In October 1822, a group of medical officers of the Montreal General Hospital assembled to draw up a mission statement that might hopefully lead to the founding of a medical school in the city.
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of Montreal researchers realized that Canada was in a vulnerable position. The country was dependent on other countries for the tests that were...
Age 50 has long been recommended as the time to start screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) because of the higher risk to those in the 50–54 category. But a study published early this year by...
Growing up in Montreal’s Nigerian and Caribbean communities, Onye Nnorom, MDCM’07, didn’t see a career in medicine as a possibility. “I’m not one of those people who said they always knew they...
Charles Posternack, BSc’77, MDCM’81, helps people emerge from dark rooms. Avulux, the company he co-founded, manufactures precision tinted eyeglasses, which alleviate the debilitating symptoms of...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, infection control clinical nurse Layal Abou-Chacra, BSc(N)’05, started coaching frontline workers in hospitals and long-term care facilities in best practices to...