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

Paul Levett PhD (D) ABMM FAAM Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory, Regina, Saskatchewan

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

Denise Sitter, MLT Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Brandi Keller, MLT, Battleford’s Union Hospital, North Battleford, Saskatchewan

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

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.

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

WATER MICROBIOLOGY

Chris Enick, BSc,.Element, Surrey, BC