Laura Koch (she/her)

MD student @uoftmedicine🩺 | passionate about improving healthcare for people with disabilities

[IJMSC @IJMSCtweets]

Insights into #MS #CarePartners' #resilience, #QOL, & #coping strategies. Exploratory model with moderate fit reveals key relationships between stressors, resources & well-being. #SpiritualHealth is significant factor, impacting positive & negative coping. https://t.co/aouQ7BoQO5

[Ontario Nurses' Association @ontarionurses]

The passage of #Bill60 by the Ford government continues toward a dangerous path of province-wide health-care privatization that will further erode patient care, says ONA Provincial President Erin Ariss, RN. #onpoli #onhealth

Read our full media release: https://t.co/c18jon9hK0

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

Thanks to @OMSAofficial for this opportunity to share our work! We are looking forward to building on lessons learned from this needs assessment and working towards more inclusive medical school curricula @yonalunsky @CAMHnews

[Ontario Med Students @OMSAofficial]

First up are Gabriel Tarzi and @laurackoch from @UofT_DoM presenting their needs assessment study of Intellectual and Developmental Disability competencies of Canadian medical students

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

More folks are turning to food banks and over 10,400 are experiencing homelessness in Toronto alone. We need better policies, not more police.

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

Fantastic conversation today about housing, homelessness and steps the province can take to address the issue. Thanks for your time @ToddSmithPC #OMSADoA @OMSAofficial @tusharsood2224 @ashakeel_

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

“There is no universal health care without the human right to housing.”

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

We were so grateful to have @drandrewb share his expertise at the intersections of clinical medicine, advocacy and public policy to help inform our meetings with MPPs in the week ahead #OMSADoA @OMSAofficial

[Ontario Med Students @OMSAofficial]

Register to be a delegate for OMSA’s annual Day of Action, happening April 22-24 2023 in downtown Toronto! This year, join us as we tackle the issue of housing and homelessness within Ontario. Visit https://t.co/e3G5MJFm04

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

excited to share our work so far on this important systematic review exploring the impacts of the #pandemic on adults with #intellectualdisability today at @uoftmsrd @CAMHResearch

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

My biggest takeaway from the course involving #caregivers and #selfadvocates in addition to clinicians, was the importance of an “all teach, all learn” approach. Read our article here: https://t.co/tDdYru1fiQ @CAMHnews @yonalunsky

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

This summer, I had the opportunity to observe a 6-week virtual, #interdisciplinary, case-based educational program for health & social service providers about #mentalhealth for adults with #IDD #ProjectECHO

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

We (me + 3 other medical students from across Ontario), reflected on our experience in the inaugural issue of the @IPEUofT magazine titled “Together: Stories of Collective Impact”

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

so thankful for your mentorship, @laurarstjohn. Excited to see where this project takes us!

[Laura St.John, PhD @laurarstjohn]

Laura presented her research on #physicalactivity, #sedentarybehaviour & #sleep in adults with #IDD, caregivers & service providers. Can you guess which group had the highest levels of #PA? Which group had the most sleep? @Nafapa2 @HCARDD

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

abortion is healthcare!! reproductive justice is disability justice!!

[Laura St.John, PhD @laurarstjohn]

Looking for ways to help you and your family stay #healthy in this phase of the #pandemic? You are invited to take part in a #research study funded by @CIHR_IRSC - A 6-week online course OR watching a recording of the course at your leisure. Link here: https://t.co/eRLTiLhImY

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

I’m curious as to how much of the low voter turnout can be attributed to inaccessibility & fewer polling stations, versus plain ambivalence. How do we fix this in the next 4 years?

[Sabina Vohra-Miller @SabiVM]

38% voter turnout. Tomorrow when the Greenbelt is demolished, when our healthcare capacity crashes, when our children’s education is deprioritized & support systems removed, when disparities between communities widen - don’t complain, because this is exactly what you wanted.

[Laura Koch (she/her) @laurackoch]

Difficult to watch, but such an important and eye-opening documentary about the history of institutions for people with developmental disabilities in Ontario. Thanks for sharing @yonalunsky

[ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto @ReelAbilitiesTO]

TODAY AT #RAFFTO:

1pmET - Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children.
3pmET - In Conversation: “Remember Every Name”, virtual discussion moderated by @LivMendelsohn with panelists @barridoc, Marie Slark, J Dolmage, and Brian Logie.

Register: https://t.co/BGvIvWLhQz

[Golden State Warriors @warriors]

Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

There is no such thing as being “pro-life” while supporting laws that let children be shot in their schools, elders in grocery stores, worshippers in their houses of faith, survivors by abusers, or anyone in a crowded place.

It is an idolatry of violence. And it must end.

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

It's one thing when a nurse is assaulted by a patient experiencing confusion. It's another kind of evil to be assaulted by a conservative govt official simply for advocating for safer working conditions. Ontarians should be condemning this. It's not okay. Nurses deserve better!