# Katharine Smart

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Designing Longevity Communities

The role of community design in promoting wellness at every age. In this episode of The Future Age podcast, we explore the concept of designing longevity communities with guests Dr. Katharine Smart, a pediatrician and former President of the Canadian Medical Association, and Nick Buettner, VP of Co…

Federal Election 45 Results: Impact on children, their health, and healthcare

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of SPARK Conversations, host, Dr. Katharine Smart, and her guests explore the impact of the recent Canadian federal election results on children’s health and healthcare across the country. Podcast guests, Danielle Flieler, Manager, Federal Government Affairs at Sant…

Family partnership and lived experience: A core component for right-sizing child health systems

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of SPARK Conversations, host, Dr. Katharine Smart, and guest Fabiana Bacchini explore the impact of Family Partnership on children’s healthcare across the country. Fabiana shares her perspective on family engagement in right-sizing the system for children and their …

Equity-Driven Systems: Right-Sizing Healthcare for Every Child

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of SPARK: Conversations, host Dr. Katharine Smart is joined by Rochelle Reid, Senior Lead and Strategic Advisor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Hamilton Health Sciences Centre. Rochelle shares insights from the development of the organization’s first five-ye…

A Right-Sized Model that Works: Learning from Ontario’s pediatric cancer care system

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to build a truly integrated, child- and family-centered healthcare system? In this episode of SPARK: Conversations, host Dr. Katharine Smart speaks with Lauren Ettin, CEO of the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO). Together, they explore how POGO as the lea…

The Power of Pediatric Palliative Care: Equity, Access, and Hope

Send us Fan Mail Pediatric palliative care is so much more than end-of-life support — it’s about walking alongside children and their families from diagnosis through symptom management, grief, and beyond.  In this episode of SPARK: Conversations, Dr. Katharine Smart speaks with Megan Wright (Roger …

Right-sizing Children’s Healthcare: Connecting care & building capacity beyond the hospital walls

Send us Fan Mail Children’s healthcare extends far beyond hospital walls. In this episode, host Dr. Katharine Smart speaks with Dr. Vera Etches, President and CEO of CHEO, about how pediatric systems can evolve to better meet children and families where they are. Drawing on her public health backgr…

Right-Sizing Reflections: The evidence, the urgency and the opportunity

Send us Fan Mail In this special capstone episode of SPARK: Conversations, host Dr. Katharine Smart speaks with Emily Gruenwoldt, President and CEO of Children’s Healthcare Canada, to reflect on two years of exploring what it means to right-size children’s healthcare systems in Canada. They look ba…

What Changes When We Treat Stories Like Data with Dr. Katharine Smart

Digital storytelling can move a room to honesty in minutes, creating space for real talk about burnout, shame, and the human side of medicine. This episode we connect with Dr. Katharine Smart and reflect on how short films can help clinicians and families feel seen as whole people and how stories c…

Digital Stories in Community-Based Research with Carolyn Brandly

A single well-told story can do what a stack of reports cannot: make someone feel the reality of living in a body, a system, or a diagnosis they’ve never had. We sit down with Carolyn, a newly trained Common Language Digital Storytelling facilitator and PhD student, to unpack how digital storytelli…