances of full
recovery.
“We know that the cumulative effect of
repeat concussions is terrible, like in boxers,
for example. The next concussion is usually
worse than the first,” says Sunnybrook
neurosurgeon Dr. Leodante da Costa.
“They look normal. There are no
bruises, and on CAT and MRI imaging
they have normal parameters.”
To stop the cycle of repeat injury, he
is leading an international initiative to
develop a simple and objective test that
can detect whether it is safe to return to
play or work.
The test involves having patients
breathe in carbon dioxide (CO2) through
a special mask and carefully monitoring
their brain activity using functional
MRI. Doctors assess each person’s
cerebrovascular reactivity” – reactions
in the small blood vessels in the brain.
“In normal people, you give them CO2
and their blood flow increases. In traumatic
brain injury, the little blood vessels might
not react. They are paralyzed, which puts
the brain at more risk for injury.”
This test could be a new way to identify
injury to the brain that currently can’t
be seen.
“It’s like a stress test for the brain,” says
Dr. da Costa. “It might help us to establish
the right time to return to play,” for Sidney
Crosby and countless others.
“Up to 30 per cent of people with
mild traumatic brain injury
develop persistent physical,
emotional or cognitive problems
such as headaches, mood disorders
or lack of focus,” he says.

5. SCHULICH HEART PROGRAM
LIFE AT A
STEADY CLIP
After waking from a minimally invasive
procedure to repair his leaking heart
valve, André Séguinot was astounded
to learn from his surgeon he would be
discharged from Sunnybrook’s Schulich
Heart Centre the next day.
THANKS TO AN INNOVATIVE
NEW HEART PROCEDURE, ANDRÉ
SÉGUINOT HAS THE STRENGTH
AGAIN FOR HIS WEEKLY JAZZ
GIGS, JUDO CLASSES AND ALL
THE THINGS HE ENJOYS.
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“I SAID, ‘TELL ME what I’m
supposed to do, doctor. Can
I walk?’ ‘Yes, you should walk.’
‘Can I bicycle?’ ‘Yes, you can
bicycle.’ ‘Can I travel? Can
I fly?’ ‘Yes, you can.’ ‘Doctor,
just between us, can I have
sex?’ ‘Yes, you can have sex.’”
André, 82, laughs heartily at
the memory.
The retired University of
Toronto professor was treated
for mitral regurgitation, a
condition in which the mitral
valve does not close as
tightly as it should, causing
blood to leak in the wrong
direction. Left untreated, it can
cause irreversible heart failure.
Sunnybrook is one of only three
hospitals in Canada perform-
ing the MitraClip procedure.
The $33,000 procedure is
not yet fully funded by the
province so patients must rely
on Sunnybrook donors.
Like many patients who are
older or who have other health
conditions, André was a poor
candidate for open heart
surgery, which has a recovery
time of one to three months.
“The MitraClip procedure
provides a lasting solution
for people who otherwise
might be out of treatment
options,” says Dr. Gideon
Cohen, Sunnybrook’s chief
of cardiac surgery.
The MitraClip is fed through
a catheter inserted in the
patient’s groin and travels
to the mitral valve, where it
attaches, tightening the
valves’ leaflets.
After eight months of being
so exhausted he could barely
rise from his sofa or bed,
André was able to return to
his favourite activities. The
fourth-degree judo black belt
resumed his weekly teaching
schedule. He took up cycling
again and went back to playing
guitar in a jazz sextet that
has a weekly gig at a Toronto
jazz club.
“I have my life back,” André
says.

6. SCHULICH HEART PROGRAM
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Heart of
the Family
As the Barford family
grew, so too did
Sunnybrook, the hospital
next door. Beth Malcolm,
chair of the Ralph M.
Barford Foundation,
recalls seeing
K-Wing rise.
Indeed, it’s the 50-plus years of relationship-
building with the doctors, nurses and other
staff that led her family’s foundation to first
support the hospital, she says. “We have been
helped by many of the doctors and nurses,”
says her 84-year-old father, Ralph Barford.
“Dr. Doug Johnson, Dr. Alison Culbert,
Louise Mac Isaac, RN and office coordinator
Chandra Ram in the family practice, as well
as by Dr. Scott Walsh in dermatology and
Dr. Brian Gilbert in cardiology.”
Scholarships and fellowships are a chief
area of interest for the foundation, which has
established a Fellowship in Cardiology at the
Schulich Heart Centre. It will provide two
years of support for three fellows who intend
to continue their careers in Canada.
Beth met recently with Dr. Tasnim Vira,
the first of the cardiac fellows they will fund.
“She’s just wonderful,” Beth says. “She’s full
of energy and very passionate.”
For her part, Dr. Vira says the fellowship
allows her to “focus on integrated training
in a combination of both echocardiography
[a diagnostic test that uses ultrasound to
image the heart] and advanced cardiac
imaging. Sunnybrook’s program really is
unique. The staff are amazing and it is great
to have an opportunity to draw from the
expertise of the excellent radiologists and
cardiologists here. The fellowship also
allows me the opportunity to further develop
my teaching skills at the University of
Toronto.”
“Our support,” Ralph says, “is a thank
you for the years of medical counsel and
support that Sunnybrook has provided to
our family.”
Philanthropy is a family
tradition, Beth says.“Dad
always felt that giving back is
incredibly important and I feel
it’s a real privilege in my life.”
SCHULICH HEART PROGRAM
Double
Vision
Sunnybrook’s
Dr. Brian Courtney has
developed a hybrid
imaging catheter that
offers the advantages of
two types of imaging,
providing a precise
look inside coronary
arteries.
Coronary artery disease is the leading cause
of adult death in developed nations, so
improved imaging will address important
clinical and research needs.
More advanced forms of imaging
are used when an angiogram can’t give
complete enough information about
coronary atherosclerosis (narrowing of the
arteries due to plaque buildup), explains
Dr. Courtney, a clinician scientist with the
Schulich Heart Research Program.
The advanced imaging used for
20 years has typically been intravascular
ultrasound (IVUS), which images well
through blood and tissue. But limitations
in the resolution and contrast of IVUS
images means it can’t always identify
specific features of a plaque or even that
a clot definitely exists.
A newer type of imaging – optical
coherence tomography (OCT) – offers
much better resolution, allowing it to
definitively identify a clot or tear, for
instance. OCT, however, can’t penetrate
well through tissue and blood.
This hybrid imaging catheter will
give doctors more precise, patient-specific
information to guide treatment decisions,
such as whether a stent should be used to
improve outcomes. The technology also
has research applications, such as the
opportunity to monitor the progression
and regression of narrowing of arteries.
Early testing and product refinements
have been successful and generated
significant international attention.
Thanks to a partnership between
Sunnybrook, where Dr. Courtney’s team
developed and tested prototypes, and
a medical device start-up firm, Colibri
Technologies Inc., through which it is being
brought to market, this new catheter may
reach heart patients as soon as 2015.
“There is a lot to be gained by
having both on the same catheter,”
Dr. Courtney says. “The IVUS
can say there’s a big plaque
here, and OCT can tell you the
plaque is of a certain type.”

7. TRAUMA, EMERGENCY
& CRITICAL CARE PROGRAM
BACK IN
THE GAME
The first year of university was over and
Brendan Beloniak and his high school
buddies had gathered for a fun weekend
at a Muskoka cottage.
ONE EVENING, he and a friend
returned to the cottage to
see smoke coming from the
chimney. Brendan climbed
atop the bungalow to try
to douse the flames with a
garbage can of water. The roof
collapsed, throwing him to the
sub-roof two metres below.
In shock and with his clothes
burning, Brendan managed
to get back onto the roof and
roll to the ground while his
friend raced to call 9-1-1.
Rushed by ambulance to
a hospital in Bracebridge,
Brendan was stabilized then
air-lifted to Sunnybrook’s Ross
Tilley Burn Centre. He spent
four days in an induced coma,
suffering from third-degree
burns to 30 per cent of his
body and fourth-degree burns
to his leg. His family kept a
constant vigil.
Despite the pain of skin
grafts and repeated dressing
changes, Brendan’s clearest
memory is of “how great the
people were. They made me
as comfortable as possible,
and a nurse brought in my
favourite music.” The physio-
therapists’ encouragement
overcame Brendan’s initial
belief that his fingers were so
stiffened he might never use
them properly again.
After a month at Sunnybrook,
Brendan spent the next
seven as an outpatient at
Sunnybrook’s St. John’s
Rehab, where he again credits
the staff with motivating and
working with him so that,
now 27, he has no mobility
problems.
He’s back to snowboarding,
cycling, kayaking and hockey.
“It’s priceless the kind of care
we got from beginning to end,”
Brendan says.
In fact, Brendan’s experience
led him to alter his career
plans: today he’s a paramedic.
“I feel so fortunate. Of course,
you never want anything to
happen. But the fact the burn
centre and Sunnybrook are
there in case something does
happen is invaluable.”
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AFTER SUFFERING A DEVASTATING
INJURY, BRENDAN BELONIAK
HAS FULLY REGAINED HIS MOBILITY
AND HIS ACTIVE LIFE. HE’S BACK
TO PLAYING SPORTS, ENJOYING THE
OUTDOORS, AND MAKING PLANS
FOR HIS NEW CAREER.

