REVITALIZING THE QEII’S JORDAN BOYD INHERITED HEART DISEASE CLINIC AND PACEMAKER DEVICE LAB
2X YOUR IMPACT
Stephen & Debbie Boyd, together with the Boyd brothers and their families, are matching every donation, dollar-for-dollar, up to $200,000.
Help transform the QEII’s Jordan Boyd Inherited Heart Disease Clinic and Pacemaker Device Lab — creating more private, integrated spaces where patients and families can access specialized heart care, testing and monitoring when every moment matters.
More answers. More hope. More lives changed.
Maritimers rely on the QEII's Jordan Boyd Inherited Heart Disease Clinic and Pacemaker Device Lab for specialized care that can identify and treat life-threatening conditions before tragedy strikes.
Despite the incredible care provided there, the spaces themselves no longer reflect the needs of patients and families. Care is often delivered in curtained areas with limited privacy, and there simply isn't enough room to support the growing number of patients requiring inherited heart disease and cardiac device care.
Your donation will help create more private exam and consultation rooms, improve the experience of care for patients and families, and support greater collaboration between specialized heart health teams through more integrated care spaces. Because when families are facing life-changing answers, the space around them should offer the same compassion, dignity and excellence as the care they receive.
Jordan's lasting legacy
Jordan Boyd was just 16 years old when he collapsed on the ice during hockey training camp with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan. There had been no warning signs, no symptoms and no indication that anything was wrong with his heart. Later, doctors learned Jordan had an inherited heart condition called Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
In the months that followed, Jordan's diagnosis led doctors to discover that his mother, Debbie, carried the same gene. So did Jordan's brother, Greg. Jordan's diagnosis came too late to save him — but it ultimately helped save his family. That reality changed their lives forever. But so did the extraordinary care, compassion and hope they found at the QEII Health Sciences Centre and the then Inherited Heart Disease Clinic, originally founded and led by Dr. Martin Gardner.
For more than a decade, the Boyd family has worked alongside the QEII Foundation and generous donors to raise awareness and support for inherited heart disease care and research — helping other families access answers, testing and lifesaving care. Today, Jordan's legacy lives on through the clinic that now bears his name and the lives it continues to change.
Two lifesaving spaces. One extraordinary family. Twice the impact.
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Celebrating one year of the Jordan Boyd Inherited Heart Disease Clinic
