Message from the CEO
Christine Nielsen
What a productive year 2018 turned out to be for the Society! We made great strides to address the health human resource shortage by creating and launching the Call to Action (CTA). Through our efforts, we were able to put a name and number on the projected shortages of medical laboratory technologists in Canada. We have been pleased to see interest throughout the country; programs, employers, associations and regulators have been jumping on board to support collaboration as a means to sustain the workforce in the interest of patient safety and timely laboratory test data. These efforts in 2018 are setting the ground work for capacity building. We have been looking at the role of simulation in education and training as a capacity builder, ensuring quality and quantity of clinic placements and acknowledging the critical role all players in the laboratory team play. Next stop? The provincial level, where key stakeholders, governments and institutions can align with the Call to Action to prepare for the future. While the Call to Action was a prominent project in 2018, we were also working diligently on other initiatives. I encourage you to read the rest of the annual report to learn about the many other accomplishments achieved by the Society throughout the year.
Message from the President
Lisette Vienneau
As the 2018 CSMLS President, I was able to witness many accomplishments unfold for the national medical laboratory profession. Out of these, one highlight stood out to me the most. At the Annual General Meeting, the membership voted to add a medical laboratory assistant (MLA) director position to the CSMLS Board of Directors. The MLA Director position will ensure better representation of the CSMLS membership at the Board level. With this, we can expect that all medical laboratory professionals, including MLAs, will have a consistent voice year over year. This representation will also allow the CSMLS to achieve one of the key areas in our Strategic Plan, which is to “make CSMLS indispensable to our members at all stages of their careers.” This includes being able to deliver value to our members and offer products and services that are useful to both medical laboratory assistants and technologists. CSMLS strives to be the medical laboratory profession’s one-stop shop for everything, and the MLA Director position on the CSMLS Board of Directors is one step in the right direction. While we are working towards great things, we always remain cognizant of our members’ financial investment in us. I would like to invite you to download and review our financial summary which you will find in this annual report.
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CSMLS Mission : To advance the medical laboratory profession through certification, education and advocacy.
To do this, we focus our efforts through these four values:
Integrity
Accountability
Respect
Commitment
Strategic Plan
We developed our four-pillared strategic plan to keep us focused on the best interest of all our members in the present and future. These pillars help the Board of Directors and staff make decisions that align with the organization’s common goals.
Empower medical laboratory professionals to succeed in a dynamic and challenging work environment.
Make CSMLS indispensable to our members at all stages of their careers.
Advocate for solutions within the health care system on behalf of the medical laboratory profession.
Be the acknowledged leader for certification in medical laboratory science across Canada.
2018 Board of Directors
Lisette Vienneau
President
Mary Costantino
Past President
Maria Klement
Vice President, Director, BC & YT
Joel Rivero
Director, AB & NT
Greg Dobbin
Director, Atlantic
Danielle McLennan
Director, Bilingual
Patricia Verbeke
Director, MB & SK
Nancy Bergeron
Director, ON
