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Pat Letendre specializes in developing transfusion-related websites and managing mailing lists for health professionals. She consults in the areas of Internet training, information retrieval and analysis, communication skills, technical writing, and transfusion medicine education. She has 22 years experience as an educator and clinical instructor, including 13 years teaching how to use the Internet for professional development.

Pat began consulting part-time in 1996 and became a full-time consultant in May 2000. She retains an appointment as an assistant clinical professor at the University of Alberta.

Pat has published numerous papers on using the Internet and has presented many talks and workshops at national and international conferences. She is the founder and listowner of MEDLAB-L, the largest English-language mailing list for medical laboratory professionals with about 2400 members in 50 countries. Her Internet and education expertise is enhanced by practical experience as a clinical laboratory scientist.

Awards

Donald Buchanan Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Immunohematology Club of Edmonton and the Dr. D. I. Buchanan Memorial Fund. Delivered at ISBT World Congress, Vancouver  (2002)

Tech Sample of the Year, American Society of Clinical Pathologists (2002), now available on TraQ (see Other Cases - Case O1)

Premier's Award of Excellence-Gold (team award): member of the  Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation Laboratory Medicine Competency Assurance Project of the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons (1997-9)

International Association of Medical Laboratory Technologists Dade Award for Outstanding Services to Medical Laboratory Technology (accepted in Oslo,1996) (now IFBLS)

Honorary lifetime membership in the ASMLT (1996)

Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine Ortho Award (1995)

MLS Instructor of the Year, 1991

Alberta Society of Medical Laboratory Technologists (ASMLT) Award of Distinction for Exemplary Performance in the field of Medical Laboratory Technology (1988)

Selected Publications (Publications since 1990)

2006 Chamber K, Letendre P, Whitman L. Blood Components. In: Clinical Guide to Transfusion, Clarke G, Blajchman M, eds. Ottawa: Canadian Blood Services, 2006.

2005 Method validation in the transfusion service.  Case O3. (TraQ website, Pat's Corner)

2005 Severe hemolytic transfusion reaction involving a student. Case A8. (TraQ website, Pat's Corner)

2004 Letendre P. CSA Standards Z902-04:implications and issues.  Blood Matters 2004 Jul;6(3):1-4.

2004 Letendre P.  Sharing of Quality Resources.  Blood Matters 2004 Jan;6(1):2-3

2004 Inter-facility transportation of RBCs. Case A7. (TraQ website, Pat's Corner)

2003 ABO group inconsistent with record (due to patient misidentification when collecting the blood specimen). Case B6. (TraQ website, Pat's Corner)

2003 Letendre P.  Web-based resources for transfusion medicine. Blood Matters 2003 Apr;5(2):1-4.

2002 Letendre P. Web-based educational resources. An overview. Vox Sang 2002; 83 (Suppl 1):227-30.

2001 Letendre P. Search Engines - Finding What You Want. Lab Med 2001 Dec;12(32):758-61.

2000 Letendre P. Designing your own web site. AABB News 2000;22(4):9;22-3.

1999 Letendre P. Using the Internet as a research tool. AABB News; 1999 June. 

1997 Letendre P. Writing a case report. Canad J Med Lab Sci 1997; 59: 142-3.

1994 Letendre P. Wakariyasui igakueigoronbun. Osaka: Iyaku Journal Company, 1994. (Japanese translation of the textbook: Letendre P. Fundamentals of Writing for the Biomedical Sciences. Division of Medical Laboratory Science, University of Alberta, 1991.)

Selected Presentations, Workshops, etc.  (Presentations since 1990)

2007 Letendre P. The Internet: Invaluable educational tool or huge time waster? CSTM Conference, Calgary (3 May 2007)

2006 Gagliardi K, DiTomasso J, Letendre P, Urbanek A. "An analysis of the Canadian transfusion list" (Poster), CSTM Conjoint Conference, Montreal (May 2006)

2003 "The Sharing of Quality Tools," National Blood Symposium on Quality and Utilization Management, Vancouver (Nov. 26-27, 2003)

2002 "Web-based educational resources" ISBT World Congress, Vancouver (August 27, 2002)

2002 "Websites related to quality management and evidence-based medicine," Quality Management in Laboratory Medicine Symposium, Michener Institute, Toronto (June 14, 2002)

2002 "Literature searches simplified," Quality Management in Laboratory Medicine Symposium, Michener Institute, Toronto (June 15, 2002)

2002 "Competency-based Assessments Online - Where E-Learning Fits in a Quality System," CSMLS Congress, Calgary (May 22, 2002)

2000 "The Internet Advantage: Keeping Current in Research, Development, and Change," IAMLT World Congress, Vancouver 

1998 "A Laboratorian's Approach to Reading Journal Articles," Clinical Laboratory Medicine Conference, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

• See a news article about the 5-day conference.

For more information see Pat's resume.

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