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Researchers Under the Scope

University of Saskatchewan, OVDR, College of Medicine

Medicine is so much more than lab coats and stethoscopes. The research community at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine is a diverse group of humans, all working with their own unique motivations — and not all of them work in a hospital setting. Get to know what gets these researchers amped about their jobs, what they"re doing, where they"re doing it, and why. Presented by the Office of Vice-Dean of Research, College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan.

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21:01

Dr. Scott Widenmaier: Connecting Cholesterol, Obesity...

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2022/12/11

When Scott Widenmaier left high school, he wasn't sure what career path he wanted to pursue. He grew up in Alameda, Saskatchewan, and soon found work on oil rigs. But by the time he was in his early twenties, he knew it was time for a change. "I realized that winters are just too cold to continue doing that," said Widenmaier. "I wasn't sure what I was going to do with my life, but I was interested in biology and human physiology." In his third year as a science major at the University of Regina,

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24:19

Just Give Mutants A Chance: Dr. Linda Chelico

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2022/11/27

As a high school student growing up in Melfort, Sask.. Linda Chelico knew she wanted to work in health sciences. She enjoyed biology class, and took an interest in watching nature heal itself. She wanted to find environmentally friendly solutions to health problems. Then, she read a National Geographic magazine about landfills filling up. Chelico began thinking about the environmental footprint of garbage, and about the organisms that could help break down piles of refuse. The idea turned into her

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21:10

Dr. Oleg Dmitriev on Copper, Platinum and Safer...

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2022/11/13

Colour-changing reactions and small explosions punctuated life at Dr. Oleg Dmitriev's home, when he was a boy. He loved trying out chemical reactions, and experimenting. As a teenager, he was fascinated by the science fiction novels his father brought home. "It's all about strange worlds and unusual, strange forms of life," said Dmitriev, a protein biochemist. "I started wondering, why is the life on our planet is the way it is? And what is the chemistry of life?" After earning his PhD at Moscow

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24:20

What Physics Can Tell Us About Inflammatory Pulmonary...

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2022/10/30

Asmahan AbuArish grew up in Hebron, surrounded by military checkpoints. She knew she wanted to help people, but she had to give up her dream of being a medical doctor early. Fortunately, AbuArish is no quitter. She discovered physics — and later its very real applications in curing inflammatory pulmonary diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Last year, Dr. AbuArish arrived at the University of Saskatchewan to open her own lab, landing $175,000

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21:49

Using CBD Oil to Treat Severe Epilepsy in Children,...

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2022/07/10

As a pediatric neurologist, Dr. Richard Huntsman sees the children with the most medically complex epilepsy "It completely disrupts the life of a family," said Huntsman. "Limitations on what the child can do, limitations on what the family can do." "When the kids have really severe and difficult-to-control epilepsy, It's a huge burden on their parents." Eight years ago, parents started asking Huntsman about whether they could try treating their childrens' seizures -- with cannabis. Back then,

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24:17

Hot-boxing Rats and Brain Neuroscience, with Dr....

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2022/06/19

Researchers in Robert Laprairie's laboratory are hard to miss, wearing tie-dyed lab coats as they oversee mice and lab rats in iPad-sized chambers filled with cannabis smoke. An associate professor in the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, Dr. Laprairie and his team are trying to unravel the mysteries of human neurotransmitters and cannabinoid receptors, and their role in neurodegenerative disease. "Cannabis is challenging. There's a lot of bureaucracy, there's a lot of stuff that gets in the way

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28:58

Dr. Ivar Mendez: The Robot Will See You Now

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2022/06/05

Dr. Ivar Mendez is one of the world's leading experts in neuroscience and robotics, neuromodulation, and remote medicine. But nine years ago, the award-winning neuroscientist who founded Dalhousie's Brain Repair Centre faced a career dilemma. Would he accept a senior clinician's position at Harvard University, or would he move to Saskatchewan, to oversee surgery for an entire province? Today, Dr. Ivar Mendez says he's glad he chose Saskatoon. "It's been a privilege for me to work with remote

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26:09

Breakthoughs in Cystic Fibrosis, with Dr. Julian Tam...

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2022/05/22

From insects and birds, to the underwater world, Juan Ianowski's fascination with the natural world began early. As a biologist, he was drawn to physiological processes, later scrutinizing the kidneys of insects, whose epithelial cells behave in similar ways to those in human lungs. By 2015, Ianowski's research was focused on the pathophysiology of lung cells, and the nerve channels controlling them. He and his collaborators were working with the Canadian Light Source, to get a more accurate

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27:07

Game Changer: Dr. Deborah Anderson on Triple Negative...

