VOLUME 24 NUMBER 4 WINTER- 2020 – 2021 ISSN 1496-3876
Donald B. Rix Professorship in Laboratory Quality
The Rix Family Fund officially confirmed that it would support a new Donald B. Rix Professorship in Laboratory Quality in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC.
Last month the Rix Family Fund officially confirmed that it would support a new Donald B. Rix Professorship in Laboratory Quality in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine here at UBC. I think this is the first so named professorship in Canada.
Dr. Rix had a long interest in Laboratory Quality. When I first met him he was chairing an accreditation team for the College of American Pathologists monitoring laboratories in Washington state.
Updating EQA Standards 2020
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) first designed a standard for proficiency testing providers entitled ““Conformity assessment — General requirements for proficiency testing” in 2006 … its revision is now well on its way and a new and revised edition should be available in late 2021 or early 2022
