Summer 2024 – Page 3

Dr. Joanne Parsons works with Junior Bison volleyball players on exercises to reduce their injury risk.

Athletes’ Advocate

Soon after Joanne Parsons [BMRPT/03, M.Sc./09, PhD/14] made the move from clinical physiotherapy to academia, she initiated a research project at a Winnipeg high school.

Lisa Knisley stands with a paper in front of a research poster.

For most of her early career after graduating from UM as a nurse, Dr. Lisa Knisley [BN/94] cared for adult patients. But in 2000, she was working in a cardiac catheter lab in London, England, that served both adults and children.

Two students perform a dental procedure on a child laying in a dental chair.

Kids’ Care Milestone

Over the past 25 years, thousands of inner-city children have received dental care through a partnership between the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry and the Winnipeg School Division.

Dr. Jason Kindrachuk looks into a large microscope. He is wearing a lab coat.

Biosafety Boon

A world-class laboratory to be constructed on the Bannatyne campus will meet high standards for biosafety, it was announced in May.

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.