Research Technician Iv Map Drug Checking Services

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Unity Health Toronto Full time

St. Michael's Hospital, a site of Unity Health Toronto, is recruiting a Research Technician IV to conduct specimen analysis and reporting for a provincial public health program that aims to reduce the harms associated with substance use and, specifically, to prevent overdose by uncovering the toxicity and potency of the unregulated drug supply.

This is a part-time (0.5 FTE) temporary position (18 months: January 2024
- June 2025, with the possibility of extension), reporting jointly to the department of lab medicine, division of biochemistry, and MAP's drug checking unit.

The program evolved from a five-year Health Canada funded pilot to design, implement, and evaluate drug checking services as an overdose prevention measure in Toronto. The program:
1.Delivers health services across the province, informing individuals about the contents of their drugs so they could make more informed choices related to their substance use

2.Conducts unregulated drug market monitoring

3.Publicly disseminates unregulated drug market trends and education to inform care for people who use drugs, advocacy, policy, and research globally.

While access has remained limited within Canada, drug checking services in Toronto and elsewhere have had a positive and quantifiable impact on responding to Canada's toxic drug supply crisis. For that reason, the program has been extended and is expanding.

St. Michael's Hospital is an analysis site member of the program. Analysis site members are exempted by Health Canada's Office of Controlled Substances to handle, transfer, analyze, store, and dispose of controlled substances for the purposes of offsite drug checking. This position involves handling specimens from the unregulated (i.e., street) drug supply: primarily what is acquired by service users for the program as fentanyl. Specimens could be substances (powders, crystals, rocks, or a pill, blotter, or a small amount of liquid) or drug equipment after it has been used (a used cooker or filter, for example). As such, this role requires comfort with frequent exposure to and handling of high-potency opioids following appropriate biosafety procedures.

As a senior member of the lab with extensive technical expertise and knowledge, this position potentially involves training junior staff and trainees. This position initiates and develops complex experiments using gas chromatography
- and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, as well as provides interpretations of results.

This position provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to the provision of harm reduction services, which is novel for clinical laboratories, as has been formally recognized by the Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists (2023 Award for Innovation in Laboratory Medicine) and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (2023 Annual Lectureship in Toxicology Award).

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Laboratory Tasks**
- Initiate, develop, and perform complex and non-routine experiments (as well perform well-defined, repetitive, routine experiments and other procedures)
- Develop new specialized techniques, test procedures, and standards under general supervision of professional staff
- Perform routine maintenance, calibration, and troubleshooting on laboratory instruments
- Handle substance and used equipment specimens from the unregulated (i.e., street) drug supply that have been exempted by Health Canada's Office of Controlled Substances
- Follow standard operating procedures developed for the program
- Perform clinical laboratory analytical procedures:

- Accept samples following exempted processes for the program
- Store samples following exempted processes for the program
- Prepare samples for analysis following exempted processes for the program
- Process and read sample analysis results
- Interpret and report results generated by a variety of instruments, including but not limited to, gas chromatography
- and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
- Dispose of samples following exempted processes for the program
- Use the program's custom web-based software for all specimen management, as well as data entry and management

**Non-laboratory/research tasks**
- Develop and implement policies, procedures, protocols, resources, and standards relative to all aspects of the program (e.g., standard operating procedures)
- Develop new specialized techniques, test procedures, and standards under general supervision of professional staff
- Ensure adequate quality control by setting standards, monitoring quality control results, and instituting appropriate steps to maintain standards
- Provide technical expertise and guidance related to drug checking technologies, compounds and their potential effects
- Order clinical reference standards as required as well as documenting and maintaining accurate records of usage
- Maintain an appropriate knowledge base for the analysis of specimens from the unregulated (i.e., street) drug supply by performing regular reviews of the l

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