EQA Programs – Expert Committees

Clinical Microbiology Proficiency Testing (CMPT) is a university based, peer directed program. Committee members volunteer their time and are essential for developing the program, selecting challenges, assessing results, and creating critiques. The time and efforts of the committee members are critical to the function of CMPT and are much appreciated.

CLINICAL BACTERIOLOGY

Dclinical bacteriology committee meetingavid J. M. Haldane (Chair), MD FRCPC Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Wilson Chan, MD FRCPC Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, Alberta

James Karlowsky, PhD FIDSA D(ABMM) Diagnostic Services of Manitoba, St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Robert Rennie, PhD FCCM D(ABMM) University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta

Denise Sitter, MLT Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Doris Poole, BSc. MLT, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Ghada Al-Rawahi, MD, DTM&H (London), D(ABMM), FRCPC. BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia

Katrina Hurley, MLT, Battleford’s Union Hospital

Janet Reid, BMLSc, ARTHorizon Health Network, NB

Ninad Mehta, PhD, D(ABMM)  Royal University Hospital, SK

Sandy Saragoca St. Mary’s Hospital, Montreal, QC

ENTERIC PARASITOLOGY

Joan Tomblin, MD FRCPC. BC Biomedical Laboratories, Surrey, BC

Quantine Wong, BSc. BCCDC/BCPHMRL, Vancouver, BC

Romina Reyes, MD FRCPC. LifeLabs, Burnaby, BC

Pauline Tomlin, BSc. MLT, Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB.

Catherine Hogan MDCM BCCDC, Vancouver, BC

MYCOLOGY

Robert Rennie (Chair), PhD FCCM D(ABMM) University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta

Romina Reyes, MD FRCPC LifeLabs, Burnaby, BC

Brad Jansen BSc, MLT Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Edmonton, AB

Tanis Dingle PhD, FCCM,D(ABMM)  Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Calgary, AB

VIROLOGY

Nancy Matic, MD, FRCPC, D(ABMM) St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC

Agatha Jassem PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM BCCDC,  Vancouver, BC

David Goldfarb MD FRCPC PHSA, BC Children’s & Women’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC

WATER MICROBIOLOGY

Chris Enick, BSc,.Element, Surrey, BC