8. Dr. Brian Cuthbertson
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TRAUMA, EMERGENCY
& CRITICAL CARE PROGRAM
Raising the
Rooftop
Passionate Sunnybrook donors and
volunteers Rosemary and Rob McLeese
believed pairing the inaugural Concours
d’Elegance in their Georgian Bay Cobble
Beach Resort Community with a fundraiser
for Sunnybrook’s rooftop helipad made
a lot of sense.
“Bruce Peninsula residents and local
Concours volunteers appreciate that if
they had a serious accident in that area,
Sunnybrook could be the hospital they would
be flown to,” says Rosemary, a member of
Sunnybrook Foundation’s Board of Directors
and Governing Council and, with her
husband Rob, a long-time Sunnybrook
donor. “A helipad on the roof will give
patients the best chance possible when
minutes are critical.”
The world’s first Concours d’Elegance
– or competition of elegance – dates back
to 17th-century Paris, where horse-drawn
carriages paraded through the parks. The
Cobble Beach Concours was first conceived
of by Rob and his father, Willis, who bought
the property just north of Owen Sound in
1998 and developed a picturesque residential
community with an award-winning golf
course and resort centre.
Though Willis McLeese did not live
long enough to experience it, his dream
was realized in September 2013 – when he
would have celebrated his 100th birthday.
Rob believes his dad was there in spirit:
it rained both the day before and after, but
during the Concours the sky was a brilliant
blue with mist rising over the Georgian
Bay waters.
The event exceeded expectations,
drawing 4,000-plus visitors and raising more
than $50,000 for Sunnybrook’s helipad.
The event’s success has led to even
greater interest in the Sept. 13-14 show this
year, Rob says, with participants from as far
afield as Texas, Florida, Newfoundland
and Italy. The first car produced in Canada
will be there, the 1867 Seth Taylor, which
normally resides at the Canadian Museum
of Science and Technology. Proceeds will
again go toward the helipad.
The Concours is “a show of
elegant and rarely seen
automobiles often viewed as
art,” Rob says.
TRAUMA, EMERGENCY
& CRITICAL CARE PROGRAM
Doctors
Without Barriers
“With Sunnybrook
treating Ontario’s most
critically injured patients,
the hospital aims to
provide them with the best
possible care,” says
Dr. Brian Cuthbertson,
chief of the Department of
Critical Care Medicine.
That was the impetus behind a reorganization
that has led to patients with brain and spinal
cord injuries being treated in a “virtual”
neurocritical care unit.
“Sunnybrook is the only hospital in
Canada that has a dedicated neurocritical
care service,” says Dr. Nicolas Phan, the
neurosurgeon who helped bring the model
to Sunnybrook. A key focus is to prevent a
secondary brain injury to an already injured
brain, he says.
Previously, Sunnybrook ’s main critical
care unit did not separate patients by
diagnosis. But, published research and
wide-ranging internal discussions led
them to conclude that wasn’t optimal,
Dr. Cuthbertson says. Today, a dedicated
neurocritical care team treats brain and
spinal cord patients (often young victims of
car crashes), from ultra-acute care through
rehabilitation and preparing to go home.
Intensive care specialists lead the team,
whose members include neurosurgeons,
neurologists, respiratory technicians, nurses
and physiotherapists, all with knowledge,
expertise and interest in the area. “It’s much
more collegial now,” adds Dr. Phan.
The new model has helped Sunnybrook
meet the highest international standards for
managing traumatic brain injury. Treatment
plans are set out early and consistent standards
are maintained. Early evaluations suggest
the level of care has improved over the two
years since the reorganization began.
Dr. Cuthbertson notes the change
involved no construction or new equipment,
just a new way of using resources to
optimize care. “We’re supplying the most
effective care in the most cost-effective
fashion.”
“It has broken down barriers,”
Dr. Cuthbertson says,
allowing for more“seamless,
high-quality care.”

9. RESEARCH
A BETTER
VIEW
Sunnybrook’s novel use of magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) to detect prostate cancer
made a big difference in Kim Stewart’s life –
it found the cancer that had eluded his
doctors for months.
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“KNOWING MY PSA [prostate-
specific antigen] level was
very high, but not being able to
confirm whether I had cancer
– that was very confusing
and worrying,” says Kim, a
52-year-old Toronto resident.
His PSA level was around
25 nanograms/millilitre (ng/ml),
well above the 4 ng/ml level
that many doctors consider
normal. The PSA test, which
measures a man’s blood level
of PSA (a protein produced
by the prostate gland), is
imperfect and cannot detect
cancer on its own. Generally
though, the higher the level of
PSA, the more likely it is that a
man has prostate cancer.
Based on Kim’s high reading
and the results of a physical
prostate exam, he received
a conventional biopsy in
November 2012. Fifteen biopsy
needles – each one taking
a small amount of tissue –
were placed throughout his
prostate gland, but no cancer
was found.
Subsequent PSA tests
continued to show high levels,
prompting Kim’s urologist
to refer him to Sunnybrook’s
Odette Cancer Centre, home
to some of Canada’s leading
prostate cancer experts.
Kim then received his MRI
scan in June 2013. Not long
before that, the use of MRI
to detect prostate cancer
was only being used on a
research basis at Sunnybrook.
Dr. Masoom Haider, chief of
Sunnybrook’s Department
of Medical Imaging, and his
colleagues were carrying
out research to help prove
the value of MRI in prostate
cancer detection.
Kim’s scan finally showed
what had been suspected all
along: he had prostate
cancer. He then received
a Sunnybrook-developed
“smart biopsy,” which makes
use of MRI and real-time ultra-
sound imaging to precisely
target prostate tumours.
Rather than 15 needles, this
biopsy required only six.
“The fact that Sunnybrook
was able to find the cancer
through the MRI and do
a biopsy that took so few
needles was pretty
amazing,” Kim says.
Having since undergone
prostate surgery to remove
the cancer, Kim says
he feels fortunate and is
looking forward to a
healthy future.
A NOVEL USE OF MRI HELPED KIM
STEWART FINALLY DETECT HIS ELUSIVE
CANCER. NOW, INSTEAD OF
WORRYING ABOUT THE ONE THING
HE COULDN’T SEE, HE’S FOCUSED ON
ALL THE THINGS THAT HE STILL CAN –
LIKE HIS HOCKEY TEAM IN ACTION
OR HIS FAVOURITE BANDS.

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RESEARCH RESEARCH
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Extraordinary
Vision
“This truly is a magical
moment for our family.”
That’s how Gary Slaight
described The Slaight Family
Foundation’s landmark
$10-million investment in
Sunnybrook in October 2013
as part of a comprehensive
$50-million gift to five
Toronto hospitals.
The moment was equally transformational
at Sunnybrook, establishing The Slaight
Centre for Image-Guided Brain Therapy
and Repair, which will conduct the first-eve
clinical trials of revolutionary treatments
for dementia, stroke and brain tumours.
“This announcement allows us to
carry on the tradition of giving back to the
community, as exemplified by my parents
Ada and Allan, as well as Emmanuelle
Gattuso-Slaight,” Gary said.
The Slaight family has become as
renowned in the world of philanthropy as it
is in the broadcasting world – a considerable
achievement given the Slaights built the
largest privately owned radio network
in Canada. They have made many
generous donations benefiting health-care
institutions, the arts and youth. The
family’s latest investment in Sunnybrook
is its largest to this institution.
Establishing The Slaight Centre at
Sunnybrook complements the family’s
2010 gift, in which Ada and The Slaight
Family Foundation donated $1.5 million
to aid the construction of Sunnybrook’s
Brain Imaging Research Centre and to
create The Slaight Family Foundation
Brain Sciences Fellowship.
The Brain Imaging Research Centre
plays a vital role in research on diverse
neurodegenerative mood disorders,
stroke and brain trauma, using a variety
of imaging technologies to visualize the
brain and its blood supply. Meanwhile, the
multidisciplinary fellowship provides stable
funding for Sunnybrook researchers as they
advance the world’s understanding of brain
disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease.
“The Slaight family’s impact on
Sunnybrook – on the health of Canadians
– has been extraordinary,” says Dr. Barry
McLellan, president and CEO of
Sunnybrook.
“On behalf of my wife Donna,
our daughters Ali and Chrissy,
and our entire family, we feel
profoundly grateful to be in
a position to provide these
hospitals with gifts that we
hope will benefit Torontonians
for many years to come.”
Windows of
Opportunity
Sunnybrook scientists
are poised to become the
first to be able to visualize
toxic plaques in the brains
of people with Alzheimer’s
disease, and to target
this plaque to improve
memory, thinking and
other cognitive functions.
This innovative therapy and others will
be made possible by the acquisition of a
leading-edge PET-MRI imaging system,
the cornerstone of Sunnybrook’s new
Slaight Centre for Image-Guided Brain
Therapy and Repair. It will be the
only PET-MRI machine – simultaneous
positron emission tomography and
magnetic resonance imaging – in the
world to be paired with a device that
enables the temporary opening of the
blood-brain barrier for direct delivery of
drugs and other therapies to the brain.
Opening the barrier – a layer of tightly
packed cells – is no small feat. It exists for
good reason: to protect the brain from
harmful substances, like noxious chemicals
and infectious agents. But it also blocks the
passage of helpful medications and other
therapies into the brain.
“PET-MRI is the perfect hybrid imaging
system for the brain,” says Dr. Kullervo
Hynynen, a co-leader of The Slaight Centre
and the Canada Research Chair in Imaging
Systems and Image-Guided Therapy.
“The MRI component will allow us to map
where patients have brain defects so we
can precisely direct therapies to promote
cellular health and restore function. The
PET imaging will allow us to see exactly
what’s happening and evaluate how brain
cells recover their function.”
In groundbreaking preclinical research,
Dr. Hynynen and Sunnybrook colleagues
have safely opened small, temporary
windows in the blood-brain barrier by
using low-intensity focused ultrasound.
Slaight Centre researchers aim to translate
these advances to patients to treat dementia,
stroke and other brain diseases.
“The impact will be tremendous.
We will have treatment options where we
have nothing now,” says Dr. Sandra Black,
a co-leader of the centre and director of
Sunnybrook’s Brain Sciences Research
Program.
Ultimately, it is expected the Slaight
Centre’s research will lead to the day
when the steady advancement of dementia
is halted, when stroke is stopped in its
tracks and when damaged brain tissue is
regenerated, restoring the brain to a more
fully functioning state.

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VETERANS & COMMUNITY PROGRAM
CALM AFTER
THE STORM
Nothing fazes Carl. At 91, this escaped prisoner
of war and former businessman is content with his
life at Sunnybrook’s Veterans Centre, where he’s
immersed in a peaceful, structured routine.
HIS WAR YEARS were not as
tranquil.
During the Second World
War, Carl Boggild was a
flight lieutenant in the Royal
Canadian Air Force, navigating
Lancaster bombers.
He was shot down and injured
over Nuremberg in 1943, and
taken prisoner at Stalag Luft
III, where he helped build the
escape tunnel made famous by
the movie “The Great Escape.”
Carl’s job was to help gather
bed boards and pieces of wood
from under the barracks to
fortify the massive tunnel.
The escape occurred in March
1944. Luckily for Carl, he wasn’t
high up enough in the hierarchy
of the prisoners to make the
escape. Out of 76 men who
went down the tunnel, 73 were
re-captured. Fifty were executed
by the Gestapo.
Later in the war, in April 1945,
Carl staged his own risky
escape. While on a march
through German countryside
near Bremen, he and a friend
rolled into a ditch and waited for
the column of men to depart.
By foot, they travelled west,
sleeping under the floors of
buildings. Carl arrived safely
in England just a month
before the war ended.
He is modest about these
tales of courage. “Survival is
a basic instinct, you know,”
he says lightly.
Seventy years after his daring
escape, Carl is grateful for
the calm routine of life at the
Sunnybrook Veterans Centre,
where staff promotes the ABLE
philosophy – Achieving Best
Life Experience. “We capitalize
on each person’s abilities
and interests to achieve the
life experience they desire,
through creative therapies and
enrichment activities,” says
Dr. Jocelyn Charles, medical
director of the Veterans Centre.
Carl enjoys reading, hanging
out with his friend Digger,
and participating in group
discussions.
“I like it here,” says Carl.
“I’m very happy.”
IN CONTRAST TO HIS
REMARKABLE STORY OF
SURVIVAL DURING THE
SECOND WORLD WAR,
CARL BOGGILD IS GRATEFUL
FOR THE PEACEFUL LIFE HE
HAS AT THE SUNNYBROOK
VETERANS CENTRE.

