Researchers Under the Scope
91 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -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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Dr. Sabira Valiani: Creating Connections in Critical Care
March 24, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBDr. Sabira Valiani was one of the frontline physicians working inside Saskatoon’s critical care units four years ago, during the initial lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic. “It was really weird,” said Valiani. Valiani said ‘a lot of light bulbs went off in my head’ amid the automated stillness of the unit, as she watched ventilators breathing for heavily sedated patients. Covered in head-to-toe personal protective equipment, staff in the intensive care unit struggled to...
Dr. Daphne Yau on Blood Sugar & Brain Health
February 25, 2024 17:00 - 21 minutes - 30.5 MBDaphne Yau can trace her interest in endocrinology back to a beta-cell physiology experiment during her master’s degree, working with laboratory mice with Type 2 Diabetes. “It was the part of the pancreas that makes insulin,” she said. “It was fascinating. It also made me realize that maybe pure laboratory research wasn't quite for me." From there, her interest in hormones and fluctuating blood sugar levels grew. Yau is no stranger to medicine. Her mother was a pharmacist, while her f...
Dr. Sam Haddad: At the Heart of Patient Care
February 11, 2024 05:00 - 22 minutes - 31.9 MBHaissam Haddad inadvertently horrified his family when he signed up for engineering courses in his first year of university. The teenager returned the next day to change his major to medicine -- a move he's glad he made. Dr. Haddad practiced family medicine in Syria for three years, then arrived in Canada in 1986 to visit his wife's family, who urged him to stay. Haddad faced an uphill battle when he investigated the possibility of becoming a Canadian doctor. One colleague even told hi...
Remote Rehabilitation: Dr. Stacey Lovo's Quest for Equitable Care
January 28, 2024 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this episode, we meet Dr. Stacey Love, Director of Virtual Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation at Saskatchewan's Virtual Health Hub, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan's School of Rehabilitation. She's also involved with the Saskatchewan Centre for Patient Oriented Research. You can see more of her recent publications here, along with links to her labs: Musculoskeletal Health and Access to Care: https://cchsa-ccssma.usask.ca/mhac/ Virtual Care and Remote Pre...
Dr. Angelica Lang: Shaping the Future of Shoulder Health
January 14, 2024 05:00 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBDr. Angelica Lang knows most of the people she sees have to keep working, even if they have shoulder pain. As an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan and director of the Musculoskeletal and Ergonomics Lab at the Canadian Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health, Lang’s goal is to reduce that pain — keeping patients on the job. “A lot of daily life has to be done with your hands,” she said. “The base of that is your shoulder. It allows you to position your hand i...
Stronger Foundations: Dr. Munier Nour on Bone Development in Diabetic Youth
December 31, 2023 05:00 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBDr. Munier Nour said osteoporosis is often seen as a disease that affects older adults. But compared to their peers, kids with Type 1 diabetes grow into adults eight times as likely to suffer bone fractures. “Osteoporosis may actually have its origins during pediatric years,” he said. “Because Type 1 diabetes occurs so early in life ….. it influences that bone development that occurs during your peak growth.” Now, Nour is a co-lead on a national team trying to figure out why. ...
Thriving Against The Odds: Dr. Amanda Hall on Short Gut Syndrome
December 10, 2023 05:00 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBIn the heart of the Health Sciences Building, Dr. Amanda Hall studies a tray of organoids under a microscope. “They do need a lot of attention and a lot of feeding,” she said, pointing to dot-like points in a gel solution. The pediatric surgeon and assistant professor of pediatric general surgery will use those dots to identify factors that help infants overcome short gut syndrome. The rare condition affects roughly 24 in every 100,000 babies born in Canada, presenting a profound chal...
