The Adventures in Medicine and Science program at Saint Louis University is getting ready to kick off its 2024-2025 Auditorium Program Schedule.
Middle-School Programming
Brain Awareness
9 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4
- Unlock the magnificent workings of the human brain! Paul Young, M.D., St. Louis native and world-renowned neurosurgeon, brings the human brain to life, including its potential and limitations. Young believes that knowledge creates better choices, and if our youth better understand the impressive workings of the human brain, it will lead to better choices throughout life. He uses real brain specimens to bring his talk to life. This specific date is tailored to our middle-school audience.
- Hands-on programming offered following: Sheep brain dissection
The Incredible Human Body
9 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025
- Ever wondered exactly how the human body works? Take an adventure with Ray Vollmer, educational specialist, on a live tour of the human body using a real-life cadaver. Musculoskeletal, circulatory, respiratory, digestive and nervous systems 鈥� this program includes them all and explains how these systems work together to support life and maintain health. Help your students discover the incredible workings of the human body!
- Hands-on programming offered following: Pig heart dissection
High-School Programming
The Human Reproductive System
9 to 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 2
- Lindsay Lombardo, D.O., as she breaks down both the male and female reproductive systems using real cadaver specimens. This interactive demonstration will allow students to learn first hand about the human productive systems from a physician.
- Hands-on programming offered following: Cadaver demonstration and sheep brain dissection
Brain Awareness
9 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday March 12, 2025
- Unlock the magnificent workings of the human brain. Paul Young, M.D., St. Louis native and world-renowned neurosurgeon, brings the human brain to life, including its potential and limitations. Young believes that knowledge creates better choices, and if our youth better understand the impressive workings of the human brain, it will lead to better choices throughout life. He uses real brain specimens to bring his talk to life. This specific date is tailored to our high school audience.
- Hands-on programming offered following: Cadaver demonstration and sheep brain sissection
Demonstration of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Surgical Demonstration with Michael Williams, M.D.
9 to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 and Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Join us for a front-row seat as Saint Louis University School of Medicine's very own Michael Williams, M.D., takes us step by step through an abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. This live interactive surgical demonstration will be one that you won't want to miss! Please note that the doctor does use a cadaver for this demonstration.
- Hands-on programming offered following: Cadaver demonstration and pig heart dissection
Medicolegal Forensic Autopsy
9 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- The word autopsy is formed from two Greek words: autos and optos, which mean "self" and "seen" respectively. Thus, autopsy means "the act of seeing with one's own eyes." It is commonly known as a postmortem examination. A medicolegal autopsy or forensic autopsy is done in deaths due to unnatural causes and in natural cases also, where the cause of death is not certain. The aim and objectives of the medicolegal autopsy are to help the law enforcement agencies to ascertain the identity of the deceased, cause of death, type of weapon used, time since death, manner of death and to collect any trace evidence that might be present. Join the AIMS program in welcoming the Saint Louis University Department of Forensic Science in what is sure to be an auditorium program you won't want to miss!
- Hands-on programming offered following: Cadaver demonstration and pig heart dissection
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