12. VETERANS & COMMUNITY PROGRAM
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For Those
Who Served
Martha Smith personifies the concept of
giving back. She recently retired and donated
$25,000 she had accrued in vacation pay to
the Sunnybrook Veterans Centre in honour
of her mother and father.
Martha’s parents, Sheila and Haydon
Smith, were both veterans of the Second
World War and Sheila was a much-adored
resident at Sunnybrook’s L-Wing for several
years before her death in February 2013.
Martha’s donation is the largest to
date specifically designated to the Veterans
Comfort Fund. This is particularly apt, as
her mother Sheila – despite having macular
degeneration and deteriorating health – was
an enthusiastic participant in many of the
activities offered to veterans at Sunnybrook
through the fund.
Sheila’s feisty character – along with the
extraordinary care and optimism offered by
Sunnybrook staff – helped her recover from
a broken hip, a broken neck and, twice, a
broken pelvis. Martha believes each of these
setbacks could have killed her.
“Each time, she came back. I attribute
this to a strong will and a willingness of the
physiotherapy department to not give up on
her.” In recognition, Martha has arranged to
have the balance area in the physiotherapy
gym named in her parents’ honour.
Sheila died just a few days before her
93rd birthday.
Martha, now retired after 33 years as a
director in the social housing sector, continues
to visit and volunteer at the Veterans Centre.
“Giving back to the people who made my
mother’s life so comfortable and better in
her waning years is really important to me,”
she says.
“I’m donating not because I have
extreme wealth,” she adds. “It’s something
you can do no matter how little you have.”
“I’m very grateful to Sunnybrook,”
says Martha, who lives in
Toronto. “The kindness and care
my mother received from the
recreation therapy and nursing
staff was unbelievable. It was
like a family.”
VETERANS & COMMUNITY PROGRAM
A Son
Shines
Peter Cipriano believes
passionately that
geriatric medicine is a
high priority.
He remembers how scary it was in 2012
when his elderly mother, suffering from
both Parkinson’s and dementia, became
catatonic. He also recalls his profound relief
when she returned to consciousness after
a geriatrician at Sunnybrook identified it
was her medication that was causing the
catatonic state.
At the age of 90, Peter’s father was also
a patient at Sunnybrook. A geriatrician
guided his care and answered all of Peter’s
questions.
Peter turned that gratitude into
giving. He personally contributes funds
to Sunnybrook’s Geriatric Medicine
Program and encourages his friends and
associates to do the same.
Peter is the president of the Irpinia
Club, an Italian social club created in 1977
by Italian-Canadians from the Irpinia
region of Italy. Peter and the club have
together raised $217,500 since 2012 towards
improving and expanding Sunnybrook’s
Geriatric Medicine Program.
The program, which includes geria-
tricians, clinical nurses, physiotherapists,
occupational therapists, a recreation
therapist, a speech language pathologist, a
social worker and administrative assistants,
works with more than 6,000 patient visits
per year. The average age of patients is 87.
“Being elderly does not preclude you from
the same type of care or service a younger
adult or child receives,” says Peter.
He is thrilled to be a catalyst for
leadership in geriatric medicine. “I see
Sunnybrook with its teaching hospital
designation and existing Geriatric
Medicine Program as a leader in making
geriatric medicine inclusive at all health
centres down the road.”
“I found it incredibly stressful
dealing with the complexity
of my parents’ health issues,”
Peter says. “It helped to ease
my worries to know that they
had a geriatrician looking after
them. I’m truly grateful for
that resource.”

13. WOMEN & BABIES PROGRAM
FAMILY
MATTERS
Julia and Todd Smeed’s twins were born
so early, so tiny and so sick that the
new parents were terrified they would
lose them.
BUT ONLY WEEKS LATER this
couple, from Milton, Ontario,
realized that their babies would
survive and that they themselves
would be an integral part of the
critical care team.
The Smeeds were part of a
model of care in Sunnybrook’s
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(NICU) called Family Integrated
Care, or FICare for short.
FICare puts parents in the
driver’s seat, fully involved in
their infants’ care.
Victoria and Joshua were born
at just 27 weeks’ gestation.
Victoria weighed just 1 lb 14 oz
(840 g) and Joshua weighed a
little more than 2.3 lbs (1,040 g).
“I didn’t know if they would live,”
says Julia.
“I remember sitting beside the
incubator and the nurses said,
‘Tomorrow you’ll help change
their diapers,’ ” she says. “I
didn’t think I could do it. I was
terrified because they were so
tiny. Each of them fit in the palm
of my hand.”
An important part of FICare is
teaching parents to care for their
babies, hands-on, despite all the
life-saving tubes and wires that
make it complicated. They are
also coached to present their
babies’ case on ward rounds.
“FICare is very innovative,” says
Dr. Eugene Ng, chief of newborn
and developmental paediatrics
at Sunnybrook and a co-investi-
gator in the clinical trial.
“By involving parents in the
discussion and decision-making
process, we hope they will
be more satisfied with the
experience. They’ll also be more
confident in their child’s care
when they take their babies
home.”
“I did it!” says Julia. “I changed
the diaper. Wow. I felt like a
mom for the first time.
Something about diaper
changing is very healing.”
The twins stayed at Sunnybrook’s
NICU for two months, and the
Smeeds were valued members
of the health-care team. “We
didn’t feel like visitors. This was
our home. This was where we
cared for our babies.”
Sunnybrook is part of a
FICare study of 675 infants in
19 centres across Canada.
Results will show scientifically
whether FICare improves
outcomes. Nurses already
know it does. “Babies do better
when their parents are involved
in care,” says RN Cathy Travell,
Sunnybrook’s FICare coordinator.
Victoria and Joshua are now
home and thriving – with their
parents by their side, just where
they’ve always been.
FOR THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF THEIR
NEWBORNS’ LIVES, JULIA AND TODD SMEED
PRACTICALLY LIVED AT SUNNYBROOK.
NOW, WITH THEIR BABIES BACK HOME AND
HEALTHY, THEY’RE ENJOYING THE NORMAL
THINGS THAT PEOPLE TAKE FOR GRANTED,
LIKE COOKING IN THEIR OWN KITCHEN OR
TAKING A STROLL OUTSIDE – AS A FAMILY.
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14. WOMEN & BABIES PROGRAM
A
Daughter’s
Love
Sarah Bryant has
experienced great joy
and deep sorrow.
Uniquely, she knows
the two can arrive
at once.
On April 8, 2013, Sarah and her partner G.
Scott Paterson, who live in Toronto, found
out that Sarah’s dad was due to have heart
surgery the next day in Sudbury. Sarah was
eight months pregnant with her first child.
Sarah was distraught over the news of
her father’s impending surgery. That night,
she went into early labour and she and Scott
headed for Sunnybrook’s Women & Babies
Program, where Dr. Arthur Zaltz was her
obstetrician. The next morning, still in
labour, Sarah called her dad to wish him
well on his heart procedure, and tell him she
loved him. He replied, “I love you, sweetie.”
Those turned out to be his final words
to her. That afternoon, Sarah gave birth
to a baby girl, Priscilla-Tia, who weighed
4.5 lbs (2,052 g). At 10 p.m., just hours
after his first grandchild was born, Sarah’s
dad, Timothy Robert Bryant, passed away.
The Tia in Priscilla-Tia’s name is in honour
of Tim.
The Sunnybrook team stepped in to
provide Sarah and Priscilla-Tia the extra
care and time in hospital they needed to
gain strength. “I have nothing but great
things to say about Dr. Zaltz and his staff.
They were so gentle and so professional;
they were concerned, caring and kind,”
says Sarah.
In gratitude, Sarah and Scott have
donated $100,000 to support Sunnybrook’s
Women & Babies Program.
Priscilla-Tia is a healthy, happy baby.
“She’s the spitting image of my father,”
says Sarah.
Sarah was crushed. “My dad
was my best friend; he was
my rock. We spoke every
single day.” In addition to
grieving, she now faced the
responsibilities of caring for
a premature baby.
WOMEN & BABIES PROGRAM
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Kidney
Gains
Women with
severe kidney
disease are usually
counselled
not to get pregnant
because it is too
risky – often
resulting in
maternal and
fetal illness and
even death.
A new study led by a Sunnybrook researcher
has found dramatically better outcomes
are possible when pregnant women with
severe kidney disease, medically known
as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), receive
more than double the standard amount
of dialysis.
“Pregnancy may be safe and feasible
in women with ESRD receiving intensive
hemodialysis,” says lead author Dr. Michelle
Hladunewich, director of the division of
nephrology and obstetrical medicine at
Sunnybrook. “It’s not as hopeless as people
may think.”
The study compared outcomes from
22 pregnancies in the Toronto Pregnancy
and Kidney Disease Clinic and Registry
(2000 to 2013) with outcomes from 70
pregnancies in the American Registry
for Pregnancy in Dialysis Patients (1990
to 2011). In Toronto, pregnant women
received an average of 43 hours of dialysis
a week, compared to 17 hours in the
U.S. group.
The Toronto group of women had
significantly higher live birth rates (83 per
cent) than those in the American group
(53 per cent).
“These are remarkable differences in
outcome,” says Dr. Hladunewich, who is
also an associate professor in the depart-
ment of medicine, division of nephrology,
at the University of Toronto.
There were further benefits associated
with the more intensive dialysis provided
here in Toronto. Pregnancies lasted longer
(a median 36 weeks, compared to 27 weeks
for the U.S. group) and birth weights were
higher. Only 6 per cent of the Canadian
babies were classified as very low birth
weight, compared with 29 per cent of
infants in the U.S. group.
The study was published in the
prestigious Journal of the American Society
of Nephrology in early 2014.
With its Regional Dialysis Centre and
nearby Aubrey & Marla Dan Program for
High-Risk Mothers & Babies, Sunnybrook
has a unique capacity to care for women
who have illnesses such as ESRD that
would otherwise preclude them from
having a baby.

