{"id":508498,"date":"2026-03-02T01:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508498\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:30:20","slug":"trailblazing-black-female-physician-leads-the-way-at-surrey-memorial-hospital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508498\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailblazing Black female physician leads the way at Surrey Memorial Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tDr. Alexandra Bastiany is recognized as Canada&#8217;s first Black female interventional cardiologist. Her journey in medicine has led her to Surrey Memorial Hospital, where she works in the new cardiac cath lab. Global&#8217;s Safeeya Pirani sits down with her to learn about her role, and how she&#8217;s helping pave the way for more representation in healthcare.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Alexandra Bastiany is recognized as Canada&#8217;s first Black female interventional cardiologist. Her journey in medicine has led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[202004,202005,200536,49,48,2925,202006,202007,10711,202008,202009,167926,201881,87674,202010,202011,41],"class_list":["post-508498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-bc-community","tag-bipoc-leaders","tag-black-excellence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-careers","tag-dr-alexandra-bastiany","tag-global-news-morning","tag-good-news","tag-interventional-cardiology","tag-news-hour-at-6","tag-short-clip","tag-smart-living","tag-surrey","tag-surrey-healthcare","tag-surrey-memorial","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}