INNOVATION November-December 2021

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CAROL PARK, P.ENG.: ENGINEERING THAT IMPROVES PATIENT SAFETY AND CARE

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R eflecting back on her early life, Carol Park, P.Eng., Executive Director of Lower Mainland Biomedical Engineering and Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s new president, points to the encouragement of a female friend as a catalyst in her decision to pursue an engineering degree.

“When it came time to think about what I was going to do after high school, a friend who was a year ahead of me went into engineering at Queen’s University. We were both living near Kingston, Ontario, and she said to me: ‘Carol, you’re good at math and science. This program is really challenging—you’d probably like it.’”

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