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Topic B: Tell us about an expert/person in your field that you admire.

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  Good morning!   Today I'm going to talk about a person I admire, whose work was an example and that allowed her to be renowned worldwide. I am referring to Frances O. Kelsey.   Why do I admire her? Because of her determination. Not only did she dedicate her life to scientific and medical research, but she was a woman who had the courage and the intelligence to confront the large pharmaceutical industries of the United States in the 60s.   Frances was born on July 24, 1914, in Canada. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University in 1934, and later completed a Ph.D. in Pharmacology. In addition, she studied Medicine in 1946. Since leaving college, in 1960, she was hired by the FDA in Washington DC as a drug reviewer. Unfortunately, after receiving several awards, she passed away in 2015, at the age of 101.   She contributed to avoiding a national health crisis that would have caused the death of thousands of fetuses in the United St...

How Can Your Major Make the World a Better Place

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  Good evening Today I will answer how the career that I study can help make a better world. I consider that the pharmaceutical chemist is a very relevant professional in various areas of society, mainly because he fulfills a function of support and advice to patients. Has it happened to you that you don't understand the doctor's instructions? I think so, and maybe many times, well, their job is to inform or explain treatments to patients.                                          The above is a daily task of this profession in public health and pharmacy, but this career not only does this, but it also contributes to drug research and development, carries out quality control and regulation, these tasks being very important to improve people's health. In this process of becoming a pharmaceutical chemist, I see myself working in one of the many performance areas of this career, how...