Garry Bassi – ETA Chapter Representative

Garry is the Director of Medical Device Reprocessing at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, He has been working in the field of Medical Device Reprocessing since 2013.

Garry started his journey when he graduated from the United Kingdom with a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Delivery) and completed his dissertation paper on "The effectiveness of Potassium Permanganate as a disinfectant against E.Coli in third world countries". Garry was intrigued by the way microbes can be destroyed from his studies and knew from day one that he wanted to be dealing with something related to this field.

He started his career in the Pharmaceutical industry formulating, tableting and encapsulating various drugs and vitamins, and eventually moved into the Food Industry working with large industrial sterilizers. Garry has completed his CSA CMDRT certification and has worked in the private Medical Device Reprocessing field for 4 years.

He sits on the CSA Z8000 Health Care Facilities sub working group for Medical Device Reprocessing. Garry was the past course coordinator for Seneca college for the Medical Device Reprocessing certification and has also instructed the course at Seneca.

Garry has a passion for teaching and education and is continually looking for opportunities to move the MDRD industry a step higher, and is passionate about helping audit the reprocessing facilities associated with hospitals and out of hospital clinics to make communities safer for our next generation.