The Pediatric and Perinatal Biochemistry Focus Group exists as a necessary forum for the CSCC membership to raise, identify, and discuss pediatric issues in laboratory medicine, and a forum to engage people with pediatric interests in order to develop ideas for solutions and research collaborations.

Objectives:
1. Discuss current issues in pediatric clinical chemistry.
2. Develop plans for harmonization across pediatric clinical chemistry laboratories in Canada.
3. Initiate and implement projects that enhance standardization of laboratory operations and methodologies across pediatric clinical laboratories.

1. Meeting held every year during CSCC Annual Meeting.
2. Draft Position statements/Consensus documents
3.  Listserv (under development)
4. Newsletter articles.

The primary purpose of the annual meeting is to identify and stimulate discussion of pediatric clinical chemistry issues and to encourage collaboration of members/attendees to solve them. Members and attendees are expected to collaborate independently and report back updates at the annual meeting.