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Glove recycling pilot program in Transfusion Medicine Lab

October 29, 2021

Jodi Shad, Green+Leader and MLT at Transufsion Medicine, identified an opportunity to reduce glove waste in the lab and suggested a glove recycling pilot program using the TerraCycle Zero Waste Box program.

September 29, 2021

The "Providence Chemistry" article, submitted by Dr. Andre Mattman, Medical Lead for Chemistry, is featured in the September 2021 issue of the UBC Pathology Newsletter.

August 11, 2021

Thanks to the great effort of Dr. Martin Trotter, along with Dr. Terence Rutherford (both former Department Head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Providence Health Care), the article “100 years of pathology and laboratory medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada” is published in the Canadian Journal of Pathology 2021; Volume 13, Issue 3.

April 21, 2021

Last fall, Mount Saint Joseph Hospital Laboratory (MSJ Lab) received funding from the MSJ Gift Shop for a cassette printer that plays a pivotal role in the hub and spoke model of our Anatomic Pathology services at MSJ Lab. A ribbon cutting ceremony took place in January.

April 6, 2021

St. Paul’s Hospital (Transfusion Medicine) was recently designated as a Using Blood Wisely Hospital by Choosing Wisely Canada and Canadian Blood Services, recognizing its achievements in meeting national appropriateness benchmarks for red blood cell transfusions.

March 23, 2021

The Provincial Blood Coordinating Office (PBCO) has recognized Providence Health Care's contribution to red cell and factor product redistribution in 2018/2019 and 2019/2020.

March 10, 2021

A number of PHC Pathology and Laboratory Medicine medical/clinical staff are highlighted in the February 2021 issue of the UBC Pathology Newsletter, including their COVID-19 related research projects.

February 12, 2021

Dr. Marc Romney, Medical Lead for Microbiology and Virology, is the lead researcher of a study to determine the impact of COVID-19 vaccines in residents of long-term care facilities in BC, funded by the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF).

December 3, 2020

In September, in order to increase COVID-19 testing capacity and preserve supplies, Dr. Daniel Holmes, Head of PHC Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, spearheaded the pooled sample testing program (involving robotics and data automation) at St. Paul’s laboratory, along with team members including Dr. Marc Romney, Dr. Chris Lowe, Dr. Nancy Matic, Dr. Gordon Ritchie, Grace van der Gugten and Mahdi Mobini.

November 30, 2020

Dr. Marc Romney, Medical Lead for Microbiology and Virology, along with Dr. Don Sin, PHC Respirologist (co-priincipal investigators) are lending their research expertise and diagnostic know-how to support the WestJet-YVR COVID-19 Testing Study using rapid antigen tests.

November 3, 2020

On Thursday October 29, 2020 at 17:39:17 PDT, St. Paul’s Laboratory reached its first 100,000 milestone of performing COVID-19 tests.

St. Paul’s Lab started testing for COVID-19 on February 14, performing up to 800 tests per day.

September 22, 2020

PHC Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Dr. Daniel Holmes, Dr. Mei Lin Bissonnette and Dr. Marc Romney) participated in a St. Paul’s Foundation virtual fundraising event for the new St. Paul’s on September 16, 2020.

July 2, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Mari DeMarco, Clinical Chemist at St. Paul's Hospital, and principal investigator of the "Quantitative Isotype Profiling And Dynamics Of SARS-CoV-2 Infections: Next-Generation Serology" research project that is one of the award recipients of the MSFHR COVID-19 Research Response Fund.

June 30, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Lowe, Medical Microbiologist at St. Paul’s Hospital, whose "Development of sensitive and quantitative molecular technologies for SARS-CoV-2 detection" research project has successfully received funding from the BC Genome’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding Initiative.

May 1, 2020

Congratulations to the 2020 BCIT Medical Laboratory Technologist graduates from PHC Labs on May 1, 2020 amid the COVID crisis, which also coincides with the National Medical Laboratory Week (April 26 to May 2, 2020).

April 16, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Bruce McManus and Dr. Martin Trotter for their recent retirement in January and April respectively from clinical services at Providence Health Care Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

March 24, 2020

On March 21, 2020, the Virology Lab at St. Paul's Hospital started using a new high throughput, fully automated COVID-19 testing method on our Roche 6800 instruments, the first such use in Canada.

March 10, 2020

Dr. Daniel Holmes, Medical Biochemist, is a co-author of a recent cover article publication in the British Medical Journal describing a tool for visualizing the variability of lab test results.

