Annual Report 2022

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO - CHRISTINE NIELSEN

2022 was another year of change; especially for the medical laboratory profession. Reports of closed ERs and labs due to personnel shortages made headlines across the country. You weathered the storm of supply chain issues, including collection tubes. Throughout it all, you remained committed to serving your patients every day. We strived to do the same for you.

While you worked 24/7, CSMLS worked to provide the resources you needed to stay afloat in a changing profession – In any stage of your career. Brand new, gaining experience or close to retirement, we were constantly thinking of you and your professional needs. Thanks to events like the Insights Speaker Series, which connected you to leading lab experts every month, you now have access to almost 1000 hours of free learning, most of it on-demand to suit your busy schedules.

We worked with countless stakeholders to make sure your voice was heard, advocating on your behalf for long-term solutions and much-needed funding to mitigate the health human resource crisis affecting you every day. When CSMLS Directors and staff met with nearly 40 government officials for Lobby Week 2022, in Ottawa, your dedication to patients and quality were acknowledged.

For years, we have advocated for local solutions to shortages in the lab, and in 2022, we saw progress. Late, but we saw progress. We are seeing interest in every community in Canada to accelerate integration of internationally educated MLTs. Programs to increase the number of clients who can participate in bridging programs to be successful on the national certification exam are cropping up across Canada. The CSMLS Certification and Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) team processed an incredible number of PLA applications.

To increase the supply of qualified laboratory staff, CSMLS continues to move forward with MLA regulation across Canada, as a means to capacity build our staffing complement. We have worked with four provinces to make this a reality – and are close than ever before, that a province will regulate MLAs soon. 2022 was a year of foundational work for CSMLS.

To each one of our members, thank you for choosing to be part of this community. It is our privilege to serve you, the member, and we thank you for your continued support. Here’s to another year of serving you so that you can best serve your patients.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT – LUCIE ALAIN

It was another busy year in the medical laboratory community, and I think we all knew it would be. It was another year of ups and downs. No matter the challenges, I am so proud to have been your President through 2022. From the return to live events, to in-person meetings with the Board of Directors, I was inspired by our community’s passion, resilience, and eagerness to reconnect.

As President, I saw a Board of Directors committed to our responsibility to you, our members. You’ll see that commitment in the 2022 Financial Report, detailed below. Each of your member dollars were put toward valuable projects that will help lab professionals now and in the future. For example, you told us your mental health was declining, so we piloted two new mental health resources: the Mental Health Peer Support program and McMaster University’s Beyond Silence app, each designed just for MLPs.

Burnout, retirement and the staffing crisis put even more strain on the lab, but once again, the CSMLS Certification and PLA team worked tirelessly to help so many Canadian trained and internationally educated MLTs challenge the exam and join the workforce.

After 2 long years without in-person learning, the highlight of my year just may have been LABCON22 in historic Winnipeg. It was our first return to in-person events, and you all made it incredible with your commitment to learning and community.

Even the Board of Directors reconnected. It was an honour to host CSMLS Directors, current, outgoing, and incoming, at the 85th anniversary mural dedication in Hamilton. But it was even more of an honour to dedicate the massive piece of art to every MLP working to care for your patients.

As your President, I saw more laboratory advocates and new professionals join our community, and I cannot wait to see how you all grow. It has been a privilege to be your President for a wonderful year I won’t forget.


Financial Summary	Mission, Vision & Values	2022 Board of Directors	Highlights of 2022 - Public Awareness	Highlights of 2022 - Mental Health Report	Highlights of 2022 - Professional Development	Highlights of 2022 - Certification	Member Distribution	Grants, Scholarship and Awards	National Voice

Financial Summary

On behalf of the 2022 CSMLS Board of Directors, we present the 2022 Financial Summary below.

Download the Financial Summary

The summary financial statements do not contain all the disclosures required by Canadian accounting standards for not-for-profit organizations. Reading the summary financial statements and the auditor’s report thereon, therefore, is not a substitute for reading the audited financial statements and the auditor’s report thereon.

