Introducing our new President

We are delighted to announce the beginning of Debra Padgett's IBMS Presidency. 

Debra is passionate about promoting and recognising excellence in all of our members. In her eight years as an IBMS Council member, she has advocated, listened, represented and addressed the issues that are most important to our membership at national, regional and local levels.

She started her career as a Medical Laboratory Assistant in Microbiology and has successfully worked her way through the career grades to her current role as Clinical Pathology Lead at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This means that she understands the many routes to achieve a senior management position within our profession, and how management decisions affect every member of the laboratory.

Her post encompasses provision of leadership and management with accountability for the delivery of cost effective, high quality, safe and sustainable services across the Northumbria health economy. These responsibilities give her a strategic insight to deliver operational priorities both for her own Trust and those of National programmes.

We believe that these great qualities will now be hugely beneficial for the profession at large.

Debra has been giving back to her profession for a long time and we are proud to now call her IBMS President.