Lisa Anstey

Waterloo Regional Health Network

Lisa Anstey is a Certified Medical Device Reprocessing Technician who has been working in healthcare for 17 years, the last 12 in leadership. She started as a frontline Technician and has held roles in Medical Device Reprocessing (MDR) such as Supervisor, Educator, and now Manager of Medical Device Reprocessing at Waterloo Regional Health Network in Kitchener, Ontario. In 2020 she was seconded to support the pandemic response of Grand River Hospital and the Region of Waterloo. Her roles included establishing the hospital screening program, managing the largest vaccine clinic in the Region and then leading the Regional Covid Cold and Flu Care Clinic. Lisa is passionate about innovative partnerships outside the hospital walls such as working with the University of Waterloo Mechatronics Lab and newly formed company Movarion. Lisa leads community outreach promoting MDR as a career option through partnership with the YMCA Immigration Services, Employment Services and Youth Job Connect as well as the Region of Waterloo Job Development team. She is a member of the Business and Education Partnership of Waterloo’s Speakers Bureau where she shares insights in to the world of MDR with local students. In recognition of her work in the community, she earned the Isobel Campbell Award from the Medical Device Reprocessing Association of Ontario.