{"id":17736,"date":"2022-05-30T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/?post_type=spucpt&p=17736"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:43:03","slug":"joanna-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"spucpt","link":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/spucpt\/joanna-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joanna Mitchell’s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Joanna Mitchell is the mother to 16-year-old Ryley who received a heart transplant at 7 months of age. Soon after Ryley\u2019s transplant, the Mitchell Family became involved as volunteers with the Trillium Gift of Life Network to encourage others to consider organ donation by sharing Ryley\u2019s story. Joanna and Ryley were presented with the TGLN Board of Directors Champion Award in 2017 for their contribution to raising awareness for organ donation.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Ryley was 5, she participated in her first Canadian Transplant Games and the family became involved with the Canadian Transplant Association. With the CTA, Joanna has helped to organize various events to promote both organ donation and healthy active living after transplantation.\u00a0 Joanna has also worked as a parent liaison to bring a pediatric and family perspective to the transplant games. She encourages connections of transplant families by facilitating various social media groups and informal mentorship.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Joanna became\u00a0a\u00a0patient caregiver partner\u00a0with\u00a0Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program more recently\u00a0with a focus on projects\u00a0related to\u00a0pediatrics and\u00a0the\u00a0mental health of\u00a0not only the transplant patient but the\u00a0family as a whole.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"template":"","class_list":["post-17736","spucpt","type-spucpt","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spucpt\/17736"}],"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=17736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}