15. ODETTE CANCER PROGRAM
SOMEONE
TO LEAN
ON
It wasn’t long after Mark Ottenbrite and
his wife returned from their 25th wedding
anniversary trip to Europe in 2011 that
Mark felt a lump on his neck about the
size of a small egg.
AFTER HIS CANCER DIAGNOSIS,
MARK OTTENBRITE FELT LIKE HE
WAS LOSING HIS CONNECTION
TO EVERYTHING HE LOVED IN LIFE –
THINGS LIKE COOKING, TRAVELLING
AND BEING THERE FOR HIS FAMILY
AND FRIENDS. THE SUPPORT
OF SUNNYBROOK WAS INVALUABLE
IN HELPING HIM GET THROUGH
HIS DIFFICULT TIMES.
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WITHIN WEEKS Mark was
diagnosed with anaplastic
thyroid cancer, an aggressive
type that makes up just one
per cent of thyroid cancers.
He was told he likely had three
to six months to live.
Over the next several months,
Mark’s body was weakened –
though the cancer eliminated
– by surgery and weeks of
radiation and chemotherapy.
He was hospitalized to treat
a blockage in the main artery
of his lungs. As Mark says,
he “spiralled out of control,
and had huge aggression and
rage,” due to a combination
of stress and medication
side-effects.
A career-focused person, Mark
has not yet been able to return
to work. And most recently
his mother-in-law, Phyllis,
succumbed to ovarian cancer.
The two were good friends,
providing extraordinary
support to one another as they
fought a common enemy.
The turmoil in Mark’s life has
been immense, but has been
made considerably more
manageable thanks to the
care he has received through
the Odette Cancer Centre’s
Patient and Family Support
Program.
“I don’t know how well I would
have survived all of this without
it,” Mark says of the treatment
he has received from psycho-
logist Dr. Pavla Reznicek and
psychiatrist Dr. Janet Ellis.
Having his depression treated
and a “totally neutral third
person” to speak with has
been invaluable, he says,
noting that it can be difficult to
be frank with family and friends
“because you don’t want to
burden them, and you don’t
want to talk about the fear.”
Beyond emotional support
for cancer patients and their
loved ones, the program offers
vital assistance in the areas of
nutrition, drug reimbursement,
physical therapy and more. As
part of its holistic approach to
care, the Odette Cancer Centre
has made the expansion of its
supportive care programming
and spaces a top priority.

16. From left: Robert Lauzon, managing director and deputy
chief investment officer at Middlefield Group; Murray Brasseur,
chairman of Middlefield Group; Dr. Calvin Law, chief of the Odette
Cancer Program; Dean Orrico, president and chief investment
officer at Middlefield Group; Jeremy Brasseur, managing director of
corporate development at Middlefield Group
ODETTE CANCER PROGRAM
Fully
Invested
“
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Middlefield Group, a leading
Canadian investment firm,
knows how to make an
impact in the business world.
It’s become a key player in
the investment services
sector since Murray Brasseur
founded it in 1979. Today,
Middlefield Group has
offices in Toronto, Calgary
and London, England.
Having an impact on the community has
been just as important to the firm, which
has donated more than $1.2 million to
Sunnybrook. Murray, the firm’s chairman,
has been one of Sunnybrook’s biggest
champions, inspiring colleagues (including
Dean Orrico and Garth Jestley), family
and friends to support the work of the
Odette Cancer Program.
That’s exactly what Sunnybrook
will do with its Cancer Ablation Therapy
Program, the latest focus of Middlefield
Group-related philanthropy. The program
will pioneer treatments that destroy tumours
without surgery, using heat, radiation,
focal drug delivery or combinations of these
therapies. And through real-time MRI
guidance, the treatments will precisely
target tumours and spare healthy tissue
like never before. A generous donation
was made to the program by Middlefield
Group, Jeremy and Andreana Brasseur
(Murray’s son and daughter-in-law), and
LNG Investment Group (Ewan Gillespie,
Tom Laurie and Gord Nichols).
Middlefield Group’s impact can
been seen in several other areas, from
Sunnybrook’s state-of-the-art chemotherapy
unit to its Louise Temerty Breast Cancer
Centre to its cutting-edge cancer research.
Time and again, Sunnybrook has
been part of his life, Murray says. “My wife
Bonnie, who succumbed to breast cancer,
received extraordinary care at Sunnybrook.
My grandchildren were born here. This
place really does hold a special place
in my heart.”
Sunnybrook is a first-class
institution,” Murray says. “Its
facilities, staff and treatments
are all top-notch. We’re proud
to invest in the Odette Cancer
Program so that it can continue
to push the boundaries of
cancer care.”
ODETTE CANCER PROGRAM
Risk
Management
To prevent the over- and
under-treatment of
women with DCIS breast
cancer, medical science
must be able to predict
which of these patients is at
high risk for developing an
invasive, potentially life-
threatening breast cancer.
“About 10 to 15 per cent of women with
ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are at risk
of developing invasive breast cancer,
but we don’t know who they are,” says
Sunnybrook’s Dr. Eileen Rakovitch, a
leading DCIS researcher who holds the
L.C. Campbell Chair in Breast Cancer
Research. “We need to look deeper by
studying genetic alterations.”
Dr. Rakovitch and her team, in
partnership with the Ontario Institute for
Cancer Research and a private company,
are doing precisely that.
They’re getting closer to establishing
a genetic test that can distinguish between
DCIS patients at high or low risk of devel-
oping invasive breast cancer. They’re doing
so through laboratory tests involving patho-
logy samples from 2,000 DCIS patients.
“A woman at low risk may be able to
receive breast-conserving surgery alone to
remove the DCIS or possibly no treatment
at all. But if she’s at high risk she would be
best treated with radiation after surgery, or
possibly mastectomy, to reduce the odds of
developing an invasive breast cancer.
“A genetic test will transform the
treatment of DCIS, enabling doctors to
plan the most appropriate therapy for
individual women,” Dr. Rakovitch adds.
Such tailored treatment will have
multiple benefits. Women at low risk will
avoid unnecessary radiation and the side-
effects that can go along with it, and
high-risk patients will receive treatment
that could prevent them from having to
wage a battle with invasive breast cancer.
“Being able to distinguish between
those at high or low risk is
crucial, because different
treatments are suitable for each
group,” says Dr. Rakovitch,
medical director of Sunnybrook’s
Louise Temerty Breast Cancer
Centre.

17. ODETTE CANCER PROGRAM
Dr. Robert Kerbel
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Less
Is More
More than an ocean
apart, a Sunnybrook
researcher and his
counterpart in Israel
are teaming up to help
bring more effective
and less toxic cancer
drug therapies into the
mainstream.
The unique global partnership includes
Dr. Robert Kerbel, a senior scientist at
Sunnybrook, and Dr. Yuval Shaked, an
associate professor at Technion (Israel
Institute of Technology) in Haifa, who
made his mark as a postdoctoral fellow in
Dr. Kerbel’s laboratory.
The two are aiming to get a better
understanding of why “less can be more”
when it comes to chemotherapy, which is
traditionally delivered through high doses
of toxic anti-cancer drugs, usually given
every few weeks for up to five months.
Dr. Kerbel and Dr. Shaked are at the
forefront of a promising treatment strategy
– known as metronomic chemotherapy –
that has fewer side-effects and may extend
survival of patients with cancers that spread
aggressively. Unlike traditional chemo-
therapy, metronomic chemo uses lower and
less toxic doses that are delivered more
frequently, even daily, over prolonged
periods (for instance, more than a year).
However, to spur additional and much-
needed clinical trials – and to move
metronomic chemotherapy from a niche
concept to a widely used therapy – the
medical oncology world needs a better
understanding of the biological mechanisms
the treatment uses to attack cancers.
“We’re getting these answers through
our partnership,” Dr. Kerbel says. “For
instance, my lab is investigating the ability
of metronomic chemo to harm cancer cells
that are usually resistant to conventional
chemo, while Dr. Shaked is determining
whether it can delay cancer recurrence by
targeting the reactive host response that
often comes with chemo,” he adds.
Through a generous donation from
Michael and Rena Buckstein, Sunnybrook
Foundation and Israel Cancer Research
Fund are partnering to fund this innovative
Canadian-Israeli program.
“Ultimately, we want to uncover
evidence so that metronomic
chemo can become a standard
treatment that helps cancer
patients around the world.”
HOLLAND MUSCULOSKELETAL PROGRAM
Perfect
Combination
Sunnybrook spine surgeon Dr. Albert Yee and
his team are world leaders in performing
innovative “two-for-one” operations on patients
whose cancers have spread to their spines and
who are at risk of paralysis if left untreated.
The first portion of the procedure uses
new, minimally invasive biologic
techniques in the spine to kill as many
tumour cells as possible. The second is a
procedure historically performed alone
that injects bone cement to mechanically
stabilize diseased vertebrae.
They aim to reach patients who are
high risk or have early spine symptoms
“before it becomes a very major, critical
issue,” says Dr. Yee, an associate scientist
at Sunnybrook Research Institute. “By the
time the patient becomes paralyzed there’s
not much we can do.”
Cancer that spreads to the spine
(typically breast, prostate or lung) can
weaken and break the bones. And with the
spine’s nerve elements controlling neuro-
logical functions, paralysis is a real risk.
The first in the world to use this
experimental therapeutic combination,
Sunnybrook is conducting clinical research
trials for the double procedure that uses
photodynamic therapy (PDT) to kill
cancer cells, followed by a bone cement
vertebral stabilization procedure. PDT
uses a drug to make cells sensitive to
laser light then kills the cancer cells with
the laser.
Sunnybrook is also using new forms
of bone-targeted radiofrequency ablation,
which sends electrical energy through a
needle to kill tumour cells, followed by the
bone cement procedure.
Patients return home after these
minimally invasive procedures either the
same or next day, unlike conventional
open-surgery treatments with three- to
five-day hospital stays.
The best part, Dr. Yee says, is seeing
dramatic and immediate improvement
in pain. “Some patients can’t even walk
because their back pain is so bad.
Afterwards, they’re much more mobile.
They’re very happy.”
The vertebral stabilization
involves injecting cement
through a small hole in the skin
to repair and stabilize
the bones, relieving back pain
that can be crippling.

