Volume 6, Issue 3

Dr. Armen Aprikian, Chief of Urology at the McGill University Health Centre, has recently been named Interim Director of the MUHC’s new Cancer Care Mission.

Maryse Bertrand and Pierrete Wong have witnessed the positive results that high-quality woman-centred care can yield and have agreed to act as co-chairs of the Women’s Health segment of the Best Care for Life campaign.

With the MUHC’s redevelopment project moving rapidly forward, the Best Care for Life campaign’s $150 million leadership phase entering its final stretch and the Joint Corporate Campaign, Family Campaign and Women’s Heath segment all making important strides, the MUHC Foundation has organized a wide range of exciting events aimed at raising the campaign’s profile and sharing the MUHC’s vision with new and diverse constituencies.

On May 25, 2006, the MUHC lost one of its most beloved physicians when Dr. Robert H. Usher died of cancer at the age of 76. Usher’s innovative work in neonatal medicine and the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) set new international standards.

The Computer Assisted Labor Monitoring system is an important new tool that the MUHC's obstetricians and obstetrical nurses hope to acquire so they can more safely and accurately assess and treat women in labour.

The MUHC continues to make progress in identifying the professional firms that will undertake construction at the Glen campus and renovations at the Mountain campus; the Best Care for Life campaign also gained ground over the summer months.

The financial experts of the MUHC Foundation’s Planned Giving Committee have been touring the city explaining the advantages of this increasingly popular mode of philanthropy to laypeople and financial professionals alike.