November 2015 Newsletter
A night to remember
With Canadian comedian Martin Short on the playbill, expectations were high for the 2015 Leaders in Innovation Dinner. And the evening certainly didn’t disappoint, delivering humour, poignant moments and a true sense of camaraderie among attendees...
The next generation of cancer care
An internationally-renowned cancer researcher and the 2015 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine recipient, Dr. Sanjiv S. Gambhir has a compelling vision for the future of health care and early cancer detection...
Getting REAL with strategic planning
The Strategic Plan, Optimizing Life-long Health, sets out a transformative vision for Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, including key strategic directions, goals and milestones for the next 10 years. We are now at the five-year mark with the plan, so it’s time to take stock of where we are, and how we want to move forward in the next five years...
Young scientist receives provincial research honour
Matthew Teeter, PhD, has been awarded the 2015 John Charles Polanyi Prize for his research into joint replacement...
Catch up on what's making headlines this month...
Martin Short tours Robarts Research Institute; Western joins international search for HIV/AIDS vaccine; Western team’s study is ‘a world first’; The race to find ‘biomarkers’ that can predict dementia; New rapid test for E. coli improves food safety...
Celebrating our achievements
Congratulations to Dr. Anthony Jevnikar, Dr. Dale Ziter, Dr. Kenneth Wright, Dr. Shanti Rao, Dr. Mohamad Elfakhani, Dr. Douglas Fraser, Dr. Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, Dr. Manuel Montero Odasso, Jenna Kara, Ashley Makela, Katie Parkins, Donna Murrell and Fred Possmayer, PhD...
Commitment to the Community: Creating a stronger, healthier future
Dr. Margaret Steele’s work as a child and adolescent psychiatrist has provided first hand exposure to the needs of children, adolescents, adults and families living in poverty who experience mental health problems and undergo significant transitions and new beginnings...
Adventures in Global Health: Sam DeKoven, Anine Yu and Jennifer Zhang
In a world of increasing globalization, it’s important for medical students to be immersed in different countries, cultures and world views...
Research Profile: Nathalie Bérubé, PhD, Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics
Nathalie Bérubé, PhD, thrives on learning new things. Whether it’s in the lab working one-on-one with her graduate trainees and postdoctoral fellows, or at home reading about innovative technology and techniques, the Associate Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics is constantly surrounding herself with new information to impact her research...
Distributed Education Profile: Dr. Jitin Sondhi
Dr. Jitin Sondhi wears many hats as a physician and Distributed Education faculty member in Ingersoll and Woodstock, Ontario. With a growing palliative care practice and a leadership role in emergency medicine, he brings a strong set of skills and unique perspective to the program’s Oxford academy...
Resident Spotlight: Dr. Lukas Brown, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
After demanding on-call shifts at the hospital, second-year anesthesia resident Dr. Lukas Brown often refers to a popular quote by writer Haruki Murakami about overcoming challenges and difficult situations in life. An adrenaline junkie and lover of the outdoors, Dr. Brown explains it is those demanding shifts that are helping him improve and become the best doctor he can be...
Video: Cancer Imaging Group, Robarts Research Institute
The Cancer Imaging Research team at Robarts Research Institute is working together to develop innovative ways of changing the lives of cancer patients worldwide...- Senate Committee on Renewal - Town Hall Meeting
The Senate Committee on Renewal will hold a Town Hall meeting for faculty, staff and students at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry on Monday, November 30, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in Dental Sciences Building, Room 1002... - Dr. Eric Arts discusses the race to develop an HIV vaccine
With HIV in the headlines, Eric Arts, PhD, discusses his work to develop an HIV vaccine as part of the international initiative EAVI2020... - New fellowship puts innovation at forefront
Drs. Nick and Adam Power, Ali Tavallaei and Matthew Teeter, PhD, all play a role in the new Western Medical Innovation Fellowship. The fellowship immerses talented young scientists, engineers and clinicians in a training and research environment to drive the development of novel medical technologies... - Send us your submissions for a special holiday scrapbook in The Pulse
Send us your favourite holiday photo of family, friends and fun as we compile a photo gallery of "Holiday Memories" from faculty, staff and students across Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, to be shared in the Holiday edition of The Pulse on December 15. Send your photos to comms@schulich.uwo.ca by December 11... 
Tweets of the month
Our community has some important things to say on Twitter, but you may not have noticed. Catch up on the best 140-character thoughts from faculty, staff and students during the month of November...
Tips and tricks
Have you updated your iPhone to iOS9? If so, you may want to read this helpful tip to avoid unnecessary data overages. Find out how to turn off Wi-Fi Assist and save yourself some costly data charges...
Upcoming events
Join us at the faculty and staff holiday party on Tuesday, December 8. Registration for the upcoming 2016 Discover Robarts series, now in London, Chatham and Windsor, will begin in December...
