Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 11:00-11:30 AM CT
Roundtable presenters Nick Fingland, PhD, PMP, Senior Director, R&D Operations and Science, BD, and Chris Farnsworth, PhD, D(ABCC), Section Head of Clinical Chemistry, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Learn about digital pathology technology that is future-ready, yet practical for today’s
laboratory needs.
Webinar presenters Scott Hammond, Senior Systems Consultant, Digital Pathology Division, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology, and Ursula Hofer, Imaging Technologist, Pathology Digital Imaging Lab, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology, and Sandra Banky, PA(ASCP), Director of Operations, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
May 2022—Among the countless interruptions COVID-19 has inflicted on the medical community, one of the most obvious has been conversational. In the face of a global pandemic, other topics can seem unworthy of discussion. But as some post-pandemic normalcy creeps back in, so does the focus on topics of equal, if less dramatic, importance.
April 2022—Drawing on five years of experience and laboratory feedback, a collaborative team has revised the microbiology IQCP templates and created the first template for the quality control of a commercial cartridge-based molecular test system.
January 2022—A 33-year-old male with progressive hoarseness and shortness of breath was given a purported diagnosis of laryngeal papillomatosis and referred to our institution in November 2020 for a higher level of care. On presentation, the patient reported no recent upper respiratory infection-like systemic symptoms but had cough, nasal congestion, throat discomfort, dysphonia, and worsening dyspnea.
October 2021—By Jan. 1, 2024, laboratories must use current breakpoints to interpret antimicrobial minimum inhibitory concentration and disk diffusion test results, according to a new requirement in the latest edition of the CAP Accreditation Programs microbiology checklist, released Sept. 22.
May 2021—Most of the time, bloodstream infection antimicrobial resistance results achieved with blood culture molecular ID panels will be accurate. When and why they might not be was the focus of an AMP 2020 virtual session. “I don’t want to lead anyone to believe that these are not good, accurate, and important types of tests,” Richard E. Davis, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS(ASCP)CM, said of the panels.
April 2021—The interpretive challenges of blood culture identification panels were the focus of an AMP2020 virtual presentation on false-positives and false-negatives and their sources and solutions.
April 2021—Urinary tract infections and Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile testing are the topics of two of the modules released recently in the CAP Test Ordering Program. The Laboratory Workup for Urinary Tract Infections module became available online in January, and C. difficile Testing in October 2020 (www.cap.org/member-resources/test-ordering-program). The program is free to CAP members.
March 2021—Fresh from its Dec. 27, 2020 FDA clearance, the Bruker MALDI Sepsityper Kit US IVD promises to provide microbiology laboratories with a universal, rapid sepsis identification solution. With the Bruker MALDI Biotyper platform’s reference library covering 491 organisms, the Sepsityper’s ability to identify pathogens directly from positive blood cultures in suspected bacterial or fungal sepsis cases delivers an “order of magnitude increase” in the number of microorganisms that can be identified through PCR detection, said Wolfgang Pusch, Bruker Daltonics executive vice president of microbiology and diagnostics, in a company statement.
November 2020—Five years after putting in place a urine reflex algorithm at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, and many tweaks later, Melanie Yarbrough, PhD, D(ABMM), D(ABCC), has tips to share on how to increase the odds for success in reducing the number of urine cultures.
August 2020—Bringing an automated culture plate reading system into the Hennepin County Medical Center microbiology laboratory was never a question of if but when. “We need artificial intelligence to help us with active decision-making processes in the lab,” says Glen Hansen, PhD.