In 2022, the CSMLS saw a surplus in revenue. This was attributed to the return of LABCON and a greater number of Prior Learning Assessment applicants. We also saw a higher-than-expected increase in investment revenue.

Mission, Vision & Values

Our Vision

Excellence in medical laboratory science.

Our Mission

To advance the medical laboratory profession through certification, education and advocacy.

Our Values

Integrity

We act with honesty and trustworthiness.
We use democratic, objective, open and transparent processes.

Commitment

We provide standards that ensure high quality medical laboratory professionals.
We are innovative leaders in meeting the needs of our members and our community.
We celebrate our members and their vital role in the health care system.

Accountability

We are responsible to our members and stakeholders.
We promote high standards of practice.
We make evidence informed decisions.

Respect

We seek to build constructive partnerships and work collaboratively to achieve successful outcomes.
We value equality, dignity, diversity and confidentiality.
We value, encourage and support members, volunteers and staff.

Strategic Plan

On behalf of the CSMLS Board of Directors, we present the newly revised strategic plan. Recently, the Board went through a validation process to ensure the pillars of the plan reflect the changes to our profession and where they see the Society in the years to come. This work resulted in some revisions to enhance focus and use of resources.

The CSMLS Strategic Plan focuses on these four key areas to support the continued success of the organization:

2022 Board of Directors

Lucie Alain

President

Michele Sykes

Vice President & Director (MB & SK)

Joël Rivero

Past-President

Allie Shields

Director, MLA

Lynn Courteau

Director, Bilingual

Greg Hardy

Director, Atlantic

Nancy Lemelin

Director, QC

Karen Moffat

Director, ON

Kim Alkalay

Director, AB, NT & NU

Dennet Pritchard

Director, BC & YK

Highlights of 2022

Public and Government Advocacy

National Medical Laboratory Week

April 11-17

To mark National Medical Laboratory Week ‘22, the CSMLS kept the public’s attention on the lab with new advocacy tools, all branded with the Indigo Lab Coat. To add to this year’s campaign, a five-part video series was shared on all our platforms capturing true stories from medical laboratory professionals about how their work has directly impacted patients’ lives. These videos were collectively seen more than 60 thousand times and continue to be viewed on our Facebook and YouTube channels.

Additionally, health care organizations and partners came together to celebrate lab week. A record number of 19 landmarks hosted an indigo light display, including Toronto’s CN Tower, Edmonton’s High Level Bridge, Halifax City Hall and many more.

Thank you to everyone who used our advocacy tools and celebrated throughout the week, we are looking forward to what Lab Week 2023 has in store.

Lobby Week

For more than ten years, CSMLS has been organizing Lobby Day, a day filled with federal lobbying meetings where CSMLS staff and volunteers travel to Ottawa’s Parliament Hill to convey concerns, as well as solutions, regarding major issues surrounding the profession.

This year, we asked for financial support for initiatives aimed at improving the HHR crisis. While these initiatives have evolved through the year, they still hit these key advocacy areas:

Increasing the supply of MLTs in Canada
Integrating internationally trained MLTs into the workforce
Improving retention of those already licensed and employed

With both in-person and virtual meetings, CSMLS staff and volunteers were able to relay your concerns to more than 30 MPs and other federal officials, including Senator Margaret Anderson. Thank you to our amazing volunteers who travelled to Ottawa with us.

CSMLS Celebrates 85 Years

For 85 years, the CSMLS has been the proud national certifying body and professional society for medical laboratory professionals. To honour this celebration, we commissioned a mural to Hamilton, Ontario, artist Lester Coloma who, through his work, embodied the legacy of the profession, showed commitment to patient care and portrayed the different roles of medical laboratory professionals.

The mural includes two medical laboratory professionals, one working at a microscope and another collecting samples from a patient. Behind them are three tests; streaking bacteria on a petri dish, detecting diseases in a blood smear, and genes in a karyotype test.

The mural is located on the western wall of 575 King Street East in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. You can access the digital mural from anywhere on this webpage.

