The Helen Glass Centre for Nursing on the Fort Garry campus will become the “Helen Glass Hospital for Sick Students” on Feb. 3, when students participate in Nightmare Night Care.
Twenty nursing students, fourteen medical students and three pharmacy students will play the role of patients and caregivers in a hospital setting.
The Faculty of Nursing has […]

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The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced today it has awarded $2,197,648 to eight University of Manitoba researchers from the Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF). The projects range from advancing knowledge about Arctic climate change to the control and prevention of infectious diseases to improving cereal crop yields.
“Canadians from coast to coast to coast can be […]

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Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 17, 2012, the University of Manitoba and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are hosting Café Scientifique, an informal event that brings together experts with non-researchers in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about important health questions.
As a society, we rely heavily on scientific facts as they relate to our health. But […]

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The Vulnerable Persons and End of Life New Emerging Team will be hosting an information session on palliative care and people with disabilities on Thursday, January 12, 2012, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm at the Manitoba Legislature, Golden Boy Room, 450 Broadway.
The event will feature presentations from leading palliative care and disability studies professors […]

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The Faculty of Medicine has launched a lecture series to explore current issues and topics of relevance to improving the health of Manitoba’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. The 2012 Lecture Series in First Nations, Métis and Inuit Health kicks off on Thursday, January 12, 2012, with “The Right Action at the Right Time,” […]

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The pioneering Dr. Sigga Christianson Houston was the first woman of Icelandic descent in Canada to become a doctor, and she started a medical dynasty that now spans four generations.
To honour her life and contributions, Sigga’s son Dr. C. Stuart Houston and his family have given nearly $100,000 to establish the Sigga Christianson Houston Travel […]

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The Manitoba Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research (NEAHR) Program, in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, is hosting the inaugural First Nations, Métis and Inuit Health Research Symposium on December 1 to 2, 2011 at the University of Manitoba Bannatyne Campus.
The NEAHR Program seeks to expand the pool of indigenous health […]

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