我們的成員 / Our Team

Dr. Desmond She is a general pediatrician who completed his medical school and pediatrics residency through the University of Toronto. He enjoys community-hospital based community care and participates in newborn deliveries, emergency department consultation, and in-patient management. He has special interests in constipation management and medical technology. An avid jazz fan, he dabbles as an amateur trombonist and guitarist.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Toronto, Dr. Hilda Ho is currently a psychologist at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. She completed her pre-doctoral residency at London Health Sciences Centre and her post-doctoral fellowship at the Thompson Autism Center at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County. She is passionate about working with children, teens, and their families to address various mental health and developmental concerns. Her research is within the field of Developmental Disabilities and specifically, in the diagnosis and assessment process of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Canada and in Asia. Given her own upbringing as a Chinese-Canadian, she is excited to be part of this initiative to provide evidence-based information tailored to Cantonese-speaking families.

Dr. Lui is a primary and consultant Pediatrician in Markham. She completed her Pediatric residency and chief residency from Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, and a Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children, where she cared for children who were acutely ill in the hospital, and children with complex medical conditions. Before coming to Toronto, she was an assistant professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and a hospitalist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Lui was born and raised in Guangzhou, China, and she is very excited to give back to the Mandarin/Cantonese community! Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time with husband and their toddler boy, and she recently started enjoying working out!

Dr. Veronica Chan is a consultant general paediatrician at Oak Valley Health (Markham Stouffville Hospital) in Markham, Ontario. She also has a consulting practice in Markham, where she cares for children with various medical, developmental, and learning concerns. With an interest in the care of vulnerable populations, she works as a paediatrician with the School Clinic of Health Access Thorncliffe Park. Dr. Chan is a lecturer and part-time clinician teacher with the University of Toronto. She is excited to be joining the Cantonese Kids’ Health team to share her experience as a mom of 2 and paediatrician!

Michelle is a Research and Community Coordinator at Our Kids’ Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Science in Mental Health Studies and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto, with a minor in Biology. Michelle also holds a Master of Arts in Developmental Psychology from York University, where she was awarded the Meighen Wright Maternal-Child Health Graduate Scholarship. Her research focuses on the relationship between birth experiences and child cognitive development. She is dedicated to promoting child development and maternal mental health, while developing community-driven, evidence-based approaches to support the well-being of all children and families. With her cultural background from Hong Kong, Michelle joined the Cantonese and Mandarin Kids’ Health teams to empower families with reliable health information!

Dr. Bernice Ho graduated from the medical school at the University of Toronto and is now a pediatric resident at The Hospital for Sick Children. As a newcomer herself, she experienced firsthand the importance of identifying with and receiving care from healthcare providers who look similarly and have shared lived experiences. Thus, she joined the Our Kids’ Health team to support the health needs and positive development of children from BIPOC families. Outside of medicine, she enjoys playing guitar and watching sports.

Dr. Elizabeth Young is a general consulting and developmental pediatrician in the Department of Pediatrics at St. Michael’s Hospital. She is the Medical Lead for Community Outreach and Ambulatory Services for the department, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She completed medical school at McMaster University and a Pediatrics residency at Queens University.  She worked as a general pediatrician for two years in Toronto and then went on to complete her developmental pediatric sub specialty residency at the University of Toronto. Her dual training and work experience in developmental and general pediatrics provides her a unique perspective in the management of families of children with developmental disorders.  Dr. Young’s clinical and research program focuses on increasing capacity among trainees, family physicians and pediatricians on caring for children with developmental disorders, and on supporting families through childhood and transition into adulthood.

Dr. Bonnie Cheung is a Community Pediatrician in British Columbia and a clinical instructor at the University of British Columbia. Her goals include ensuring that equity, diversity, and inclusion are embodied in her clinical practice and everyday life. She is a settler immigrant from Hong Kong of Cantonese and Northern Chinese background and grew up on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations colonially known as Vancouver. She completed medical school at the University of British Columbia and Pediatric Residency training at the University of Toronto. Outside of medicine, she enjoys music and travelling. She is excited to be a part of this initiative that helps support child health and make accurate health information more accessible to Chinese families.

Dr. Gwyneth Zai is the Service Lead of the OCD and Anxiety Disorders Services and a Clinician Scientist in the General Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division and the Department of Molecular Science at CAMH. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and an affiliated Visiting Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. She completed her medical training, psychiatry residency, and PhD at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include using multi-modal approaches — genetics, epigenetics, pharmacogenomics, neuroimaging, and cognitive neuroscience — to develop treatment supports for depressive, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. A major focus of her current research includes the identification of predictive biomarkers underlying treatment response and expression of key symptoms of these illnesses.