Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News Archive

August 29, 2024 — 
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Support Fund provides opportunities for professors, instructors and librarians to undertake projects that increase knowledge in pedagogy and learning. This year, six awards of $6,000 and one major award of $25,000 were awarded. Learn about Dr. Jason Peeler's research to improve clinical skills training in the area of musculoskeletal medicine.

August 29, 2024 — 
Dr. Ken Thorlakson, a distinguished surgeon and former UM faculty member who passed away this year, was an exceptional mentor who greatly inspired younger surgeons, a colleague recently recalled.

August 27, 2024 — 
UM Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes ground-breaking original research.

August 26, 2024 — 
Diabetes triples odds of stillbirth, with greater risk for women with type 2

August 23, 2024 — 
Free birth control ‘right thing to do’ Province officially announces program, which rolls out Oct. 1

August 22, 2024 — 
To truly care for patients, you must recognize them as whole persons and not reduce them to their medical profiles, an expert on dignity in health care told UM’s newest class of future doctors.

August 21, 2024 — 
White Coat ceremony media coverage

August 21, 2024 — 
A newly published study on childhood brain cancer offers hope for more targeted treatment with fewer side effects.

August 21, 2024 — 
College of Nursing professor Dr. Genevieve Thompson recently received $750,000 in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for a three-year study to support communication and decision-making for family caregivers of people living with dementia.  

August 13, 2024 — 
An international, UM-led clinical trial to assess the effects of a steroid drug on patients hospitalized with pneumonia has been awarded $6.9 million by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.