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3D render of mpox virus.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Scientific American: How Deadly Is Mpox, What Vaccines are Effective, and Other Questions Answered

August 30, 2024 — 
How Deadly Is Mpox, What Vaccines are Effective, and Other Questions Answered

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Dr. Marcia Anderson in front of a teal backdrop

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Winnipeg Free Press: Focused on opening safe consumption site: addictions minister

August 30, 2024 — 
Focused on opening safe consumption site: addictions minister

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a male athlete sits on steps, holding injured knee

Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Support Fund recipients announced

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.

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Headshot of Dr. Ken Thorlakson.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM-educated surgeon remembered for mentorship, compassion

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.

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Students wearing white coats stand while reciting the Physician's Pledge.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

See the person, not just the illness, distinguished physician urges new medical students

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.

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Kodley Bouachanthala, centre, is one of the 140 students in the University of Manitoba college of medicine's class of 2028. He says he can see himself one day retuning to Morden, Man., his home community. (Prabhjot Singh Lotey/CBC)

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

White coat ceremony media coverage

August 21, 2024 — 
White Coat ceremony media coverage

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Brad Doble

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Breaking boundaries in pediatric cancer:

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

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Dr. Ryan Zarychanski in a hospital room.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM team receives $6.9 million to test pneumonia treatment and expand network of research sites

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.

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Sabine Mai

Research and International

Medical breakthrough provides hope for early risk stratification of a deadly blood cancer

August 8, 2024 — 
Dr. Sabine Mai publishes groundbreaking study shows early risk stratification of smoldering multiple myeloma, a precursor state to multiple myeloma, a deadly form of blood cancer.  

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Dr. Titus Olukitibi

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady HIV-AIDS researcher, educator receives inaugural postdoc fellowship in memory of AIDS trailblazer

August 8, 2024 — 
This funding will significantly advance our educational outreach and research initiatives on HIV, sexually transmitted, and blood-borne infections in Manitoba.

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