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Lisa Knisley stands by a research poster.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Clear Communicator

February 3, 2025 — 
For most of her early career after graduating from UM as a nurse, Dr. Lisa Knisley [BN/94] cared for adult patients. But in 2000, she was working in a cardiac catheter lab in London, England, that served both adults and children.

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Portraits of 10 grad students.

Outstanding Rady Faculty grad students earn Dean’s Prize

January 23, 2025 — 
The Dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Student Achievement Prize was awarded to 10 extraordinary graduate students in 2024. 

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Karen Samson stands outside.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Honing Hospital Care

January 10, 2025 — 
From an early age, Karen Samson [BN/09] knew she wanted to help others.

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A nurse places a pulse oximeter on a patient laying in a hospital bed.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

CBC Manitoba: 3 Manitoba nurses punished for denying they had criminal records despite impaired driving convictions

December 16, 2024 — 
3 Manitoba nurses punished for denying they had criminal records despite impaired driving convictions

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Dr. Lynda Balneaves

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

TIME Magazine: What to Know About Complementary Therapies for Prostate Cancer

December 13, 2024 — 
What to Know About Complementary Therapies for Prostate Cancer

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Dr. Nicole Harder stands at a podium. A TV screen shows nursing students wearing VR headsets.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

RadyVerse team wins national award for simulation-based learning

December 10, 2024 — 
A University of Manitoba initiative to expand the use of virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence in health-care education won a national award from Simulation Canada, a non-profit organization for the advancement of simulation-based learning in health care. 

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A student wearing a VR headset tries navigating a health-care scenario at the RadyVerse launch.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady Roundup: Memorable Rady Faculty stories of 2024

December 10, 2024 — 
It’s been a year of exciting news in the areas of education, research and community service across the five colleges of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. Here’s a look at 10 of our most notable stories of 2024.

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Three students stand in front of a sundance lodge.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Sundances offer students ‘crash course in culture’

November 27, 2024 — 
A program through the Office of Interprofessional Collaboration (OIPC) at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences is helping students connect with Indigenous communities through ceremony. 

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Seated at a desk, Dr. Chelsea Gabel speaks.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Indigenous health researchers focus on ‘changing the narrative’

November 22, 2024 — 
Speakers at the recent Indigenous Health Research Symposium at UM reflected on the theme "Changing the Narrative."

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady Faculty hosts youth, inspires pursuit of the health professions and biomedical sciences

November 15, 2024 — 
Hundreds of high school students from Manitoba descended on Bannatyne campus Nov. 6 and 7 for two annual events at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences highlighting the health sciences programs at UM and scientific discovery. 

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