Health leaders claim several Top 40 spots

Edify's Top 40 Under 40 has tested positive for a wealth of health professionals this year. Physicians, researchers, philanthropists, and people working across the spectrum of health take up roughly half of the 40 slots. Perhaps the most poignant recognition was for Sean Arceta, who died on Sept. 23. Arceta was remembered and celebrated for his social work with iHuman Youth Society, his artistry as B-Boy Pharush, and especially for where his passions intersected. "My goal is to change what it means to be a social worker," he told Edify. "It's not just helping people through their issues, it's painting pathways for them that will let them do the things they enjoy, and provide them hope."

Other Top 40 honorees are also rethinking traditional roles in health. Andrew Karesa of blueBell Village and The Dementia Collective podcast regularly questions thinking around dementia care delivery and the people who give it. His company's blueBell Connect tool harmonizes communication across dementia care. Other such trailblazers are Alyshah Nurani, who works at the systems level at the Stollery Children's Hospital; Alim Somji, who is changing the conversation about facial differences with AboutFace; Andrew Noh, a pharmacist at Radius Community Health & Healing, which is one of Alberta's few remaining health centres with supervised consumption services; and Brooke Rose, whose many endeavours include using humour to draw attention to overlooked women's health issues.

Edify's list also recognizes practicing physicians. Caitlin Earle treats patients with compounding neurological and psychiatric conditions at the Adult Community Neuropsychiatry Clinic; Egiroh Omene is a neuro-oncologist working on a novel study at the Cross Cancer Institute; Eniola Salami is a family doctor who founded the Black health program at the University of Alberta; Jeremy Weleff is working a new way to treat methamphetamine use disorder while working at the U of A and for the Opioid Dependency Program at the 106th Street Clinic; and the list goes on. Beyond Edify's full list, the U of A has shared a video with more details on the many alumni selected for this year's Top 40.