Highlights from Med//E-News: The McGILL FACULTY OF MEDICINE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER

• Putting teachers in the SPOTlight December 6, 2019
  A video launched in 2017 is getting a second wave of attention as part of the Faculty of Medicine’s Proud to Teach initiative. The video highlights the vital role of teaching and mentorship at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy. In order be as authentic as possible, alumni were asked to send in a […]
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• How we can end the HIV/AIDS epidemic December 6, 2019
  On Tuesday, December 3, Dr. Chen Liang, Professor in the Department of Medicine, and Interim Director of the McGill AIDS Centre at the Lady Davis Institute published an op-ed in the Montreal Gazette, bringing attention to the fact that if we work together and harness antiretroviral therapy we can put an end to the epidemic. Read […]
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• Researchers identify a process responsible for therapeutic resistance in aggressive breast cancer December 5, 2019
  Using tumor biopsies from patients with chemotherapeutic resistant triple negative breast cancer, researchers at the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital have identified changes to the form of the cancer cells that appear to be associated with their capacity to resist usual drug treatment. This discovery is featured on the cover of the […]
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• McGill PhD student named to Forbes Top 30 under 30 list December 5, 2019
  Daniel Almeida, a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Gustavo Turecki in McGill University’s Integrated Program in Neuroscience and at the Douglas Research Centre, was included in Forbes Magazine’s Top 30 under 30 list, unveiled December 3. Overall, the ninth annual list includes 600 young entrepreneurs, risk-takers and game changers who are redefining what […]
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• Emergency Medicine now a permanent academic department December 5, 2019
  At their meeting in late October, on the recommendation of the McGill University Senate, the Executive Committee of the University’s Board of Governors formally approved the establishment of a permanent Department of Emergency Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine, removing the provisional status it carried since its inception in spring 2018. The designation creates a […]
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• MIMM Bites Newsletter – December 2019 December 5, 2019
  We are pleased to announce that the December issue is now available online. It provides news and announcements of interest to the faculty and support staff members, as well as to students and alumni members. It also presents information on department updates, upcoming events and announcements. Read more ►  
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• The Advanced Modular Manikin™… sometimes, it is all about the technology! December 5, 2019
  Dr. Robert Sweet is the principal investigator of numerous research and development projects that bring simulation science to the forefront. As the Executive Director of the Washington Wyoming Alaska Montana Idaho Institute for Simulation in Healthcare (WISH) and the University of Washington Center for Research in Education and Simulation Technologies, he is leading the next […]
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