Friday, October 16, 2020
Work by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus to tackle mental health issues using digital technology was highlighted this week as part of a national initiative to help prepare Canadian youth for the future.
Yuri Quintana, who earned all three of his engineering degrees at Waterloo, is a professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of clinical informatics at one of its teaching hospitals.
He is now working with organizations in Canada to evaluate mobile mental health applications for youth and develop an app to help them deal with anxiety related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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