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SGU Faculty member, Grant Lambert has been appointed President of Caribbean Association of Medical Technologists (CASMET) for the 2011-2013 term. Mr. Lambert, who has been a member of CASMET for nine years, is the youngest CASMET president and the first Grenadian to hold this post. He replaces Mrs. Janice Wissart from Jamaica.
Mr. Lambert was elected as CASMET’s President Elect two years ago and became President as of August 1 this year. In this capacity, his responsibilities will include chairing Biennial General Meetings and Regional Council meetings, arranging for examinations of the Association, maintaining proper procedures and protocols on the part of Regional Council and Committees of CASMET and ensuring the general efficient functioning of the Association. It will also be his responsibility to represent the organization at meetings related to allied health care and credentialing and attend American Medical Technologists (AMT) annual meetings and Regional AMT sub-committee meetings.
Mr. Lambert, who holds a BSc. in Medical Technology and who is a certified Allied Health Instructor, has been with SGU from November 2003. He serves as a Medical Technologist / Demonstrator / Diagnostic Personnel with the Dengue Research Lab at WINDREF. He comments: “The hallmark of this profession is accuracy and precision as we save lives by our skill, embedded in our motto. Today a little more than 70% of all decisions made by Physicians are reliant on the results given by Medical Technologists.”
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About CASMET
The Caribbean Association of Medical Technologists (formerly the Society of Medical Technologists, W. I.) was founded at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica in 1954 and later established branches in The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, Grenada, Curacao and Suriname. Today it represents more than 1500 Laboratory Professionals throughout the Caribbean. Membership is inclusive of Clinical Laboratory Professionals, such as Medical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, Phlebotomists, other laboratory scientists and support staff, as well as students. In 1989, CASMET became an affiliate of the American Medical Technologists (AMT).
CASMET’s aims and objectives include promoting the development of professionalism among Clinical Laboratory Professionals within the Caribbean, functioning as a collaborative and advisory body to respective governments and teaching institutions, providing opportunities for Continuing Education, promoting the ISO 15189:2007 standard, encouraging certification and/ or registration of all practicing Clinical Laboratory Professionals, encouraging members to participate in scientific meetings and promoting individual research in areas of Medical Laboratory Technology.
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