New beginnings
On November 4, 2009, following completion of my postdoctoral fellowship, my husband Daniel and I left Boston in a 24-foot Penske moving truck, and began the long trek home to Canada, to ‘the Island’...
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This is not a grant. This is not a paper. This is a lab meeting!
Hello folks, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write. It’s been with a rueful chuckle that I finally understood (at least part of) my hesitation in writing my next blog entry. I shall now try to use...
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An Update on Teaching
As of yesterday, I have just completed my first year of teaching clinical renal physiology to the first year students in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program at AVC (Atlantic Veterinary...
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A Few Words About the Father of Dialysis
At a dialysis research conference this spring, I was both fascinated and moved to learn a little about the ‘father of dialysis,’ Dutch-born physician Willem Kolff. In the 1930s while working at the...
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Our first manuscript
It has been a busy year, a busy summer, and today is a busy Monday. There are grants to be written, students to teach, data to analyse, experiments to plan, problems to address, and meetings to attend....
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It is hard to believe that it’s been over four and a half years since I began my kidney development research program in Prince Edward Island. Yet this morning, I hold in my hand a precious letter from...
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