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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

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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

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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

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CAP TODAY Roundtables

Developing novel assays for disease states

February 2026—CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke on Dec. 2, 2025 with Steve Swartzell and Scott Johnston of ELITechGroup. McGonnagle’s questions and their answers follow. A few of the questions came from the roundtable audience and are identified as such.

Scott Johnston
Johnston
Steven Swartzell
Swartzell

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Bob McGonnagle: Steve, how long have you been with ELITech and what is your background in molecular diagnostics?

Steve Swartzell: I am director of customer experience and have been with ELITechGroup for 22 years. My background is in microbiology. I started as a research scientist in R&D and I was an application specialist working directly with customers. I have many years of lab experience as well. Now I oversee all the field activities for ELITechGroup MDx in the U.S. Continue reading …

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This roundtable discussion is sponsored by ELITechGroup.

Resources, interfaces—LIS vendors and lab experts talk

November 2025—A roundtable discussion on laboratory information systems (LIS) highlighted the challenges labs face in meeting increasing demands with limited resources. The conversation emphasized the need for improved interoperability, automation, and flexibility in LIS to address complex testing workflows and workforce shortages.

Payers, policies, and claims processing

November 2025—CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke on Oct. 1, 2025 with Sarah Stewart of Telcor, which sells laboratory revenue cycle management software and services, and Jeanette Gray and Scott Rupnow of Pathology Associates of San Antonio and Pathology Reference Laboratory.

Scott Rupnow
Rupnow
Sarah Stewart
Stewart
Jeanette Gray
Gray

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Bob McGonnagle: Jeanette Gray, tell us about your laboratory.

Jeanette Gray, vice president of revenue and payer relations, Pathology Associates of San Antonio and Pathology Reference Laboratory: We are a physician-owned practice in San Antonio and we operate a laboratory that does primarily anatomic pathology and women’s health testing. We have about 20-plus pathologists on staff. I joined the practice in July. Continue reading …

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This roundtable discussion is sponsored by Telcor.

How far? How much? What labs say about digital path

October 2025—Glass or digital, onsite or remote—and what the rules are for the latter. That’s what Compass Group lab leaders talked about with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle when they met online on Sept. 2. Here’s a glimpse into their digital pathology journeys. The Compass Group is an organization of not-for-profit IDN system laboratory leaders who collaborate to identify and share best practices and strategies.

Labs talk budgets, AI, and care gaps and delays

August 2025—With cuts to government programs underway or on the way, how are laboratory budgets affected? CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle asked members of the Compass Group what the impact has been as of July 1, when the group met online. Also up: how one lab is gearing up to close two patient care gaps and using a Costco approach to do so.

External controls critical to crucial assays

August 2025—CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke on May 14 with Jessica Van Allen, PhD, technical support lead for ZeptoMetrix, and Meghan Starolis, MS, PhD, HCLD(ABB), senior science director for infectious diseases at Quest Diagnostics, Chantilly, Va.

Jessica VanAllen
Dr. Van Allen
Dr. Starolis
Dr. Starolis

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Bob McGonnagle: Jessica Van Allen, I’d like to talk about some of the hot topics in molecular infectious disease testing, and you mentioned in our discussions offline that viral load testing for transplant viruses is becoming ever more important in the field. Can you make a few remarks about that?

Jessica Van Allen, PhD (Zepto­Metrix): There’s testing that is done using laboratory-developed tests and testing performed using FDA-cleared assays. Those are the two big buckets of testing in the labs of our customers. Meghan and I attended a conference recently at which a couple of the speakers talked about viral load testing for common transplant viruses—EBV, CMV, VZV, some adenoviruses. We’ve been playing in that field for a long time in terms of molecular controls for viruses, so they’re products we’ve had on the shelf. Continue reading …

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This roundtable discussion is sponsored by ZeptoMetrix.

‘Stick to the basics’: service, quality, and cost

July 2025—What’s new from Roche, Hologic, and Siemens Healthineers, and how they aim to lighten for labs the burden of the workforce shortage. CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke about these and other things with three company representatives in an online roundtable, and Stan Schofield, Compass Group managing principal, told them what three questions companies must answer to get a laboratory’s business. Their June 2 conversation follows.

Focus on instruments: scalability, timelines, and IT

June 2025—Chemistry and immunoassay analyzers—the customer input that shapes their development and the laboratory acquisition process and timeline. That and more, including the IT obstacles and solutions, were the focus of a roundtable, led by CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle. He spoke with Moira Larsen, MD, MBA, of MedStar Health; Joe Baker of Baylor Scott & White; and representatives of Beckman Coulter, Roche, and Siemens Healthineers. Read about their April 15 online conversation.

NGS and the cancer biomarker balancing act

May 2025—In-house or send out, small panel or large, ease of use, getting the most information possible from a sample and doing it fast—that was at the center of a March 17 conversation on next-generation sequencing, led by CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle. “More and more patients need this testing faster and faster,” Jeremy Segal, MD, PhD, of the University of Chicago, said. What he and four industry executives told us in the online roundtable follows.

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