Education Director
RN/MDRD Consultant Health Authority
Ontario

Colleen is a Registered Nurse and a Medical Device Reprocessing Technician who has worked in healthcare since 1967 in Ontario. She worked 19 years in the operating room and 20 years in medical device reprocessing at Timmins & District Hospital and Weeneebayko Area Health Authority. She also runs her own healthcare consulting company and has consulted in the reprocessing of medical devices field in Canada for the past 16 years.

Her main goals in life are to “Make a Difference in Improving Health Care in Canada” and to work towards “Ensuring That All Patients Receive the Best Quality Care Possible”. She pursues these goals tirelessly by dedicating thousands of volunteer hours to endeavors to improve central reprocessing practices in Canada and promoting the Canadian Standards in reprocessing. She is the co-author of the Medical Device Reprocessing Technician textbook and workbook being used in colleges and course across Canada.

She is a member of the CSA Standards technical committee for healthcare for 20 years. She won the “National Canadian Standards Award for Health Care” participation for 2005 for her countless volunteer hours over the past years in assisting to improve the best practices standards for reprocessing medical devices. She is a Canadian Surveyor for Accreditation Canada for healthcare. She teaches the MDRT course in Ontario and has taught in Manitoba and Alberta. Sher has spoken at many events Nationally and Internationally.

She hopes to bring her wealth of expertise and educational knowledge to the CAMDAR education position and requests your support. Her goals are the following;

Contribute to the design and implementation of systems to share knowledge and education, and develop a system to deliver such knowledge I so accessible to all MDRD Technicians across Canada.
Recommend educational opportunities in best practices for MDR.
Support educational opportunities for MDR Technicians.
Provide links on the website to educational sessions for members to keep them current.