Local High School Students to Tour UAB Labs During National Laboratory Week

Science students from Hewitt Trussville and Hoover High Schools studying forensics and genetics will tour UAB Hospital laboratories as part of National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week activities at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham). The students will tour the core hospital labs and the anatomic pathology labs. The Hewitt Trussville students are in a forensics class, and the Hoover students are studying genetics.

April 15, 2008

Science students from Hewitt Trussville and Hoover High Schools studying forensics and genetics will tour UAB Hospital laboratories as part of National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week activities at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham). The students will tour the core hospital labs and the anatomic pathology labs. The Hewitt Trussville students are in a forensics class, and the Hoover students are studying genetics.

The Hewitt Trussville class will tour the labs 9:30 a.m., April 22. The Hoover class tour will be at 9:30 on April 24. Interested news media should meet UAB Media Relations at the green awnings, 19th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.

In its 33rd year, National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week recognizes the contributions to medical care made by clinical laboratory technicians. The tour will help introduce the high school students to the field as they begin to make choices about their career paths. There are approximately 300,000 practitioners of clinical laboratory science in the United States. Since the development of this career group in the 1920s, the clinical laboratory science professional has played an increasingly vital role in the diagnosis and prevention of disease.