Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News Archive

September 10, 2019 — 
The Summer Weekend Inner-city Supervised Hoops (SWISH) program is helping develop mentors and university-level basketball players.

September 10, 2019 — 
Dr. Patricia Birk is coming into her new role with a plan. Drawing from experiences and observations gleaned over the course of her 20-year career, she has a clear-eyed view of the future of the department under her direction.

September 6, 2019 — 
The College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences welcomed 10 students into its doctoral program this fall, the largest group since the program’s inception in 2013 when five students were accepted.

September 5, 2019 — 
The program, known as B.Sc. (Dent.), provides students in the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, the chance to spend two summers absorbed in life as a researcher

September 4, 2019 — 
The 12th class of the University of Manitoba Master of Physician Assistant Studies (MPAS) program was welcomed at inaugural exercises on August 30, 2019.

August 30, 2019 — 
Grade 11 student Carmello Swan has been interested in a health-related career for over a year, a passion that was further confirmed after a visit to the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences this summer. On Aug. 15, the Windsor Park Collegiate student was one of three Winnipeg-based Inuit teens who visited Bannatyne Campus as part of Manitoba Inuit Association’s (MIA) Inuit Education Connections Program.

August 29, 2019 — 
The Witness Blanket exhibition documents the impact of residential schools through objects reclaimed from the residential schools, band offices, communities, churches, government and other traditional and cultural structures

August 23, 2019 — 
A Manitoba surgeon spoke passionately about diversity and inclusion at this year’s welcome ceremony for first-year medical students

August 22, 2019 — 
Carmine Slipski was both terrified and intrigued when he saw the film Outbreak as a child. The 1995 movie about an Ebola-like virus captured his imagination and ignited his interest in infectious diseases. His path was set.

August 21, 2019 — 
This past winter, 11 University of Manitoba PhD students from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences participated in the International Infectious Disease and Global Health Training Program’s practical epidemiology course in Medellín, Colombia