The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People.

Our special guest this episode is Lubem Adbendeh. Through his journey, you will learn about the shift you can make from clinical work to drug discovery, the importance of new antibiotic discoveries in the fight against anti-microbial resistance, and the role your support systems can play in your success.

If you would like to get in touch with Lubem, you can find him on LinkedIn.

Some of the organizations mentioned during this podcast:

· University of Agriculture Makurdi

· University of Iliorin https://www.unilorin.edu.ng/

· Brac James P Grant School of Public Health https://bracjpgsph.org/

· University of South Florida https://www.usf.edu/

· Nigerian Institute of Medical Research https://nimr.gov.ng/

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The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People.

Our special guest this episode is Lamin Gassama. Through his journey, you will learn about the role of the biomedical engineers at MRC The Gambia, elements that make their approach successful, the potential future of IVD manufacturers and Laboratory relationships and why medical laboratory science degree holders could make interesting transitions into biomedical engineering if they choose.

If you would like to get in touch with Lamin, you can find him on LinkedIn.

Some of the organizations mentioned during this podcast:

· Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia https://www.mrc.gm/

The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People.

Our special guest this episode is Maxwell Akonde, an MLS degree holder, Maxwell has used his leadership acumen and technical know-how to impact the field in a number of ways. As one of the founders of the Federation of Ghana Medical Laboratory Student Associations. (FG-MELSA) he has supported giving a voice to students and ensuring their active engagement and development beyond academics. In his professional duties, he has taken his understanding of diagnostics, combined that with a public health perspective and currently aiming to develop a tool to aid the early screening of ovarian cancer.

If you would like to get in touch with Maxwell you can find him on LinkedIn.

Some of the organizations mentioned during this podcast:

· Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) https://www.knust.edu.gh/

· University of South Carolina https://sc.edu/

· 37 Military Hospital, Ghana

· Project Okurasee: https://projectokurase.org/

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The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People.

Our special guest this episode is Yosef Tsegaye. In sharing his story, we learn about the value of early career roles in blood services, elements that drive medical laboratory professionals to consider roles in academia and research in Ethiopia, and examine his most recent publication in Frontiers in Immunology “Alteration of Endocrine Hormones and Antibody Responses in Different Spectrum of Tuberculosis Disease”

If you would like to get in touch with Yosef, you can find him on LinkedIn.

Some of the organizations mentioned during this podcast:

· Wollega University https://wollegauniversity.edu.et/

· Addis Ababa University http://www.aau.edu.et/

· Ethiopian Ministry of Health National Blood Bank Services https://www.moh.gov.et/site/National_Blood_Bank_Services

· Armauer Hansen Research Institute https://ahri.gov.et/

· Frontiers in Immunology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology

· Alteration of Endocrine Hormones and Antibody Responses in Different Spectrum of Tuberculosis Disease Yosef et al. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.849321/full

· Ethiopia Public Health Institute https://ephi.gov.et/

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The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People.

April 29th, 2022 is the annual #DayofImmunology. To celebrate, we are pleased to have as our guest, Dr. Prasobhan Bala Krishnan from the Allergy and Immunology Research Center in Malaysia.

We asked Dr. Ahneez Abdul Hameed to reprise her role as guest host for us once again.

If you would like to get in touch with Prasobhan, you can find him on LinkedIn.

Some of the organizations/people mentioned during this podcast:

· Universiti Putra Malaysia https://upm.edu.my/

· Allergy and immunology Research Center, Institute of Medical Research https://www.imr.gov.my/index.php/en/airc

· National Institute of Health Malaysia https://www.nih.gov.my/

· Malaysian Society of Allergy and Immunology https://www.allergymsai.org/

· German Society for Immunology https://dgfi.org/dgfi-en/

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The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People.

As a wrap-up to Global MedLab Week, we wanted to ensure the final episode for this week be someone that has focused an extensive career on the profession and the development of those around her.

We were pleased to be able to have Margaret Baekalia as our guest.  Her journey in the field spans several countries, several roles and several decades (she began quite young!)

If you would like to get in touch with Margaret, you can find her on LinkedIn.

Some of the organizations/people mentioned during this podcast:

· Fiji National University https://www.fnu.ac.fj/

· University of Otago https://www.otago.ac.nz/

· Ministry of Health & Medical Services Solomon Islands https://solomons.gov.sb/ministry-of-health-medical-services/

· Biofire https://www.biofiredx.com/

· GeneXpert https://www.cepheid.com/

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The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People.

After several episodes where we brought you national student associations and others where it is specific to 1 institution, we decided to present a combination of more than 1 student association in the same episode.

In this episode, to get the picture of future leaders of the medical laboratory profession, we include two interviews we completed with different student associations active in Sierra Leone. We begin with Alhaji Foday Mahamud Bangura, President of the newly formed Association of the Laboratory Medicine Students – College of Medicine and Health Sciences – University of Sierra Leone. Our second guest of today’s episode is Edward Tamba Maphinda. He is the President of the Sierra Leone Association of Public Health Students and is currently a student at the University of Makeni.

Some of the organizations mentioned during this podcast:

· College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences – University of Sierra Leone http://usl.edu.sl/

· University of Makeni https://unimak.edu.sl/

· Sierre Leone Medical Laboratory Association (Website coming soon)

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The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People.

Another chapter in the series of special episodes where we talk to future leaders of the medical laboratory profession via their respective student associations. In this episode, we talk with Ahmed Mostafa[IS1] , the President of the Medical Laboratory Student Association of the University of Alberta in Canada. Ahmed shares the students association activity and the job outlook for current graduates. After listening to this, it is not hard to see why Canada should be high on the list of for Medical Laboratory Scientists from around the world should consider if they are thinking about a different work destination.

Some of the organizations mentioned during this podcast:

· University of Alberta https://www.ualberta.ca/medicine/programs/mls/index.html

· Medical Laboratory Student Association of the University of Alberta https://www.instagram.com/mlsassociation/?hl=en

· College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Alberta https://www.cmlta.org/

· Canadian Society of Medical Laboratory Science https://www.csmls.org/

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The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People.

Another chapter in the series of special episodes where we talk to future leaders of the medical laboratory profession via their respective student associations. In this episode, we talk with Isaac Ofosu, the President of the Federation of Ghana Medical Laboratory Student Associations. (FG-MELSA). Isaac shares the job outlook for current graduates and updates us on the key events FG-MELSA has been organizing for their members to better understand their career options and more.

Some of the organizations mentioned during this podcast:

· Federation of Ghana Medical Laboratory Student Association

o Twitter: @fgmelsa

o Instagram: @FGMelsa

o Facebook: @FGMelsaCommunity

· Sysmex www.sysmex.com

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