Denise Neutel

Denise Neutel is the Director of Certification and Prior Learning assessment at the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science, joining CSMLS at the beginning of 2018. Denise has more than 25 years of experience in the clinical laboratory, research, and management fields. She has experience working in the profession both in Canada and overseas. Overseas, Denise worked in a 150-bed bush hospital in Uganda as Chief of the Laboratory and Dean of the hospital’s Laboratory Medicine Educational Program. She also worked as a laboratory consultant, travelling with up to 500 pounds of laboratory equipment and supplies, then training the laboratory personal in such places as Romania, Cameroon, and Haiti. In Canada, Denise has worked in the public and private sector, most recently with McMaster University’s Platelet Immunology Diagnostic Laboratory, under the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, and with the Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, before taking on her current position.