Helena Lau

Gastroenterologist Active Staff Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital Oakville Ontario Canada @Haltonhlthcare

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Today I was pleased to join Health Minister @SylviaJonesMPP, @BramptonGraham, @OslerHealth's @DrFrankMartino, Dr. Andrew Bellini, Dr. Vinod Puri, and community health-care leaders to celebrate the ribbon cutting of SCOPE Clinic’s expansion as an Integrated Community Health Services Centre 🎉✂️

This investment by the Province of Ontario will support approximately 6,000 publicly funded diagnostic and surgical services annually at SCOPE.

When residents can access diagnostic imaging, endoscopy services, and other procedures sooner, they get answers, treatment, and peace of mind sooner. ❤️

[Sylvia Jones @SylviaJonesMPP]

Today, we celebrated an important step forward in delivering care closer to home in #Brampton.

Our government, in partnership with SCOPE Clinic, will provide up to 6,000 publicly funded GI endoscopy procedures each year, helping more people access care - faster than ever.

[Helena Lau @HelenaLau6]

Today we lower the flags at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital to mourn the passing of Dr Arthur Wu. He was the first GI at Oakville and laid the foundation for gastroenterology and endoscopy services at Halton Healthcare. Arthur, we will miss you. @HaltonHlthcare

[Helena Lau @HelenaLau6]

A very good summary of Vaccine-Induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) https://t.co/XHdLPe9he1

[Helena Lau @HelenaLau6]

Question for #motility Twitter: does the presence of secondary peristalsis with relaxation of the LES mean the patient do not have acahalasia? @WalterChanMD @JeffConklinMD @ANMSociety

[Helena Lau @HelenaLau6]

@JeffConklinMD The GE junction looked asymmetric on the retroflexed views

[Helena Lau @HelenaLau6]

Great ACLS recert course by @sonny_doc who taught inspite of his fractured jaw! Loved the discussion of landmark studies and deep dive into basic physiology.

[Helena Lau @HelenaLau6]

@duncanrozario @picardonhealth @OAGS1 @OntariosDoctors @OntarioEMRs @OntHospitalAssn @OntarioHealthOH @OakvilleHF @willfalk @the_scolby @globeandmail Great work! Congratulations.

[Helena Lau @HelenaLau6]

#motility friends, help me interpret this. Is the LES seen? If yes what’s happening below the LES?
⁦@WalterChanMD⁩ ⁦

[Wendell Potter @wendellpotter]

Amid America's #COVID19 disaster, I must come clean about a lie I spread as a health insurance exec: We spent big $$ to push the idea that Canada's single-payer system was awful & the U.S. system much better. It was a lie & the nations' COVID responses prove it. The truth: (1/6)

[Samir C. Grover, M.D. @Samir_Grover]

(1/n) Today my colleague Dr. Norman Marcon, a giant in gastroenterology and endoscopy in Canada retired. This is a brief tweetorial about who he is, his career, and the contributions that he made to gastroenterology, and particularly endoscopic education.

[Helena Lau @HelenaLau6]

@JustinTrudeau Thanks! My daughter Sophie who is in Grade 8 is trying to find out what the hive of honeybees in nature looks like. She would like to make a papier-mâché model of it. Our google searches found only the familiar man made hives. Please help! #CanadaHomeWorkHelp

[ACG @AmCollegeGastro]

Study from The American Journal of #Gastroenterology Reveals Diarrhea is Prominent Symptom of #COVID19
Wuhan data show that up to half of patients present w/ a digestive symptom as chief complaint
Read AJG: https://t.co/m1VXFvXgnv
ACG Statement https://t.co/XZn2T0Sl4R
#AmJGastro

[Fasiha Kanwal @KanwalFasiha]

Of 1141 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 183 (16%) presented with gastrointestinal symptoms only. That is 1 in 6 cases! Need extra vigilance and high index of suspicion. https://t.co/Ln4hrgeNzM @AGA_CGH @AmerGastroAssn
potentially serious consequences to them and their contacts