November 29, 2019

Dr. Mari DeMarco, Clinical Chemist at St. Paul's Hospital, was featured in the "Experimental drug would be first to reverse decline of Alzheimer's" article from Providence Health Care’s The Daily Scan.

October 23, 2019

Dr. Nick Myles, Pathologist at St. Paul's Hospital, has returned to work after completed an Area of Focused Competency (AFC) Diploma program by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Cytopathology at McGill University, Montreal.

He shared his personal experience in the October 2019 UBC Pathology Newsletter.

September 10, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Holmes, Medical Biochemist, who was recently named on The Pathologists’ 2019 Power List – a list of the top 100 trailblazers in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

September 6, 2019

For Dr. Janet Simons, Medical Biochemist and Site Medical Lead of Pre and Post Analytical, asking “why?” about routine bloodwork catapulted a change that has resulted in fewer morning collections and fewer patients a day experiencing unnecessary bloodwork that added no value to their care, as well as a new guideline.

August 16, 2019

Bobby Grewal, Anatomic Pathology Team Lead, was recently interviewed by PHC Communications & Public Affairs for the Daily Scan article, “The Morgue: Capturing the History of a Community”.

August 9, 2019

A review paper - “Cardiogenetics - Think about it” - by Dr. Michael Seidman has recently been published in the Canadian Journal of Pathology.

July 4, 2019

Dr. Yayuan (Joshua) Zhao, a Tissue Research Scientist and Pathologists’ Assistant in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, recently presented his research work “Effect of breast surgery types on tissue procurement for biobanking and research” at the Canadian Association of Pathologists Annual Meeting.

July 2, 2019

Dr. Martin Trotter, Head, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is the 2019 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Association of Pathologists (CAP-ACP).

May 31, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Bruce McManus C.M., Anatomic Pathologist at St. Paul’s Hospital, on his appointment to the Order of British Columbia.

May 14, 2019

Dr. Karen Dallas will be presenting The Science Behind CBC: Understanding Your Bloodwork webcast organized by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada on May 23, 2019, 6:00 EST (3 pm PST).

May 3, 2019

Congratulations to the 2019 BCIT Medical Laboratory Technologist graduates from PHC Labs.

December 4, 2018

November 15, 2018

Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valves. Department member Dr. Michael Seidman was the pathology lead in a new study which investigated correlates of leaflet thickening and structural valve degeneration (SVD) using a multimodal ex vivo analysis of explanted transcatheter heart valves.

November 8, 2018

St. Paul’s Hospital clinical chemist and HLI Early Career Investigator Dr. Mari DeMarco and her research team won a $684,000 grant through the Improving Health Outcomes and Quality of Life Team Grant competition, funded through the Canada Brain Research Fund with the financial support of Health Canada and institutional sponsors. Dr. DeMarco and her group were one of six teams across Canada funded in the competition. They will use their grant to investigate the impact of Alzheimer's disease diagnostics in Canada.

October 1, 2018

Providence Health Care renal pathologists, Dr. Alex Magil (retired) and Dr. Mei Lin Bissonnette, collaborate in a study of IgA dominant membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.

August 27, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Junyan Shi and Dr. Serena Singh, UBC Postdoctoral Research Fellows working with Dr. Mari DeMarco, Clinical Chemist at St. Paul’s Hospital, who are recipients of the 2018 MSFHR Research Trainee Award.

July 4, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Bruce McManus C.M., Anatomic Pathologist at St. Paul’s Hospital, on his appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada.

May 22, 2018

Congratulations to the 2018 BCIT Medical Laboratory Technologist graduates from PHC Labs.

April 20, 2018

Recent department research published in peer-reviewed biomedical journals is summarized below.

March 8, 2018

On March 1, 2018, Dr. Victor Leung, PHC Medical Microbiologist and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control, chaired the UBC Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium.

February 20, 2018

Dr. Mari DeMarco, Clinical Chemist at St. Paul's Hospital, recently presented "New in diagnostics - From need to bench and back" at the 2018 Heart + Lung Health FEST Scientific Symposia.

November 22, 2017

In memory of Christine Chuk, laboratory staff, past and present, have donated over $23,000 to the St. Paul's Foundation 2017 Lights of Hope Campaign

Photo: Dr. Audi Setiadi

November 8, 2017

Dr. Wei Xiong, in the Division of Anatomic Pathology, is the first author on a recent publication in the American Journal of Surgical Pathology "Radiologically undetected hepatocellular carcinoma in patients undergoing liver transplantation."

