PEI's Chief Health Officer to speak at UPEI on March 16
Dr. Heather Morrison, Chief Health Officer for PEI and a UPEI alumna (BSc 1991), will give a public presentation on Tuesday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m., in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium (Room 242), Don and Marion McDougall Hall.
A reception will follow in Schurman Market Square. This is the third and final presentation in the UPEI Student Union's 2010 Inspiring Speakers series.
Dr. Morrison graduated from UPEI with a BSc in 1991. She was the first graduate of UPEI-and the first woman from Prince Edward Island-to attend Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar. There she completed her master's and doctorate degrees, with an emphasis on Comparative Social Research and Social Policy, with a particular focus on health care.
She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Dalhousie, and did her medical training in Community Medicine and an Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the University of Toronto. She became Chief Health Officer of PEI in July 2007, and continues to work part-time in the Emergency Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Dr. Morrison lives in Charlottetown with her husband and two young daughters, aged 18 months and three years.
For information about her presentation, contact the UPEI Student Union at (902) 566-0530.
