Dr. Smita Pakhalé, who co-leads a unique smoking cessation program for, and with, Ottawa’s most vulnerable people, worries that the lockdown induced by the COVID-19 pandemic will take away their essential social supports.
A doctor with the Free French Forces during World War II, Dr. Jean Ettori left a prestigious position at the University of Paris in 1949 to become the Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Ottawa’s fledgling Faculty of Medicine.
Participants play the role of patients in an innovative program from the Office of Francophone Affairs that helps medical students understand the importance of empathy.
From its humble beginnings in army barracks, to the modern facilities of Roger Guindon Hall, this is the story of how our medical school’s home has changed and grown.
Ukrainian radiologist and chess master may have inspired Dr. Zhivago
Dr. Fedor Bohatirchuk served as an MD in World Wars I and II, before fleeing the advancing Soviet Army and becoming an anatomy professor at uOttawa’s fledgling medical school.
