Hopelessness to Normalcy: The Remarkable History of Hemophilia Care in Canada

by Man-Chiu Poon, Robert T Card

Overview

Hopelessness to Normalcy takes readers on a compelling journey through the evolution of hemophilia care in Canada, providing a detailed and personal account of its many transformations-good, bad, and disastrous. Drawing on over fifty years of ex...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781038331717
Publisher:	FriesenPress
Publication date:	04/08/2025
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Dr. Man-Chiu Poon
Dr. Poon is past medical director of the hemophilia programs in Calgary. He has been a passionate advocate for patient care, education, and research over a career spanning more than 50 years. His many contributions to the evolution of hemophilia treatment over this time have been internationally recognized. Man-Chiu witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis and how the hemophilia community worked together in forging subsequent progress.


Dr. Robert T. Card
Dr. Bob Card is a retired academic hematologist whose career spanned more than five decades. He actively managed persons with hemophilia from when only plasma was available until therapies were offering hope for an eventual cure. He was active in various national hemophilia bodies before and after the devastating HIV/AIDS crisis. Throughout his career Dr. Card played a major role in developing the hemophilia clinic in Saskatoon which evolved into the Saskatchewan Bleeding Disorders Program.

For complete author biographies, please see the Biographies section at the end of Hopelessness to Normalcy.