PhD candidate in population health uses documentary filmmaking as a tool for advocacy
When Nicole Bergen arrived in Ethiopia to work on her doctoral thesis in maternal health, her equipment list included some unconventional items: lights, tripods, and cinematography cameras.
Dr. Robert Harris paused his medical studies for two years in the late 1980s to travel the world and gain experience in different health care settings. He recounts his experiences in this excerpt from his essay, first published in Memories - Faculty of Medicine 1945-1995.
Medical residents help create first-ever online pathology tool for patients
In collaboration with Dr. Jason Wasserman, anatomical pathology residents Drs. Anthea Lafreniere and Zuzanna Gorski have built a freely accessible web tool that gives patients greater understanding of their pathology results.
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.
