Frontiers of Care: Treating Disease In-Utero

When Alana Robertson became pregnant, she hadn’t heard of in-utero surgeries, or imagined she might one day need one. But when she learned her unborn baby was showing signs of spina bifida, she was open to anything that might help him. She learned that the surgeons at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital are global leaders in maternal fetal medicine, and found herself becoming one of the first people in Canada to undergo an in-utero surgery designed to treat spina bifida.

Guests:

Alana Robertson is a mental health worker for CMHA. She lives in a small town east of Peterborough with her husband, son and dog. She is a founding board member of SBCAN, advocate and one of the first women in Canada to undergo fetal surgery.

Dr. Tim Van Mieghem is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital and associate professor at the University of Toronto.