ADLM collaborates with national societies in underserved areas of Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, and Latin America and the Caribbean to provide continuing education and medical resources to laboratory medicine professionals. Learn more about our work in these areas below:
Global Lab Quality Initiative
This initiative partners with national societies worldwide to offer workshops in quality control and method verification topics, as well as webinars in Spanish that are available to watch on-demand.
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Apply for an International Membership Grant
Two-year ADLM professional memberships are available to early- and mid-career laboratory medicine professionals from underserved areas worldwide.
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Join an IFCC committee
If you are interested in the work of a particular International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine committee or task force, you can apply to become the ADLM nominee for that committee/task force.
Hear from participants in ADLM's global educational programs about how these initiatives have impacted their lives, as well as their work in laboratory medicine.
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Dr. Reina Jenny Gutierrez Rendón discusses how a workshop on the principles of laboratory quality and point-of-care lipid device use held by ADLM, the CDC, and La Sociedad Boliviana de Bioquímica Clínica (SOBOBIOCLI) helped her address patient care challenges in her community.
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Dr. Maria Teresa Rodriguez, a licensed medical technologist from the Philippines, shares how ADLM’s global programs have supported her 30-plus-year career.
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Dr. Anu Maharjan recalls her experience presenting at ADLM’s quality control workshop in Mongolia, which was held through ADLM’s Global Lab Quality Initiative in partnership with the Mongolian Association of Health Laboratorians.