The Unseen Exhibit

This year, to honor the Indigo Lab Coat campaign, we brought the work of medical laboratory professionals out from under the microscope. In September, CSMLS opened the Unseen Exhibit in Toronto, Ontario, featuring the original art of multi-media artist Dahae Song. After a lab tour at University Health Network, she used her real experiences – and test images – to create four pieces of abstract art.

The digital exhibit went live in November 2022, reaching MLPs and patients all across the country, along with transit shelter ads in 20 locations across Canada and a YouTube advertisement.

The Artwork

The Pap

This piece is inspired by a Papanicolaou Test, commonly known as a Pap Test, which is used to help detect cervical cancer.

The Karyotype

This piece is inspired by karyotyping, a test used to examine chromosomes to identify genetic problems that may cause a disorder or disease.

The Smear

This piece is inspired by a peripheral blood smear, a technique used to examine red and white blood cells as well as platelets under a microscope.

The Coat

This piece has been painted on a CSMLS Indigo Lab Coat. This special edition lab coat recognizes Medical Laboratory Assistant and their close connection to the communities they serve.

Visit the digital gallery here.

Mental Health

After two long years of caring for patients through a pandemic, a 2021 mental health survey told us your mental wellbeing was suffering.

To raise awareness of this vital issue, we released a joint statement with Sonography Canada (SG) and the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (CAMRT) on the mental health status of allied health professionals, fueled by the findings of a joint research project.

To further support your mental wellbeing, we are now using the information collected to create new methods for our members to resolve mental health issues, such as stress and burnout. These include:

The Beyond Silence App, a partner project with McMaster University
Peer Mental Health Support Program, led by registered psychotherapist Dr. Rosina Mete
Organizations for Health Action (HEAL) HHR Survey, data analysis for next steps

Ending 2022 with a focus on mental health, we curated a year-end eBook filled with CSMLS mental health articles, webinars and more. You can access this exclusive member resource here.

Lab Wisely

CSMLS is committed to improving the quality of our Lab Wisely database, which contains best practice recommendations for process and procedures that are relevant to medical laboratory science. The recommendations are fully bilingual and searchable, and users simply need to type a test or procedure into the search box to have a full list of applicable recommendations at their fingertips.

In 2022, CSMLS volunteers and staff completed an extensive audit of our existing database through consultation with subject matter experts. Recommendations can now be further refined by lab discipline, recommendation speciality or focus, and even what part of the testing process the recommendation will impact.

To ensure the database continues to provide the most current best practice recommendations, a full-time committee has been assembled, and now meets quarterly, to discuss changes to existing recommendations and the inclusion of new ones as published by Choosing Wisely Canada.

Professional Development

2022 was the year of in-person learning, thanks to the return of LABCON and other events! The CSMLS learning team combined the accessible features of remote learning with the irreplaceable benefits of in-person gatherings to deliver learning resources for the professional development support we know members value.

Members continued to take advantage of the CSMLS multi-media learning resources through 2022. We created new content, and registrations for courses and virtual symposia doubled since 2020.

In 2022, we ran another full year of the Insights Speaker Series, with subject matter experts speaking virtually to the community every month. These events, made available as on-demand webinars after the live event, supplemented our free-for-members catalogue to have its widest selection yet – providing members with more than 990 hours of free learning by the end of the year.

Total number of course registrations

6974

Total number of webinar/ISS registrations

5881

Total number of virtual symposium registrations

Total number of podcast/journal quizzes registrations

1014

Total number of practice test registrations

427

Completed Professional recognition certificates

Certification

The CSMLS Certification and Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) department strived to help as many eligible candidates as possible sit the National Certification Exam and enter the workforce in another year of MLT shortages.

CSMLS expanded the 2022 Certification Exam dates so that exams are no longer single-day events, but multi day sessions. This schedule now includes 6 testing days per Exam type for each Exam session throughout the year.

We also had an influx of PLA applications from internationally educated medical laboratory technologists (IEMLTs) looking to become certified. Our team worked diligently to process each application as quickly as possible, helping IEMLTs sit the exam and enter the profession.

