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The Citizen Project: Youth Sport
June 25, 2021
Meet Linda Jackson-Boeters, Departmental Technician with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Recognizing the value sport brings to the lives of children and young people, she has dedicated years of service to youth soccer in the London community. She currently serves as the Fields Director for the Byron Optimist Soccer Club.

American Society for Clinical Pathology Student Scholarship
June 25, 2021
Congratulations to Melissa Yeo, MCISc Candidate in the Pathologists’ Assistant Program, who has received a Laboratory Student Scholarship awarded by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Foundation’s Scholarship Fund.

Feature: Improving training in Indigenous health is a journey not a check-box
June 24, 2021
New research from Schulich Medicine & Dentistry shows cultural training programs need more than just filling knowledge gaps.

Using a One Health approach to examine the health impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on mothers and their new babies
June 18, 2021
Scientists and students, including Dr. Stephanie Frisbee and Mei Yuan (MSc Candidate in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine), are investigating the possible health impacts on mothers and their babies who were born or will be born during the pandemic.

Asieh Alikhah completes her MSc Thesis
June 16, 2021
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Medicine would like to offer congratulations to Asieh Alikhah who recently completed her MSc in Pathology.

Seismic Shift by G7 in Recognizing One Health as Critical to Everyone’s Health
June 14, 2021
Momentous events are occurring in global health, with perhaps the most significant, at least the rhetorical recognition that the interface between animal-human-environmental health is at the crux of our future health. In short, One Health is now recognized by the G7 as critical to everyone’s health. This is recognition at the highest political levels in developed countries.

Schulich Medicine & Dentistry stands with the Muslim community
June 09, 2021
We at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry join colleagues across Western University in shock and profound sadness in response to the racist, Islamophobic attack on a London family. This was an unspeakable and senseless act of hatred against members of the Muslim community.

Residential School Remains Could Reveal How 215 Children Lived — and Died
June 04, 2021
Dr. Rebekah Jacques was featured in a recent National Post article entitled “Residential school remains could reveal how 215 children lived — and died.”

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