FREE FOR MEMBERS!

Description: We were in trouble before the pandemic. Record retirements, mental health challenges, crushing workloads, old equipment… then the pandemic strikes.  How will we recover?  Is it even possible, when the demand for laboratory testing outstrips our human resource capacity?  Learn what’s happening across Canada – how innovations are helping education programs increase enrolments, the importance of Lab Wisely, regulation of MLAs, professionals working to full scope and more. 

Start date: Upon registration

Completion: Up to 52 weeks

At the end of this webinar you will be able to:

• Understand impact of COVID 19 and demographics on the labour pool
• Understand CSMLS initiatives and efforts to inform government and other key stakeholders
• Learn what’s happening across Canada for innovation and investment to improve the health human resources

Speaker: Christine Nielsen

Christine Nielsen became CEO of the CSMLS in 2010.  Prior, she was Director of Certification for seven years, with a brief stint as Deputy Registrar for the College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Ontario.   

Trained as a medical laboratory technologist, she then completed a degree in Health Admin, a Certificate of Mastery in Prior Learning Assessment from DePaul University in Chicago and is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) since 2008.  She has recently completed an MBA from Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh Business School, Scotland, after eight long years!  She currently volunteers with the Michener Alumni association (20 years and running!) and the Oakville & Milton Humane Society Board of Directors.

Recorded: October 15, 2022

PEP hours: 1.0

CPS credits: 0

*Note: PEP hours and/or CPS credits will only be awarded upon successful completion of the quiz.