Dr. Ivan Blasutig, PhD, FCACB
EORLA Quality Director
Dr. Ivan Blasutig has been the Director of Quality for EORLA since April 2020 and is Chair of the EORLA Quality Committee, whose function is to lead and promote excellence of quality in Laboratory Medicine across all EORLA laboratories. Under his leadership as Quality Director, EORLA has grown its quality team, implemented a document control and electronic quality event reporting system, begun regional standardization of documents and SOPs, brought about continuous patient feedback mechanisms, and refreshed its quality indicators. Furthermore, he has championed the implementation of a unified accreditation process for all 18 EORLA laboratories and their enrolment into Accreditation Canada Diagnostics’ ISO 15189™ Plus accreditation program.
Dr. Blasutig is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (FCACB), the Division Chief of Clinical Biochemistry at CHEO, and Clinical Biochemist and Laboratory Director of the EORLA laboratories at CHEO and Winchester District Memorial Hospital. At the University of Toronto he completed his Hon. BSc and PhD in Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology followed by his post-doctoral Diploma in Clinical Biochemistry. Prior to joining CHEO and EORLA in 2017, Dr. Blasutig served as an Academic Clinical Biochemist at the University Health Network in Toronto with oversight of immunology, serology, immunoassay, and routine biochemistry testing.
Dr. Blasutig is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Ottawa and is active in both teaching and research. With over 30 publications to date, he is currently focused on Quality and Pediatric Laboratory Medicine. As the Canadian representative and secretary for the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine’s Task Force on Global Lab Quality, he has published on global quality practices in medical laboratories and travelled to Latin America to lead workshops on laboratory quality. In addition, he is the Chair of Accreditation Canada Diagnostics’ Accreditation Advisory Panel and has been an active Peer Assessor for Accreditation Canada Diagnostics for over a decade.