2013 – It was lovely meeting you as well. Thank you so much for all your help. It was extremely informative and much appreciated.  Thank you also for being so prompt with the handout. It will definitely come in handy.  Look forward to future correspondence.  Salima Suleman RDMS

2013 – Toronto  Hello Janice- I just wanted to thank you for the excellent session yesterday. That was a hugh help to my staff. I am sure if I have more questions that I will call. Doug Mason DVM

2013 – Royal Vic, Barrie.  Kathy and I want to thank you again for speaking at SONIC this year.  You had an overwhelming positive response on the questionnaires and I just wanted to share some of the comments with you.     *interesting and pertinent content/speaker     *future of ultrasound was very interesting     *great information and awesome tips     *I am inspired to get more information from this individual–very informative     *excellent–born speaker, Sherri & Kathy, SONIC coordinators.  

Thank you so much for attending and if you are sure, we would love to have you come share some more knowledge with us again next year.

2014 – Hi Janice – Thanks for sharing all your knowledge with us yesterday. Much appreciated! Linda Jones, Diagnostic Imaging Manager, Cape Breton District Health Authority

2014 – Regina, Sask. –  I am sharing a commendation for Janice from Regina General.  Janice recently volunteered to start an EPIQ CV handover in Regina that allowed Philips to deliver and take revenue this year on a system that had a 30 day acceptance. 

2014 – I am writing to you in regards to the training for the Transesophageal Echo machine that Janice Hickey Scharf gave November 24 and 25. I found her to be knowledgeable and pleasant to deal with. If she did not know an answer to questions she would do her best to find out. Her knowledge base for cardiac was acceptable, even though she stated she had limited cardiac knowledge for the TEE machine.  On behalf of the Department of Anesthesia, we would like to thank Janice for expertise and would be happy to work with her in the future. Sincerely, Shelley Roulston, Specialty Coordinator Anesthesia, Regina General Hospital – 

2014 – Hi Janice–Once again thanks for all the effort and support that you and Philips put into the region. I know that everyone was very happy with everything. I hope that we can continue these lectures as we are very isolated up here and can’t always get away. Again thanks so much, Ed Czerwine, Thunder Bay Hospital 

2015 – Prince Edward C ounty – Hi Janice, Thanks again for providing the excellent teaching session for our staff and residents.  I will forward the links to the emerg group, so any docs who couldn’t make it to the session will still be able to access the tutorials. Thanks, Steve Blanchard MD, Family Medicine / ER physician

2015 – Dalhouse University – Thank you again for the really well presented talk.  If you are able to share your talks with me it will certainly me teach residents to be safer.    Tomas Kuča, BSc., MD, Anesthesiology FRCPC, Critical Care Medicine Fellow, Dalhousie University

2015 – Hi Janice – Just wanted to reiterate that your education hands-on session educational night was tremendously informative. All three. If you were very helpful to the techs to becoming familiar with the units capabilities which in general are not utilized to potential. Agnes Kaufman, Manager

2015- NOSS –   I’d like to extend our sincere thanks for your expertise, and Philips’ support, of our educational endeavours in Northern Ontario.   Feedback from the technologists who were in attendance has been extremely positive.  The hands-on sessions were felt to be beneficial, and the lectures were very informative.  On behalf of the Northern Ontario Society of Sonographers, thank you very much! Sincerely, Leila Britt/ Aileen Rickard

2015 – Shout out to Janice Scharf who prepared and presented 2 lectures for this very popular and well attended weekend conference in Barrie, On. I heard Janice speak at a CSDMS conference in NFLD several years ago. She is a fabulous speaker! Nice comments from attendees, congrats Janice. Donna Watt 

2015 –  Tim here from the conference/ board meetings! I was wondering if I could get a copy of your presentation you gave on abdomen vascular . It was a great talk, and I got a lot from it as a student and would like to share it with my class to pickup some helpful tidbits for studying! Thanks, Tim Ramsey

2015 – I very much enjoyed your presentation on Abdominal vasculature today, and I know my fellow coworkers back in Ontario would find great help from all the information given. If it’s not too much trouble a copy of the presentation/pdf article would be wonderful. And thank you again for the educational presentation.  Aleisha Bauhaus – Leamington District Memorial Hospital

2015 – Halifax – Janice and Jason, You did a great job leading the hands on session. It was greatly appreciated throughout the whole group. I can’t thank you enough.   It would be great if we could repeat the course annually, maybe fall ( September October) would be the best time to do the course, because of nice weather in Halifax. If we could have an another application specialist to make the groups even smaller to increase the scanning  time would be perfect.  Michael

2015 –  Janice,  Thanks for expertise last week. Derek DIllane MD – Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, U of Alberta

2016 – I just wanted to thank you all for the support and organization here in Halifax. I have got back the evaluation from the trainees and I must say it was a big success. Everybody loved the training, I was told it was very professional and helpful for patients management.

