Loretta Brown Email and Phone Number

• Deputising for head of department where applicable • Operational management of the daily workload• Implementation and management of OPMS • Quality management including preparation for accreditation to ISO15189 standards • Training and staff development• Liaison with other healthcare professionals at both internal and external meetings and conferences• Service delivery and business planning for the department • Responsible for recruitment and interviewing of all senior staff • Helping to set up a diagnostic leukaemia laboratory in Colombo, Sri Lanka with ongoing mentoring support

• Bone marrow culture, harvest and analysis.• Solid tissue culture, harvest and analysis.• Peripheral blood culture, harvest and analysis• FISH techniques performed and analysed as and when appropriate• Report writing and result interpretation• Training of medical laboratory assistants• Attendance at weekly clinical meetings to present cytogenetic reports• Responsible for obtaining bone marrow morphology results from referring haematology departments