These professionals have gone by several different names over the years, initially referred to as medical technologists, then later called clinical laboratory scientists. In recent years, they underwent a new name change to medical laboratory scientists, which better depicts what these health care professionals do.

“We care for patients with neurological conditions such as stroke and brain injury. It is very common to help people recover from traumatic events such as a fall-with-fracture, a motor vehicle accident that requires surgery, or lengthy hospital stays following cardiac surgery, or illness,” said Andrew D’Avy, P.