President's Message

Welcome to the New Mexico web site. We are halfway through the year. Seems like yesterday we started a new year, and I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy upcoming holiday season.

Dates to remember for 2025. We held our spring meeting on April 12, and our fall meeting is scheduled for September 27, 2025. Please note that this is a change from the previous message. Both are tentatively scheduled for Pima Medical Institute at 8800 Cutler Ave NE Albuquerque. On the week of February 10-14 we took time to honor the vital contributions of our phlebotomists. The week of July 20-25 American Medical Technologists will hold our annual Business meeting in Pittsburgh. This is a time to make some new friends and reconnect with some old ones. Changes are coming so watch your email for updates from AMT.

Our spring meeting was well attended. We learned from our speaker about the collection of blood, how it is processed, the testing that is conducted on the blood, the storage and distribution of the product to different agencies. I would like to thank our speaker, Miriam from Vitalant, for a very informative presentation.

Our national meeting this year, July 21 – 24, is in Pittsburgh, PA. We have five members going to represent New Mexico. If you have any concerns you wish to express, please use our Facebook page to relay them to us. We have a Facebook page, “AMT NM State Society”. Please join us and like us. We are growing and this page helps us get information out to you, our members.

I would like to thank Pima Medical Institute and Instructor Lisa Gabaldon for assisting in putting our meetings together. It is with her help that we have a place to hold our meetings. She is also the person to put our Facebook page together.

I look forward to hearing from our members and if you have any suggestions on improving our web site, please let me know. Remember, you as a member have an equal voice in the running of the State Society. I hope to see you at our meeting.

Virgil E. Marchand, RMA (AMT)
President NMSSAMT