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2008
HLWI grant totaling $46,889 was utilized to further develop the CLS program’s hybrid courses and the
outreach efforts in recruitment. The applicant pool increased as did the number of affiliated laboratories
due to the many presentations by the CLS program direct or, Geraldine Albee. Students were introduced
to the CLS profession at college pre-health open house meetings (at SFSU, Napa Valley Junior College,
and SF City College) and in local high school classrooms.
On March 15, 2008, Geraldine Albee and Jeanie Scott presented at the Microbiology Career Forum for
the professional meeting of American Society of Microbiology in San Ramon, California.

2007
July 2007: Geraldine Albee presented at American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)
conference in San Diego, California a poster entitled: “Development and Implementation of Hybrid
Education for Clinical Laboratory Science Interns”.
Hospital Council of Northern California awarded a grant totaling $49,988 from the Healthcare
Laboratory Workforce Initiative (HLWI) project. The three goals of the grant proposal were met with
increased enrollments from outside the Greater Bay area and rural areas, more affiliations for CLS
clinical training opportunities and development of online tools for CLS training.
At the winter seminar of the California Association of Medical Laboratory Technology (CAMLT) Ms.
Jeanie Scott, CLS faculty and Nina Hagiwara, Assistant SFSU Librarian were conference presenters.
Their discussion was entitled “The Nuts and Bolts of Online Searching; Finding information for some
microbiology questions on the Internet”.

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