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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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21:59

Unchanged over two decades: Marek Radomski calls for...

Researchers Under the Scope ·

2021/11/07

Dr. Marek Radomski says research pays off, in attracting dollars to post-secondary institutions, in creating healthier citizens, and in lowering health costs. He's the vice-dean of research at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Medicine, a member of Canada's U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, But in a province that will spend $6.5 billion on health care this year to fight a raging coronavirus pandemic, biomedical research spending is stuck at levels last seen at the turn of the

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15:19

Science with an armchair and a drink: Julia Boughner...

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2021/10/10

Julia Boughner knows primates carry a deep-seated instinct to gather together. An associate professor of anatomy with the College of Medicine, Boughner is a biologist who specializes in evolutionary development. On the last Tuesday of the month, she also hosts Café Scientifique Saskatoon. The gathering is essentially a pub night where a scientists talk about their research, mingle with members of the public and answer questions. "I think a lot of speakers enjoyed the fact they could give a

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19:23

Michael Levin and the race to reverse MS...

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2021/09/26

Dr Michael Levin is a neuroscientist unravelling the mysteries of nerve degeneration in Multiple Sclerosis patients. He's also Saskatchewan's inaugural MS Clinical Research Chair, whose team recently won a New Frontiers in Research Fund award. "In my lifetime, there's been a dramatic change in how we treat MS," said Levin. "There's a lot of hope when people come into the clinic." But after taking steroids for a number of years, many MS patients still relapse. "It's this kind of slow degenerative

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19:13

What I Did Last Summer: Kyra Ives on neuromuscular...

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2021/09/12

One of the trickiest parts of treating patients with neuromuscular diseases such as Parkinson's and Multiple Sclerosis is figuring out how to keep them active and moving. Fourth-year medical student Kyra Ives dove in, spending one summer studying the effect of deep brain stimulators on patients with Parkinson's disease. She and her team watched participants experience major differences in tasks involving gait and balance. Through that work, Ives also uncovered a number of obstacles for people with

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25:43

What I Did Last Summer: Christianne Blais on...

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2021/08/29

Taking a daily puffer with inhaled corticosteroids is a mainstay for millions of people who have eosinophilic asthma. But doctors don't always know what dosage will be most effective for their patients, in preventing inflammation. Up to now, studies of different corticosteroids have been hit and miss, with a patchwork of different approaches to brochoprovocation, subject groupings, and wash-out times. A study may prove a drug is safe, then neglects to accurately measure the dosage a patient needs.

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16:05

What I Did Last Summer: Cuting C-section infections...

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2021/08/15

Our podcast host, Jen Quesnel, has undergone two Caesarian sections -- lifesaving interventions that deliver babies safely. She's not alone. In Saskatchewan, roughly one quarter of mothers giving birth are doing it via abdominal surgery. More than one in three births in British Columbia are C-sections. After avoiding driving, stairs, and lifting anything heavy for a month or so, most mothers recover smoothly. But some don't. Belma Kamencic spent her past two summers analyzing those with surgical

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16:23

What I Did Last Summer: Shivani Tauh and End-of-Life...

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2021/08/01

One patient Shivani Tauh interviewed had to remove his ventilator tube to speak with her. Another told her it felt 'disingenuous' when able-bodied health care providers looked at his spinal cord injury and assured him 'this will pass'. Shivani Tauh kicks off our undergraduate summer research series in this episode, discussing her work on spinal cord injuries, and how they change a person's outlook, mobility and prognosis. Tauh, who is now entering her fourth year of medical school, has gathered

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28:47

Physician, heal thyself: doctors’ mental health...

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2021/07/18

For doctors in Saskatchewan, depression and anxiety have skyrocketed during the pandemic. We check in with Dr. Camelia Adams, an associate professor of psychiatry, who's been tracking physicians' mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Just one of the 118 physicians she surveyed reported asking for help with mental health issues. That's no surprise to Angie Wiebe, one of the psychologists working with the University of Saskatchewan's Employee Assistance Program. Wiebe said almost everyone she's

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25:17

A light touch: Katherine Knox on Multiple Sclerosis...

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2021/06/20

When Dr. Katherine Knox first arrived in Saskatchewan more than two decades ago, the province covered one prescription drug for patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Beyond that, patients had to pay for drugs out-of-pocket. Today, Knox said the province reimburses MS patients for 14 different drugs. “MS is an expensive disease on many levels,” said Knox, noting Saskatchewan’s coverage is now the most favourable for MS patients anywhere in Canada. In Saskatchewan, three in 1,000 people have

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24:14

'In a war zone': Alex Wong looks back at the Covid-19...

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2021/06/06

Dr. Alexander Wong remembers forcing himself to hide his fear last year, as he treated his first Covid-19 patients. “It kind of felt like we were staring down the bottom of a big gun barrel," said Wong, an assistant professor in the College of Medicine's Department of Infectious Diseases. The virus has killed 546 people in Saskatchewan. In this episode, Wong looks at public health, at politics, and at 'really complicated' decision-making during the pandemic, as Regina's critical-care teams fought to

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24:43

'Good Troublemaker': Manuela Valle-Castro roots out...

