The 2025 President's Breakfast - Dr. Rebecca Auer

Dr. Rebecca Auer, The Ottawa Hospital's Executive Vice-President of Research and Innovation, shares a personal story in this speech at the 2025 President's Breakfast in support of The Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Auer relates how her husband's cancer diagnosis offered a new perspective on her own career spent treating cancer patients, and how the research she leads is giving her own family hope for a better future.
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