April 22, 2004
Health Sciences open house April 23, 24
The UW community has a special invitation to the 2004 Health Sciences Open House this weekend. More than 75 exhibitors will demonstrate the latest in research and technology in health sciences and medicine.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 23, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 24. The event is free. Visitors will be able to enter the building through several different entrances and begin their tour at that spot.
Kayla Burt, former UW women’s Husky basketball player, will speak at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 24, at the Open House. Burt will talk about her sudden cardiac arrest on New Year’s Eve 2002, when her friends and Medic One saved her life. Dr. Peter Kudenchuk, UW professor of medicine, will also speak about Burt’s diagnosis and the defibrillator he implanted in her chest to prevent another cardiac episode.
These presentations will be held in Hogness Auditorium on the fourth floor of the Health Sciences Center.
The theme for the 2004 Open House is “Mapping a Healthy Future.” Visitors can:
• Spark interest in a future in the health professions by visiting the UW Tooth Fairy & Wizard Academy, a non-traditional, highly effective oral health education and outreach team that comes armed with books, puppets, pictures and wings!
• Explore the many ways that maps are used in environmental health sciences, from mapping DNA to charting pollution plumes. Plus, the Hazard Web will outline your potential exposures to environmental hazards and what you can do to reduce your risk.
• Discover bioengineering, from computer modeling and simulation to “materials that heal.”
• Take a closer look at the germs hiding in each and every crevice of your hands. The UW School of Nursing will show you how to combat viruses and bacteria so you won’t get caught “dirty handed!”
Many of these hands-on, interactive exhibits feature virtual reality medical presentations, high-tech patient simulators and computerized models of recent research. Information will be available on educational and career opportunities in health sciences.
The Health Sciences Open House is generally held every two years. About 1,200 students are expected Friday, with many other families and adults visiting Saturday. The Health Sciences Open House is appropriate for people of all ages.
Parking on Friday, April 23, is avialable only in the E-1 lot off Montlake Blvd. On Saturday, April 24, organizers recommend parking in the S-1 lot behind the Health Sciences Building. The cost on Saturday is $3 before noon and free after noon.For more information, call the 24-hour recorded Open House Hotline at 206-685-9419; or see the Open House Web site at http://www.washington.edu/hsoh/.