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2021/05/23

Manuela Valle-Castro remembers growing up in a home where social justice was frequently part of the dinner-table conversation. She spent the first six years of her life in exile, after her family joined thousands of Chileans fleeing Augusto Pinochet's oppressive political regime. Upon her family's return to Chile, she watched her parents and their friends organize and push back, even when dissent could lead to jail time, torture, or death. "It wasn't a very conventional way of growing up," said

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19:52

The inventor: Ron Geyer harnesses the power of...

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2021/05/09

Dr. Ron Geyer is the man behind the Saskatchewan Therapeutic Antibody Resource, the Advanced Diagnostics Research Laboratory, and the Centre for Biologic Imaging Research and Development. But when the biochemist and pathologist began university, he was more interested in improving his downhill race times. "I was very into skiing," Geyer said, recalling his experiments with different waxes and techniques, which set the stage for a lifetime of tinkering. After being sidelined by a knee injury

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16:54

"It made all the difference": a patient perspective...

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2021/04/25

"The medication that I'm taking today would not have happened if we weren't doing this research 30 years ago," said Lois Miller. In this episode, she offers a patient's view of research, and how it can change lives. Miller is 52. Once again she's able to walk, to work, and to live a relatively normal life five years after her diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. But that didn't happen overnight, nor was it easy. Miller initially had 'incredibly painful' side effects with the drugs her neurologist

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20:03

Making the cut: Adam Baxter-Jones on teen athletes...

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2021/04/11

As a young man finishing his biology degree, Adam Baxter-Jones was decidedly more interested in being a punk than a professor. "I was far more interested in things like music and fashion than I ever was in academia," he said. But Baxter-Jones needed a job, and eventually found one testing the lung function of hospital patients. Then, he found himself measuring aerobic fitness for up-and-coming teenage swimmers, gymnasts, soccer players and tennis players. As he earned his PhD in medical sciences,

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19:50

Wa sati wa nhenha: Women strengthening health

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2021/03/28

In Mozambique, the Xitswa phrase, "wa sati wa nhenha" means "strong women" or "women's strength". Jessie Forsyth and Nazeem Muhajarine are two of the University of Saskatchewan researchers learning how to build on that strength in rural and remote communities. And they've done so during a pandemic. In this episode, hear why Covid-19 did not stop the Mozambique-Canada Maternal Health project from opening several brand-new rural medical facilities this year. Nurses also managed to keep upgrading

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20:38

A one-year pandemic checkup, with Preston Smith, Dean...

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2021/03/14

One year ago, Dr. Preston Smith remembers watching the coronavirus inch closer and closer to the University of Saskatchewan. "It felt like being in the emergency room and hearing the police and ambulances had been called to an accident. You knew something was coming," he said. By mid-March 2020, nearly every aspect of teaching and research was shutting down at the medical college he oversees. "Experiments were interrupted. There was an enormous loss to our research," said Smith. Crediting 'amazing

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16:16

Inside the black box: Changting Xiao on the role of...

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2021/02/28

To crack the causes of metabolic disease, Dr. Changting Xiao is peering into the "black box" of the human gut. As a boy, Xiao frequently ran homemade experiments, trying to figure out how systems work. Over the decades that followed, he observed an 'epidemic' increase in diabetes, obesity, strokes and heart disease. In this episode, the biomedical researcher explains why he recently moved to Saskatchewan, and his fascination with the human gut, and its role in creating 'bad blood fats'. "The gut is

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26:00

Medical anthropologist Caroline Tait, on transplant...

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2021/02/14

"Western medicine can give you the heart of another person, but no meaningful direction on how to lead a good life with that heart," said Dr. Caroline Tait. That's the dilemma many Indigenous people face, as disproportionately early deaths and chronic disease boost the need for organ transplants. "Our whole public education if you look at it, is all about convincing people to sign their donor cards," said Tait, a medical anthropologist and psychiatry professor at the University of Saskatchewan. "We

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15:09

The burden of lung disease and lightening it, with...

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2021/01/31

Respiratory disease now accounts for one in four hospital admissions, with lung cancer killing more patients than any other cancer. As both a respirologist and a health economist, Dr. Erika Penz knows Canadians spend a staggering amount of money treating lung diseases and cancer -- conditions that can be prevented. That's why, early on, Penz chose to put respiratory disease in her crosshairs. "That's actually why I get excited," said Penz. "The more we can understand and reduce these risks.... the

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16:01

Do serious doctors tweet? Brent Thoma, on digital...

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2021/01/17

Whether it's a blog, a podcast, a wiki, a tweet, or an infographic, a growing number of doctors now turn online when they need answers. For the past five years, Dr. Brent Thoma has led research supporting the use of free, open-access, and high-quality resources for medical education. “I think we’re really elevating our game in medical education, because these resources are available from such exceptional educators and researchers," said Thoma, who specializes in emergency medicine and trauma. He's

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