18. HOLLAND MUSCULOSKELETAL PROGRAM
ON TOP OF
THE WORLD
Just as Betsy McGregor was preparing in
2000 to join an expedition to Mount
Aconcagua in Argentina, the tallest peak in
the Americas, acute pain in her right hip
led her to Sunnybrook’s Dr. Marvin Tile.
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SHE WAS DIAGNOSED with early
onset osteoarthritis but Dr. Tile
encouraged her to tackle the
mountain. Betsy reached
the summit and brought the
doctor a stone from the peak.
Her hip progressively worsened
over the years and she
developed a limp. Still, the
leadership trainer managed
to climb Mount Kilimanjaro
and bring back another stone
to Sunnybrook.
It was the rigours of the
campaign trail during her 2008
and 2011 bids for Parliament
that finally led Betsy to a hip
replacement, performed by the
Holland Orthopaedic & Arthritic
Centre’s Dr. Markku Nousiainen.
“He gave me all the tools I
needed to make an informed
decision and solid confidence
to proceed,” she says.
She also found the Holland
Centre’s pre-operative work-
shop with nurses, physiothera-
pists, occupational therapists
and former patients to be
valuable in preparing for the
operation.
Dr. Nousiainen, his assistant
Lovena Smith, and the team
of nurses and physiothera-
pists gave her “extraordinary”
care, she says, offering the
evidence, knowledge and
information she needed.
“The post-operative pace is
breathtaking – you get out of
bed and start walking,” she
laughs. “They gave me great
confidence in the pace of my
recovery. There was no pity, it
was all progress.” The Lakefield
resident was released after
three days and sent home with
a detailed recovery plan.
Nine months after her hip
replacement, Betsy hiked
350 kilometres of the Camino
pilgrimage across Spain and
resumed her mountain leader-
ship adventures in Wales.
Reached as she was leaving
for a speaking engagement
on women entering politics,
she concluded, “the Holland
Centre delivered superb care.
Hip replacement is an elegant
technology that has given
me a pain-free world.”
Betsy plans to take up fencing
this summer.
THANKS TO HER HIP
REPLACEMENT PERFORMED
AT SUNNYBROOK, BETSY
MCGREGOR IS READY
TO CONTINUE EXPLORING
NEW ADVENTURES.
SHE’S ALREADY LOOKING
FORWARD TO HER
NEXT TRIP.

19. Caryl Sinclair
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KILGOUR SOCIETY
A Lasting
Legacy
Although they may
not know it, the
countless patients
and veterans cared
for at Sunnybrook
over its 66-year
history owe a debt
of gratitude to
Alice Kilgour who,
in memory of her
husband Joseph,
donated Sunnybrook
Farm and lands for
use as a public park.
Alice’s heirs continued her legacy of
generosity, donating 400 acres of that land
to build a war veterans’ hospital and in
1948, Sunnybrook Hospital opened.
Today, Caryl Sinclair belongs to
the hospital’s Kilgour Society, whose
members continue that philanthropic
tradition through estate gifts.
Caryl remembers visiting her injured
father at Sunnybrook, after he returned
from the war. “I was awed by the large
brown edifice and the wide stone staircase
of what is now C-Wing. The halls seemed
to stretch forever and the wards were open,
with rows and rows of metal beds filled with
veterans waiting for loved ones.
“When I was diagnosed with breast
cancer, it was my turn at Sunnybrook. Over
18 months, I had surgery, chemotherapy
and radiation. I am deeply grateful for the
professional expertise, and the careful and
thoughtful planning that went into my
treatment. There was such an atmosphere
of inclusion, support and encouragement.”
Caryl and her husband Walter named
Sunnybrook in their will “as a legacy of
gratitude and in support of future patients
and their families.”
The Kilgour Society celebrates the
vision and generosity of donors who make a
commitment to a legacy gift to Sunnybrook.
For information on leaving a gift
to Sunnybrook in your will, contact
mylegacy@sunnybrook.ca or call
416-480-6100, ext. 89328
“In the decades that followed,
my mother, my father and my
husband were patients at
Sunnybrook. I am deeply
appreciative of the care and
treatment they received. Each
of their lives eventually came
to a close in the hospital,
in an air of dignity, respect
and serenity.”
SUNNYBROOK
What Matters
Most
As the son of a
Second World War
veteran who spent
five years overseas
and died some years
later at a compara-
tively young age,
Colin Watson says
the original pull of
Sunnybrook was
emotional, based on
its origins as a war
veteran's hospital.
“I had a strong attachment to veterans and
all the things they did,” says Colin, who was
a cadet during his school days.
While CEO of Spar Aerospace in 1996,
Colin agreed to sit on the Sunnybrook
Foundation Board of Directors. Once he
and his wife Barbara came to know
Sunnybrook better, their relationship with
the hospital grew, both as volunteers and
donors. “We came to appreciate the fullness
of what the hospital really was,” Colin says.
“Our interest deepened and evolved.”
The Watsons look to Sunnybrook
Foundation to help them steer their gifts to
areas most in need. Thus, their first major,
targeted donations went to the Sunnybrook
Research Institute – and with Colin’s
engineering background, he believes he
has a strong feel for the importance of the
scientific work taking place.
The couple understands intimately
the importance of research and advancing
treatment options. One of their daughters,
though healthy today, was diagnosed with
diabetes as a teenager, an area in which
Barbara has volunteered extensively. Two
years ago, they lost a son to a brief battle
with pancreatic cancer.
The MRI will allow for earlier detection
and treatment for thousands of patients
requiring specialized care.
Living near Sunnybrook, Colin says
his family has had outstanding experiences
both as patients and donors. “We’re at a
happy confluence of satisfaction and a
desire to continue being involved and doing
more with Sunnybrook.”
“Last year, we were told one of
the greatest needs was a new
MRI machine,” Colin says.
“When in doubt, we give to the
things the hospital says it needs
the most.”

20. SUNNYBROOK NEXT GENERATION
Empower
Generation
A record-breaking day
of snowfall wasn’t enough
to deter the crowd of
young professionals from
attending the official launch
of Sunnybrook Next
Generation (SNG), a new
volunteer group set to use
their talents and passions
to help the hospital raise
funds and awareness for its
highest priority needs.
From left:
Michael Kaye, Morgan Borins,
Simon Leith, Anne-Marie Paquette,
Blake Jespersen
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Michael Kaye, SNG chair, represents
his family’s third generation of
Sunnybrook supporters. While some
fellow members are descendants of
Sunnybrook supporters, many are joining
independently of any family history,
the Toronto entrepreneur says.
“We all feel a strong connection to
Sunnybrook,” says Michael. “We have
members who have delivered their babies
here, another whose wife was treated for
breast cancer. We have visited sick friends
and relatives at Sunnybrook.”
Many members are building careers,
starting families and trying to maintain a
work-life balance, Michael says, but they
have made SNG a priority.
SNG has set a fundraising goal of
$1 million over 10 years but Michael
says they expect to surpass that as their
membership is quickly growing.
SNG took part in last September’s
RBC Run for the Kids, with members
contributing $8,000 for youth mental
health navigation at Sunnybrook.
The group holds its inaugural signature
fundraising event in July. It starts with
The Waterball Cup golf tournament at
Angus Glen, followed by The Waterball
party that night at Arcadian Loft. Proceeds
this year will go to the Schulich Heart Centre.
For more information on SNG, visit
sunnybrook.ca/sng
“We understand the importance
of the life-saving work being
done at Sunnybrook and the
impact we as a group can have
supporting people when it
matters most.”
SUNNYBROOK ROSE AWARD
They Rose
to the
Challenge
Sunnybrook neurologist
Dr. Sandra Black and
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS) advocate Derek
Walton have a couple of
things in common – both
are deeply committed
individuals who are
passionate about helping
Sunnybrook.
They are also the latest to join the growing
– and esteemed – list of Sunnybrook
Rose Award recipients. The honour, first
awarded in 2008, celebrates individuals
for their extraordinary efforts in helping
Sunnybrook achieve its philanthropic
objectives. Dr. Black and Derek are the
2013 honourees.
In addition to advancing treatments for
the hundreds of thousands of Canadians
affected by stroke and dementia, Dr. Black
has been pivotal in helping Sunnybrook
attract donor investment. She has helped
raise more than $13 million in donations
to Sunnybrook since 2004, aiding several
areas within brain sciences research.
Among them, our Brain Imaging
Research Centre, which is home to a variety
of brain imaging analysis and image-guided
intervention research. Dr. Black was instru-
mental in establishing Sunnybrook as one
of the three founding sites for the Heart &
Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership
for Stroke Recovery, and most recently her
work was a pivotal factor in a $10-million
investment from The Slaight Family
Foundation to create The Slaight Centre for
Image-Guided Brain Therapy and Repair.
Derek has raised awareness and money
for ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s
disease), a rapidly progressing neuro-
muscular condition that attacks the nerve
cells responsible for controlling voluntary
muscle action.
Diagnosed with the disease in 2002,
Derek established the Walton Family Jump-
ing 4 PALS (People with ALS) tandem
skydiving event in 2009 – in fact, he led
the charge by taking the leap. The annual
event has since raised more than $267,000
for leading-edge research at Sunnybrook’s
ALS/Neuromuscular Clinic. Derek has
also been a champion for people living with
ALS through public advocacy.
“By inspiring philanthropy
toward Sunnybrook, these
individuals have made a big
difference in our ability to care
for patients,” says Dr. Barry
McLellan, president and CEO
of Sunnybrook.
The Sunnybrook Rose Award takes
its name from the unique rose
created for Sunnybrook by Alexandre
and Jeannine Raab, long-standing
Sunnybrook donors and dedicated
volunteers. The award has recognized
12 exceptional individuals to date:

Derek Walton
Dr. Sandra Black, O.Ont.

Virginia McLaughlin
Dr. Eileen Rakovitch

Terry O’Sullivan
Dr. Sherif Hanna

Marilyn Wright
Dr. Brian W. Gilbert

Liz Tory
Dr. Bernard Goldman, C.M.

George Fierheller, C.M.
Dr. Marvin Tile, C.M.

