The new cardiac sciences surgical services at St. Boniface Hospital’s I.H. Asper Institute is officially opened.
An outpatient clinic is also opened for pre-surgery patients and for post-surgery follow-ups.
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St. Boniface Hospital introduces an electronic patient record, the first of its kind in a Manitoba hospital.
St. Boniface’s new I.H. Asper Clinical Research Institute was completed.
It is a state-of-the-art facility that bridges the gap between the Research Centre and the Hospital by allowing clinical trials to take place for the very first time in Manitoba. As such, it will provide Manitobans with direct and early access to leading-edge treatments and technology without having to leave the province.
St. Boniface Hospital opened the Centre for Research on Diseases of the Aging on the 4th floor of the Research Centre, thanks to $12.6 M in funds raised by the Research Foundation.
The Centre’s researchers will study senile dementias, including Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. Approximately 100 staff are involved in this research.
The Medical Research Council of Canada awarded the cardiovascular research team over $5 million to continue its research and designated it a “Medical Research Group”.
Manitoba’s first Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner used for research and clinical applications was installed in a separate but adjacent building.
St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre opens.
It is the first free-standing research facility constructed in Canada.
The St. Boniface Foundation established the International Award to honour individuals who have made, through their genius, talent and energy, an outstanding contribution to health care and the community.
Since then, people such as Dr. Jonas Salk, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Dr. Andrei Sakharov, Sir Edmund Hillary and most recently, Dr. Donall Thomas and Jose Carreras have been honoured.