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Headshot of Cameron Bouchard wearing a jacket with Metis symbols on it.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

‘You have to get the stories of the patients,’ says Métis health-care researcher

March 12, 2025 — 
College of Pharmacy grad student Cameron Bouchard is planning a study of the health-care experiences of Manitoban Métis people living with congenital heart disease.

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Ariel Wilcox standing inside the Helen Glass Centre for Nursing Atrium.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady grad student profile: Ariel Wilcox looks to improve rural health-care system

September 10, 2024 — 
Ariel Wilcox spent over a decade working as a frontline nurse in rural Manitoba prior to the COVID pandemic. After taking a maternity leave during the pandemic’s third wave, she was unsure that she wanted to return. 

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Adam Brandt standing outside at Fort Garry campus. the UM Administration Building can be seen in the background.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady grad student profile: Adam Brandt aims to fill 2SLGBTQIA+ research gap in nursing

August 12, 2024 — 
Over the last year, Adam Brandt, a master’s student in the College of Nursing, has received several awards for their research regarding the experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ nurses, including the Rady Faculty Dean’s Prize and, most recently, a Research Manitoba training award.  

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An Asian female student studies in a student lounge, with other students meeting behind her.

Rady grad student profile: Trinh Nguyen-Lu explores stress and coping in newly graduated nurses

May 6, 2024 — 
After graduating from UM with a bachelor’s degree in nursing and working for a few years in emergency rooms and intensive care, Trinh Nguyen-Lu returned to the College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences as a clinical instructor in 2017. At the time, she had no plans to become a graduate student, but that changed when she saw that she could make a difference in preparing the next generation of nurses.

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Michaela Bourque stands in the atrium of the College of Nursing's Helen Glass building on Fort Garry campus.

Rady grad student profile: Michaela Bourque inspired by personal health journey

December 19, 2023 — 
When Michaela Bourque was 17, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, starting her on a health journey that had a profound impact on her emerging career as a researcher.  

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A collage of the portraits of each of the prize winners.

Six grad students receive Rady Faculty Dean’s Prize

December 5, 2023 — 
The 2023 Dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Student Achievement Prize was awarded to six distinguished learners.

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Saeid Maghsoudi looks into a microscope. He is wearing a lab coat and is holding instruments in a petri dish.

Rady grad student profile: Saeid Maghsoudi working on new drug to save newborns

November 21, 2023 — 
Saeid Maghsoudi’s research aims to develop a drug to treat babies that are short of oxygen at birth.

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Student Deanne Nixie Miao smiles while sitting at a microscope in a lab.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady grad student profile: Deanne Nixie Miao seeks genetic clues to hearing loss caused by cancer drug

September 14, 2023 — 
Master's student investigates how the drug cisplatin affects gene expression changes at the single-cell level in the inner ears of mice.

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Five MPAS students wearing white coats and stethoscopes are sitting in chairs. A crowd of people is sitting behind them.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

New MPAS students aim to make positive impact

September 7, 2023 — 
Angel Sen was about to tear up when she received her stethoscope during the Master of Physician Assistant Studies’ (MPAS) Inaugural Exercises.

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Erwin Taguiam, wearing a white lab coat, holds a small test tube in a lab.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady grad student profile: Erwin Taguiam studies gene expression in tuberculosis and HIV co-infection

September 1, 2023 — 
Erwin Taguiam’s research focuses on searching for a “signature” in blood that could potentially be used to quickly and easily detect TB in people living with HIV.  

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