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2025
ARThrite: Café Scientifique
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The ARThritis Research Centre is launching a new initiative, Café Scientifique! Café Scientifique is a space for dialogue between patients living with autoimmune rheumatic diseases and the research community. This bilingual session took place at Laval University on September 26th, 2025. TAPC's Maggie and Yaneisy participated and presented at their very first event!
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Le Centre ARThrite lance une nouvelle initiative, le Café Scientifique! Le Café Scientifique est un espace de dialogue entre les patients atteints de maladies rhumatismales auto-immunes et la communauté scientifique. Cette session bilingue s'est déroulée à l'Université Laval le 26 septembre 2025. Maggie et Yaneisy, membres du TAPC, y ont participé et ont fait une présentation lors de leur tout premier événement!
Canadian Pain Society's annual scientific meeting
Canadian Pain Society to host experts, patients and policymakers at U of T in May
Research, Education
Natasha is featured in the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine News.
She discusses chronic pain in preparation for the Canadian Pain Society's Annual Scientific Meeting.
"Growing Pains, Making Gains: The Realities of Juvenile Arthritis"
Spondylitis Plus is the only U.S. news magazine focused on spondyloarthritis. In their Summer 2025 edition, the magazine included an article written by Natasha Trehan and Maggie Douglas in honour of Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month in July.
The magazine, organized by the Spondylitis Association of America (SAA), puts their magazine online for anyone to read. This article can be found on pages 14 and 15 in the Summer 2025 edition. You can view their other editions by visiting their website.
TAPC: Empowering Youth with Arthritis Through Advocacy and Action
Natasha and Maggie talk about their journeys and the organization in this Spondycast podcast produced by the Spondylitis Association of America.
Click on the button to Listen to the podcast on Spotify
2024
Natasha's Journey to Patient Advocacy Living with Arthritis
Natasha discusses her journey from diagnosis to finding her own voice. Throughout the podcast episode, with Adam Kegley from the Global Healthy Living Foundation she discusses; shared decision-making in health care and treatment, challenges of balancing medication goals with personal life goals, the significance of self-advocacy, and how Take a Pain Check empowers young people with rheumatic diseases.
Click on the button to Listen to the podcast on Spotify
2023
Chronic Illness TAPC Special with Natasha
Natasha talks about her journey with JIA and Chronic Illness in this podcast with Crohn's & Autism Awareness Advocate
Natasha also talks about her secret interest! Singing!
Click on the button to Listen to the podcast on Spotify
Joint Health - Arthritis at Home
Natasha gets featured at an Episode of Arthritis At Home, she shares her juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disease journey and what she is doing to advocate and help those living with JIA.
Listen to her at: https://arthritisathome.jointhealth.org/?p=5005
More episodes can be found out at https://jointhealth.org/ArthritisAtHome.cfm
Power Over Pain Portal
Take a Pain Check is now on the Power over Pain Portal !
The Power Over Pain Portal provides you with access to a range of free resources, courses, and peer support. You are not alone on your journey to cope with pain – there is hope.
Visit them at https://www.popyouth.ca/
Take a Pain Check is an official resource on the UCAN CAN-DU app!
Shared Decision Making
Published by The Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, Take a Pain Check Foundation and The Choice Research Lab
2022
Watch our episode in conversation with the Sickboy podcast!
Putting the Pieces Back Together - Sickboy Episode
2021
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