Wednesday, August 26, 2026 1 PM-2 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, and Molly Epler, MHI, LSSYB, Clinical Laboratory Manager, Wexner Medical Center.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, September 23, 2026. 12 PM-12:30 PM ET
Roundtable presenters Dr. David Sacks MB, ChB, FRCPath, Chairman, Steering Committee National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program (NGSP), and Priya Sivaraman, PhD, Senior Technical Product Manager, Tosoh Bioscience.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, September 30, 2026. 1 PM-1:30 PM ET
Roundtable presenters John Longshore, PhD, Head of Scientific Affairs, Global Oncology Diagnostics, AstraZeneca, and Flora Berisha, MS, Executive Director, Global Head of Diagnostic Partnering and Development, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, and Mark D. Ewalt, MD, Associate Medical Director for Laboratory Operations, Diagnostic Molecular Pathology, Molecular Diagnostics Service, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Isabel Preeshagul, DO, MBS, Thoracic Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
June 2026—We present the case of a 75-year-old woman with a history of a pT4 colorectal adenocarcinoma who was status-post right hemicolectomy two years prior to the current care episode. She returned for urgent medical evaluation of recurrent abdominal pain, was diagnosed with a small bowel obstruction, and underwent exploratory laparotomy with small bowel resection and primary anastomosis.
June 2026—How and why gastric cancer scoring for HER2 positivity differs from breast cancer scoring was the topic of a CAP TODAY webinar early this year presented by Josef Rüschoff, MD, of Kassel, Germany.
June 2026—Instrumentation for all laboratory testing sites—large and small—was the roundtable topic on April 21 when representatives of Roche, Beckman Coulter, and Siemens Healthineers met online with Moira Larsen, MD, MBA, of MedStar, and Joe Baker of Baylor Scott & White. CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle led, with questions about, among other things, AI, testing consolidation, what laboratories expect of vendors, and what laboratories are willing to contribute to the partnership. “We’re happy to help figure out what the bugs are,” Baker says of new instrumentation.
June 2026—CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke on March 12 with Jessica Van Allen, PhD, technical support lead for ZeptoMetrix, and Jesse M. Young, PhD, medical director for TriCore Research Institute’s research and clinical trials department and director of point-of-care testing. Dr. Young is also clinical assistant professor at the University of New Mexico.
Bob McGonnagle: Dr. Young, tell us about TriCore and the laboratories you oversee.
Dr. Young (TriCore): TriCore Reference Laboratory is a full-service diagnostic laboratory. The core laboratory offers about 2,900 test codes and has a modality similar to that of Labcorp and Quest, but we’re focused on New Mexican populations. We serve most of the hospitals in the area and have statewide collection sites whereby we’re trying to expand health care and provide coverage for our communities so everyone in the state has access to health care near their home instead of having to drive six hours to the nearest collection site, drive home, and then be called back for a critical value. Continue reading …
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This roundtable discussion is sponsored by ZeptoMetrix.
June 2026—Serving on a CAP council or committee is a prestigious and valuable thing to do—but the path to getting there can seem almost impossible to navigate. In recent years, the CAP has changed the process to make it as transparent as possible and to give more people an opportunity to get involved. I’d like to shine a light on committee and council participation to help demystify one of the most important ways you can become more engaged with the CAP.
June 2026—Platelet transfusion in neonate and pediatric patients prevents or stops bleeding. Platelet donor characteristics, such as sex and age, and further processing and storage of platelet units may impact platelet increments, overall transfusion burden, and clinical outcomes in pediatric and neonate transfusion recipients. Platelet collection and processing steps vary across blood centers.
June 2026—Atypical endometriosis is a potential precursor of endometriosis-associated ovarian carcinoma. Despite this, identification of atypical endometriosis (AE) lacks established clinical implications and is not routinely incorporated in histopathological examinations for endometriosis. The authors conducted a study to determine the interobserver variability in AE diagnosis and classify features that may contribute to consistent identification and diagnosis.
June 2026—Studies of genetic variants in autism spectrum disorders have identified copy-number variants and single-nucleotide variants in more than 100 autism spectrum disorder-associated genes. However, much of the genetic and neurobiological bases of such disorders are still unclear. Some of the yet unexplained genetic basis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may lie in variants that may be difficult to detect by short-read whole genome sequencing (SR-WGS), such as specific structural variants and tandem repeats.
June 2026
Q. When performing a manual platelet estimate from a sodium citrate tube because of EDTA-induced clumping, do you still multiply the result by 1.1, even if you are not using an analyzer to perform the estimate? Read answer.
Q. How is Helicobacter pylori 13C urea breath testing regulated in clinical laboratories? Read answer.
June 2026—As the scope and scale of information technology available to the pathology laboratory balloons, so too do the number of proposals for lab IT projects, products, and partnerships. And those pitching such proposals can up their odds of success if they avoid using technical jargon, acronyms, and other IT speak when explaining such endeavors to an audience without expertise in those areas, says communications expert Terry Rubin.
