Open Day, Sunday 17 Aug 2008
The University of Otago and the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation combine annually for a Health Research Open Day
The public is welcome to come along to the medical school building (on the corner of Riccarton Ave/Oxford Tce, parking available in the blue Christchurch Hospital parking building on Antigua St). There are research displays in the foyer, public lectures and a chance to see inside Mobile Medical Technology’s large surgical bus, the only mobile surgery in NZ.
There are also tours tours to laboratories and research facilities. This includes the fascinating (and at times, gruesome) Pathology Museum and a chance to see the world-leading Cardioendocrine lab.
The Van der Veer Institute is also taking part, and people can tour our eye movement and swallowing labs and the MR brain imaging facilities.
