Excellence takes many forms across the Faculty of Medicine, and each year, we gather to celebrate the people behind it.

On May 30, we gathered to honour their achievements and bright futures. Each graduate’s story is one of perseverance and purpose, a testament to their passion for medicine and commitment to making a difference.

On May 29, 2025, members of the Faculty of Medicine came together to celebrate the outstanding contributions of staff and those in senior academic leadership roles.

Each year, Dalhousie’s Golden Eagle Lifetime Achievement Award and Aurum Awards celebrate outstanding alumni who are making contributions to the betterment of society. They are awarded annually during Dal Alumni Days. We are proud to introduce you to this year’s five recipients.

An early exposure to surgery planted the seed for a career in medicine for the newly appointed associate dean of continuing professional development and medical education (CPDME). Her love of science, combined with the intellectual challenge and complexity she later discovered in internal medicine, helped shape her path forward.

We are proud to congratulate this year’s AFMC award recipients from Dalhousie. Their achievements reflect the strength and impact of our medical community, and we thank them for their continued commitment to excellence.

The quiet peace between Canada and the United States has been broken. How broken? That remains to be seen. But no U.S. president before Eisenhower or since has treated and talked about Canada the way Donald Trump has in the early months of his second term. Tariffs, a trade war, “the 51st state” — all of it seemingly amounting to an unprecedented threat to Canadian sovereignty, lobbed from across the 49th parallel.

Canada is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in more than a decade, with cases rising to about 500 in recent weeks. The majority are in Ontario and Quebec, but other provinces are seeing cases of the highly contagious viral infection as well.

A graduate student in the Faculty of Medicine who is investigating light-sensitive proteins’ abilities to regulate heart arrhythmias has won the 2025 Three-Minute Thesis competition.