Laboratory Equipment Group
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The Laboratory Group supports laboratory, diagnostic and analytical equipment within the Flinders Medical Centre campus. They are involved in considerable external activities: maintenance contracts, diagnostic equipment training, and overseas consultation. Contact Laboratory Group Leader

The Laboratory Group has 7 technical staff that manages scientific and medical instrumentation used in teaching, research and diagnostic laboratories. The equipment includes:

  • centrifuges
  • waterbaths
  • radiation counters
  • chromatography equipment
  • blood gas analysers
  • ion selective electrode equipment
  • microscopes
  • CO2 incubators.

Joslyn with an ultra-centrifuge
Joslyn with an ultra-centrifuge
Owen servicing Olympus microscope
Owen servicing Olympus microscope

Olympus microscope service

The Laboratory Group supports all users of optical equipment in the Flinders Medical Centre Campus.

Our Optical expert, Owen, is the service representative in Adelaide and South Australia for all models of Olympus microscope.

He annually services about 500 microscopes for 100 customers in South Australia.


NATA Certification

The Laboratory Group have national NATA certification for their pipette calibration facility and laboratory balance calibration (100ug to 2kg) using NMI certified masses.


Accreditation
Number: 13967


Lab Group staff

Laboratory Group 2008
Laboratory Group

Rear: Colin Jacks, Phil Spencer, Mark Lockwood, Owen Stephens, Muddasir Nazir, Peter Buck
Front: Barry Nicholls, Noel Kitto (Group Leader) & Peter Collin (Isn't he in the clinical group too?),
Absent: Joslyn Fernandez, Malaysia

Updated: April 23, 2009