Exam Sessions in 2022

Exams in a year

February
April
June
August
October

Exam Candidates
MLT General

900

Exam Candidates
MLT Cytology and Clinical Genetics

Exam Candidates
MLA

601

New Certified Members

851

New Prior Learning
Assessment (PLA) Applications

319

Grants, Scholarship and Award Recipients

CSMLS is proud to offer many grants, scholarships and awards as a benefit to our members. These financial benefits are provided to help members continue their professional development, aid students in their education and recognise those who have shown excellence in the profession. Congratulations to all grant, scholarship and award recipients. Find the full list of 2022 recipients below.

Congratulations to all grants, scholarships and awards recipients.

EV Booth Scholarship

Amy Ross

Founders Fund MLA

Henok Gebreyesus

CSMLS Student Scholarship

Kaitlin Logan

Gaman J. Modi Award of Excellence

Alexandra Romero

World Medical Laboratory Development Fund

Jelili Mustapha

Founders Fund MLT

Jingwei Chen

Ashley Dooley

Jennifer Smith/Reed

Muhammad Anjum

Leaders of Tomorrow LABCON Grant

Alexandra Hazbourn-Mechefske

Mélanie Vallée

Jesusa Castillo

Volunteers and Contributors

The success of the CSMLS relies on the dedication and commitment of our volunteers. CSMLS would like to thank each and every one of our volunteers; you are the heart of our organization and the laboratory community. Thank you for dedicating your time, knowledge and expertise.

Amanda J. Hess	Amber L. Grassi	Amy A.L. Carver	Andrew J. Leone	Angela Jantz
Angela Nneka Dimiri	Angela Yim	Barbara K.T. Wong	Betty Sin Wah Chan	Brenda Jean Gamble
Brittney Grondin	Carlos R. Pereira	Carolyn L. Hallett	Carrie Millette	Cathy Chang
Catriona Gano	Chelsea E. Busby	Christine Bruce	Claire Cascadia Hilscher, ART	Corey J. Murray
Danny J. Rowsell	Delaney Lee Nickerson	Dennet Marie Pritchard	Diana Christianson	Diane Marie Perry
Dmytro Y. Yamchuk	Doris Tang	Edwin H. Brindle	Emily L. Chen	Frederick T.S. Wong
Greg Doiron	Gregory Hardy	Guylaine Michaud	Hansika Deepak	Ian D. Grace
Irina Bacanu	Ivan Patrick Miller, ART	Jackson Y H Wu	Jason Tilling	Jennifer L. McCulloch
Jiannan Huang	Joël G. Rivero	John E. Soltys	Josee-Lea Bastarache	Josephine Guidolin
Joshua M. MacDonald	Karen Moffatt	Karen V. Persad	Karly Marie Robles	Katherene Ogbulafor
Kathy Giang	Kayla M. Burke	Kaylan D. Symes	Keith J. Steinbach	Keith Johnson
Kendra J. Soukeroff	Kenneth Wong	Kim Alkalay	Kimberly Lee Wheelans	Larissa E. Nygaard
Laurie L. Hart	Lisa Kendrick	Lisa R. Mantifel	Lucia Del Carmen Cueva	Lucie Alain
Lynn A. Courteau	Ma. Catherine Y. Ancheta	Marcene G. Campbell	Marie Curtis	Marie-France Jemus
Marijay Umali	Mario Hemens	Mark James Hawkins	Mary Allison Shields	Masaye Tanaka, ART
Maxine F. Adams-Small	Melanie Couture	Melissa Damphouse	Melissa J. Walsh	Melissa S.M. Mikl
Michele A. Perry	Michele L. Sykes	Michelle Corinne Lui	Mikael S. Khan	Mohamad AA Zaraket
Nancy C. Lemelin	Nneka C. Odoka	Patricia C. Longpre	Patrick Michael Smith	Rachelle M.L. Kingsler
Reginald Yiu	Roberta A. Martindale	Rosina Mete	Roxanne N. Suchan	Samantha D. Tiller
Sandra Denise Soucie	Saranya Arnoldo	Sharon Brideau	Sharon Wing Si Mar	Sherri D. Wilson
Stephanie D. Fawcett	Stephanie M. Eccles	Stephanie Taylor	Stephanie V. Fenech	Susan D. Atkinson, ART
Susanne Marie Folco	Tamar Patreeka Webster	Tiffany Clouston	Twyla D. Pearce	Ugochukwu C. Nwaeme
Valentin Villatoro

