Author Archives: Michelle Morrison

Meet Dr. Bashir Daud Shah RUH Foundation supports advanced fellowship training for physicians who pursue specialized training after residency, bringing vital expertise back to Saskatchewan. Through donor support, these opportunities help attract and retain highly skilled specialists, ensuring patients can access leading-edge care close to home. Dr. Bashir Daud Shah is a Clinical Movement Disorder […]

A Quiet Life of Giving Caring for other people was the thread that ran through Lois Beggs’s whole life. Born in Wilkie, Saskatchewan, the sixth of eight children, Lois loved children and gave more than three decades to teaching them, in Saskatoon, in England, and in Germany. Her students still remember how she brought Snoopy […]

Donor-funded Trauma Training Builds Skills, Connection in Stony Rapids When a critical patient arrives at the health facility in Stony Rapids, Mark Lussier and his colleagues sometimes face a challenge few southern hospitals ever do: keeping that patient stable for  hours until a plane can get in. “We’re dealing with huge distances, and weather is […]

Saskatchewan Research, National Reach Eight years ago, Dr. Candice Jackel-Cram pitched her research idea to a room full of women, and they said yes. That yes, the very first grant awarded by Women Leading Philanthropy donors, launched the UTERUS Project (Universal Testing of Endometrial Cancer: Reaching an Under-Served Population). This spring, the research was published […]

Honouring a Legacy of Leadership Alain Gaucher and the Saskatoon partners of MLT Aikins have made a collective gift of $150,000 in honour of Alain’s retirement, celebrating his distinguished career and long-standing  dedication to community leadership. The gift will support the Irene and Leslie Dubé Centre for Mental Health, helping advance compassionate, patient- and family-centred […]

Cardiac Care Closer to Home For hundreds of people living with implanted cardiac devices across rural Saskatchewan, routine follow-up appointments have often meant hours on the road to Saskatoon. Thanks to the generosity of donors Mike and Adele Giblin, that’s changing. Their support funded the purchase of three cardiac device remote monitors, expanding access to […]

Giving Back to the Irene and Leslie Dubé Centre for Mental Health When her class was asked to find a way to give back to their community, Grade 10 student Jerrilee Shaw already had an answer. Earlier this year, Shaw was a patient at the Irene and Leslie Dubé Centre for Mental Health at Royal […]

Candace Abramyk was 19 and in university when one eyelid started to droop. Within days, neurologists at Royal University Hospital (RUH) had a diagnosis: myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease that weakens the muscles she uses to see, speak, swallow and walk. Her condition flares without warning. An infection can trigger it. So can the wrong […]

Equipping RUH’s ICU Expansion Dr. Susan Shaw has spent her career finding out what’s wrong with a patient before it’s too late. In the intensive care unit (ICU) at Royal University Hospital (RUH), portable ultrasounds help her do that at the bedside, in real time. “You can actually see inside, and see the heart pumping,” […]