Inhale, Exhale, Repair: Dr. Valerie Verge
November 26, 2023 05:00 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBValerie Verge was in her early twenties when she landed her first job, doing neuroscience research and she loved it. But 43 years ago, her research journey began to take a twist. "I developed an allergy to rats and mice,” she said. “I was using a box of Kleenex a day.” She reluctantly had to admit that this may not be her career path, and spent her evenings earning a ‘back-up plan’ degree in computer programming at McGill. She refused to give up laboratory work, and went on with her ...
Fighting Treatment-Resistant Depression with Ketamine: Dr. Evyn Peters
November 12, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes - 39 MBDr. Evyn Peters has created pivotal changes for patients arriving at Royal University Hospital's mental health short stay unit, and its emergency department. With 33 publications and interests spanning psychiatry, psychopharmacology and mood disorders, Peters is often one of the first physicians patients see when they’re experiencing a mental health crisis. Peters was finishing his residency at RUH and the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine in 2017, when he and his col...
Dr. Wendie Marks: Researching Complex Connections Between Stress, Nutrition & Health
October 30, 2023 02:55 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MBBy the end of her Grade Eight year in Saskatoon, Wendie Marks was sure about one thing: she knew she wanted to study health and the way early-life development affected the human body. “I spent a lot of time in the library reading books,” Marks said. “I was always kind of the nerdy type.” Marks enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan and thrived, earning her PhD in psychology. Her interests evolved towards behavioural neuroscience, focusing on the mechanisms behind behaviour, s...
Mossy Cells and New Paths in Neuroscience: Dr. Justin Botterill
June 27, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MBWhen Justin Botterill first arrived at the University of Saskatchewan, he took what he described as a 'shotgun approach' to choosing classes. Midway through his second year, his psychology professors introduced him to neuropsychology, and to psychiatric and neurological disorders. He was hooked. Botterill soon began working with rodent models, later focusing on the hippocampus and pathways involved in forming memories and spatial navigation. "The hippocampus is widely implicated in a...
Be Like Bruce is Back: Chris Gordon Tackles Pancreatic Cancer
June 04, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBWhen Bruce Gordon's relatives descend on Saskatoon this month, his wife will put them to work. Bruce Gordon was a police officer and a lawyer, who competed as a triathlete and in the Crossfit Games. He was a fierce competitor until he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer at age 54. Hear his story in Episode 43. After Bruce died in 2017, Chris Gordon became one of the chief organizers of the 'Be Like Bruce' fitness festival -- an athletics-driven fundraiser for pancreatic can...
Turning Back the Neurotoxin Clock, with Dr. Jeff Dong
May 21, 2023 04:00 - 20 minutes - 30.1 MBMidway through his undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia, a laboratory 'help wanted' poster caught Jeff Dong's eye. He applied, gaining invaluable practical experience that summer in Stephanie Borgland's lab. "She really supported me in understanding what research is about," said Dong, who went on to complete his PhD through UBC's Department of Microbiology and Immunology, moving to Calgary for post-doctoral work at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. "That process was re...
Antibodies and Aging Gracefully: Dr. Peter Pioli
May 07, 2023 04:00 - 21 minutes - 30.2 MBBefore we’re even born, our bodies begin to grow and train an army of spies and assassins, creating a crew of immune system fighters in the upper chest's thymus gland. While this production is dominated by T cells, other immune cells such as B cells and plasma cells can be generated within the thymus, albeit at a very low level. After adolescence, the thymus reduces production at its 'spy and assassin' factory to a trickle. This has consequences because as we age, our immune system mak...
Ready to Launch: Anurag Sakharkar Pinpoints Key Biomarkers in Astronaut Health
April 16, 2023 04:00 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBLike a lot of kids, Anurag Sakharkar used to dream about being a doctor, or an astronaut. His parents, both academics, encouraged him to follow his dream. In high school, he began spending evenings and weekends working at the University of Saskatchewan’s biomedical labs, perfecting advanced research methods, western blots and PCR analysis . He began learning about Parkinson’s disease with Dr. Changiz Taghibiglou, then started examining novel cancer treatment approaches with Dr. Franco...
