Alumni (Summer 2024)

When Lorrie Kirshenbaum [B.Sc./86, M.Sc./88, PhD/92] was growing up in Winnipeg’s North End, his immigrant father owned a TV and electronics store

Alia Marcinkow [B.Sc./08, B.Sc.(Pharm)/14] puts the “community” in community pharmacist.

If you visit a dentist or dental hygienist anywhere in Manitoba, there’s a good chance John Perry [DMD/76, M.Sc./86] was one of their teachers.

When they graduated from UM’s physical therapy program, neither Melanie Sabourin [BA/13, MPT/19] nor her friend Mikaela Hoeppner [MPT/18] had any plans to own a business. But within a few years, the pair teamed up to open a unique Winnipeg clinic.

From an early age, Karen Samson [BN/09] knew she wanted to help others.
During her childhood in Winnipeg’s Garden City neighbourhood, she recalls, her grandfather suffered a seizure. It’s one of her earliest memories of seeing health-care workers.