Donors to Grants, Scholarships and Awards

CSMLS is grateful for the generosity of the following supporters of the CSMLS Grants, Scholarships and Awards. Thanks to their financial contributions, we are able to continue to support our members’ professional and educational development.

Abiola Fagbuyi	Alaimys German Ramirez	Alvia Diana Bruce	Alynn Shanks	Amanda VanSpronsen
Amrit Kaur	Andrea Lea-Stoddart	Barbara Hall	Brenda Soutar	Carmen Maria Pavan-Falco
Cecilia Sousa	Christian Dallaire	Christina Canticas	Christine Kelly	Christine Nielsen
Christine Sorko	Dana Stark	David Zack	Debra Fleiger	Dianna Diep
Dominique Allard	Dorothy Kus	Elizabeth Somerville	Eugenet Frigillano	Fermonira Sajili
Francois Deschenes	Frederick Wong	Gaylene Scott	Giandeep Khepar	Gina Alvarez
Goldie Fagan	Graeme Bond	Hanna Interewicz	Heather Edwards	Irene Clemente
Isabelle Grenier Nadeau	Jason Noonan	Jessica Bourke	Joan Isabel Andersen	Joël Rivero
Judith Ann Pateman	Kalwinder Randhawa	Karen Rumson	Keeley Morison-Clarke	Kim Alkalay
Kristian Sattelberger	Kristin Juenke	Laura Campbell	Laura Smy	Leah Feliciano
Leslee Patricia Mueller	Lisette Vienneau	M. Ofelia Ribeiro	Margot Beverly Newton	Maricel Benedicto
Marie-France Jemus	Mark Stevenson	Mary Allison Shields	Megan Parrish	Mélanie McLean
Michele Sykes	Min Dong	Mitchell Goldsack	Mohammad Ali	Mohammed Ahmed
Nancy Bergeron	Nancy Delaney	Nancy Ellen Hillmer	Nancy Flook	Nicholas Dibdin
Niteshkumar Patel	Ogechi Nwogu	Pauline Tomlin	Ramona Taylor	Rosalia Santos
Rowena Pastores	Ruth Farrow	Samuel Benedicto	Sarjeet Singh	Sharon Lynne Sutherland
Taryn Matis	Taryn Skerry	Victoria Wickey	Warren Shih	Wesley Nishi
Yi Cao	Yolanta Van Arden

National Voice

As the National Voice of Canada’s medical laboratory profession, CSMLS represents the needs and concerns of medical laboratory professionals when working with laboratory and health care-related organizations.

We continue to partake in discussions to keep staff, collaborators and members safe. Many of these in person meetings are now virtual. Not all those events qualify for the National Voice; however, we have been working with the media, policymakers and collaborators each month. Here is where your voice was heard in 2022.

NOVEMBER

Conference Board of Canada: National Immigration Centre (NIC) – Members
Meeting VIRTUAL MEETING
The Michener Institute of Education: MLA to MLT Laddering Feasibility
VIRTUAL MEETING
Manitoba Association of Medical Laboratory Science (MAMLS) Annual General Meeting
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
British Columbia Institute of Technology: Exam Timing for Clinical Genetics
VIRTUAL MEETING
Presentation to Canadian Society for Association Executives (CSAE) – Culture is King
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Canadian Association of Allied Health Professions (CAAHP): Mental Health Survey Findings – Joint Presentation with Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (CAMRT) and Sonography Canada (SC)
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICAN) Virtu-WIL Advisory Committee: Simulation
VIRTUAL MEETING
Red River College Presentation: Generations and Customer Service
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
Government of Canada – Sectoral Workforce Solutions Grant Funding Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Anderson College: IEMLT Bridging Program Letter of Support
VIRTUAL MEETING

