Our outreach team will be hosting virtual career sessions for students across Ontario.
These sessions will be held once a week - Mondays 10:30-11:30am on Zoom and youth will get to hear about the education and career journey of various individuals that work at UHN. There will also be an open Q&A session.
These events are open to all educators across Ontario so please register with your class! You can sign up for only one session or all of them.
Interested students can also sign up individually.
Details about the sessions and speaker bios will be released in the coming weeks.
All registration links below.
This session will focus on the use of stem cells in research. It will feature Matthew Chang and Fariha Razzak.
Matthew and Fariha are members of the McEwen Stem Cell Institute and students at the University of Toronto. Matthew is a PhD student studying human heart development using human pluripotent stem cells. Fariha is a graduating undergraduate student working on developing mature functional stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes for transplantation.
This session will focus on cancer research - specifically, structure-guided drug design. It will feature Deanna Rath.
Deanna is a Research Technician at the Princess Margaret Cancer Research Tower in the lab of Dr. Gil Prive. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science focused in Biochemistry and Immunology. Her research involves the use of molecular structures to determine useful targets for the design of drugs against cancer.”
This session focused on the application of music in science. It will feature Dr. Chi Yhun Lo.
Chi is a Research Associate at the SMART Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University; an Honorary Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation; and an Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University. His research examines the intersection of hearing, health, deafness, and music. Outside of research, he is the Vice-President of the Parents of Deaf Children (a not-for-profit Australian charity organization) that supports deaf and hard-of-hearing children and families. In his free time, Chi loves anything to do with music and videogames.
This session will focus on how healthcare technology is applied to cardiac research. It will feature Babitha Thampinathan.
Babitha is cardiac research sonographer at Toronto General Hospital and the Ted Rogers Center for Heart Research. She is also faculty in the diagnostic cardiac sonography program & medical radiation sciences program, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Mohawk-McMaster University. She has published extensively on cardiac topics and her work involves the use of echocardiography.