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- How would your friends describe you? Reliable
- What does a perfect day look like to you? Being at home
- If you could witness any event of the past, present or future, what would it be? Death and ressurection of our Lord
- If you could keep 5 possessions, what would they be? My Home
- If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why? Holy Land
- Imagine you’re having dinner with God. If you could ask him one question, what would that be? No idea. Dinner with God will leave me speechless. LOL
Biography
Dr. Curt Bodkyn is a Paediatric Oncology Consultant, lecturer in Child Health with the University of the West Indies and head of the Paediatric Oncology Unit at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.
After specializing in Paediatric Oncology in the United Kingdom, Dr. Bodkyn returned to Trinidad in 2001 with the goal of improving the paediatric oncology services in Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr. Bodkyn is the country lead and co-Caribbean lead physician for the Sick Kids Initiative for childhood cancers and blood disorders, a collaboration between SickKids Hospital, Toronto and seven Caribbean countries that strive to improve outcomes and quality of life for children with cancer and blood disorders.
Recent statistics for survival rate for Trinidad and Tobago’s standard risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia patients under 5 years is close to 80%, in keeping with many international centers, and the overall cancer survival rate is now close to 70% largely owing Dr. Bodkyn.
Source: Ministry of Health
After specializing in Paediatric Oncology in the United Kingdom, Dr. Bodkyn returned to Trinidad in 2001 with the goal of improving the paediatric oncology services in Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr. Bodkyn is the country lead and co-Caribbean lead physician for the Sick Kids Initiative for childhood cancers and blood disorders, a collaboration between SickKids Hospital, Toronto and seven Caribbean countries that strive to improve outcomes and quality of life for children with cancer and blood disorders.
Recent statistics for survival rate for Trinidad and Tobago’s standard risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia patients under 5 years is close to 80%, in keeping with many international centers, and the overall cancer survival rate is now close to 70% largely owing Dr. Bodkyn.
Source: Ministry of Health
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Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh, centre, shares a light moment with diagnostic and therapeutic radiologist Dr Fidel Rampersad, left, and paediatric oncologist Dr Curt Bodkyn after yesterday’s press conference. PHOTO: SHIRLEY BAHADUR
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