21. Michael Kaye
President & COO,
Alexa Translations
Phipps Lounsbery
Managing Partner,
Litchfield Capital Advisors
Gord Love
Senior Wealth Advisor,
Co-Branch Manager,
Director
Wealth Management,
ScotiaMcLeod Inc.
CHAIR
Perry N. Dellelce
Managing Partner,
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
Mark McEwan
Founder,
The McEwan Group
Stacey Murphy
Shelley McGirr
VICE CHAIR
Som Seif
Founder & CEO,
Purpose Investments
Albert Gasparro
Terry O’Sullivan
Partner,
Lax O’Sullivan Scott
Lisus LLP
Harry Rosenbaum
Founding Principal
& Director,
Great Gulf Group of
Companies
Jos Schmitt
President & CEO,
Aequitas Innovations Inc.
Dr. Andy Smith
Executive Vice President,
Chief Medical Executive,
Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre
Anita Gupta
President & CEO,
NMI Sales Tax
Consultants
Dr. Kevin Higgins
Surgical Oncologist,
Head of Endocrine Program,
Odette Cancer Centre,
Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Centre
TREASURER
Trent Henry
Chairman & CEO,
Ernst & Young
Rosemary McLeese
Vice-President,
Administration,
Access Capital Corp.
Dr. Barry McLellan
President & CEO,
Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre
Anne Odette Kaye
E. & G. Odette
Foundation
Stephen Tile
Principal,
Ignite Strategy
& Research
Jennifer Tory
Group Head, Personal
& Commercial Banking,
RBC Royal Bank
Carol Wilding
President & CEO,
Toronto Region
Board of Trade
David Agnew
President,
Seneca College
Jennifer Bassett
President,
Bassett Events
Joel Feldberg
President & COO,
The Global Group
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION
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BOARD OF
DIRECTORS

22. SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION
For audited financial
statements please visit
sunnybrook.ca/foundation/
statements
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GOVERNING
COUNCIL
The Governing Council is the voting body of Sunnybrook
Foundation. Its primary governance responsibility is
to elect the Directors of the Foundation Board at the
Annual General Meeting each year.
CHAIR
Stephen Tile
Ignite Strategy & Research
VICE CHAIR
Terry O’Sullivan
Lax O’Sullivan Scott Lisus LLP
Alan B. H. Abrams
Carlro Holdings Ltd.
David Agnew
Seneca College
Lesley A. Alboini
Malcolm Anthony
RBC Dominion Securities Inc.
Gail Appel
Mark G. Appel, Q.C.
David Archibald
XPV Capital Corporation
Salvatore M. Badali
Odgers Berndtson
Shane Baghai
Shane Baghai Group
of Companies
Sharon Baghai
BMO Bank of Montreal
Mauro Baldassarra
Starlane Home Corporation
Dr. Martin Barkin
Jennifer Bassett
Bassett Events
Paul L. Bertin
No Limit Technologies Inc.
Austin C. Beutel
Oakwest Corporation Limited
Nani Beutel
Aziz Bhaloo
The Foray Group of Companies
Jordan L. Bitove
Spectrum Capital Partners
Tracey J. Black
GFH Group Inc.
Ann Bowman
Royal Bank of Canada
Thomas H. Brent
Donald R. Brown, Q.C.
Melmerby Investments Inc.
H. Michael Burns
The Janet and Charles Burns
Foundation
Linda C. Campbell
Celine Chen
Robert W. Chisholm
Dr. Mabel Choi
Sunnybrook
James R. Christie
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited
Gerald R. Connor
Cumberland Private Wealth
Management
Dr. Sherry Cooper
DeGroote School of Business,
McMaster University
Carol A. Cowan
George N.M. Currie
Frederick F. Dalley
Arrow Capital Management Inc.
Aubrey L. Dan
Dancap Private Equity Inc.
Marla Dan
Canadian Hadassah-WIZO
Perry N. Dellelce
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
Catherine A. Deluce
Chestnut Park Real Estate
Carey J. Diamond
Whitecastle Investments Limited
Diana M. Dunlap
H. Garfield Emerson, Q.C.
Emerson Advisory
Joel Feldberg
The Global Group
George A. Fierheller, C.M.
Four Halls Inc.
John T. Firstbrook
The Firstbrook Group of Companies
John R. Gardner
Fields Institute for Research
in Mathematical Sciences
Albert Gasparro
Dr. Brian Gilbert
Sunnybrook
Leonard H. Goodman
First Financial Corporation
Lily Goodman
All Seniors Care Living Centres
Anita Gupta
NMI Sales Tax Consultants
Graham Hallward
The Alva Foundation
Richard M. Harris
KPMG
Susan J. Helstab
Four Seasons Hotels Limited
Trent Henry
Ernst & Young
L. Milton Hess, Q.C.
Stikeman Elliot LLP
Dr. Kevin Higgins
Sunnybrook
Christopher S. L. Hoffmann
Brompton Group
Susanne Holland
William T. Holland
CI Financial Corp.
Gordon J. Homer
Gordon J. Homer Advisory Services
J. Michael Horgan
Mary-Ellen Horgan
Marilyn Hull
J. David A. Jackson
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Dr. Michael H. Julius
Sunnybrook
Vijay Kanwar
KMH Cardiology & Diagnostic
Centres Inc.
Michael Kaye
Alexa Translations
James C. Keating
MFS Investment
Management
Edward J. Kernaghan
Principia Research Inc.
Sheryl Kerr
Strathfield Consultants Ltd.
Ann Kerwin
W. Robert Keyes
Keyes & Associates
Michael M. Koerner, C.M.
Canadian Overseas Investment
Limited
Sonja N. Koerner
Dr. Hans J. Kreder, FRCSC
Sunnybrook
R. Shayne Kukulowicz
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Tim W. Kwan
Mon Sheong Foundation
David Lam
Tai Foong International Ltd.
Diane Lang
Lang Management
David A. Leslie
Richard H. Ling
Deloitte
Ana P. Lopes, C.M.
Phipps Lounsbery
Litchfield Capital Advisors
W. Carl Lovas
Odgers Berndtson
Gord Love
ScotiaMcLeod Inc.
Robert W. Luba
Luba Financial Inc.
Anne Marie MacLeod
Sunnybrook
Walter M. Macnee
MasterCard Worldwide
Veronica S. Maidman
Equifax Canada
John Man
Royal Bank of Canada
Stephen O. Marshall
EdgeStone Capital Partners Inc.
Mark McEwan
The McEwan Group
Shelley McGirr
Dr. Brian H. McGrath
Sporting Life
Virginia McLaughlin
Helmhorst Investments Limited
Rosemary McLeese
Access Capital Corp.
Dr. Barry McLellan
Sunnybrook
Mark R. McQueen
Wellington Financial
Ted Meighen
Porter Airlines Inc.
Gregory A. Milavsky
Canterbury Park Capital
Ian D. Milnes
Brian Minton
Lifestyle Integrated Inc.
W. Frank Morneau, Sr.,
KCSG, KCHS
Morneau Shepell Inc.
Dr. John J. Murnaghan
Sunnybrook
Stacey Murphy
Gulshan Nanji
Pyarali G. Nanji
Belle-Pak Packaging Inc.
Nimi Nanji-Simard
Joseph Natale
TELUS Corporation
Dr. Ken Ng
Total Health Management Inc.
Anne Odette Kaye
E. & G. Odette Foundation
Jennifer Pagnutti
Louis P. Pagnutti
Ernst & Young Global Limited
Maureen Parkinson
J. Brian Prendergast
Recochem Inc.
Valerie Pringle
Ellen Pun
Ellen’s Food Group Inc.
Len Racioppo
Coerente Capital Management Inc.
Heather Reid
Dr. Robin R. Richards
Sunnybrook
T. Iain Ronald
Dr. Keith Rose
Harry Rosenbaum
Great Gulf Group of Companies
Dr. Gordon Rubenfeld
Sunnybrook
Maureen J. Sabia, O.C.
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited
Gerrard Schmid
D+H
Jos Schmitt
Aequitas Innovations Inc.
Dr. Seymour Schulich, O.C.,
C.F.A.
Nevada Capital Corporation
Som Seif
Purpose Investments
Kimberley Shannon, CFA, MBA
Sionna Investment Managers Inc.
Lydia H. Sharpe
Peter Sharpe
Susan M. Shaw
John L. Sherrington
Scotia Capital Inc.
Dr. Kenneth I. Shulman
Sunnybrook
Georgia H. Sievwright
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.
Dr. Andy Smith
Sunnybrook
Sandra J. Spencer
Willard S. Sutherland
James C. Temerty, C.M.
Northland Power Inc.
John W. Thompson
Dr. Marvin Tile, C.M.
Elizabeth Tory
Jennifer Tory
RBC Royal Bank
Gregory W. Tsang
CIBC Asset Management Inc.
Erol Uzumeri
Annette M. Verschuren, O.C.
NRstor Inc.
Marcia Visser
John A. Vivash
Tesseract Financial Inc.
Colin D. Watson
Michael Wekerle
Difference Capital Financial Inc.
John D. Wetmore
Dr. Blossom T. Wigdor, C.M.
William E. Wilder
Richardson GMP Ltd.
Carol Wilding
Toronto Region Board of Trade
Charles M. Winograd
Andrea L. Wood
TELUS Corporation
Donald O. Wood
Dr. C. Stewart Wright, FRCSC
Sunnybrook
Marilyn P. Wright
Paul Zentil
Zentil Property Management Inc.

