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.
As the number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases in Ottawa continued to rise in April, Dr. Lorne Wiesenfeld, vice-dean of Postgraduate Medical Education, gave us glimpse of life as a practicing emergency physician.
uOttawa MD students pitch in to help frontline health workers during COVID-19
uOttawa MD students are reaching out to support health care professionals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, from helping them with child care, groceries and errands outside of work to donating much-needed medical supplies for the frontlines.
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.
SEPH researcher seeks equity for disadvantaged communities amid COVID-19 outbreak
CIHR awards Dr. Ronald Labonté and team $499,304 to investigate how to improve international health governance to control the highly contagious disease.
