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Dr. Melanie Squarzolo named Program Director of the Postgraduate Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine Program

NOSM University announces Dr. Melanie Squarzolo as the incoming Program Director of the Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine (FM/EM) residency program, effective May 1, 2022. Dr. Squarzolo practises in the emergency department at Health Sciences North in Sudbury. She completed medical school at the University of Toronto and Family Medicine residency in the University of Ottawa’s Northern stream. Dr. Squarzolo is NOSM Alumna—a member of the first graduating class of NOSM’s FM/EM program. The Emergency Medicine program is a one-year enhanced skills program, entered after completion of a two-year Family Medicine residency. On comp...

NOSM grad stays North to practise as a clinical medical physicist

Dr. Lalageh Mirzakhanian is one of NOSM’s many notable women in science, and she’s making an impact in the field of medical physics. The NOSM alumna and newly-minted medical physicist says she joined NOSM’s Medical Physics Residency Education Program (MPREP) in 2019 to gain clinical experience and to have access to a future clinical medical physicist position. After graduation, Dr. Mirzakhanian quickly secured a position at Health Sciences North (HSN) in Sudbury, where she completed her residency. “I always wanted to become a scientist,” she says. “I began with an undergraduate degree in physics, followed by a master's deg...

Celebrating the unique contributions of NOSM’s Francophone physician faculty

Francophone faculty at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) come from diverse French-speaking backgrounds and they take great pride in practising medicine in French. With March being Francophonie Month, hear the voices of a few Francophone faculty as they reflect on their unique experiences treating the growing community of Francophone newcomers, immigrants, refugees, and Franco-Ontarian seniors and children in Northern Ontario. Dr. Amel Abdallah Dr. Amel Abdallah is a NOSM Assistant Professor and a family physician at Fort William Family Health Team in Thunder Bay who speaks French, Arabic, and English. She atten...