Summer 2024

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.

Listening to Experience

When Dr. Zulma Rueda was studying tuberculosis transmission in Colombian prisons as part of her PhD research 14 years ago, some prisoners approached her.

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.

A person wearing a virtual reality headset stands in front of a TV showing a simulated hospital environment witha patient in a bed and an avatar labeled 'Leaner One.'

Into the RadyVerse

On March 15, dozens of students, faculty and staff members were transported from the Brodie Centre atrium to health-care environments, just by putting on virtual reality (VR) headsets.