This first Dish is with Michelle Hoad, the MLPAO’s CEO. She has been working closely with focus groups of MLTs and MLA/Ts, laboratory directors, educational institutions, consultants, and Queen’s Park to define the shortage and come up with possible solutions.

This season we are focusing on an issue which impacts all of us here in Ontario: an impending medical laboratory staffing crisis. We’ll hear from small laboratories in rural and remote areas, lab managers preparing for shifting workforces, advocacy groups approaching the province to address the crisis, MLTs and MLA/Ts working on the ground, and many more stories from the frontlines of the shortage.