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Expo visitors get hands-on with the da Vinci surgical system at the BWH exhibit.
BWHers played an instrumental role in making last month’s third annual 7News Partners HealthCare Health & Fitness Expo a success by volunteering their time and service to the nearly 70,000 people that attended the event.
“We couldn’t have done it without the many BWH individual volunteers and the departments that volunteered to conduct the health screenings,” said Mary-Kathryn Aranda, BWH Marketing project manager.
A collaboration of Channel 7 NBC, CW56 and Partners HealthCare, this free annual event promotes health and wellness by offering various health screenings, fitness activities for children and adults, physician lectures, an opportunity to view the latest technology in health care as well as special celebrity guests.
The two-day event drew more than 2,000 people to the BWH exhibit for lung function testing, blood pressure checks and screenings of body mass index, varicose veins and peripheral artery disease. Visitors also got hands-on with the da Vinci surgical system, a robot used to perform certain procedures in a more precise and less invasive way.
The departments and divisions that contributed to this year’s event are Center for Chest Disease, Vascular Division, Vein Care Center, Nutrition and Day Surgery Unit nurses from the Brigham and Women’s/Mass General Health Care Center at Foxborough. More than 60 physicians from across the Partners system—including more than a dozen from BWH—volunteered their time to meet with attendees at the “Ask the Doctor” booth and Q&A lecture area, which provided 1,528 expo visitors with critical medical information. Other highlights of the event included the attendance of 2009 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee and Red Sox legend Jim Rice and New England Patriots’ Tedy Bruschi, along with many others, including Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and 7 News personalities.