Scratching That Itch: Dr. Rachel Asiniwasis Targets Atopic Dermatitis
April 02, 2023 04:00 - 24 minutes - 35 MBWhen Dr. Rachel Asiniwasis returned to the prairies after her dermatology residency in Toronto, she noticed a pattern among many of her pediatric patients. Hundreds of them were coming to her with itchy, raw patches of skin, the result of atopic dermatitis — eczema. “One of the biggest frustrations for me is when people say ‘oh, it’s just a skin problem’,” said Asiniwasis. “Itching in many ways is just as impactful as chronic pain,” Atopic dermatitis is the most common chronic skin inf...
When Can ICU Patients Be Discharged Home?
March 05, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 32.3 MBPatients in intensive care units often move to a regular ward before they're discharged, and sent home. But increasingly, hospitals are skipping that step, sending a handful of ICU patients directly home. "We were really looking at analyzing the data of safety in terms of discharging patients home safely in terms of outcomes such as mortality, or a re-admission to hospital," said Ryan Donnelly, who's currently finishing his first year of residency in Regina. He said for young patients...
Reversing the effects of Alzheimer's Disease: Dr. Ron Geyer on NeuroEPO
February 19, 2023 05:00 - 20 minutes - 30.2 MBFor decades, families have watched Alzheimer's disease steal their loved ones' cognitive function. It's the most common form of dementia; one that affects a third of people over the age of 85. It's a disease Dr. Ron Geyer and Dr. Andrew Kirk want to tackle. Right now, most pharmaceuticals target the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, without addressing its root cause. Most lose their effectiveness after three months. Geyer, a biochemist and professor of pathology at the University of Sa...
From Scratch: Rural Dementia Care with Dr. Debra Morgan
February 05, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBDebra Morgan grew up on a farm and continued farming with her husband, initially working in nursing in the winter. Nursing shifts took her from neurosurgery to pediatrics, to orthopedics, then to Saskatoon's geriatric units at City Hospital and Royal University Hospital. "I just found that I really enjoyed working with older people," Morgan said. She soon followed her passion for research, opting to study geriatric care as she earned her masters' and doctoral degrees in nursing. Tod...
Affairs of the (Zebrafish) Heart: Dr. Michelle Collins
January 22, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 32.4 MBIf you've ever sat through a bad date at a restaurant, unsure of what to order, you're still doing better than a typical zebrafish date. Dr. Michelle Collins said without safety precautions, a zebrafish male and female left together overnight often eat their embryos. The assistant professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Medicine has studied zebrafish for years, using them as a model to examine genetic factors in cardiac development...
Dr. Darryl Adamko: Little Lungs, Lessons Learned
January 08, 2023 05:00 - 24 minutes - 35 MBDiagnosing pulmonary diseases ilike asthma in young children is still largely a matter of trial and error, according to Saskatchewan’s top pediatric respirologist. As viruses and colds tear through schools and daycares across North America, Dr. Darryl Adamko wants to change that. “If you have asthma this year and you're not taking your inhaled steroids, well you're rolling the dice,” said Adamko, who’s watched an influx of young patients over the past few months at the Jim Pattis...
In the Spirit of Christmas
December 25, 2022 05:00 - 6 minutes - 9.36 MBMay this holiday season find all our Researchers Under the Scope listeners feeling cozy, festive and warm. In the spirit of giving, the Office of the Vice-Dean of Research at the College of Medicine has once again teamed up, to make a donation to students and staff at King George Elementary School in Saskatoon. This is where you can scroll down and find the details you need to make an e-transfer donation. And in the New Year, we resolve to bring you an episode for parents of young chi...
Dr. Scott Widenmaier: Connecting Cholesterol, Obesity and Immunometabolism
December 11, 2022 05:00 - 21 minutes - 30.8 MBWhen 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 Universit...
