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Tuberculosis: Drug resistance in Canada – 2012

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APPENDIX 1: Participating Laboratories of the Canadian Tuberculosis Laboratory Surveillance System

Alberta

 

Provincial Laboratory of Public Health Calgary, Alberta

Cary Shandro
Technologist Mycobacteriology

Marguerite Lovgren
Microbiology Laboratory

Dr. Greg Tyrrell,
Clinical Microbiologist

Dr. Marie Louie, MD, FRCPC
Associate Medical Director

British Columbia

BCCDC Public Health Microbiology and  Reference Laboratory

Vancouver, British Columbia.

Dr. Mabel Rodrigues, PhD
Mycobacteriology/TB Laboratory, Section Head

Monica Ng, BSc
Mycobacteriology/TB Laboratory, Section Supervisor

Dr. Patrick Tang, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Medical Microbiologist

Dr. Judy L. Isaac-Renton,  MD, DPH, FRCPC
Director, Laboratory Services

Manitoba

Diagnostics Services Manitoba
Health Sciences Centre

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Assunta Rendina, MLT
Charge Technologist, Mycobacteriology

Doug Swidinsky
Senior Technologist

Dr. Michelle Alfa
Medical Director

New Brunswick

Department of Laboratory Medicine
Saint John Regional Hospital

Saint John, New Brunswick

Hope MacKenzie
MLT3- supervisor CL3 Lab

Janet Reid
Microbiology Manager

Dr. Duncan Webster
Medical Microbiologist/ Infectious Disease

Dr. Marek Godlewski
Laboratory Director

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador Public Health Laboratory
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Bernadette Noftall
Tech II

Ella Keough
Tech

Lourens Robberts, PhD, D(ABMM), FCCM
Director & Clinical Microbiologist

Northwest Territories

Stanton Territorial Hospital

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Sherrill Webber
Tech II, Microbiology

April Darrach
Technologist, Microbiology

Sean Davies
Laboratory Supervisor

Cheryl Cooper
Manager
Therapeutic & Diagnostic Services

Nova Scotia

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Sherry Maston
Division of Medical Microbiology

Jimmy MacDonald
Technical Supervisor, Division of Microbiology

Dr.  David Haldane,
Director, Provincial Public Health Laboratory Network and Special Pathogens

Dr. Kevin Forward
Director, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Ontario

Central Public Health Lab
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

Toronto, Ontario

Joanne Blair
Head, Mycobacteriology

Kevin May
Public Health Lab-Toronto

Dr. Frances Jamieson
Medical Microbiologist -TB and Mycobacteriology

Mr. Nicholas Paul
Manager Direct Services

Alex Marchand-Austin
Manager: Laboratory Surveillance and Data Management

Quebec

Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec
Institut national de santé publique du Québec
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue,

Quebec

Hafid Soualhine, Ph.D.
Head, Mycobacteriology & Aerobic Actinomycetes

Lise Côté
Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes

Dr. Cécile Tremblay,
Director

Saskatchewan
North

Royal University Hospital
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Nancy Hanson
TB Laboratory/Clinical Microbiology

Bonnie Kirkpatrick
MLT - Technologist

Dr. J. Blondeau
Interim Head for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

South

Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory
Regina, Saskatchewan

Rita Thomas
Technologist, TB/Bacteriology

Ericka Grude
Technologist, TB/Bacteriology

Dr. Paul Levett
Microbiologist

Dr. David Alexander
Microbiologist

Dr. Greg Horsman
Director, Saskatchewan Health
Federal

National Microbiology Laboratory
Public Health Agency of Canada

Joyce Wolfe
Program Manager, Mycobacteriology

 

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References

Footnote 1
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. (CLSI)  Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacteria, Nocardiae, and Other Aerobic Actinomycetes; Approved Standard, M24-A. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, 2011.
Footnote 2
Sharma et al.  A Canadian Multicentre Laboratory Study for Standardized Second-line Antimicrobial Susceptiblity Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.  Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2011, 49 (12), 4112-4116.
Footnote 3
World Health Organization.  Global tuberculosis report 2012. Geneva,: World Health Organization, 2006 (WHO/HTM/TB/2012.6).

a The Canadian Tuberculosis Laboratory Technical Network is a national network made up of a technical head of each provincial or territorial laboratory that performs Mycobacteriology testing, a representative from the National Reference Centre for Mycobacteriology, Public Health Agency of Canada (the Agency), and a designee from CCDIC the Agency .