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Description: This non-traditional and dynamic webinar features a panel of medical lab professionals currently working outside of the traditional laboratory environment. Panelists will discuss the experiences, challenges, and opportunities encountered while transitioning their professional careers. Conversations will be intimate, interactive, unscripted, and enlightening!

Start date: Upon registration

Completion: Up to 52 weeks

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

• Identify transferable medical laboratory skills that are equally useful outside of the laboratory
• Recognize different professions where medical laboratory skills are applicable for success
• Appreciate the critical roles medical lab professionals play outside the traditional medical laboratory

Speaker: Joël Rivero, BSc(MLS), MLT, MACT

Panelists: Brady Rose, BSc, MLT and Valentino Villatoro, MEd, BSc (MLS), MLT

If there are several hats in the medical lab field, Joël’s probably worn them! Based out of Edmonton, AB, some of these hats include molecular bench technologist, allied health educator, simulation coordinator and hi-fi sim confederate (actorrr!), clinical work placement coordinator, Indigenous health curriculum developer, and clinical supervisor. He currently works as a system specialist, field applications II for DiaSorin Canada, positively influencing specialized diagnostic testing systems in hospitals across North America.

Joël is a 4-time LABCON presenter (Engaging Students on Social Media, Nonverbal Communications, Stress Management, and the Power of Positivity). He is distinctly honoured to have served on the CSMLS Board of Directors for 9 years, both as your AB/NT director and as president.

Brady Rose has used simulation in her didactic Clinical Chemistry course for ten years. She has also created, tested and embedded virtual simulations into clinical and didactic courses. As a nominee for Simulation Canada's SIM Citizenship Award, she advocates using simulation and creating a community of professional Simulationists within the Med Lab Profession.

Valentin Villatoro completed his MEd in Health Sciences Education, and he continues to build his expertise in pedagogy and ways to engage learners.

Recorded: September 28, 2024

PEP hours: 1.0

CPS credits: 0

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