Vancouver family photographer
Elaine Yong is a CDTRP patient partner, Manager of Communications and Community Engagement at BC Transplant, and caregiver to a pediatric heart transplant recipient. Elaine graduated from the Journalism program at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, now Toronto Metropolitan University, and worked in newsrooms across the country for more than two decades before moving into healthcare communications in 2015. Her daughter Addison was the first infant to receive a heart transplant at BC Children’s Hospital in 2011. Along with her involvement as a patient partner in several research projects, Elaine sits on the board of the Transplant Research Foundation of BC. In 2013, she and her family launched the Addison Fund to support pediatric transplant research.