PHYSICIANS: OUR COMMUNITY’S HIDDEN HEROES
DR. BRITTANY SUNDERANI ‘06 College | STORY BY: Haley Webb ‘22 College
In times of utter chaos and uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare heroes have often been the stabilizing force, the glue holding our society together. Every day, healthcare professionals such as Rundle College’s own alumna, Dr. Brittany Sunderani (Beingessner) ‘06, put their lives on the line to protect Albertans and in turn put the pandemic in the rearview mirror.
Dr. Brittany Sunderani is an emergency medicine physician here in Calgary, splitting her time between general emergency medicine at Foothills Hospital and pediatric emergency medicine at Alberta Children’s Hospital. Along with being a physician, Dr.
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Sunderani also pursues another interest through working with the Alberta Children’s Hospital pediatric transport team. This lifesaving team flies sick children from southern Alberta and British Columbia to the Alberta Children’s Hospital to seek greater medical attention.
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From the age of about 14, Dr. Sunderani knew she wanted to be a physician. When asked about her motivations for becoming a physician, she described how her interest in medicine spurred from a “combination of exposure to the healthcare system as a child and
