Thursday, May 28, 2026, 1:00–2:00 PM ET
This session is designed to improve understanding and application of recent updates to synoptic pathology reporting protocols such as the latest Reporting Template for Reporting Results of Biomarker Testing of Specimens from Patients with Carcinoma of the Breast. These changes reflect evolving clinical guidelines that directly influence diagnostic accuracy and treatment selection in breast cancer care.
Webinar presenters Thaer Khoury, MD, FCAP, Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Cente, and Colin Murphy, CEO of mTuitive.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 1:00–2:00 PM ET
In this webinar, we will examine how immune recognition after allogeneic HCT can influence leukemia relapse and disease progression. The session will highlight the clinical relevance of HLA loss of heterozygosity (LOH), approaches used for its detection, and how LOH findings may support transplant strategies, including considerations for donor selection in subsequent transplantation.
Webinar presenter Alberto Cardoso Martins Lima, PhD, Clinical consulting scientist in histocompatibility,
specializing in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) at IGEN/AFIP São Paulo and CHC/UFPR in Curitiba, Brazil
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00–1:00 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the expanded clinical utility of HER2 IHC scoring in metastatic breast cancer and its impact on your practice
Webinar presenter Michelle Shiller, DO, AP, CP, MGP, FACP, Baylor University Medical Center.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
November 2020—As LigoLab was designing a direct-to-consumer portal for laboratory testing early this year, company CEO Suren Avunjian turned his focus to when in 2021 he would release it, not knowing what was around the corner. But as the number of COVID-19 cases grew to pandemic proportions, Avunjian realized he could and should redesign the portal to streamline SARS-CoV-2 testing.
November 2020—In an Association for Molecular Pathology survey, 62 percent of U.S. labs reported using only commercial testing kits with FDA EUA for SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing. Five percent reported using laboratory-developed tests only, 26 percent said they were using a combination of LDTs and EUA commercial kits, and six percent reported using LDTs, IRB-approved/non-EUA assays, and commercial kits. Less than one percent reported using a combination of LDTs and IRB-approved/non-EUA assays or a combination of IRB-approved/non-EUA assays and commercial kits.
October 2020—Barely a half year into the pandemic’s presence in the United States, history has already begun pressing down on SARS-CoV-2 testing. Like an actor playing Hamlet, it’s been difficult not to feel the burden of past performances when preparing for the months ahead. Now, at the start of fall, that also means readying for the return of influenza. Here, even longer experience has shown that each new season is, indeed, a new season. As in the theater world itself these days, planning for what lies ahead feels tempest-tossed. Plans are being laid. Discussions continue. Creativity abounds, and hard work persists. The season shall unfold. But no one knows how it will look until the curtain—or whatever is passing for one this year—goes up. Poor Hamlet is troubled enough to fill the stage for hours—it is, in fact, Shakespeare’s longest play. Yet he’s just one man. Laboratories this fall are absorbing the slings and arrows of two roles simultaneously. Can they prepare for both parts (think Richard II and III sparring on the same stage) with confidence?
October 2020—For nearly five decades, clinicians and laboratories aiming to screen LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) in adults to assess cardiovascular disease risk have contended with a problem generally beyond their control: lack of assurance that patients told to fast before a blood specimen is collected for lipid testing have indeed fasted.
October 2020—Autopsies conducted at University Medical Center in New Orleans on 22 patients who died from SARS-CoV-2 infection found not the expected typical inflammation of the heart muscle associated with myocarditis but instead scattered individual myocyte necrosis.
October 2020—When Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, began her studies of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays, they had not yet been approved in the U.S., as they are now, for use in diagnosing myocardial infarction. But some of her studies and those of Amy K. Saenger, PhD, DABCC, medical director of clinical laboratories and director of clinical chemistry at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, take high-sensitivity cardiac troponin in a new direction by exploring its potential use as an aid in monitoring cardiovascular risk in the general population.
October 2020—Planning for respiratory season is always tricky but never more so than this year. “Uncharted territory for influenza” is how Frederick Nolte, PhD, D(ABMM), of the Medical University of South Carolina, describes the prospect of testing for influenza at the scale labs have been testing for SARS-CoV-2.
October 2020—B-ALL with aberrant expression of myeloid markers should be investigated further for specific gene abnormalities, including ZNF384 rearrangements, and microarray analysis may play an important role.
October 2020—After 20 years of CAP advocacy, synoptic reporting in surgical pathology is ubiquitous. This came about in part by fiat and in part by all parties agreeing on the importance of standardization for patient care. The merits of some elements remain controversial. Molecular pathology, a newer discipline, does not offer the scope for creative writing once available in surgical pathology.
October 2020—With MGMT gene promoter methylation observed in about 50 percent of glioblastomas, it remains a biomarker of strong clinical interest in routine practice, even though it’s not the sole determinant in decisions related to therapy. PCR and pyrosequencing are the most commonly used assays, and there’s a technique that is not yet mainstream but gaining interest, said Tejus A. Bale, MD, PhD, assistant attending pathologist in the Department of Neuropathology and Diagnostic Molecular Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Bale spoke June 30 in the first of a series of Association for Molecular Pathology webinars on emerging and evolving biomarkers.
