While visiting patient floors for blood collection, Karlene Jackson, LMP Specimen Management Technician entered a patient room to a startling scene. She found a patient with a disconnected IV, and a resulting pool of blood on the bed and floor. Responding immediately, Karlene rushed to the front nurses’ desk and interrupted a safety huddle to... Continue Reading →
Making hospital visits simple to navigate and easy to understand is paramount for patients. That’s why LMP has undergone steps to rename the blood collection areas at UHN to one common name across all sites. Currently, there a three different names used (Diagnostic Test Centre at TGH, Blood Lab Collection Centre at PM, and Blood... Continue Reading →
Recently, the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) laboratory licencing and inspection services paid LMP’s Blood and Specimen Collection Centres a surprise visit. Auditors spent the day observing staff at work across TGH, PM and TWH and reviewed practices, patient workflow, phlebotomy techniques and standard operation procedures. A major shout out to all LMP’s Specimen Management... Continue Reading →
Recently we said farewell to many of our 2018-19 Pathology fellows. As always, the medical trainees became a major part of their respective subspecialty teams and played a significant role in LMP patient care over the past year. Congratulations to all on their successful completion of an LMP fellowship and we look forward to seeing... Continue Reading →
Each year, a handful of medical professionals from around the world come through LMP for one-year subspecialty fellowships offered by staff pathologists and the University of Toronto. Fellows engrain themselves in the program throughout their time here, and under LMP medical staff supervision are involved in taking out patient cases, making diagnoses, and pursuing various... Continue Reading →
Dr. Stephen Smith completed his medical training at the University of Toledo - College of Medicine in 2013. He then went on to complete his residency at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and an Endocrine, Head and Neck (EHN) Pathology fellowship at Yale University. After completing his EHN fellowship Dr. Smith returned to... Continue Reading →
A job well done to the LMP Clerical Pathology team for recognizing the needs of a patient and putting in some extra time in to accession an urgent case after-hours. Together the clerical team worked with LMP Dermatopathologist, Dr. Danny Ghazarian to ensure the TWH Hand Clinic could act quick responding to a diagnosis and... Continue Reading →
Congratulations to LMP Renal Pathologist, Dr. Carmen Avila-Casado on her recent publication in the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper is titled, Rituximab or Cyclosporine in the Treatment of Membranous Nephropathy, and assesses the effectiveness of two different therapies in the treatment of Membranous Nephropathy kidney disease. In addition to Dr. Avila-Casado’s contributions,... Continue Reading →
Last year, LMP’s Lab Lifesavers raised over $12,000 dollars in support of LMP Research by fundraising and putting their best foot forward in Princess Margaret’s One Walk to Conquer Cancer. This year they want to surpass that mark and get even more lab professionals out to support. It’s early days yet, but if you’re interested... Continue Reading →
