Approximately 270 high school students and teachers from Waterloo and the surrounding area will explore careers in medicine and other health sciences at the University of Waterloo TD Discovery Days taking place tomorrow.
Dr. Patrick Brill-Edwards, a Waterloo alumnus, will deliver the keynote address for this interactive event. Dr. Brill-Edwards helped develop Gardasil, the world’s first cancer vaccine. Gardasil is almost 100 per cent effective in preventing disease caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), including the second-most-common cancer among women worldwide, cervical cancer. His talk will take place at 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 15 in the J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities at the Waterloo campus.
There will be a panel discussion on related careers, as well as workshops for students, including:
Workshop 1 Athletic Taping – Helping Athletes Maintain Peak Performance
Learn how athletic therapists use taping techniques to help athletes remain healthy and injury‐free.
Workshop 2 Health Informatics – Transforming Health and Care
This workshop will present an overview of health information systems and how they are creating new frontiers and career opportunities in industry.
Workshop 3 Revealing the Ability in DisABILITY: the Art and Science of Recreation Therapy
Discover how recreation therapy can improve the functioning, independence and quality of every individual’s life. Participate in a game of wheelchair basketball.
Workshop 4 Viewing and Imaging the Human Eye
Learn how to view and image the human eye to identify corneal, retinal and other diseases. Instruments will be used to view and image the anterior segment of the eye up to the iris and to image the optic nerve and retina.
The event is organized by the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and hosted by the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and the Faculty of Science. For more information, please visit the event website.
