First ever kidney fair slated
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Are you on the organ donor list?
Do you want to be?
Simply having the sticker on your driver’s license isn’t enough anymore.
So the Kidney Foundation of Canada, Quesnel branch, is making it easy.
Saturday, 1 – 3:30 p.m. at the Legion is home to the first ever Kidney Health Fair.
There will be information booths, a presentation on organ donation, blood sugar testing, blood pressure testing, a nutrition table with recipes for renal and chronic kidney disease patients and a station where you can punch in your healthcare number and see if you’re on the donor list.
“If you’re not and you want to be, “we’ll mail off your information,” Kidney Foundation of Canada Quesnel branch president Bonnie Leclerc said.
The afternoon is open to everyone and is free.
“You can pop by, or stay for the whole thing,” Leclerc added.
Keynote speaker, Dr. Morrison Hurley presents at 1:30 p.m.
Hurley graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1965, completing his masters degree and pediatric training in Montreal in 1970.
Hurley then completed a three-year fellowship in pediatric nephrology at McGill/Montreal Children’s Hospital in 1973. From there he moved to McMaster University where he developed the first pediatric nephrology program.
In 1981, Hurley moved to Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine to set up the first pediatric nephrology program.
In 1992 he was recruited back to the University of Western Ontario to set up the first pediatric nephrology program in Canada, and to be the chairman of the department of pediatrics.
For the past nine years Hurley’s been in Vancouver at BC Children’s Hospital and UBC as a nephrologist and program director of the pediatric nephrology training program.
He is now retired from active practice but maintains a teaching role at UBC/UNBC Prince George medical school campus as teacher of the week and UBC Vancouver campus as second-year tutor in Doctor Patient and Society.
Hurley continues to serve on the board of the Kidney Foundation B.C. Branch; he’s the medical director for Zajac Ranch for Children and keeps his brain active by reviewing many nephrology journals.
For information e-mail, kfocquesnel@telus.net.
Dr. Hurley booked as keynote
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