DECEMBER

Government of Canada – Sectoral Workforce Solutions Grant Funding Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
HEAL (Organizations for Health Action) Quarterly Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Manitoba Health Policy Analyst – Consultation on Regulatory and Policy Scan
VIRTUAL MEETING
College of Allied Health Professionals of PEI/CSMLS – Orientation
VIRTUAL MEETING
Regulation Meeting with College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Ontario (CMLTO)
VIRTUAL MEETING
Using Labs Wisely Steering Committee (Choosing Wisely Canada)
VIRTUAL MEETING
The Michener Institute of Education: MLA to MLT Laddering Feasibility
VIRTUAL MEETING

JANUARY

Saskatchewan Society of Medical Laboratory Technologists (SSMLT) – Provincial Recruitment Plans
VIRTUAL MEETING
Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICAN) Virtu-WIL Advisory Committee: Simulation
VIRTUAL MEETING
OnTechU – Micro-credentials and Interprofessional Education Project
VIRTUAL MEETING
BC Allied Health Policy Secretariat Presentation: Findings from Strategy Consultation
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
Regulation Meeting with College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Ontario (CMLTO)
VIRTUAL MEETING
Regulation Meeting with College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Alberta (CMLTA)
VIRTUAL MEETING
Pre-Budget Consultation with Ontario Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy
VIRTUAL MEETING
EQual Canada (Accreditation Canada) – Accreditation of Ontario Medical Laboratory Assistant Programs
VIRTUAL MEETING
Virtual School Visit: Student Presentation
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
Advocacy Outreach Meeting on MLA Regulation with Alberta Minister of Health Jason Copping
VIRTUAL MEETING

FEBRUARY

Nova Scotia Community College MLT Student Presentation: “Social Media and Your Professional Reputation”
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
Virtual Interprofessional Education (IPE) for Medical Laboratory (ML) Learners Partner Meeting with OnTechU
VIRTUAL MEETING
Canadian Network of Agencies for Regulation (CNAR) — Education/Research Committee
VIRTUAL MEETING

Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Minimum Data Set Standard for Health Care Practitioners – Partners Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Government of Canada Grant Application Meetings
VIRTUAL MEETING
EQual (Accreditation Canada) Council Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING

MARCH

Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICAN) Lunch and Learn Session — Presentation to Deans of Health Sciences: Survival Solutions for an Association During a Pandemic
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
Clinical Laboratory Educators Conference – Presentation: Creating Boundaries of Simulation for Clinical Practicum for MLTs
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Presentation: Boundaries of Simulation for Clinical Practicum for MLTs with Equal (Accreditation Canada)
VIRTUAL MEETING
Organizations for Health Action (HEAL) Health Human Resources (HHR) Task Force Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
HEAL Quarterly Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
EQual Stakeholders Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Lab Wisely Taskforce (Choosing Wisely Canada)
VIRTUAL MEETING
Manitoba Association of Medical Laboratory Science Annual General Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Health Care Worker Crisis Summit Part II – Hosted by the Canadian Medical Association and the Canadian Nurses Association
VIRTUAL MEETING
CICAN Virtu-WIL Advisory Committee Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
The Michener Institute of Education at UHN – Career Fair MLT Student Presentation
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
Michener Benchmarks Presentation: Capacity Building: MLA to MLT Career Laddering Program and What About Me? Advocating for Medical Laboratory Professionals
VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS

APRIL

EQual Governance Committee
VIRTUAL MEETING
Virtual IPE for ML Learners Partner Meeting with OnTechU
VIRTUAL MEETING
Conference Board of Canada – National Immigration Centre (NIC) Spring Member Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Forum meeting with the Canadian Alliance of Medical Laboratory Professionals Regulators (CAMLPR)
VIRTUAL MEETING
Anderson College – IEMLT Program Funding Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
CNAR Education/Research Committee
VIRTUAL MEETING
The Michener Institute of Education at UHN – Program Advisory Committee Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Minimum Data Set Standard for Health Care Practitioners – Partners Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
HEAL HHR Task Force Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING

