Andrea Van Damme is a Nurse practitioner in Cardiac Sciences. Andrea has currently been redeployed so she is splitting her time working with outpatients in rehabilitation as well as in-patient care.

With out-patient rehabilitation she helps patients return to their lives – through exercise, cardiac risk reduction, and medication management.  

Her rehabilitation program has received funds from the Maz Innovation Fund – which has allowed them to develop a virtual platform to provide rehabilitation care to patients. This has been especially vital with COVID-19. In future, it will continue to give patients more flexibility in how they get care.

Giving back to the Maz is important to Andrea and she was the co-chair of the Maz spin-a-thon, an event run by staff at the Maz to raise funds for the facility each Heart Month. This year, the event was replaced by the Maz Move-A-Thon. Although Andrea was not an organizer of this year’s event, it has been great to see the continued fundraising success this year.