{"id":14164,"date":"2021-11-10T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/?post_type=spucpt&p=14164"},"modified":"2021-11-10T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:40:23","slug":"sandra-holdsworth","status":"publish","type":"spucpt","link":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/spucpt\/sandra-holdsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Holdsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sandra Holdsworth’s bio<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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For 30 years Sandra held various positions in the Banking industry. She\u00a0received a liver transplant in 1997 after several years of going undiagnosed with a rare liver disease and Crohn\u2019s disease. After years of treatment for Crohns she required a permanent Ostomy in 2012. She has dealt with skin cancer melanoma & currently has chronic kidney disease. One year post transplant Sandra was diagnosed with PTSD and takes medications to treat the anxiety and depression that goes with this mental illness.<\/p>\n

Sandra is a Patient Partner co lead with the Canadian Donation Transplant Research Program (CDTRP) on the Long-term outcomes Theme. She helps to determine research questions, and co-design studies, recruit study participants and assist with knowledge translation. Her focus has been on Exercise, Nutrition & Mental Health and Wellness as these are the areas of research that Patients & Caregivers are interested in seeing done. Sandra was a Steering Committee member of CanRestore from 2014-2018.<\/p>\n

Using her lived experience as a transplant patient & as a benefactor of organ donation she has been a passionate advocate for organ & tissue donation & has mentored others afflicted with diseases requiring a transplant on their healthcare journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"template":"","class_list":["post-14164","spucpt","type-spucpt","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spucpt\/14164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spucpt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/spucpt"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}