OPEN DOORS: Patient Services and Clinical Spaces

The tour will start at the Sherman Library, Charlton Campus, Juravinski Tower, 2nd Floor, T2305. Please arrive at least 5 minutes prior to the start of the tour to sign in.

The tour will begin in our physical space that helps to promote learning, wellness and access to information. You will see the available spaces for learning, wellness chairs, learn about Education and learning services and support for research. Our next stop is help celebrate during MRT week by learning about MRI and the many different ways it can probe the human body, and the many fascinating studies that are going on at the Imaging Research Centre. You will see what is involved in imaging the lung, how we measure brain activity, tissue stiffness and more. You will see some of the specialty equipment and various devices that we would use for different types of studies, and learn about the types of data we can acquire and what we can measure using MRI. Finally the tour will end with Patient Food Services where you will be introduced to the preparation of patient trays and the Burlodge retherm system. We will then explain the 'Your Voice, Your Choice' program developed with Patient and Family Advisors to offer patients choice at the point of service. Finally, we will end the tour by providing you with an introduction to biobanking, understand tissue donation process, see sample tissues and organs, see where samples are stored within a liquid nitrogen vapour freezer at -196 C, meet a researcher using human biospecimens or showcase the TCGA worldwide project that our samples have been part of. “Biobanking – central to cancer research breakthroughs. Join our tour and see how precision medicine starts here.”

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