Alumni

Portrait of Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum in his lab.

Scientist at Heart

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

Portrait of Alia Marcinkow in a pharmacy. She is wearing a pharmacist's white coat.

Rural RX

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

Portrait of Dr. John Perry. Dentistry student graduation photos are in frames on the wall behind him.

Wealth of Wisdom

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.

A physiotherapist works with a child in a bright, colourful room.

Finding Fun in Physio

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.

Karen Samson stands outside.

Honing Hospital Care

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.