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2022/05/08

Dr. Deborah Anderson has spent her career as a biochemist and cancer cell biologist pinning down elusive targets. Now she’s made a breakthrough in one of the world’s most swift-moving and aggressive cancers: triple negative breast cancer. This form of the disease affects 15 to 20 per cent of women diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s , and is often more prevalent in young women, with a disproportionate number of Black and Latina women. Unlike other forms of breast cancer, it’s not fuelled by the

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27:09

Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Chandra Dattani's Story

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2022/04/24

Chandra Dattani's smile lit up the room, and her laughter was contagious. But when the beloved Saskatoon businesswoman and volunteer was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, even her husband, a physician, found very little information about therapies or drugs that could heal her. "There was very scant literature on triple negative, and I was asking them, why?" said Dr. Dan Dattani. Typically, oncology teams target estrogen and progesterone receptors to stop breast cancer tumours from

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23:43

'I'm Going To Do This': with Dr. Veronica McKinney

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2022/04/10

When Veronica McKinney was a little girl, she vivdly remembers going to the Saskatoon Public Library, borrowing a Time-Life book about the human body. "I loved that book and I would read it. I would copy the cover. I can picture it even to this day, all the different little cells," said McKinney, now an assistant professor at the College of Medicine. "I was just fascinated by how our body works and how it's just so amazing,” she said, as she recalled borrowing the book over and over, and tracing the

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20:12

Physician in the field: Niels Koehncke on the 'flip...

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2022/03/27

Most patients at a hospital or a clinic walk in sick. Doctors do their best to treat their ailments. Dr. Neils Koehncke's patients aren't necessarily sick. In fact, most are reasonably healthy and still on the job. But their duties at work often lead to a plethora of risky situations and occupational hazards. "It's the flip side of healthy, or at least people healthy enough to work suddenly being exposed to these environments that are really unusual," said Koehncke, the director of the Canadian

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15:06

Community-driven: graduate researchers make a...

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2022/03/12

To spread hope and cheer in our city, the Office of the Vice-Dean of Research typically runs a charitable donation campaign at the end of each year, during the Christmas break. Again, distancing, masks and video conferencing dominated the College of Medicine's second pandemic holiday season. That prompted graduate students Stefany Cornea and Nayoung Kim to issue a departmental challenge. Help an elementary school. Cornea and Kim reached out to some of the schools hardest-hit during Saskatoon's

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29:57

'Be Like Bruce': Chris Gordon gives momentum to...

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2022/02/27

From his time as captain of the Saskatoon Blades, to a career with the Saskatoon Police Service and the law -- Bruce Gordon was the kind of father, athlete and coach who inspired everyone around him. After he was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer in 2017, his wife Chris joined family and friends to start a wave of 'Be Like Bruce' fundraisers. "We were stunned and to be given a diagnosis of absolutely zero hope was devastating," said Chris Gordon. In his last months, Bruce spoke openly about

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19:35

Dr. Alex Wong on Sask's rush to drop Covid rules

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2022/02/13

As Saskatchewan drops its proof-of-vaccine requirements and masking orders, doctors and nurses are angry and frustrated, as they care for record numbers of Covid patients. "There's this tension of how to manage all of this going forward so that we don't have surge after surge and wave after wave continue to basically crush our healthcare system," said Dr. Alex Wong. The infectious disease specialist based at Regina General Hospital said Saskatchewan politicians ignore medical advice in their rush to

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23:49

Phantom Power: Audrey Zucker-Levin on Artificial Limbs

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2022/01/30

Audrey Zucker-Levin estimates it's been more than 30 years since she first poked her head into a researcher's office at New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery. Back then, the clinical therapist spent her days treating hospital patients, stopping by the laboratory after her shifts. "I was very intrigued by the prosthesis, by the mechanical and the physiologic connection," said Zucker-Levin. "I kept basically showing up any time I had spare time," she said. "They just put me to work." After long

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22:28

The Kids Are Not All Right, with Ayisha Kurji

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2022/01/16

Dr. Ayisha Kurji first noticed the uptick in children and teens admitted to hospital in the spring of 2020. Some had cardiovascular damage. Some had gastrointestinal issues. But it wasn't because of Covid-19. Instead, she kept seeing children and adolescents hospitalized with eating disorders. "They were so sick, so medically unwell," said Kurji. "We started to track it." As familiar routines evaporated and face-to-face interactions vanished after school cancelations, Kurji said across Canada,

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29:28

Behind BRK, Biochemistry and Breast Cancer: Erique...

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2021/12/19

Dr. Erique Lukong grins, pointing to two bracelets on his wrist. One inscribed with the word 'focus'; the other 'believe'. "I'm passionate about what I do,' he said, describing his journey through medicine as a series of lucky breaks. In his home country of Cameroon, Lukong was identified early as a promising scholar. Upon graduating from high school, he won an eight-year government scholarship to master both biochemistry and French linguistics. "They were looking for technical and medical

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21:26

Treating diabetes with black bag medicine: Stu Skinner

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2021/12/05

Without a car, without childcare, without a grocery store, a pharmacy, or a place to get blood work done, how does a person with diabetes in rural Saskatchewan keep their disease in check? Those are the questions Dr. Stu Skinner and his Wellness Wheel team members face each day, as they treat Cree and Saulteaux patients on the Day Star, George Gordon, Kawacatoose and Muskowekwan First Nations in south-eastern Saskatchewan. "We see a lot of patients with diabetic foot infections," said Skinner, a

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20:03

Slips, trips and spills: Preventing Falls with Cathy...

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2021/11/21

For senior citizens, fracturing a hip is more often than not a life-changing injury. One in three of those patients will die within a year. The second will recover and return home. The third often needs to move to a long-term care facility, to cope with reduced mobility. Dr. Cathy Arnold makes it her mission to stop those falls and fractures in the first place. On this episode of the podcast, she joins us to talk about breakthroughs in rehabilitation techniques and research, as Canada marks fall

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