Avis Favaro is Canada's longest serving on air medical correspondent - now with CTV National News since 1992. She has won numerous awards including a Gemini Award. Favaro previously worked as medical correspondent for the Global Television Network where she began her career in 1982 as a writer/reporter.

Kindness and Empathy  By Avis Favaro
Medical Correspondent, CTV National News
Using two decades of her experiences as a medical correspondent of the CTV National News, Avis Favaro is going to speak about kindness and empathy and how scientists are trying to learn about where these feelings and actions originate in the brain - how to scientifically verify it and understand it- so that this important trait is fostered in future generations.