Free and open to the public and geared to health-care practitioners, industry executives and students, the trade fair will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Student Union on the UB North Campus.
In addition to exhibits from more than 40 companies, hospitals and health-care providers, researchers at local companies and institutions will, throughout the day, make presentations about the newest technologies in medicine and engineering.
Along with the schools of engineering and medicine, the fair is co-sponsored by the Health Care Industries Association. The UB Sesquicentennial Committee also is a co-sponsor.
Raymond Damadian, M.D., inventor of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), will lecture at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public. A recipient of the National Medal of Technology and a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Damadian is president and chief executive officer of Fonar Corp. in Melville, which makes MRI scanners.