Winegard Lecture in Engineering

What will your life’s impact be? In this eye-opening talk, medical journalist and inventor Dr. Julielynn Wong shares stories of innovations that will inspire you to unleash your creativity to build transformative and lasting global solutions that could help improve more than one billion lives. She will explain how building technology with empathy can support environmental stewardship, poverty reduction, social justice, human rights, and disability and accessibility issues.

Wong is a Queen’s University and Harvard-educated physician, scientist, innovator and educator whose life’s mission is to take technology to the extreme to benefit the world. She is internationally recognized as a 3-D printing, drone, robotics, telemedicine and digital health pioneer who uses cutting-edge technology to deliver health-care solutions across diverse environments, from outer space to remote communities with limited access to health care.