I hope all members are enjoying the autumn season. With this time of change, we look back at another MDR week celebrated across Canada. I hope all MDR departments had a chance to celebrate and recognize the important work being done to keep patients safe. I was able to attend the CAMDR conference with many other MDRAO members and promote our group’s leadership in education and advocacy in MDR as well as see what is new in our profession.

The CAMDR Conference seems to have been a great success. Overall, we had a lot of members from the MDRAO supporting the event. The MDRAO booth was a success, with clarification given to supporters regarding the differences between the two organizations. A lot of text books and educational information was also handed out to conference attendees at our MDRAO booth.

In September, I was honoured to chair our first executive meeting for this current term. During this meeting we solidified our four chapter meeting dates for this fiscal year. We discussed our financial status along with the CAMDR Conference held in Toronto from October 13-16, along with a possible education day.

The ETA Chapter had its first meeting on September 16th, 2016, at Keir Surgical/Mobile instrument Repair facilities in Oshawa, Ontario. The meeting was very well attended, with close to 30 members. It was great to see so many faces from such a wide cross-section of facilities in the GTA. The was a 50/50 raffle, and certificates of attendance were handed out for the first time.

If you are interested in the position of Course Coordinator for the GAMMA Chapter, please see the attached posting.

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