April 2025

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.