Max Rady College of Medicine 140th Anniversary Gala

Dr. Evelyn Forget

Dr. Evelyn Forget is a professor of community health sciences at the Max Rady College of Medicine and is academic director at the Manitoba Research Data Centre. As a health economist, she has gained international renown for advancing anti-poverty initiatives such as guaranteed basic income.

Dr. Tito Daodu

Dr. Tito Daodu [B.Sc.(Med)/13, MD/13] is a pediatric surgeon at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary. She was born in Nigeria and raised in Winnipeg, where she attended medical school at the University of Manitoba. She completed her residency and fellowship in Calgary and a master's in public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Daodu is passionate about health equity, promoting justice, and anti-racism in medicine. She has been actively involved in public health and anti-racism research, focusing on improving surgical outcomes and making surgical care more equitable and accessible in Canada and worldwide.

Ça Claque!

Get ready to clap your hands and tap your feet to the high-energy performances of Ça Claque!. Feel the rhythm, experience ‘la joie de vivre’, and discover French Canadian and Métis folklore – traditional as well as contemporary – through music and dance.

Composed of Franco-Manitoban and Métis artists, Ça Claque! features exciting and diverse entertainment that will keep you captivated from the first note of the fiddle to the last step of gigue.

The University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine began as Western Canada’s first medical school in 1883 with 13 Manitoba physicians and one school inspector coming together to establish the Manitoba Medical College, a facility that relied on volunteer instructors and had no building to call its own. The first lecture was given November 21, 1883 by Dr. R. J. Blanchard, at the Collegiate Institute near Portage and Main, and thus begun the future of medical education in Manitoba.

Today, the Max Rady College of Medicine remains the province’s only medical school and educates and trains the majority of Manitoba’s physicians. We are known for our leadership on social accountability, EDI and anti-racism initiatives, Indigenous health, interprofessional collaboration and a robust research enterprise in the clinical and basic sciences including focus on global public health, infectious diseases and population health research.