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Infections of Inequity

December 17, 2025 — 
Souradet Shaw [BA/97, M.Sc./09, PhD/18] is an expert at analyzing public health data to shed light on the spread of infectious diseases.

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Dean Nickerson speaking in his office frames with sparkling snow

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Holiday message from the Rady Faculty deans

December 16, 2025 — 
Season's Greetings, everyone, and congratulations on all the hard work you have put in this year across the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.

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Dr. Marnie Kramer sits on an outdoor bench in summer.

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Refilling the Cup

December 16, 2025 — 
As a researcher focused on nursing education, Dr. Marnie Kramer is increasingly interested in learners’ emotional needs and responses to stressful situations.

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A patient sits in a wheelchair and is helped by a doctor who approaches patient in an empathetic way.

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UM co-leads first-of-its-kind national study on MS health

December 16, 2025 — 
A team of researchers launched a national study in Nov. 2025 to better understand how biological and social factors can influence health outcomes for Canadians living with multiple sclerosis (MS).

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Dr. Tom Colina poses in a dental operatory.

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‘Just a Dentist’

December 15, 2025 — 
When Tom Colina [DMD/89] became the first Filipino dentist to open a practice in Winnipeg in 1993, he didn’t see it as a significant milestone.

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Dr. Shannon McDonald smiling at the camera inside her home.

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Relationship & Respect

December 15, 2025 — 
The year was 1991. Dr. Shannon McDonald was working as a cashier at a Winnipeg grocery store when she made the life-changing decision to pursue a degree in medicine.

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Jen Sebring looks at a digital display showing a collage of participant-created artwork.

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CBC Weekend Morning Show: Patient artwork makes an “invisible” condition visible

December 14, 2025 — 
Jen Sebring, researcher at the University of Manitoba, tells host Nadia Kidwai why they turned to art to understand the experience of people living with functional neurological disorder.

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CBC: Die-off of hundreds of birds something Manitoba hasn’t experienced ‘at this scale’: biologist

December 12, 2025 — 
Dr. Hannah Wallace, lead research associate in the department of medical microbiology and infectious diseases at the University of Manitoba with expertise in viral immunology, said it is strange that after years of avian influenza circulating in North America there would be so many bird deaths at once. 

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Blue strands of DNA

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Winnipeg Free Press: U of M researchers studying whether genetic testing helps zero in on effective mental-health treatment meds

December 11, 2025 — 
“Someone with mental-health conditions, they (try) multiple medications, and sometimes it takes months or years to get to a point where those drugs work for them, or to have less side effects,” said Dr. Abdullah Maruf, the lead investigator on the study and assistant professor in U of M’s College of Pharmacy.

Daryl Fediuk standing and smiling at the camera, with the Pfizer logo in background.

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Fit for Pharmacology

December 11, 2025 — 
What does it take to land a job at a high-profile pharmaceutical company like Pfizer? For Daryl Fediuk [B.Sc.(Pharm.)/03, PhD/12], it all started 24 years ago with a summer job in a UM lab.

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