Patient safety is at the heart of everything we do at the UHN, and it comes in many shapes and forms. Geetthan Vairamuthu, one of the first Quality Assurance and Service Specialists at UHN's Laboratory Medicine Program (LMP), plays a pivotal role in ensuring patient safety by overseeing the quality assurance efforts within Specimen Management.... Continue Reading →

The Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory at UHN hit a significant milestone in August, becoming the first laboratory in Canada to launch Optical Genome Mapping (OGM) for use in the genetic diagnosis of patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.  Optical Genome Mapping is a new technology that allows UHN’s Cytogenetics Lab to look for structural and numeric genome... Continue Reading →