November 2, 2017

The St. Paul's Foundation Promise Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 highlights the Cullen family and their amazing support of PHC and our laboratory.

July 5, 2017

Congratulations to Dr. Andre Mattman, Medical Biochemist, and Grace van der Gugten, Assay Development Specialist, at St. Paul's Hospital, and their colleagues on their breakthrough on Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease (IgG4-RD).

June 16, 2017

Congratulations to Dr. Mari DeMarco, Clinical Chemist at St. Paul's Hospital, who received the 2017 Early Career Research & Discovery Award from the UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

June 15, 2017

Congratulations to Melanie Kenler, St. Paul's medical laboratory technologist in Hematology for her well received education session on May 27, 2017 at the Canadian Society of Medical Laboratory Science LABCON2017 in Banff, AB.

May 19, 2017

Congratulations to the 2017 BCIT Medical Laboratory Technologist graduates from PHC Labs.

May 1, 2017

Congratulations to Dr. Dan Holmes who was recently chosen to receive the Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists (CSCC) Research Excellence Award for 2017.

April 26, 2017

On March 30, St. Paul’s Foundation treated our medical lab assistants/phlebotomists with pizza meals as a way to say thank you for their hard work, especially in the midst of BC’s opioid crisis.

March 14, 2017

UBC Pathology Resident, Dr. Tyler Hickey received one of the USCAP Honors, a 2017 Stowell-Orbison Award - Certificate of Merit for a poster presented at the USCAP 2017 Annual Meeting.

January 25, 2017

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Dallas who has assumed the role of Program Director of the Transfusion Medicine (TM) Area of Focused Competence (AFC) Diploma Program in the University of British Columbia Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

January 25, 2017

Providence Health Care Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine participates in the events and courses presented by the British Columbia Society of Laboratory Science (BCSLS).

December 16, 2016

Congraluations to Baljit Singh (former PHC Labs Quality Lead) and Janie Venis (SPH ICU nurse) who have been awarded the 8th annual BD-Sponsored Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) Preanalytical Excellence Award for the "Collaboration between Lab and ICU at St.Paul’s Hospital" project.

December 14, 2016

On December 12, the DeMarco lab, in partnership with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Providence Health Care, unveiled a new SCIEX 5500 research mass spectrometer located in the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital.

November 24, 2016

Congratulations to Dr. Wei Xiong and the Anatomic Pathology Division on receiving grant from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to support the Continuing Professional Development Activity at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, St. Paul’s Hospital.

November 23, 2016

A group of St. Paul’s ICU nurses toured the Laboratory in September 2016. Find out what they learn from the post-tour evaluation and more…

October 12, 2016

The Thromboelastography (TEG) Hemostasis analyzer which provides comprehensive whole blood hemostasis testing that can assess bleeding (and thrombotic) risks and also monitor antithrombotic therapies is now available at St. Paul's Hospital Hematology Lab.

September 8, 2016

The Antimicrobial Stewardship App created by PHC Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP), with involvement of PHC Medical Microbiologists, is now free for all PHC staff, physicians, trainees, pharmacists and nurses to download from iTunes.

September 2, 2016

PHC physicians Dr. Martin Trotter (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) and Dr. Sheila Au (Dermatology) are coauthors of a recent review article describing strategies to improve skin biopsy pathology reports.

July 19, 2016

UBC Pathology Resident, Dr. Ema Todorovic wins the 2016 Hugh Curry Prize for best cytopathology presentation at the Canadian Association of Pathologists Annual Meeting.

July 14, 2016

Members of Team RST (Rapid-Strep-Teasers) from SPH Lab have each won a $25 gift card at the Clean Commuter & Wellness Challenge for being one of 2016’s Top Teams.

July 7, 2016

The Canadian Association of Pathologists - Association canadienne des pathologistes (CAP-ACP) is holding its 67th Annual Scientific Meeting in Vancouver on July 9-12, 2016.

June 28, 2016

Dr. Christopher Lowe, Medical Microbiologist at St. Paul's Hospital, receives the Gold Apple in the Top Innovation - Affiliate category of the 2016 BC Health Care Awards for the "Daily Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) Bathing Project" on Medicine unit.

June 27, 2016

Congratulations to the 2016 BCIT Medical Laboratory Technologist graduates from PHC Labs.

June 22, 2016

Dr. Sylvie Champagne, Medical Microbiologist at St. Paul's Hospital, receives the 2016 Dr. Melvyn Bernstein Resident Teaching Award from UBC Patholology and Laboratory Medicine.

