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Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss how to integrate Kappa and Lambda in situ hybridization testing into your standard hematopathology workflow to accurately assess B-cell and plasma cell clonality. You will also gain the skills to recognize testing pitfalls in challenging reactive versus neoplastic proliferations and apply ancillary tools to resolve complex cases.

Webinar presenter Xiaojun Wu, MD, PhD, Assistant professor, Director of Hematopathology Section at NCR of Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Pathology, SOM at Johns Hopkins University

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Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 11:00-11:30 AM CT

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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.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Learn about digital pathology technology that is future-ready, yet practical for today’s
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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.

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2016 Issues

With high-sensitivity troponins, watching and waiting continue

May 2016—Laboratories and hospitals in the U.S. continue to look forward to high-sensitivity troponin assays. Judd E. Hollander, MD, says all he’s heard for the past five years is that an assay will be out at the end of the year. “And once you get halfway through the year, it will be out next year,” says Dr. Hollander, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and associate dean of strategic health initiatives at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.

Heart biopsy the first step on a complex path

May 2016—The stories are haunting: a young, seemingly healthy athlete collapses on the playing field and dies. For Joseph Maleszewski, MD, section head of cardiovascular pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., these deaths also seem sadly familiar, especially given his work with the NCAA on such cases. “Every community, it seems, has a story,” says Dr. Maleszewski, who is also associate professor, laboratory medicine and pathology, and associate professor, medicine. “A child died on the basketball court, on the football field, while running track. These young athlete deaths are not uncommon at all—or even young nonathlete deaths.”

FilmArray ME panel—clinical trial to 1st clinical test

May 2016—The BioFire FilmArray meningitis/encephalitis (ME) panel received FDA clearance last October, and in November Jennifer Dien Bard, PhD, D(ABMM), of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, presented the results of the multicenter clinical evaluation of the panel, in a webinar produced by CAP TODAY in collaboration with BioFire. The panel’s use in the clinical setting will reduce turnaround time and may, pending further studies, have a positive impact on patient care and outcomes, said Dr. Dien Bard, director of the clinical microbiology and virology laboratories at Children’s Hospital LA.

Cytopathology in Focus: Managing adults with thyroid nodules and cancer—2015 guideline highlights

May 2016—In January of this year, the American Thyroid Association published the 2015 update to its guidelines for the management of adults with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer.1 Separate guidelines were published for the pediatric population in July 2015.2 Although the guidelines for adult patients were published as a “Special Article” in Thyroid, they run the length of a small book—133 pages in total.

Cytopathology in Focus: Paris System: a new paradigm for urinary cytology

May 2016—The Paris System Working Group has proposed and published a standardized reporting system that redefines the primary purpose of urinary cytology: the detection of high-grade urothelial carcinoma (HGUC).1 A program to address standardization of urine cytology reporting was conceived at the 18th International Congress of Cytology in Paris in May 2013 where a number of people of like interest assembled and formed the Paris System Working Group.

Clinical pathology selected abstracts

May 2016—Platelet transfusion: a clinical practice guideline from the AABB: The AABB recently developed guidelines on the appropriate use of platelet transfusions in adults. The guidelines are based on a systematic review of randomized clinical trials and observational studies from 1900 to September 2014 that reported clinical outcomes on patients who received either prophylactic or therapeutic platelet transfusions.

Cytopathology + More | Assessing needle core biopsy adequacy—survey of practices

May 2016—In the era of personalized medicine1 it is paramount to collect samples that will have sufficient material not only for an accurate diagnosis but also in many cases for prognostication or eligibility for targeted therapy or both. This may involve use of immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, microbiological culture studies, and molecular studies. Fine needle aspiration and needle core biopsies (NCB) are used routinely for diagnosis of mass lesions from various sites in the body, and both FNA and/or cell blocks and NCB have been used successfully for these purposes.

Anatomic Pathology Abstracts, 5/16

May 2016—Noninfectious aortitis of the ascending aorta: a histological and clinical correlation of cases; Stratifying HPV-induced cervical pathology using E4 with p16 or MCM; Limited resection versus lobectomy for older patients with early-stage lung cancer; L1CAM expression and its association with mutant p53 expression in endometrial cancer; Value of p16 staining for predicting outcome of LSIL/CIN1

Q&A column, 5/16

May 2016—What laboratory test should be used to monitor the effect of the heart failure medication Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan)? After getting a consultation report, I usually issue an addendum without changing my own diagnosis. Some of my colleagues use an amended report with their own diagnosis changed. They say this will help clinicians with patient management. I do not feel confident about many of these difficult cases, so I do not want to change my diagnosis. We would like to establish a department policy to address this. Can you provide guidance?

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