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Greetings

It is customary at this time in the Congress Program for final remarks of the new President. I wish to express my very best wishes and acknowledgments to all delegates, dignitaries, practitioners, students, friends, and supporters of IFBLS who have attended and participated in the 29th World Congress. We have just concluded five successful days of meetings, engagements, discussions, and most importantly, what I hope has been a time to renew existing friendships amongst colleagues. I also hope it has been an opportunity to craft new relationships that will continue to develop over the years to come.

I am honoured and deeply humbled to serve as your new President for the next two years. Much has been accomplished over the several decades that IFBLS has been in existence representing the profession of biomedical laboratory science around the world. Many accomplishments have taken place in both "good times and bad" and would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of all of you, members of the IFBLS extended family.

I would especially like to acknowledge Past President Gry Andersen. Thank you, Gry, for your tireless dedication to IFBLS during the past years of service, especially your efforts to shepherd us through periods of acute personnel changes and financial difficulties. Through your leadership IFBLS is now a more secure organization due in part to its much stronger financial position. Please join me in acknowledging her efforts on behalf of IFBLS, giving her a sign of our gratitude and appreciation.

I also at this time wish to acknowledge all who have previously served as Council members and those newly elected members of IFBLS Council. I acknowledge your collective hard work and dedication to the organization. To the newly elected Council, I look forward to working with you during the next two years as we continue to develop IFBLS into all that we know it can be: the best organization to meet the needs and demands of the biomedical laboratory profession world-wide. I would also like to acknowledge at this time the effort of our office administrator Ms Janna Malseed for her tireless efforts on behalf of IFBLS. She is truly the "force behind the scenes" that helps keep our Management and Council team on task and focused. Janna, thank you.

We have just concluded a very successful 29th World Congress. On behalf of the IFBLS family, I wish to express gratitude and appreciation to Mr. Moses Lorre, Local Chairperson, as well as to all members of the Association of Kenyan Medical Laboratory Science Officers (AKLMSO) and the numerous individuals who served on all committees that contributed to the success of this Congress meeting. Having organized several international congresses in the past, I am fully aware that any endeavour of this size and magnitude does come off easily. The hard work and dedication demonstrated by this collective group of professionals was clearly evident though out the course of the Congress. Beginning with all of the many Pre-Congress activities, including the preparation of what was a superb scientific as well as cultural program, through the many events that were planned and executed on and off-site, all were pleasurable and rewarding. I am confident that all attendees will have joyful memories of their time spent here in the Congress Hall, its associated venues, the city of Nairobi, and the country of Kenya. To all, thank you for "a job well done".