{"id":2467,"date":"2016-01-01T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T08:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2018-02-08T17:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T17:40:24","slug":"mindel-sheps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"Mindel Cherniack Sheps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dates:\u00a0<\/strong>May 20, 1913 &#8211; January 15, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong>\u00a0University of Manitoba, M.D., 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg, Children&#8217;s Hospital, residency, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>University of North Carolina, masters degree, 1950.<\/p>\n<p>University of Manitoba, Honorary Doctorate of Science, 1971.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speciality:<\/strong>\u00a0Biostatistics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Positions:<\/strong>\u00a0London, England; Marie Curie Hospital, 1938.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg, general practice, 1939 &#8211; 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Member of Cooperative Commonwealth Federation Party.<\/p>\n<p>Successfully ran for the Winnipeg School Board, 1942.<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan, Secretary to the Health Commission, 1944.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributions to Medicine or Professional Service:\u00a0<\/strong>Creation of field of Biostatistics.<\/p>\n<p>Published in mathematics and biostatistics, after 1963. Gained an international reputation.<\/p>\n<p>A prize in her name was established by the American Population Association in 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-medical contributions to the community:<\/strong>\u00a0Winnipeg School Board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personal\u00a0<\/strong><b>History:\u00a0<\/b>Married to Dr. Cecil Sheps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsItemItemHeader\">\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsItemItemTitle\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>Submitted by<\/strong> Lawrie Cherniack, relative of Dr. Mindel Sheps. Also by Daniel Stone.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dates:\u00a0May 20, 1913 &#8211; January 15, 1973. Education:\u00a0University of Manitoba, M.D., 1936. Winnipeg, Children&#8217;s Hospital, residency, 1937. University of North Carolina, masters degree, 1950. University of Manitoba, Honorary Doctorate of Science, 1971. Speciality:\u00a0Biostatistics. Positions:\u00a0London, England; Marie Curie Hospital, 1938. Winnipeg, general practice, 1939 &#8211; 1944. Member of Cooperative Commonwealth Federation Party. Successfully ran for the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medheritage.lib.umanitoba.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}