NOSM University Alumna Honours Late Son with Gifts of Mounted Swordfish, Student Award
In memory of her son Haseeb Syed Zaib, a NOSM University alumna is investing in future physicians. Haseeb Syed’s Memorial Fund will provide $5,000 annually to a NOSM University student in any year who has financial need. The award is thanks to a donation by Dr. Jehan Zaib (Family Medicine, 2012), who is also an Assistant Professor. Along with the fund, Dr. Zaib has donated a mounted swordfish that Haseeb caught shortly before his death in 2022. Passionate about his community and about health care, Haseeb was a kind, humble, and intelligent person, and an exceptional student at Hammarskjold High School in Thunder Bay. He gradu...
> Read MoreKira Wilson
Kira completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba in Human Nutritional Sciences in 2008. During undergrad, Kira was hired with the NOSM Summer Studentship program at Thunder Bay District Health Unit and again at St. Joseph’s Care Group. In 2008/09, she completed the NODIP at the Thunder Bay site. Kira was the recipient of the Canadian Foundation of Dietetic Research National Morgan Medal for her practice-based research project on the Recruitment and Retention of Dietitians in Northern Ontario. Following graduation, Kira worked at the Atikokan Family Health Team for four years and has since been working at Diabet...
> Read MoreThe Joy of Practising Family Medicine
Rarely are we given a window into our own impact on the lives of others. Recently, someone reached out to me on social media, and gave me perhaps the best gift I have ever received. This person is a former patient from my time as a practising family physician in Kingston, Ontario. Although I have not been in practice there since 2005, she wanted to say hello, and to let me know that my decade-long involvement in her care, starting when she was a teenager, had “saved her Ife” and “inspired” her to go to medical school. What a moment. I am an immensely proud family doctor! The joy, the challenges, the wonder, and the privileg...
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