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Hello MDRAO Members,

 

This year has been an eventful year; as a board, we have been successful in hosting the 50th Anniversary Conference for the MDRAO. Conference planning was a good learning experience, creating agendas, becoming an overnight graphic designer for the posters and flyers and even hosting my own promotional activity on Linkedin to bring in some international vendor interest! At first, with the resignation of previous board members, I was a little set back; I began to think it was too much to take on. However, the team we have is incredible, we get things done, keep moving forward no matter what the setback, and most importantly hold ourselves accountable for our actions. We educate one another on the Federal Canadian Not For Profit Act and our Organization Bylaws to ensure, we are taking the organization in the right direction towards a law-abiding truth and transparent future.

Hello Members

It is new to me and a great pleasure to be the MDRAO Provincial Director of Chapter Development. Although I am at helm of the position, I look forward to having the support of our chapter executive members in continuing to improve our member experience and also introducing our association to our MDRD fellow workers throughout the province wherever they may be working in their MDR capacity. From the private plastic surgeon, to the dentist’s office and to the hospitals, our association adds a great benefit to staff working in these areas.

The MDRAO has just finished the biannual conference, September 6-8, 2019. All members want to get back to work and the usual routine in their lives but more importantly to go home, relax and take a break.

Everyone I talked to after the closing remarks is bringing back with them new ideas and topics to brainstorm, some have met new friends willing to network and share knowledge and experiences. Yes, it was a successful three days, attended by many ETA chapter members as well as students from various colleges. In addition, by visiting manufacturers and distributors booths, vendors were there to answer questions delegates might have with instrumentation and equipment.

 

The Sigma chapter recently organized an education day, which was held at the London Hospital Linen Services in London, Ontario.

Brenda Gnanasegaram: Since 2014, I keep attending MDRAO meetings and conferences. So far, I learned a lot and met MDRAO professionals, having good network with them. I don't want to miss any opportunities to learn and improve my knowledge in my field of medical device reprocessing. I'm so eager to be attending the conference

Cheryl Fedosenko: I love to learn. Any opportunity to increase my knowledge to be able to deliver safer patient care is important to me. I am able to attend and look forward to this opportunity. 

Saturday October 19, 2019, Garry Bassi - Director of Education and Sara Roberts - Director of Communications attended a medical device reprocessing conference in Winnipeg, MB.

During the conference, there was a vendors' exhibition which allowed Garry and Sara the opportunity to showcase MDRAO. Our MDRAO textbooks, both the English and French versions, were very popular and received a lot of great feedback. MDRAO was excited to raffle off an English MDRAO textbook, and the recipient of this textbook was beyond thrilled and very grateful. There was interest from Winnipeg folks regarding the refresher courses MDRAO offers, and some asked how they could become members. CAMDR was also there.