Carole Ethier Carole graduated from Cégep de Sainte-Foy in 1985 as a medical laboratory technician. She then worked in various analytical laboratories for the Canadian Red Cross.   In 1998, she specialized in erythrocyte immunology.   While working at Héma-Québec’s reference laboratory, she provided training to blood bank technicians from several Québec hospitals for 8 years. She obtained the…

Ann Wilson Ann Wilson is a graduate of the Medical Laboratory Technology program at Dawson College in Montreal and worked as bench technologist in Hematology and then Transfusion Services at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.  When Quebec opened Transfusion Safety Officer positions in 1999, she was hired as a Transfusion Safety Technologist at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC),…

Donald M. Arnold, MDCM, MSc, FRCP(C) Dr. Donald M. Arnold is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, and Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Transfusion Research at McMaster University. Dr. Arnold’s research is focused on improving blood transfusion practices and advancing the care of patients with bleeding disorders. Dr. Arnold was co-principal…