MAY

British Columbia Society of Laboratory Science (BCSLS) Symposium
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
The New Brunswick Society of Medical Laboratory Technologists’ Annual Provincial Scientific Conference (APSC)
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
CSMLS Lobby Week Government Relations Event
OTTAWA, ONTARIO and VIRTUAL MEETINGS
Michener Institute of Education at UHN Benchmarks Conference – CSMLS Presentations: MLA to MLT Laddering, Advocating for Medical Laboratory Professionals
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Choosing Wisely Canada – National Meeting and Society Leaders Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
HEAL (Organizations for Health Action) Health Human Resources (HHR) Taskforce
VIRTUAL MEETING
Health Canada’s Health Human Resources (HHR) Virtual Symposium
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

JUNE

Canadian Association of Allied Health Programs (CAAHP) Annual General Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Virtu-WIL Advisory Committee Meeting (CICAN) – Developing Simulations for MLS
VIRTUAL MEETING
HEAL Quarterly Meeting and HHR Taskforce Meetings
VIRTUAL MEETING
Government of Canada’s Foreign Credential Recognition Program Information Session (funding)
VIRTUAL MEETING
Ontario Tech University: Clinical Educator’s Seminar – Presentation on State of HHR in Canada
VIRTUAL MEETING
EQual (Accreditation Canada) Council Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING

JULY

Canadian Alliance of Medical Laboratory Professionals Regulators (CAMLPR) and CSMLS Interim Forum Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Canada’s Drug and Health Technology Agency (CDATH)/Choosing Wisely Canada Lab Test Project Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences HHR Stakeholder Engagement (Ontario consultation)
VIRTUAL MEETING
Northern Remote Indigenous (NRI) Communities Laboratory Engagement Group Meeting with Public Health Agency of Canada
VIRTUAL MEETING
EQual Council Executive Meeting
VIRTUAL MEETING

AUGUST

Northern Remote Indigenous (NRI) Communities Laboratory Engagement Group Meeting (bi-weekly), with Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
VIRTUAL
McMaster University - Beyond Silence App Pilot Project for e-Mental Health Solutions
VIRTUAL
Canadian Network of Associations for Regulation (CNAR) Education/Research Program Committee Meeting (bi-weekly)
VIRTUAL
College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Manitoba (CMLTM) MLA Information Sessions
VIRTUAL
Research Canada Partner Meeting
VIRTUAL
Research Canada Annual Meeting
VIRTUAL
Gaman J. Modi Award of Excellence Presentation
TORONTO, ON

SEPTEMBER

NRI Communities Laboratory Engagement Group Meeting (bi-weekly), with PHAC
VIRTUAL
Government of Canada — Workplace Integrated Learning (WIL) Pilot for Internationally Educated MLTs
VIRTUAL
McMaster University - Beyond Silence App Pilot Project for e-Mental Health Solutions
VIRTUAL
BCSLS Congress Presentation: Let’s talk about the shrinking labour pool in the lab (BC) HARRISON HOT SPRINGS, BC SimCanada Annual General Meeting
VIRTUAL
CNAR Education/Research Program Committee Meeting (bi-weekly)
VIRTUAL
Virtual School Visit: Student Presentation
VIRTUAL

OCTOBER

International Federation of Biomedical Laboratory Science (IFBLS) Chief Delegates and General Assembly of Delegates
VIRTUAL
NRI Communities Laboratory Engagement Group Meeting (bi-weekly), with PHAC
VIRTUAL
Kenora Rainy River Regional Lab Programs Fall Symposium Presentation: LabWisely
KENORA, ON
EQual Program Council Executive (Accreditation Canada)
VIRTUAL
Organizations for Health Lobby (HEAL) HHR Meeting
VIRTUAL
HEAL Quarterly Meeting
VIRTUAL
Ontario Tech University Symposium – Transformational Learning in Medical Laboratory Science
TORONTO, ON