Using image-guided innovation and microrobotics to improve care of sick children - Womanthology: Homepage

Haley Mayer is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Haley began a master's degree in mechanical engineering and part way through this she was able to take an exam that enabled her to transfer to a PhD. Her research as a PhD candidate now focuses on magnetically actuated surgical tools for gastroendoscopy, a test to check the inside of the throat, food pipe (oesophagus) and stomach, the upper part of the digestive system. "Diversity is important in robotics because it touches everyone and everything." I got my Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Guelph, in Canada, where I focused on the intersection between medicine, mechanical design, and biomechanics.