This a sponsored episode, part of our partnership with Nova Biomedical. Nova is one of our incredible sponsors this year, helping the MLPAO provide learning and advocacy for our members. 

We took the opportunity of this partnership podcast to explore how a laboratory instrumentation developer works with labs. We spoke with their Global Sales Product Line Manager Brad Bullen about innovating in the pandemic, how they work with labs, and how medical laboratory professionals inspire what they do.

SPONSORED: Nova Biomedical - Responding to Medical Laboratory Needs as an Instrumentation Developer

From myths about how antibodies work to the accuracy of PCR, there are many misconceptions about vaccines, testing, and more.

MLPAO CEO Michelle Hoad sat down with a panel of experts to discuss in-depth. She spoke with Dr. Zain Chagla, infectious diseases physician at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton; Dr. Rodney Rohde, Professor and Chair for the Clinical Laboratory Science (CLS) Program in the College of Health Professions at Texas State University; MLT Candy Rutherford, Technical Specialist Molecular Microbiology at Hamilton Health Sciences; and microbiologist and science educator Jason Tetro; to clear up some of the questions, misinformation, and inaccurate science around COVID-19 vaccines and laboratory testing.

COVID-19 Myths: Vaccines and Laboratory Testing.

This is a sponsored episode, part of our partnership with Johnson. Johnson is one of our incredible sponsors this year, helping the MLPAO provide learning and advocacy for our members, and they provide MLPAO members with really competitive insurance rates on insurance: for home, auto, personal liability, travel, health and dental, identity theft coverage, and more.

Johnson has a long history as a partner of the MLPAO, dating back 25 years now. For this partnership podcast, we spoke with Johnson rep Yvonne McDougall-Brady about their commitment to professional associations, how they’ve changed the way they work to support healthcare professionals, and what Johnson benefits are available to you as an MLPAO member. We learned something new and we hope you will too.

MLPAO Dish - Women in STEM- Kelli-Ann Lemieux

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.

MLPAO Dish - Women in STEM- Christine Bruce

October's Dish is with Sault Area Hospital's Manda Rivers, Laboratory Services Manager and Betty Currie, Technical Supervisor. They spoke with us about recruitment challenges in Northern Ontario, impacts of shortages in their lab, and possible ways to move forward. 

This season we are focusing on an issue which impacts all of us here in Ontario: an impending medical laboratory staffing crisis. We’ll hear from small laboratories in rural and remote areas, lab managers preparing for shifting workforces, advocacy groups approaching the province to address the crisis, MLTs and MLA/Ts working on the ground, and many more stories from the frontlines of the shortage.

This episode has a few small edits and replaces the one uploaded on October 9.

Episode 2: The Sault - Manda Rivers and Betty Currie

The MLPAO's podcast series designed specifically for Ontario's medical laboratory professionals. #TheDishPodcast

Episode 2: The Sault - Manda Rivers and Betty Currie

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