These are the medical laboratory technologists who perform and analyze over half a million diagnostic tests a day in Ontario alone. They are the radiation therapists who administer radiation treatments to cancer patients, the cardiovascular perfusionists who operate the heart-lung machines that keep patients alive as they undergo open heart surgeries. They are genetics technologists and diagnostic cytologists who prepare tissue samples and biopsies to determine whether a tumour is benign or malignant; the imaging technologists who use CT scanners, X-rays, ultrasound, MRI and nuclear tracing to help diagnose disease and to direct and monitor treatments. They are the respiratory therapists who sustain COVID patients or premature infants on ventilators whose lungs are too damaged or immature to function independently. And they are the chiropodists who prevent unnecessary limb loss by proactively treating foot wounds.

Since founded in 1958, Michener has created programs that anticipated future shortages within the health care system and graduated thousands of students with the knowledge, skills and competencies to meet these emerging and evolving needs. We are proud of our accomplishments and theirs, and I invite you to read more about how they stepped up to the challenges our health care system presented over the past year.

As we look to the future, Michener’s goal is to be recognized as Canada’s foremost school of applied health sciences education, and among the best such schools in the world for the quality of our academic programs and graduates, and our impact on health systems and patient care. Calling that out through this Impact Report is one of many ways we will help spread the word about Michener’s unique and critical value to Canada and beyond.