23. th
Sunnybrook
Golf Classic
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION
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COUNSEL
Providing advice and counsel,
these leaders are some of
Sunnybrook’s longest standing
supporters.
Dr. Martin Barkin
Austin C. Beutel
Chairman,
Oakwest Corporation Limited
Nani Beutel
Gerald R. Connor
Chairman & CEO,
Cumberland Private Wealth
Management
George N.M. Currie
James W. Davie
George A. Fierheller, C.M.
President,
Four Halls Inc.
J. Michael Horgan
Sigmund Levy
Owner,
I.C.I. Shopping Centres Ltd.
Virginia McLaughlin
President,
Helmhorst Investments Limited
Dusan Miklas
President & CEO,
Invar Building Corporation
Terry O’Sullivan
Partner,
Lax O’Sullivan Scott Lisus LLP
T. Iain Ronald
Cristina Ronald
Maureen J. Sabia, O.C.
Chairman of the Board,
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited
Frederick W. Thompson
Owner,
F.W. Thompson Company Ltd.
Dr. Marvin Tile, C.M.
Elizabeth Tory
ADVANCEMENT
COMMITTEE
CO-CHAIR
Perry N. Dellelce
Managing Partner,
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
CO-CHAIR
Jennifer Tory
Group Head, Personal & Commercial
Banking, RBC Royal Bank
Kim Beckman
Senior Partner,
Davies Howe Partners Lawyers
Borys Chabursky
President, SHI Consulting Inc.
Gloria Di Giovanni
Private Banker, RBC Wealth
Management, RBC Royal Bank
Carey J. Diamond
President & CEO,
Whitecastle Investments Limited
Stephen Diamond
President & CEO, Diamond Corp.
Patrick Dovigi
President & CEO,
GFL Environmental Corp.
Blake C. Goldring
Chairman & CEO,
AGF Management Limited
Gord Love
Senior Wealth Advisor,
Co-Branch Manager, Director Weal
Management, ScotiaMcLeod Inc.
Douglas Mackay
Eugene McBurney
Chairman, GMP Securities L.P.
Dr. Anthony Melman
Chairman & CEO,
Nevele Partners Inc.
Donald H. Morrison
Retired COO, BlackBerry
Gerrard Schmid
CEO, D+H
Som Seif
Founder & CEO,
Purpose Investments
Marie Storto
Greg Thompson
Head of Investment Banking
and Institutional Equities,
National Bank of Canada
Colin D. Watson
Carol Wilding
President & CEO,
Toronto Region Board of Trade
This group of leaders actively
advances Sunnybrook’s vision
in the community.
SUNNYBROOK
NEXT GENERATION
This group of leaders supports Sunnybrook’s mission and
goals by actively engaging a new generation of supporters
in the community.
CHAIR
Michael Kaye
President & COO,
Alexa Translations
VICE-CHAIR
Morgan Borins
Director of Business Operations,
CounselQuest
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Carol Chan
Lawyer, Sherrard Kuzz LLP
Kyla Falkiner
IT Strategic Change Consultant,
McDonald’s
John Hill
Assistant Vice President,
Talent Management,
Sun Life Financial
Blake Jespersen
Managing Director,
Foreign Exchange Products,
BMO Capital Markets
Simon Leith
Associate,
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Roger Leslie
Vice President,
Ernst & Young Orenda
Corporate Finance Inc.
Jennifer Luu
Manager of Financial Services,
Canadian Insurance Brokers Life Inc.
Andrew Oliver
President, Oliver & Bonacini
Anne-Marie Paquette
CEO, Talem Health Solutions
Robert Perry
President & Managing Partner,
Mandrake
John Tory
Chief Executive Officer, Private Air
Ben Winograd
Senior Manager,
Portfolio Management,
Credit Structures, Private Banking,
RBC Wealth Management Group,
RBC Royal Bank
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP
Sharon Baghai
Whitney Binns
Lauren Bloom
Eugene Bomba
Emilie Cushman
Susanna Dawson
Shayn Diamond
Melanie Dowhaniuk
Jonathan Drake
Sarah Hull
Andrew M. Joyner
Nicole Karmali
Lindsay S. Knowlton
Shannon Lewis
Michael Lord
Andrew B. Miller
Andrew Mitchell
Ardy Mohajer
Jordan L. Morassutti
Reghann Munno
Chris Partridge
Justin Pintwala
Joseph Reichmann
Stephen Robinson
Alan Stevens
David Tile
Martha Vallance
OUR
DONORS
In 2013, thousands of generous supporters contributed over $63 million
in support of Sunnybrook’s life-saving work. From smaller, recurring gifts
to landmark multi-million-dollar donations, we value every dollar entrusted
to us. You are helping us invent the future of health care.
For a complete list of all
our generous donors,
please visit
sunnybrook.ca/foundation
LIFETIME
DONORS
We are deeply grateful
to the following individ-
uals and organizations
– our most generous
donors – who have
given $25,000 or more
cumulatively to Sunny-
brook Foundation up to
December 31, 2013.
$20,000,000+
Susanne & William Holland
Edmond Odette*, C.M.
& Gloria Odette*
$10,000,000 TO
$19,999,999
Seymour Schulich, O.C. &
Tanna Schulich and Family
J.P. Sheridan
Frederick W. Thompson
The Slaight Family Foundation
Temerty Family Foundation
$5,000,000 TO
$9,999,999
Nani & Austin Beutel
L.C. Campbell
Aubrey & Marla Dan
Newton G.Z. Glassman
Ted* & Loretta Rogers
John Tory*, Q.C.
& Elizabeth Tory
One anonymous donor
Heart & Stroke Foundation
of Canada
St. Jude Medical (Canada) Inc.
Sunnybrook Volunteer
Association
$2,500,000 TO
$4,999,999
In memory of Amy Chan
Sydney & Florence Cooper
and Family
Anthony* & Margaret Crolla
Estate of Albert
Cummings Johnston
DeFrancesco Family
Sheryl & David Kerr
Michael Koerner, C.M.
& Sonja Koerner
Lee K. & Margaret Lau
Sigmund & Nancy Levy
Gulshan & Pyarali G. Nanji
and Family
One anonymous donor
Bell Canada
Boston Scientific Ltd.
Brazilian Carnival Ball –
Anna Maria de Souza
Canadian Breast Cancer
Foundation, Ontario Chapter
Canadian Imperial Bank
of Commerce
Canadian Spinal
Research Organization
Gelato Cup Golf Tournament
The Nelson Arthur
Hyland Foundation
McDermott House of Canada
The R. Samuel McLaughlin
Foundation
RBC Foundation
Roche Canada
Rose Ball Gala
Sanofi
Sunnybrook Golf Classic
Women’s Health Golf Classic
One anonymous donor
$1,000,000 TO
$2,499,999
Shaila & Soham Ajmera Family
Mark Appel, Q.C.
& Gail Rose Appel
Henry & Esther Bernick
John Bitove, C.M. & Dotsa
Bitove & their Families
through The Bitove
Foundation
Murray & Bonnie* Brasseur
Estate of Mary P. Carter
Estate of Vimy Lena
Elizabeth Coleman
Gerald & Carla Connor
James & Mary Davie
The Diamond Family –
Whitecastle Investments
Graham Farquharson
Joel & Melissa Feldberg
and Family
Saul & Toby Feldberg
and Family
Goldie R. Feldman
George Fierheller, C.M.
& Glenna Fierheller
Estate of Phyllis Mary Garton
Albert Gasparro
Blake & Belinda Goldring
Estate of William Green
Mary & Graham Hallward
Richard & Donna Holbrook
Edgar & Bruce Johnson
The Koschitzky Family
Stephan Lewar*, O.Ont.
Adrienne & Douglas Mahaffy
and Family
Estate of Douglas J. Manley
Estate of William
Vanderlure Martin
R. Peter & Virginia
McLaughlin
Anthony & Valerie Melman
Louis* & Patricia Odette
Helen & Paul J. Phelan*
Alexandre & Jeannine Raab
Estate of Tiina Raag
Susan Scace & Arthur Scace,
C.M., Q.C. and The Henry
White Kinnear Foundation
Michael* & Janet Scott
Estate of Jean Elizabeth Shanks
Ada Slaight
Estate of Florence
Winifred Stacey
Joey & Toby Tanenbaum
Barbara & Colin Watson
Estate of Myrna L. Westcott
Two anonymous donors
Amgen Canada Inc.
The Bank of Nova Scotia

