Daisy Joo

Since 2009, Dr. Joo’s endeavours have been purely clinical. As education coordinator in the department of Anesthesia at North York General Hospital, she established a rotation for PGY4 residents in a busy community hospital pediatric anesthesia practice. This rotation provided two weeks for each resident to learn regional techniques and other methods of providing care to pediatric patients requiring day surgery. In her time as the education coordinator, she also developed a clinical core rotation in pediatric anesthesia for anesthesia assistants completing the program at the Michener Institute.  This program was so successful that North York General Hospital has taken the lead in providing this pediatric anesthesia clinical core rotation to anesthesia assistants to all those in the Michener program that require a clinical placement not found at their base hospitals. In the last year, as part of the QBP Tonsillectomy committee, her team has developed a model of care for tonsillectomies that meet the objectives defined by the Ministry of Health and current evidence-based best practice. This model has been implemented at North York General Hospital with the goal of providing the best, standardized quality of care possible.