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This marks the end of another successful year, and we are very excited to begin a new year with our forever-growing chapter and your dedicated executive team.

 

Soon we will be sending out a calendar with dates of our upcoming education days.

 

This year we hope to see all of our members attend our INSPIRING INNOVATION - 50 YEARS OF TRANSFORMING EDUCATION EXCELLENCE MDRAO bi-annual Conference held in Toronto Ontario! September 6-8, 2019.

We have been busy trying to include as many chapter members that want to go to our 2019 MDRAO conference. We want to be the chapter recognized for sending the most first-timers to this, our 50th anniversary!

 

Gamma executives will be meeting to organize an education day for members in the coming year, so stay tuned!

We held several executive meetings to organize the Education Day. It was a highly successful event with many guest speakers. The participants found the day to be interesting and educational. The dialogue during the question and answer period with the presenters was engaging and informative. One highlight was learning about new future standards for CSA and how it will impact our membership. Another interesting issue that was discussed, and is probably an issue for other chapters as well, is wet packs. The discussion centred on the plastic lids vs. the aluminium lids. It was felt by the speaker that, due to the plastic not cooling down as fast as the aluminium case, this could be one of the contributing factors for wet packs. Discussion also included the regular maintenance of MDRD washers and sterilizing machines. The speaker and audience agreed that maintenance of these should be done on a regular basis, not only when the machines are experiencing issues. In all, the executive committee felt that the education day was a successful day. 

The ETA Chapter had AGM on May 10, 2019, at the Hospital for Sick Children. There were 10 members in attendance at the event.
 

The members were all ears on subject matters discussed. All members are encouraged to participate in any upcoming MDRAO activities.