Spring 2021 (Volume 31, Number 1)
Regional News:
Update from Manitoba
By Liam O'Neil, MD, FRCPC
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The big news from Manitoba (MB) is that the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has provided
funding for a team immunology project (nominated
principal investigator [NPI]: Dr. Hani El-Gabalawy,
recently bestowed ACR Master) that will aim to understand
and prevent rheumatoid arthritis autoimmunity in First
Nations people. Dr. Liam O’Neil was hired in early 2020 as
a clinician-scientist and co-investigator on this team grant.
In other news, we eagerly await the opening of a new
Internal Medicine subspecialty outpatient clinic which is
being developed by a team led by our very own Dr. David
Robinson. Adult rheumatology is also now providing
outreach clinics to serve Nunavut (Dr. Robinson) and
Hodgson, MB (Dr. Konstantin Jilkine). Sadly, we also must
announce the departure of Dr. Kerstin Gerhold from pediatric
rheumatology, with Dr. Lilly Lim taking over as section
head. Dr. Lim is also funded by CIHR to study lived experience
and longitudinal employment in lupus patients.
Several bear statues, known as the “Bears on Broadway,”
decorate the grounds of Manitoba’s Parliament in Winnipeg.
Liam O'Neil, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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