Stories

Hear from participants in the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine's (ADLM's) Global Affairs educational programs about how these initiatives have impacted their lives, as well as their work in laboratory medicine.

ADLM in Latin America: 14 years of work improving lab quality

Since 2011, the Latin America Working Group (LAWG, now the Latin America Subcommittee) has been at the forefront of the association's drive to improve laboratory medicine in countries where resources are limited. Members Veronica Luzzi, PhD, MS, DABCC, and Rosa Sierra-Amor, MSc, PhD, reflected on the group's history for the past 14 years and discussed its future.

Challenges in blood banking and transfusion practices in Nigeria: Insights from the ADLM Africa Subcommittee workshop

ADLM's Africa Subcommittee traveled to Abuja, Nigeria, where four members spoke on quality management, blood banking, and AI. They met with prominent leaders in the lab medicine field, one of them being Professor Saleh Yuguda, MBBS, FMCPath, to continue important discussions highlight struggles in Nigeria

ADLM grant recipient leads further trainings in Mongolia

Khulan Purevdorj, MSc, MD planned a follow-up workshop in her country that built off a previous ADLM distance learning project.

Bridging knowledge gaps in Zambia

Mukoshya Kalunga, BSc, took knowledge gained from a previous ADLM workshop in Zambia to share with an audience and maintain connections with her peers.

Collaborating to advance newborn screening in Kazakhstan

Aigerim Kamzina, PhD, talks about her career as a neonatologist in Kazakhshtan and discusses her role at the workshop hosted by ADLM, KAMLD, IFCC, ISNS, and the CDC.

Fighting cardiovascular disease in Bolivia

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.

A passion for making an impact with education

Dr. Maria Teresa Rodriguez, a licensed medical technologist from the Philippines, shares how ADLM’s global programs have supported her 30-plus-year career.

Collaborating across cultures

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.