ICYMI: Dr. Renée El-Gabalawy on CBC Manitoba

ICYMI: Dr. Renée El-Gabalawy on CBC Manitoba

March 5, 2025 —
For some people, surgery can be stressful and anxiety-inducing. It can cause many sleepless nights and make any pain patients are experiencing worse. For Dr. Renée El-Gabalawya clinical health psychologist at the University of Manitoba, she wanted to figure out a way to help patient's mental health before and after an operation.

Max Rady College of Medicine, mental health, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, virtual reality

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Our four new fellows from L-R: Gerd Prehna, Shirley Thompson, Punam Mehta and Patty Thille

St. John's College

Welcoming our newest Fellows to St John’s College

March 3, 2025 —
St. John’s College is pleased to welcome four distinguished scholars as new Fellows: Dr. Gerd Prehna, Dr. Punam Mehta, Dr. Patty Thille, and Dr. Shirley Thompson.

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Seated in armchairs on a stage, Dr. Peter Nickerson and Dr. Kathryn Tinckam converse while holding microphones.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM alum values her ‘phenomenal medical education,’ urges redesign of health system to ensure doctors thrive

February 28, 2025 —
Today’s medical students are extraordinary individuals with great capacity to contribute as physicians, but the health-care system must change to support them in achieving their best, a distinguished medical alum said at a recent UM awards dinner.

Alumni, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Students

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Physiotherapist holding the elbow of a patient's extended arm

Medscape Medical News: Mental health worse after workplace injuries

February 28, 2025 —
Patients with workplace injuries have worse mental health outcomes over time than patients with non-workplace injuries: UM study

department of community health sciences, Department of Psychiatry, department of psychology, department of surgery, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

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Close-up of a woman playing with her baby boy.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Psychology Month feature: Improving lives of children and caregivers through research

February 24, 2025 —
February is Psychology Month, and it's a time to celebrate psychologists and the vital work they do, including research. 

Department of clinical health psychology, Max Rady College of Medicine, Psychology Month, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International

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Portrait of Alia Marcinkow in a pharmacy. She is wearing a white pharmacist's coat.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rural RX

February 19, 2025 —
Alia Marcinkow [B.Sc./08, B.Sc.(Pharm)/14] puts the “community” in community pharmacist.

Alumni, college of pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM professor creates novel podcast as resource for emerging scholars

February 14, 2025 —
A Rady researcher and faculty member, working closely with local radio station UMFM, launched a podcast designed as a resource for medical trainees and residents to help guide them on their journey to becoming a clinician scientist.

Dr. Jonathan McGavock, graduate studies, Max Rady College of Medicine, Pediatrics and Child Health, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Residents, student research

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Dr. Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin is in her lab wearing a white lab coat. She is pouring a red liquid from one container to another.

UM health researchers receive more than $9.6 million in federal funding

February 14, 2025 —
Health researchers at the University of Manitoba have been awarded more than $9.6 million in the latest round of project grant funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).  

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