August 28, 2020

The Schulich Medicine & Dentistry community is saddened by the passing of Dr. Donald W. Killinger, Professor Emeritus and former Chief of Medicine.
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August 28, 2020

How might COVID-19 policy decisions change based on understanding social determinants of health? How important are community-tailored solutions when making plans for reopening? These two questions will be addressed by Ava John Baptiste, PhD, Shehzad Ali, PhD, and Lauren Cipriano, PhD, thanks to new funding from the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM).
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August 27, 2020

Changes to the medical school admissions process during the past two years have mitigated barriers for underrepresented populations resulting in a more diverse class in terms of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, as well as rural versus urban and whether or not parents had attended medical school or university.
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August 27, 2020

Class president Gali Katznelson, Medicine Class of 2022, is being awarded the 2020 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award for Medical Students.
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August 26, 2020

A team of researchers led by Dr. Douglas Fraser has identified six molecules that can be used as biomarkers to predict how severely ill a COVID-19 patient will become, and are also the first to reveal a new mechanism causing blood clots in COVID-19 patients and potential ways to treat them.
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August 25, 2020

Dr. Les Kalman has been appointed as the Academic Lead for Continuing Dental Education at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, effective July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2021.
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August 21, 2020

The Western community is mourning the death of Jocelyn McGlynn, a fourth-year medical sciences student whose two-year battle against leukemia inspired her classmates, instructors and all who knew her.
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August 19, 2020

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry's Marco Prado, Gilles Lajoie and Lauren Flynn received research funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund.
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August 19, 2020

Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Lyle Muller, Wataru Inoue and Stefan Everling will share in $10 million of funding from the National Science Foundation to advance their research.
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August 13, 2020

Dr. Christie MacDonald, Interim Chair and City-Wide Chief, Emergency Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care is being celebrated by the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) for her exceptional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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August 12, 2020

A $9.2-million gift from Jeff and Shelley Parr has helped Western University launch a unique centre dedicated to providing collaborative and innovative approaches to proactive student mental health and well-being.
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August 11, 2020

Dr. Charles Weijer discusses the ethics of Human Challenge Studies for COVID-19 in this article for FiveThirtyEight. "“We traced a pretty clear line in the sand saying that you couldn’t do challenge studies if participants would be exposed to risk of irreversible, incurable or possibly fatal infections,” said Weijer.
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August 11, 2020

In November 2019, 53 of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry’s residency and area-of-focused-competence programs participated in an accreditation site visit. All Schulich Medicine postgraduate medical education programs that took part in the review and the institution as a whole are accredited.
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August 10, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Vladimir Hachinski, Distinguished University Professor in Clinical Neurological Sciences and Epidemiology & Biostatistics who has received the F.N.G. Starr Award in recognition of his achievements in innovative stroke intervention and treatment, and furthering public awareness of the condition.
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August 07, 2020

Western is home to four new Canada Research Chairs, professors whose work will have global impact on autism, data science and children’s learning. Two chairs, in business sustainability and neuroscience, have been renewed.
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August 07, 2020

Daniel Nucifora, the first-ever graduate of the Honours Specialization in Synthetic Biology, was honoured with the Western Gold Medal while pursuing his passion.
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August 06, 2020

Dr. Nicole Kaniki and Dr. Bertha Garcia will help Western lay the foundation for a sustained strategy to combat racism on campus.
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August 05, 2020

Vaping among teenaged Canadians has doubled in the past two years – a troubling trend that three Western researchers will examine in depth with new funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR.) The researchers are working to understand the rapid rise of vaping in Canada and measure its health effects.
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August 05, 2020

The Experiential Learning Innovation Scholars Program program provides $20,000 across two years in each of the four participating projects, to help professors design novel courses with their students.
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