After a competitive, international search, Dr. George Yousef will be joining UHN as Program Medical Director of the Laboratory Medicine Program (LMP). His first day is April 1, 2022. George joins us from The Hospital for Sick Children where he is Chief of the Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine and a Senior Associate Scientist. He... Continue Reading →
Dr. Bruce Youngson will be retiring on December 31, 2021 after more than 30 years of exemplary service to Pathology at UHN. Bruce started at TGH in September 1991 and in his more than 30 years here, he has seen many changes. Bruce attended medical school at the University of Toronto. He did his Anatomical... Continue Reading →
With a combination of happiness for her and sadness for us, we would like to share that our wonderful Bettina will be retiring from her current post as Genetics MLT at the end of the October.Bettina has been an essential part of this big Genome Diagnostics family. Through the years she pioneered and advanced many... Continue Reading →
It is with mixed emotions that I announce that Peter Woo, Manager of the Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) teamat UHN Digital, will be retiring in January 2022 after 36 years of exceptional leadership and service to UHN. Peter started at UHN in 1985, as a technician in the Biochemistry lab. At the time, he was... Continue Reading →
UHN’s Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory Celebrates 35 Years of Breaking New Ground The year was 1986. In the dark, dingy basement of the Banting Institute, three technologists, one administrative assistant and one clinical lab scientist, Dr. Ian Dube, got to work in what was then ‘the new’ The Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory (CCL). . Charge Technologist Shawn... Continue Reading →
The Pathology Report 