The ASCP Board of Registry Annual Globalization meeting was held May 9-11 in Malmö, Sweden. During our time in Sweden, strategic meetings were arranged with key international partners. Prior to the meeting, Globalization Co-Chairs, Cynthia S. Johns, MSA, MT(ASCP)^CMSH^CM and Ellen Hope Kearns, PhD, SH(ASCP), MASCP and ASCP BOR international staff met with Lone Bojesen, Biomedical Laboratory Scientist and clinical laboratory teacher in Copenhagen, to introduce the international ASCPⁱ credential. Concurrent meetings were being held further north, in Stockholm where E. Blair Holladay, Vice President for Scientific Activities ASCP, and Executive Director of the BOR held presentations on ASCPⁱ at the Karolinska Institutet/Karolinska University Hospital and during the national meeting for Biomedical Laboratory Science programs in Sweden at Uppsala University. 35-40 Program Directors participated in the latter, representing the 12 Biomedical Laboratory Science programs throughout Sweden (from the cities of Gothenburg, Jönköping, Kalmar, Karlstad, Kristianstad, Linköping, Lund, Malmö, Stockholm, Umeå, Uppsala, and Örebro). A special thanks to Dr. Michel Silvestri, Programme Director of the Biomedical Laboratory Science Programme at the Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, for coordinating these opportunities.

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To read about Globalization Co-Chair’s trip to Russia in the December 2008 International Certification Report, click here.