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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

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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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

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Interactive Product Guides

August 2016

Add-ons, consults spared cuts in proposed fee schedule: Dip in revenue, many technical component codes in for a hit

August 2016—The proposed Medicare physician fee schedule for 2017 features a slight dip in overall revenue for pathology groups and independent laboratories, but payment for flow cytometry and the technical components of prostate biopsy and surgical pathology work could fall by double-digit percentages if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services stands pat with its final rule later this year.

Painstaking process of drug monitoring

August 2016—As optimists like to point out (in their annoying way), showing up is half the battle. But it’s still only half, as other, equally clear-eyed folks might point out. That leaves plenty to do. And in drug testing for chronic pain management, the work facing laboratories may seem like even more than 50 percent.

Missed UTIs? ‘Enhanced cultures’ suggest so

August 2016—The long-held belief that urine is sterile is facing a serious challenge from new research combining sequencing techniques and an enhanced urine culturing protocol to uncover an array of uropathogens hitherto unseen in microbiology laboratories.

New tests, technologies at center of 2016 CAP checklist revamp

August 2016—Maybe laboratory accreditation checklists aren’t the first reading you reach for when you want to unwind. But for an intriguing window into laboratory medicine and how it’s changing, you might take a look at the revisions in the 2016 edition of the Laboratory Accreditation Program checklists, released in August.

From the President’s Desk: Let’s close the knowledge gap, 8/16

August 2016—Most of us have heard the laboratory described as a black box where specimens are exchanged for information and diagnoses. This tells me that we work beside some highly skilled people who don’t know what we do and that the knowledge gap makes them uncomfortable enough to joke about it. This incomplete understanding of what takes place within the laboratory has meaningful consequences in multiple contexts.

Cytopathology in Focus—Endoscopic ultrasound-guided FNA and core biopsy: Are we progressing to a best practice?

August 2016—Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a safe and effective procedure for visualizing and screening for lesions within and in the vicinity of the upper gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas and peri-pancreatic lymph nodes, and soft tissues. In addition to the detection and imaging of these lesions, endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) allows for concomitant sampling of visualized lesions for tissue diagnosis.

Cytopathology in Focus: The evolving management of LSIL in Pap tests

August 2016—The Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical/Vaginal Cytologic Diagnoses was developed to establish standardized terminology among pathologists for communicating to clinicians the findings of a Pap test.1 The Bethesda System has also facilitated the examination of the epidemiology and pathogenesis of cervical disease, with a focus on low-grade and high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL and HSIL, respectively) and their relationships to human papillomavirus infection and progression to invasive cervical carcinoma.

ABP seeks volunteers to help shape next-generation MOC

August 2016—The American Board of Pathology has been selected to participate in the American Board of Medical Specialties’ Maintenance of Certification Assessment Initiative pilot. Currently, MOC Part III assesses a diplomate’s knowledge, judgment, and skills with a secure examination. The aim of the new initiative is to develop and test a new model for assessment that will be formative and summative.

In situ hybridization: more harmony across checklists

August 2016—As the use of in situ hybridization (ISH) expands, laboratories employing this form of testing increasingly rely on the CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program checklist for guidance. That is one reason members from three CAP committees started meeting to revise the ISH checklist, says CAP Surgical Pathology Committee member Aleodor Andea, MD, MBA. Another reason: to harmonize and streamline the ISH checklist requirements across three different disciplines.

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