2016 – Alberta – Hello Janice- Just want to sincerely thank you for mentoring me last week & for joining ADSA at the Village at Pigeon. What an beautiful & informative presentation!!!  Karen Rivers CRGS

2016 – THANK YOU!!!!! A HUGE thank you for an outstanding day – amazing patients, Janice was the best support ever and your team is remarkable.  Dr. Jones is really interested in US… I suspect there will business coming your way soon. take care thank my sincerest gratitude for you. I can’t tell you how much this helps future patients to have physician learn these skills to help in their assessments. Kerri Novack U of Calgary 

2016 – Just wanted to send along these pictures from the NB Sonographers Educational Day on September 24.  Once again Janice played an instrumental part in the Educational Day by providing two lectures. Finding support for these educational days can be very difficult.  The organizing hospital (Georges Dumont) were so appreciative of her help and expertise. Hilary Meek, a Sonographer from the Dumont dropped me a line to thank Philips (and especially Janice) for the support.  She said the feedback they received were all incredibly positive.  No surprise there.I am so appreciative of Janice’s help especially on a weekend.  Janice is always happy to help and I am always so impressed with her knowledge and delivery of the clinical information she shares. Kind Regards, Shelley

2017 –  We had Janice come in for 2 days recently to help with a bunch of things.  Janice is absolutely amazing.  She knows her stuff.  We learned so much from her.   Lisa Evans, BscH, CRGS, RDMS, RVT Charge Sonographer -St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto

2018  –  I wanted to reach out and thank you for arranging Janice to come to CCI. Both the technologists as well as Radiologists are very pleased with her training as well as her ability to troubleshoot the concerns we had raised. She has been a pleasure to work with and is very knowledgeable.   Thank you again, Natasha Kinshella MRT(NM), CTIC

2018 – Janice,  Can’t thank you and Shelly enough for your ongoing support to us here at QE2.  Thx for the info session today Janice. Super useful, and a great introduction to the machine.  Will be in touch. Babar Haroon, MD, FRCPC, Dip (Clin Epi), MEd, Associate Professor
General Internal Medicine

2018 – New Brunswick – Thank you for the awesome lecture Janice. So glad you made it. The lectures were both very interesting. I heard several people talking about the IMT carotid topic at the end of the day. You peaked some interest!!  Andrew Keats

2018 – Toronto Dear Janice, Thank you so much for your great presentation about Elastography. I am sure this technique is promising in  patient care management.   Looking forward for another Ultrasound Education Day in the Fall.  Best Regards, Valentina  Al Hamouche 

2019 – Hi Janice, Thank you for your visit last week, the girls really enjoyed having you here. You were a great help to them. Judy Amadio, RTR, Mgr, DI Department, Sydney NS

2019 – Thank you very much! I am working on my  skills now, not much success yet ( may be my scanned clip for 3D is not always smooth), but I am determined to make 3D my routine. I am pretty sure that I will have questions as I will progress in my training.  I appreciate if you will answer them )))))),  Thank you very much. Irina Plashchinskaya

2019 – Big shout out to Janice for an informative and thorough message to a clinic customer explaining the ins and outs of OB weights and %tiles. He was very appreciative of her explanation. We are always getting questions regarding what these numbers mean.  Thanks Janice. Regards, Donna

2020 – Hello Janice,  My name is Ahmed. I am a student sonographer at Algonquin college. I just want to tell you that I just watched your lecture on IOTA models on sonography Canada website, and it was really helpful and informative. Thank you so much for such great lecture. Sincerely, Ahmed Metwally

2021 – Janice and Jason,  I just wanted to send you a quick note to thank you for the great course on Saturday! Your organization, support and skills were outstanding!  Jason, please thank again you parents. The course would not had been possible without them. Sincerely, Alberto Goffi MD – St. Michael’s Hospital – 

2021 – MacKenzie Health ICU – Dear Janice,  I just wanted to again thank you for sponsoring and facilitating the ultrasound course.   I could see how much work you put into making the day educational for all and enjoyable with the snacks, coffee and all those extras.  I see it all and I appreciate it all!  I learned so much and the response from the participants in their comments to me was very positive.   Thank you again, and again and again…With kind regards,  Carol Redstone MD, ICU

2022 – I wanted to provide you with feedback I received from Brian at Georgian Radiology, who have 17 Affiniti machines across their clinics.  Janice went in last week to meet with Brian, as he has had concerns about the PM process. Janice smoothed things over and Brian was very appreciative of her efforts.

2023 – Hi Janice, So nice to see you again! Thank you so much for coming in today and completing all the tasks. Your assistance is always so prompt, efficient and helpful. Cindy Tam – Owner, Quantum Ultrasound, Agincourt

Have a wonderful day!