June 13, 2016

Dr. Mari DeMarco, Clinical Chemist at St. Paul's Hospital, is one of the award recipients of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)'s 2016 Scholar Program for her project titled "Advancing Healthcare Diagnostics for Neurodegenerative Disorders".

May 26, 2016

Dr. Andre Mattman, Medical Biochemist at St. Paul's Hospital, contributed to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine that used deep phenotyping and whole-exome sequencing to investigate patients with inborn errors of metabolism.

May 16, 2016

As a Green+Leader and Recycling Champion, Vanessa Yu is a strong advocate for sustainable practices in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

May 12, 2016

The 2016 recipient of the Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine (CSTM) Blum Award is Daryl Gouthro, MLT

April 28, 2016

April 19, 2016

Several professional staff to give lectures at various institutions/events in April 2016.

March 8, 2016

Dr. Michael Payne, Medical Microbiologist at St. Paul’s Hospital, in collaboration with colleagues from BC Centre for Disease Control, identified the first published case of Zika virus in Canada from Central America in the March 2016 issue of the Canada Communicable Disease Report.

March 2, 2016

In the March 2016 issue of the Clinical Laboratory News, Dr. Andre Mattman, Medical Biochemist at St. Paul's Hospital, explains how laboratories can help reduce the clinical impact of alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency.

February 16, 2016

Dr. Mari DeMarco, Clinical Chemist at St. Paul's Hospital, is the recipient of the 2016 American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Outstanding Scientific Achievements by a Young Investigator Award.

February 3, 2016

There’s been a lot of recent media coverage on the emerging threat of Zika virus. Read more about the virus and blood supply.

January 26, 2016

On January 25 and 26, 2016, Dr. Mari DeMarco, Clinical Chemist at St. Paul's Hospital Laboratory, was interviewed by Global BC, the Lynda Steele Show and The Province regarding the development of a diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease at St. Paul's Hospital.

January 8, 2016

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the leading causes of chronic hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide.

January 6, 2016

SPH Outpatient Laboratory patients are satisfied with service and staff in recent survey.

January 5, 2016

On June 1, 2015 the Mount Saint Joseph laboratory went to 24-hour service.

January 5, 2016

New assays have been developed in our laboratory for measurement of renin activity, insulin analogues, and aldosterone.

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October 29, 2021

Providence Chemistry

September 29, 2021

History of Pathology at St. Paul's Hospital

August 11, 2021

New Cassette Printer in MSJ Lab funded by MSJ Gift Shop

April 21, 2021

St. Paul’s Hospital is a designated Using Blood Wisely Hospital

April 6, 2021

St. Paul's Hospital Transfusion Medicine Recognized for Utilization Management Initiatives

March 23, 2021

Highlights in UBC Pathology Newsletter

March 10, 2021

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Pooled Sample Testing for COVID-19

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WestJet-YVR COVID-19 Testing Study

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COVID-19 Tests at St. Paul’s Lab

November 3, 2020

St. Paul's Foundation Laboratory Virtual Tour Event

September 22, 2020

MSFHR COVID-19 Research Response Fund

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BC Genome COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding Initiative

June 30, 2020

BCIT MLT Graduates and National Medical Lab Week 2020

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Your results may vary: the imprecision of medical measurements

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Personal Experience: AFC in Cytopathology

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Asking Why: Daily Bloodwork at Providence Health Care

September 6, 2019

The Morgue: Capturing the History of a Community

August 16, 2019

Cardiogenetics – Think about it

August 9, 2019

Breast cancer biobanking and research

July 4, 2019

Canadian Association of Pathologists – Distinguished Service Award

July 2, 2019

Appointment to Order of B.C.

May 31, 2019

The Science Behind CBC: Understanding Your Bloodwork

May 14, 2019

BCIT MLT Graduates 2019

May 3, 2019

Estimating reference intervals for laboratory tests

December 4, 2018

Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valves

November 15, 2018

Brain Canada award will support Alzheimer’s study

November 8, 2018

IgA-dominant glomerulonephritis with a membranoproliferative pattern of injury

October 1, 2018

2018 MSFHR Research Trainee Award Recipients

August 27, 2018

Appointment to the Order of Canada

July 4, 2018

BCIT MLT Graduates 2018

May 22, 2018

Recent Publications from Our Department

April 20, 2018

UBC Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium

March 8, 2018

2018 Heart + Lung Health FEST

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