Our very own Senior Technologist Caleb Lee has won a prestigious award from UBC’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The Outstanding Staff Award recognizes the contributions of “technicians and technologists whose outstanding performance enhances the mission of the Department…
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ISO Accreditation for Medical Laboratories
And other topics presented at MedLab Middle East 2024 CMPT Chair Dr. Lucy Perrone was invited to give two talks at the MedLab Middle East Conference in Dubai in February and shares this report regarding major themes and topics. A…
Bacteria Identification Methods as a Factor Affecting Clinical Lab Performance
We are pleased to announce that Jennifer Wu’s poster: “Identification methods as a factor affecting performance of clinical microbiology laboratories participating in an external quality assessment program: A cross-sectional analysis of 6 years of data” has been accepted for presentation…
Customer Satisfaction Survey 2024
As part of our commitment to our customers and to the continual improvement of our products and services, we send out a customer survey every year. Our goal is to better understand the needs of our customers so we can…
Thank You Dr. James Karlowski
After 11 years of serving on the CMPT Clinical Bacteriology Committee we are saying goodbye to Dr. James Karlowsky. Dr. Karlowsky has been and invaluable help to CMPT during all these years, volunteering his expertise, knowledge and services. Over the…
Record High Enrollment in LQM and AST Courses
POLQM’s 2024 Laboratory Quality Management (LQM) and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) courses have officially begun! We are pleased to announce that we have record high attendance this year, and hope all our participants will learn from and enjoy these courses.…
EQA, AMR, and Local Manufacturing: Takeaways from ASLM
In December, the African Society for Laboratory Medicine Conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa. For this, the sixth ASLM conference, the overarching theme was “Shaping laboratory systems and diagnostics services for the 21st Century: embracing the change.” CMPT…
Happy Holidays from CMPT!
Another year of proficiency testing, courses, and quality improvement in the books! Thank you to everyone who has worked with us this year, whether you subscribed to our PT programs, took our courses, served on our committees, or read our…
Notes from EQALM 2023
EQALM’s Annual Symposium took place in Lyon, France this year, and CMPT Chair Dr. Lucy Perrone was in attendance. During the two-day conference, Dr. Perrone presented CMPT research and took part in the working group on microbiology, as did former…
Welcome New Technical Committee Members
CMPT welcomes three new Technical Committee members. Anu Rebbapragada D(ABMM) FCCM – CMPT Clinical bacteriology and Enteric parasitology technical committees Anu is currently the Vice President of Diagnostic Services and the laboratory director at FH Health where she oversights ongoing…