Voice - September 2018

Election News

Meet Your New 2018-2019 MDRAO Board

Tammy is the Supervisor at Sault Area Hospital’s Medical Device Reprocessing Department. She has been working in health care for 22 years and 11 of them in Medical Device Reprocessing. Tammy has her MDRAO certification, Olympus CERT and CMDRT, from CSA.

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Tamiza Samji - Vice President

Tamiza started her journey at Cambridge Memorial Hospital as an MDRD technician after completing her CSAO certification in 2005. Prior to working at CMH she owned and operated two businesses for 15 years. Tamiza also worked in endoscopy at St. Mary’s Hospital. From 2008-2013 she was the fill-in team lead and then promoted to permanent team-lead in the MDRD.

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Deo Macadangdang – DELTA Chapter Representative

Deo Macadangdang is currently the Educator at Hamilton Health Sciences, General site. He is a graduate of Bachelor of Sciences in Nursing in the Philippines and a Registered Nurse.

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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.

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Nathalie Legault – GAMMA Chapter Representative

Nathalie works as the MDRD Educator at The Ottawa Hospital, she divides her time between The Ottawa Hospital’s three campuses. The Ottawa Hospital is a Canadian academic health science center that serve 1.2 million people across Eastern Ontario. Nathalie is a graduate from Ottawa University, where she received a BA of Science in Nursing.

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Candia Anderson – LAMBDA Chapter Representative

Candia Anderson was born and raised in Thunder Bay but owned and operated a Bed & Breakfast in Atikokan before joining the hospital in 2009.

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Sara Roberts – SIGMA Chapter Representative

Sara Roberts is a Medical Device Reprocessing Technician with 11 years experience at the Chatham Kent Health Alliance.

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Colleen Landers – THETA Chapter Representative

Colleen has been a dedicated member of the Medical Device Reprocessing Association of Ontario since 1990, where she established the northern Ontario Theta Chapter. Colleen was on the MDRAO executive for twelve years holding positions of Secretary, Education, Vice President, President and Past President at the provincial level.

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Denise Bosnjak – Past President

Denise Bosnjak is the Manager of the Medical Device Reprocessing Department at Hamilton Health Sciences at both the General and Juravinski sites. She began her career as a Medical Device Reprocessing Technician over 35 years ago. After working as a Team Leader for 5 years she accepted an MDR Supervisor role that lead to a Manager position.

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Tammara Champoux – Vendor Representative

Tammara has been working in the Health Care industry for over 26 years and during that time has been employed by Getinge Canada Limited. Some may also know the former company names MDT or Wilmont Castle.

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Articles Related to Sterilization and Decontamination

Performing Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Devices Safely

By Colleen Landers, Registered Nurse and Medical Device Reprocessing Technician

To practitioners in our field, it will come as no surprise to hear that the reprocessing of reusable medical devices is complex, requires a quality system, and if not performed to Canadian Standards can place citizens at risk of obtaining disease or infection. This risk has been well documented in the Canadian media over the past five years. These reports clearly emphasize that faulty practices have placed thousands of Canadians at risk resulting in many of them acquiring HIV, Hepatitis B and other unwelcome diseases.

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Notice: Classification and Licensing of High-Level Disinfectants and Sterilants as Medical Devices

Effective March 16, 2018, high-level disinfectant and sterilant solutions (including contact lens disinfectants) intended for use on medical devices are classified by Health Canada as medical devices. Medical device disinfectants and sterilants that do not meet the definition of an antimicrobial agent in the Food and Drug Regulations (FDR) are no longer regulated under the FDR and are now subject to the requirements of the Medical Devices Regulations (MDR.) Disinfectants that meet the definition of an antimicrobial agent continue to be regulated as drugs and subject to the requirements of the FDR.

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