This morning at the College of Medicine convocation, moments before 106 new physicians pledged the Hippocratic Oath during their graduation ceremony, we shared an announcement of a monumental gift to the University of Manitoba, the largest ever single gift made to this institution:

Alumni Dr. Ernest and Mrs. Evelyn Rady gifted $30 million to the Faculty of Health Sciences in support of students, research, and places and spaces of learning and discovery.

We are tremendously grateful to Ernest and Evelyn Rady for the amazing generosity and confidence they have shown our institution. Their support will have a transformational impact on all of us here at the University of Manitoba and on the health and wellness of the entire population of Manitoba.

In honour of these gifts, I was pleased also to announce at Medicine Convocation that the Board of Governors and Senate have declared that the Faculty of Health Sciences will hereby be known as the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and that the College of Medicine will hereby be known as the Max Rady College of Medicine.

Dr. Max Rady, Ernest’s father, graduated from the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine in 1921, and practiced gynecology and obstetrics in Winnipeg as a highly respected physician for many decades.

Please join me in congratulating our colleagues and peers in the Faculty of Health Sciences, which is made up of the Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Rehabilitation Sciences, on this important day in their history, as they pursue their ongoing journey of collaboration and cooperation.

Let’s all celebrate the Rady Foundation gift at a special surprise party for Ernest Rady at 1:15 p.m. today in the Brodie Centre Atrium at the Bannatyne Campus. I hope to see many of you there to mark this momentous occasion.

For those of you on Fort Garry Campus, a shuttle bus will be departing at 12:30 pm for Bannatyne Campus from the bus stop on Dafoe Road outside Tier Building (space is limited).

Sincerely,

David

David T. Barnard, Ph.D., President and Vice-Chancellor

202 Administration Building, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB  R3T 2N2 Canada

Office: +1-204-474-9345  FAX: +1-204-261-1318 

Email: president@umanitoba.ca