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Multiple Division

As if high school isn’t hard enough

Grief Observed

A portrait of loss

A Developing Situation

Scenes of the first five waves

Menaka Ponnambalam

Menaka Ponnambalam is a nurse practitioner at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.

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Menaka Ponnambalam

Heart and Home

A pioneering surgeon’s journey June 2024
At its core, Transplant is a book about humility. The title references both Arvind Koshal’s work in heart transplant surgery at the very birth of this specialty in Canada and his somewhat unanticipated immigration from India. When Koshal travelled from Raipur to Ontario in 1975, to enter a residency program in general surgery at the Ottawa Civic…