May 2018

The CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health Trailblazer Award in the senior career category has been awarded to Dr. Noni MacDonald, Canada’s first female Dean of Medicine at Dalhousie University.

After his experiences in Africa, 2018 Medicine graduate Allan Kember is determined to improve the health of women and their babies in the developing world.

This Spring, 110 of Dalhousie’s medical students will walk across the stage of the Rebecca Cohn theatre on Monday to accept their MDs. These are the stories of just a few of them.

See the list of winners from the Faculty of Medicine from the 2018 Student Impact Awards in Halifax, celebrating outstanding student contributions to the university and our communities.

Dalhousie Medical School’s Service Learning Program is part of #DalMedForward, the school’s five-year plan to continue to achieve excellence in medical education while serving and engaging the broader community.

Associate professor in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology at Dalhousie Medical School Dr. Bradley Johnston, recently found that certain multi-species probiotics reduce the odds of C. difficile infection by about two-thirds.

Amy Brown and Intekhab Hossain, both medical students in their third year, have recently co-published their paper with the support and encouragement of their Research in Medicine mentor, Dr. Petra Kienesberger.

Dr. Alexander Reid, the first Dean of Medicine, played an essential role for the Medical School.

Dr. Christopher McMaster, a renowned expert in biochemistry, and cell biology, has been has appointed as the scientific director for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Genetics.