Support the Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program

Clinical laboratory scientists (CLS) are unstoppable! They are the unsung heroes of healthcare. They perform a multitude of critical tasks that ensure accurate diagnoses and effective treatments for patients. They are essential to the healthcare system, and their work directly impacts the quality of patient care. They are trained to perform scientific testing and analyses of clinical specimens, generating data that is directly reported to physicians and clinicians. This data is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring disease, determining prognoses and evaluating health status. CLS students’ work is fundamental to the healthcare system. In addition to our program being well recognized, allowing students to enter into competitive positions in a variety of areas in clinical medicine, here’s why our CLS students are unstoppable:

• Essential to healthcare: CLS students are training to become integral members of the healthcare team. Their work is not just supportive — it is critical for patient health.
• Diverse training: CLS students receive training in many specialties, including microbiology, hematology, blood bank, chemistry, molecular biology and immunology. This comprehensive training equips them with a wide range of skills necessary for various laboratory settings.
• Direct impact on patient care: CLS students in training are learning how to generate the crucial laboratory data that directly impacts the quality of patient care and delivery of healthcare. The test results produced by clinical laboratory scientists are used by physicians and clinicians for diagnoses and treatment decisions, thus making them an indispensable part of the healthcare system.
• Advanced instrumentation: Our CLS program uses donations to purchase essential equipment such as microscopes, thermocyclers and blood bank centrifuges, which are necessary for training the next generation of specialized scientists. This advanced equipment ensures that students receive high-quality education and sophisticated training. It also allows us to remain competitive and keep up with technologies that will enable students to receive up-to-date experiences.
• Widespread employment: CLS alumni are employed in hospitals and laboratories throughout the region and country. This demonstrates the high demand and value placed on their skills and expertise.
• Community impact: The training of CLS students directly impacts the community by ensuring that friends, family and loved ones receive high-quality laboratory results. Their comprehensive training and the essential nature of their work in generating data that clinicians use make CLS students an unstoppable force within the healthcare system. In our community engagements, we continue to emphasize the importance of the laboratory and why the lab is so vital in helping to save lives.

Your contribution will support our mission to drive student success. You can be an integral part of this unstoppable journey for our students and for the next generation of CLS students. Together we are unstoppable!