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MD students Hui Yan and Jason Tran create PPE portraits to show the human faces of health care workers during the pandemic. 

Alumnus brings his unique perspective and popularity with Canadians to his candidacy to lead the Canadian Medical Association.

On February 11, University of Ottawa President and Vice-Chancellor Jacques Frémont hosted a virtual town hall at the Faculty of Medicine.

uOttawa Faculty of Medicine’s 2021 Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) award winners are Dr. Robert Bell and Dr. Ali Jalali.

Dr. Hugues Loemba explains his media celebrity and why sharing expertise is critical in stemming pandemic misinformation.

Changes to the graduate curriculum integrate social accountability into biomedical and basic science research.

Dr. Marceline Côté and her team have discovered a druggable pathway the virus uses to trick its way into our organs.

MSc student and Trevor Noah superfan Chisom Okwor uses scientific research to challenge health inequalities. 

As vice-dean of Faculty Affairs, Dr. Sharon Whiting believes the Faculty of Medicine is on track toward greater equity, diversity and inclusion.

Ottawa physicians are supporting family practice anesthesia colleagues in Nunavut to keep patients in their own communities for care—a partnership that is controlling costs, reducing cultural and language barriers, and easing stress on families.

Mental Health First Aid training provides faculty and supervisors with the skills to help learners in distress.

The Faculty of Medicine formally recognized its 2020-2021 professorial promotions on January 28 via virtual ceremony .

Updates from the Executive Leadership Team on priority populations for social accountability, a proposed new Health Sciences library, revised terms of reference for ELT/SLT and more.

The first-ever virtual Awards in Education recognized 118 outstanding learners and teachers of 2020.

Tuberculosis, Crohn’s disease, leukemia, and Parkinson’s disease are among the targets of the collaborative research.