Thursday, August 20, 2026. 12 PM-1:30 PM ET
Hear from an expert in HER2 IHC whose work has contributed to current scoring guidelines.
Webinar presenter Josef Ruschoff, MD, PhD, Former Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Targos, Senior Consultant of Discovery Life Sciences, Kassel, Germany.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
To be rescheduled to a future date
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
December 2021—It is unclear whether HER2+ tumors expressing estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor—that is, triple-positive breast carcinomas—show unique morphologic and clinical features and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
December 2021—Advances in sequencing technologies, such as next-generation sequencing, have yielded many insights into the genomic landscape and clinical import of molecular findings in myelodysplastic syndromes and other myeloid neoplasms with myelodysplasia (MN).
December 2021—Like death and taxes, cyberattacks targeting health care organizations are a certainty, but taking proactive breach mitigation measures and developing a thorough response plan can lessen, or even prevent, a devastating blow.
December 2021
Q. We use the CAP Competency Assessment Program to create quizzes to satisfy the problem-solving element of the CAP’s competency assessment requirements. Is there a requirement to create a new quiz each year or can the same quiz be given every year? Is it OK to use the same quiz for the initial competency and the annual competency? Read answer.
Q. Are there red blood cell parameters, such as RBC count or mean corpuscular volume, that can affect a platelet estimate? When determining a platelet estimate, should we always look at the same area of the slide regardless of the patient’s RBC, hematocrit and hemoglobin levels, and indices results? Read answer.
December 2021—In the COVID-19 pandemic and future pandemics, the existing expertise of clinical laboratories should be taken advantage of and labs should be enabled to validate and offer robust clinical assays, say the authors of “The Role of Clinical Laboratories in Emerging Pathogens—Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” published Oct. 29 in JAMA Health Forum (2021;2[10]:e213154).
November 2021—Much has changed since the last WHO classification of central nervous system tumors was published five years ago. Case in point: When the group of authors met in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in late 2019, everyone anticipated two more WHO meetings in Europe to work further on the 2021 classification. Arie Perry, MD, a coauthor on both classifications, says the group photo was cheery. “Everybody was smiling.” The later trips to Europe were canceled because of the pandemic and the group met instead by Zoom. “Now everybody looked grumpy,” he says of a screen shot. Fortunately, “We got everything done, even if it wasn’t quite as pleasant,” says Dr. Perry, professor of pathology and neurological surgery, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, University of California, San Francisco. The result is the latest WHO classification, which offers dramatic changes of its own. “I’m really excited about the new WHO,” he says. “At first it takes a little getting used to”—like, say, a face mask—“but I think it’s another major advance, just like we had last time.”
November 2021—Interoperability, a problem of long standing in health care, has a new push and new prospects. Interoperability has become a front-burner issue because it has become increasingly urgent to bring the standardized communication of health care data up to speed.
November 2021—Flexible scheduling to suit family life and new “lab associate” roles—two solutions in progress or in place in labs wrestling with the staffing shortage. That and precision medicine test pre-approvals and utilization were some of what Compass Group members talked about on Oct. 5 in a virtual roundtable led by CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle.
November 2021—In the latest edition of the laboratory general checklist, released in September, the requirements of the CAP Accreditation Programs have been edited to be more aligned with CAP 15189 (ISO 15189) accreditation requirements.
November 2021—The guidelines for laboratory analysis in the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus are being revised and will be released next year. In a virtual session at the AACC meeting in September, laboratorians got a look at some of the recommendations to come.
