Webinars and Sponsored Roundtables — Register Now

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

Learning Objectives:
  • Explain how transparency and manufacturer partnerships improve quality, consistency, and decision-making confidence in specimen management.
  • Evaluate blood collection tubes beyond cost and commodity assumptions, incorporating clinical impact and risk into decision-making.
  • Assess the potential risk points when using a blood collection device that has not been cleared for a specific purpose.

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

Subspecialties

Interactive Product Guides

February 2022

Anatomic pathology selected abstracts

• Use of subtyping to predict behavior of papillary thyroid microcarcinomas
• Gastrointestinal pathology in samples from COVID-19–positive patients
• Assessment of an artificial intelligence system for prostate cancer detection
• Expression patterns for Bcl-2, EMA, β-catenin, E-cadherin, PAX8, and MIB-1 in thymomas
• Analysis of intraoperative frozen section biopsy of uterine smooth muscle tumors

Q&A column

February 2022
Q. Are there established benchmarks for such transfusion services quality monitors as C:T ratio, blood product waste, and cancellation of suboptimal specimens? Read answer.
Q. If we collect only enough blood to inoculate one blood culture bottle, should we inoculate the aerobic or anaerobic bottle? Read answer.

Newsbytes

February 2022—Ask TRUU-Lab founder Ila Singh, MD, PhD, what’s in a name and she will provide an answer that differs greatly from that of Shakespeare’s Juliet Capulet. According to Dr. Singh, the answer can be too much information, not enough information, or ambiguous terminology—when referring to lab test names, that is.

Put It on the Board

February 2022—Siemens Healthineers’ Enhanced Liver Fibrosis test is available in the United States, exclusively through collaboration with Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics. This commercial availability in the U.S. follows de novo marketing authorization from the FDA in August 2021.

Letters

February 2022—The CDC published on Nov. 5, 2021 a report indicating that immunocompromised persons receiving SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines should receive three doses and a booster (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021;70[44]:1553–1559). The following n-of-1 observational study suggests that an immunocompromised nonresponder to mRNA vaccine may indeed respond to a second series of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine.