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Meet Dr. Victoria Tian 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. In this Q&A, meet Dr. Victoria Tian and learn more […]

Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of our donors, RUH Foundation has invested $5.5 million into the newly renovated Walter and Margaret McNabb Interventional Cardiology Suite at Royal University Hospital, a state-of-the-art space where specialists diagnose and treat life-threatening heart conditions.

Dr. Sabira Valiani started shaking when she heard her name called as the successful grant recipient at the September 2025 Women Leading Philanthropy (WLP) meeting. 

Thanks to the generosity of Kelly Panteluk Construction Ltd. (KPCL Dirt Movers) and the Panteluk family, the newly renovated ICU family waiting room at RUH now includes sleep chairs, lounge seating, side tables and accessible electrical outlets.

For the nurses working in Royal University Hospital’s (RUH) Emergency Department, every opportunity to learn is one worth celebrating.

Thanks to a $1.2 million fundraising campaign — anchored by a $700,000 gift from Saskatoon philanthropist Merlis Belsher and Family — neurosurgeon Dr. Amit Persad and his  team at RUH have completed Saskatchewan’s first robotic epilepsy surgery.

Darryl Gurbach lay on a cold gravel road. He heard sirens in the distance before everything faded to black. He remembers fragments: an ambulance ride, in and out of consciousness, a helicopter, arrival at Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon.