by Megan Sibley | Apr 26, 2018
Deborah Schuh once swaddled newborn babies in their first moments of life, as a longtime labour and delivery nurse. Deb, as her friends and co-workers fondly call her, has assisted surgeons in the operating room, and comforted families with sick children in the...
by Nadine Yousif | Apr 26, 2018
On her first day of medical school in 1998, Dr. Darlene Kitty, a Cree woman from Chisasibi, located on eastern shore of the James Bay river in Quebec, stood in front of her classmates at the University of Ottawa and introduced herself, per tradition, making an...
by Naomi Librach | Apr 26, 2018
Provided When Angel Foster was 10 years old, her mother told her a harrowing story that determined her career path. As a student at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1970, her mother had an accidental pregnancy. At the time, abortion was illegal in...
by Sarah Newman | Apr 26, 2018
By his own admission, Dr. Ian Colman didn’t even know what epidemiology was when he graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1994. “I became an investment banker, and I hated it — I was really miserable,” said Colman. “And I thought, oh my goodness, what am...
by Rory Gilheany | Apr 26, 2018
A Higher Calling Dr. Guy Trudel's unlikely path from Ottawa rehabilitation doctor to international space researcher By Rory Gilheany Photo Source: Pixabay As a young boy growing up in Quebec City, Dr. Guy Trudel never dreamed of going to space. The son...
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