MLPAO - Medical Laboratory Professionals' Association of Ontario
19 episodes
9 months ago
MLPAO CEO Michelle Hoad sits down with Christine Bruce, MHA(c), BHA, MLT, to discuss her experience as a woman in STEM. Currently working her dream job as Senior Director of the Laboratory Medicine Program at the University Health Network in Toronto, Christine discusses how she got into the medical laboratory field, her trajectory as a leader and some of the challenges and rewards of working in the lab.
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MLPAO CEO Michelle Hoad sits down with Christine Bruce, MHA(c), BHA, MLT, to discuss her experience as a woman in STEM. Currently working her dream job as Senior Director of the Laboratory Medicine Program at the University Health Network in Toronto, Christine discusses how she got into the medical laboratory field, her trajectory as a leader and some of the challenges and rewards of working in the lab.
This month we’re featuring Health Sciences North/Horizon Santé-Nord in Sudbury. When COVID-19 arrived, they were sending specimens to Public Health Ontario which resulted in delayed turn around times for patients. They began testing their own patients on April 13th, reducing turn around times by more than 30 hours in the first week of testing. They are now a regional testing site for samples collected from North Bay to Wawa and all points between. Working together, they advanced Laboratory Information Systems, testing procedures, reporting structures and more, with everyone on the team bringing new ideas to the table to cope with the added volume. It has been an incredible act of teamwork--we spoke with Admin Director MLT Erin Tarini, MLT Brandi Marshall and MLA/T Monique Gagnon about what it has looked like, coming together to test for COVID-19.
Season 2 of the Dish focuses on how labs have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some are rapidly ramping up testing and overcoming immeasurable odds testing for COVID-19, others are struggling or working on other testing while staff are re-deployed elsewhere. Join us as we follow one lab each month and explore how the pandemic is impacting labs across the province, from the patterns between to specific local situations.
MLPAO - The Dish
MLPAO CEO Michelle Hoad sits down with Christine Bruce, MHA(c), BHA, MLT, to discuss her experience as a woman in STEM. Currently working her dream job as Senior Director of the Laboratory Medicine Program at the University Health Network in Toronto, Christine discusses how she got into the medical laboratory field, her trajectory as a leader and some of the challenges and rewards of working in the lab.