Just Give Mutants A Chance: Dr. Linda Chelico
November 27, 2022 05:00 - 24 minutes - 33.9 MBAs 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...
Dr. Oleg Dmitriev on Copper, Platinum and Safer Chemotherapy
November 13, 2022 05:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBColour-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 ...
What Physics Can Tell Us About Inflammatory Pulmonary Disease, with Dr. Asmahan AbuArish
October 30, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 43.2 MBAsmahan 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...
Using CBD Oil to Treat Severe Epilepsy in Children, with Dr. Richard Huntsman
July 10, 2022 04:00 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBAs 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. B...
Hot-boxing Rats and Brain Neuroscience, with Dr. Robert Laprairie
June 19, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBResearchers 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 ...
Hot-boxing rats and brain neuroscience, with Dr. Robert Laprairie
June 19, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBResearchers in Robert Laprairie's lab are hard to miss, with their tie-dyed lab coats, overseeing lab rats in iPad-sized chambers filled with cannabis smoke. An associate professor of pharmacy, Dr. Laprairie and his team are trying to unravel the mysteries of human neurotransmitters and cannabinoid receptors. "Cannabis is challenging. There's a lot of bureaucracy, there's a lot of stuff that gets in the way. So there was a knowledge gap," said Laprairie. His fascination with the unkno...
Dr. Ivar Mendez: The Robot Will See You Now
June 05, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. 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 wit...
Breakthoughs in Cystic Fibrosis, with Dr. Julian Tam & Juan Ianowski
May 22, 2022 04:00 - 26 minutes - 36 MBFrom 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 m...
Game Changer: Dr. Deborah Anderson on Triple Negative Breast Cancer
May 08, 2022 04:00 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBDr. 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...
Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Chandra Dattani's Story
April 24, 2022 04:00 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBChandra 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 tumou...
'I'm Going To Do This': with Dr. Veronica McKinney
April 10, 2022 04:00 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBWhen 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...
Physician in the field: Niels Koehncke on the 'flip side' of medicine
March 27, 2022 04:00 - 20 minutes - 19.8 MBMost 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 th...
Community-driven: graduate researchers make a diifference
March 12, 2022 18:51 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MBTo 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 Saskato...
'Be Like Bruce': Chris Gordon gives momentum to Saskatoon cancer researchers
February 27, 2022 05:00From 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 sp...
'Be Like Bruce': Chris Gordon gives momentum to Saskatoon cancer researchers
February 27, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes - 29.1 MBFrom 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 sp...
Dr. Alex Wong on Sask's rush to drop Covid rules
February 13, 2022 05:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBAs 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 t...
Phantom Power: Audrey Zucker-Levin on Artificial Limbs
January 30, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBAudrey 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 wor...
Ayisha Kurji
January 16, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBDr. 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 admitted to hospital for 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 ...
The Kids Are Not All Right, with Ayisha Kurji
January 16, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBDr. 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 acro...
Behind BRK, Biochemistry and Breast Cancer: Dr. Erique Lukong
December 19, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBDr. 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 med...
Behind BRK, Biochemistry and Breast Cancer: Erique Lukong
December 19, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBDr. 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 medic...
Treating diabetes with black bag medicine: Dr. Stu Skinner
December 05, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBWithout 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," sai...
Treating diabetes with black bag medicine: Stu Skinner
December 05, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBWithout 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," sai...
Slips, trips and spills: Preventing Falls with Cathy Arnold
November 21, 2021 16:11 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBFor 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 Canad...
Slips, trips and spills: Preventing Falls with Dr. Cathy Arnold
November 21, 2021 16:11 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBFor 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 Canad...
Unchanged over two decades: Marek Radomski calls for boost to biomedical spending
November 07, 2021 04:00 - 21 minutes - 22.7 MBDr. 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 tu...
Science with an armchair and a drink: Julia Boughner and Café Scientifique
October 10, 2021 04:00 - 15 minutes - 14.7 MBJulia 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...