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BMO Financial Group
Breast Cancer Society
of Canada
The Cadillac Fairview
Corporation Limited
Cara Operations Limited
City of North York
John and Myrna Daniels
Charitable Foundation
Ellen’s Food Group Inc.
Eli Lilly Canada Inc.
Falconeri Munro Tucci LLP
The Firkin Group of Pubs
General Motors of Canada
Limited
The Great Gulf Homes
Charitable Foundation
Helmhorst Investments
Limited
Krembil Foundation
Mandarin Charitable
Foundation
Manulife Financial
Mead Johnson Nutrition
Medtronic of Canada Limited
T. R. Meighen Family
Foundation
Middlefield Group
The Morrison Foundation
Night of Stars
Northbridge Financial
Corporation
Novartis Oncology
Philips Healthcare
RBC Run for the Kids
Sofina Foods Inc. and
the Latifi Family
Stryker Canada
Sun Life Financial
TD Bank Group
The Allan E. Tiffin Trust
Vascular Clinic Golf
Tournament
Veterans’ Affairs Canada
Jack Weinbaum Family
Foundation
Wine 4 Heart
Two anonymous donors
$500,000 TO $999,999
Eugene* & Alice Boccia
Estate of W. Elizabeth Burto
Estate of Chess T. Chessman
Robert & Andrea Chisholm
George & Tami Cope
Estate of J. Douglas Crashley
Estate of Joan Elizabeth
Crocker
Estate of Elizabeth Curtiss
Estate of Marjorie Emma
Larmon
David & Susan* Leslie
Estate of Beth MacIver
Douglas MacKay
Estate of Luella McCleary
Estate of Lawrence
Bert Morgan
Estate of Maxine Morris
Janice & Earle O’Born
Estate of Rose Reid
Estate of John Seme
Lydia & Peter Sharpe
Estate of Berenice Smirle
Estate of Brenda Lee-Ann
Smith
Barbara L. Steele
Jane Stodgell* &
Arnold Massey
Ann & Will Sutherland
Estate of Constance Tiffin
James F. Tyrrell*
Two anonymous donors
Abbott Nutrition Canada
AstraZeneca Canada Inc.
The Harold E. Ballard
Foundation
Baxter Corporation
J.P. Bickell Foundation
Boehringer Ingelheim
(Canada) Limited
J. Armand Bombardier
Foundation
Charles Luther Burton Trust
Carranza Barristers &
Solicitors
Celgene Canada
Covidien
The Arthur & Audrey Cutten
Foundation
Dr. Jay Foundation
Elkie Adler MS Clinic
Ernst & Young LLP
Michael Albert Garron
Foundation
GE Healthcare
GlaxoSmithKline Inc.
Great-West Life, London Life
and Canada Life
The Hedwig Walch
Charitable Foundation
Hydro One Inc.
IBM Canada Ltd.
Stephan R. Lewar Trust
McLeish Orlando LLP
Merck Frosst Canada Ltd.
Neinstein & Associates LLP
Oatley Vigmond LLP
Pfizer Canada Inc.
Relay for Life
Rethink Breast Cancer Canada
Budd Sugarman Foundation
Tesari Charitable Foundation
Toronto Hydro
Toronto Professional
Fire Fighters’ Association
Underwear Affair
May G. Vasey Trust
R. Howard Webster
Foundation
The W. Garfield Weston
Foundation
The Winberg Foundation
One anonymous donor
$250,000 TO $499,999
Alan B.H. Abrams
Estate of Edna Grace Abbott
Vic & Lesley Alboini
Estate of Jeannette Elise Anton
Thomas & Donna Baker
Dr. Martin & Carol Barkin
Karen & Bill Barnett
Estate of Katherine Bassel
Norman & Cicely Bell*
Ronald & Barbara Besse
Jeff Bly & Janice Feldberg-Bly
Thomas & Sandra Brent
Estate of Emilie G. Brooks
Estate of Elizabeth
Mary Browne
Michael & Rena Buckstein
Estate of Leila Emma
Campbell
In Loving Memory of
Rita Centorame
Mark & Gloria Charness
Estate of John Chiasson
Jeff Church & Susan M. Shaw
Barry & Susanne Cooper
Sherry Cooper
George & Daphne Currie
Leslie Dan, C.M. & Anna Dan
Nicholas, Taylor, Sue &
Perry Dellelce
George & Kathy Dembroski
Estate of Ronald Edward
Donnelly
Joan Eakin & Chris Hoffmann
Roy C. Foss & Family
Estate of Elizabeth Shirley Fox
Estate of Mavis Gardiner
Mrs. C. Warren Goldring
Barry & Laurie Green
Estate of Vincent Albert
Grozelle
Estate of Marjorie Hamilton
Mary Ellen & Michael Horgan
Estate of Betty-Jane Inwood
Arnold B. Irwin
Estate of Margaret Agnes Isaac
J. David & Maureen Jackson
Estate of Wilfred Davies
Johnson
Edward J. Kernaghan
Tom & Annie* Kohn
Estate of Lucia ten Kortenaar
Philip Leong
The Ted Libfeld Family
Estate of James Allan
MacCallum
Dr. Brian & Sharon McGrath
Paul & Penny Minz
Helen & Frank Morneau
Estate of Zelma Thomson
Murphy
Estate of Mary McNiven
The Muzzo Family
Marie-José Overweel
Pearson Family
Estate of Edwin Roger Pooler
Mario Romano
Tevya Rosenberg*
Norbert Schuller*
Estate of Alvin Harry Seward
Alexander Shnaider
Marita Simbul-Lezon
& Ron Lezon
Marion C. Soloway
John C. Stodgell*
Eleanor & Burnett* Thall
James Tory*, Q.C.
For a complete list of all
our generous donors,
please visit
sunnybrook.ca/foundation
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Jennifer Tory
Estate of Violet Edith Underhill
Estate of Janet Elizabeth Waite
Vera I. Wallace*
Elizabeth & Bruce Walter
John G. Weir*
The Wekerle Family
Charles & Libby Winograd
Stanley Douglas Woollings
Two anonymous donors
A & B Fogel Charitable
Foundation
Abbott Laboratories, Limited
AGF Management Limited
Allergan Inc.
The Alva Foundation
The Ralph M. Barford
Foundation
Bay Street Fore A Cause Inc.
Bay Street Grand Prix
Bayer Inc.
The Benjamin Foundation
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
The Blidner Family
Foundation
BMO Employee Charitable
Foundation
Bondfield Construction
Company Ltd.
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Canada Inc.
The Andy and Beth Burgess
Family Foundation
Canadian Cancer Society,
Ontario Division
Canadian Pacific Limited
Canadian Tire Corporation,
Limited
The Catwalk Cure
CN
Conservatory Group of
Companies
D+H
Jim V. and Lina DeGasperis
Foundation
Department of Medicine
Department of Surgery
The Eaton Foundation
Electrical Safety Authority
Fasken Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Fox Trot
Friends of the Orthopaedic
& Arthritic Campus
(Gift Shop)
Galderma Canada Inc.
Green & White Gala
Hansjorg Wyss AO Medical
Foundation
Harrowston Foundation
The Hearing Foundation
of Canada
The William and Nona Heaslip
Foundation
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.
Hip Hip Hooray
Hurley Corporation
Imperial Oil Limited
The Jackman Foundation
Janssen Inc.
Justin Bieber: Home for
the Holidays
Kellogg Canada Inc.
Labatt Breweries of Canada
Lerners LLP
Sophie M. Lewar Trust
Liberty Health
Loblaw Companies Limited
The Samuel Lunenfeld
Charitable Foundation
Lymphoma Foundation
Canada
M.A.M. Group of Companies
Max Bell Foundation
MDS Inc.
MED-EL Elektromedizinische
Geräte GmbH
The Mental Wellness Network
Miller Tavern
Molson Breweries
Monsanto Canada Inc.
The Municipality of
Metropolitan Toronto
Murphy Family Foundation
New Leaders of Sunnybrook
Nordion
Nortel Networks Limited
Oakdale’s Golf Fore the Cure
Old Bags Luncheon
Park’N Fly
Helen McCrea Peacock
Foundation
Power Workers’ Union
Road 2 Recovery
Royal Canadian Legion
The Royal Canadian Legion
Ontario Command
Charitable Foundation
Santa Parade
The W.P. Scott Charitable
Foundation
Sears Canada Inc.
Shoppers Drug Mart
The Sam Sorbara Charitable
Foundation
St. George’s Society of Toronto
Synthes (Canada) Ltd.
Team Galati Hope for the Cure
TELUS
Toronto West Golf
Transamerica Life Canada
Whistler’s Open Golf
Tournament
Windfields Farm
Yente Grosz Shabbat House
Zimmer of Canada Limited
One anonymous donor
$100,000 TO $249,999
aeid & Fakhri Aghaei
state of Ruth A. Aitken
Estate of Margot O. Anderson
Helen Mary Armstrong*
Shane & Manda Baghai
Estate of Mary Ellen Baker
Jim & Heidi Balsillie
Ralph Barford
Gus Baril
John M. Beck
Estate of Mary Anne Benesch
Paul & Wendy Bertin
Estate of Evelyn Jean Blevins
Estate of Eugene Boccia
Ann* & Douglas Bodley
Estate of Margaret Boggs
Estate of Ernest Bradshaw
Jeremy & Andreana Brasseur
Michael & Julia Bratty
and Family
The Bratty Family
Estate of George Ivan
Earl Brown
Sue & Michael Burns
Vivian & David Campbell
Margaret Chambers*
Eric Chan*
Ray Chang & Donette
Chin-Loy
The Family of the late
Dixon S. Chant
Estate of Keela Chapman
Anil Chopra and Team Yonge,
Steeles Ford and Lincoln
James R. Christie &
Hon Sarah E. Pepall
Chwant-Seto Family Trust
The Ciccolini and
Corby Families
Peter Cipriano
Estate of Gwendolyn
Irene Corcoran
Estate of Ruth Wenonah
Corner
Nick & Rosanne Cortellucci
Jack* & Jessie Coutts
Steve & Katharine Coxford
Mr. Purdy Crawford, C.C., Q.C
Phillip & Stephanie Crawley
Donald & Audrey Crombie
Estate of Mary Frances Cronin
George & Mary Crothers
Kate N. Crozier
Estate of Lynda May
Cunningham
Mark & Ann Curry
Frederick & Susan Dalley
Estate of Evelyn Mary Davis
John DeGasperis
Leo & Sandra DelZotto
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Diener
Laura Dinner &
Richard Rooney
Ian Douglas*, C.M., Q.C.
Estate of Robert Butt Dunlop
Estate of Marta Dusmet-
de-Smours
Lynda E. Dyer*
Estate of Evelyn Edith Eadie
Shirley Endean*
Mr. Lung Chiu Kuk
Gordon & Ricki Fenwick
John & Elizabeth* Finlay
Edward & Sylvia Fisch
Alison Fisher
Joan Fisher
George & Susan Fowlie
Estate of Paul Russell Frasca
Albert & Nancy Friedberg
Harvey & Leah Fruitman
Roger & Kevin Garland
Estate of Arthur Gates
Vern & Pamela Gazzola
C. Ray & Florence Giddings
John & Endla Gilmour
Michael & Karyn Goldstein
Marianna & Antonio Greco
Anthony Griffin*
Estate of Ethel Gertrude
Hallett
Russell Harrison*
Gerald Heffernan, Q.C.
& Geraldine Heffernan
Joe Heffernan
Estate of Harriet Helwig
Estate of Strathearn Ann
(Thern) Hicking
Stella Elizabeth Hopper*
Estate of Garry Hoy
Joel & Betsy Ippolito
Estate of Pearl Cohen Jacobs
Estate of Wilma G. S. Jamieson
Estate of Irene Ellen Johnstone
Margaret Johnstone
K. Michael Kelly
Estate of William Arnold Kerr
David Lam of Tai Foong
International Ltd.
Mary Ann Lawrie
Harold* & Shirley Lederman
Kenneth & Daisy Lee
Estate of Kathleen Lennon
Dr. Bob Lester
John Leyerle* & Patricia Eberle
Clifford Librach
Walter* & Susan Lind
William Lum & Ann Lum
Estate of Graham MacLachlan
Neo & Mark Mandlsohn
Estate of Leone C. St. Mars
Janet Marsh Frosst
Jill Denham & Stephen
Marshall
Estate of Frances Maruska
J. Scott & Patricia McCain
Wallace McCain* & Margaret
McCain, C.C.
Susan McCutcheon*
Steven & Shelley McGirr
Dorothy McKay*
John G. McKee*
Estate of Catherine McLaren
E.R.S. & Patricia McLaughlin
Ian Kidson & Carole McNabb
Estate of Lillian Bernice
McPherson
Mark & Andrea McQueen
and Family
Gloria & James McSherry
Jim Meekison & Carolyn
Keystone
Silvana Melara
Dusan & Anne Miklas
He Jian Min
Bruce H. Mitchell
Ziba Mizrahi
David & Joan Moore
Estate of Victor Mozarowski
Sonya Neufer
Patricia L. Nichols
Terry O’Sullivan &
Corey Simpson
Jennifer & Louis Pagnutti
Jocelyn Palm
Maureen & Roger Parkinson
Lionel & Elaine Parry
G. Scott Paterson
Estate of Irene Rennye
Cristina Pearse
Edwin & Deanna Peranson
Andrew* & Susan Peters
Lola A. Philp
Edwin Pooler*
Ella Margaret Mae Potton
Gail Suzanne Potts*
Estate of Adrian Nicolas Primc
Estate of Denis Charles Quinn
Len & Vivian Racioppo
Rosemary C. Rathgeb
Francis* & Ruth Redelmeier
Alison Reid & Jim
Christodoulis
Brian & Ellen Relph
Dr. Robin Richards
Jason & Yvonne Robertson
Iain & Cristina Ronald
Theodore & Debbi Ross
Sandra Rotman, C.M.
& Joseph Rotman, O.C.
Nancy M. Scott
Estate of Hazel M. Scougall
Victoria & Clive Seidel*
Michael & Rose Shannon/
Morse Shannon LLP
John & Amanda Sherrington
M. Ouilla Shirriff*
Estate of Kathleen Mary Sloan
W. Lennox Smart*
Estate of Ellen Irene Smith
Estate of Hazwell S. Smith
Ann Southam*
Maureen & Wayne Squibb
Estate of Mary Stenli
Barbara Stymiest & James Kidd
Estate of Katherine Swartz
Ana P. Lopes, C.M.
& Don Tapscott
Ian & Carol Telford
Kevin & Heather Thistle