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Best-selling author to discuss health care during visit to UOIT

October 30, 2007

Lecture will focus on system's use of technology

OSHAWA, Ont. - Award-winning author and journalist André Picard will discuss The Digital Divide: The Use and Misuse of Technology in Health Care, during a lecture hosted this week by the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's (UOIT) Faculty of Health Sciences and the Health Education Technology Research Unit (HETRU). The author of a number of health care-related books and The Globe and Mail's national public health reporter for 20 years, Picard will share a wealth of knowledge regarding the use of technology in health care.

Picard's best-selling books include Critical Care: Canadian Nurses Speak for Change and The Gift of Death: Confronting Canada's Tainted Blood Tragedy. Picard received the Canadian Nurses' Association Award of Excellence in 2000 and 2001, and has also received the Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism, the Canadian Policy Research Award, the Science and Society Prize and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, in addition to being honoured by the Canadian Hearing Society.

Who:
André Picard, best-selling author.

When:
Thursday, November 1
7 to 8 p.m.

Where:
UOIT
Campus Dining Room
Gordon Willey building, Room G213
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, Ontario

Parking:
Enter off of Simcoe Street and proceed to the Founders 3 parking lot.

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