Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine is committed to providing the highest standard of medical education and supporting health research with the goal of advancing the health of the people and communities we serve.
We are leaders in rural medical education and have received national and international awards and recognition. As the only medical school in Newfoundland and Labrador, research that focuses on the need of our communities is a priority. Ground-breaking research has provided important medical discoveries, which have led to improved medical interventions and patient care.
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Putting humans at the centre of the blue economy.
That’s the goal of a long-standing relationship between Memorial’s Faculty of Medicine and the Marine Institute with the national Mission to Seafarers organization and its new Newfoundland and Labrador station — and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Catalyst Grant is going a long way in supporting that goal.
Principal investigator Dr. Desai Shan, a maritime health and safety expert and an assistant professor of occupational health and safety in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial, is the project’s principal investigator.
Forty researchers at Memorial, including Drs. Anthony Incognito, Joseph Olayemi Olajide and Qutuba Karwi in the Faculty of Medicine, are receiving support.
The funding comes from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) highly competitive research grant programs.
In total, Memorial researchers have secured $9,436,718 in funding. Teams are based in the faculties of Medicine, Science and Engineering and Applied Science, as well as the Marine Institute.
In 2017, Cynthia McNeil began noticing random rashes on her arms.
Concerned, she made an appointment with her family doctor in Fort McMurray, Alta., who sent her off for tests.
Her bloodwork showed chronically high white blood cell counts, so she was referred to a hematologist for more tests.
