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 2022—What stood out among all that was seen and heard at the Executive War College? Compass Group members who were there answer CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle’s question in their early May virtual get-together, shortly after the War College took place. Here’s what they and other lab leaders said about retail lab testing, digital pathology and artificial intelligence, and their plans for the future.
May 2022—Opening and expanding schools—the path to a labor pool for labs. Compass Group members continue to move on that as they experiment with other solutions. “We’re exploring every avenue to bridge the staffing gap,” said Dhobie Wong of Sutter Health in a virtual roundtable with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle on April 5.
May 2022—Next-generation sequencing—the worries, the wins, and what’s new. That’s what came up when CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle led an NGS-focused roundtable on March 14. With him were Jeremy Segal, MD, PhD, of the University of Chicago; Pierre Del Moral, PhD, MBA, and Fiona Nohilly of Illumina; Sohaib Qureshi, PhD, of Thermo Fisher Scientific; and Andy Johnson, DPhil, of Janssen. Here’s what they had to say.
April 2022—All things billing, revenue, income, and business-related were tossed around when representatives of four billing companies met online Feb. 14 with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle. With them were Vachette Pathology founder Mick Raich and Al Lui, MD, of Innovative Pathology Medical Group, Torrance, Calif. The No Surprises Act, pathologist shortage, pharmacies, and SARS-CoV-2 testing post-pandemic were just some of what came up. Artificial intelligence too. “In the next two or three years, the payers are going to use AI to deny claims,” Raich predicts. “They’re going to know which claims are less likely to be appealed when they’re billed.” And that will only make more difficult an already tough situation. In the past year, says Kyle Fetter of Xifin, “there’s been an increase in the use of the CO-252 rejection/denial code.” Chris Condon of APS Medical Billing agrees, saying the job of the carrier “is to figure out ways to not pay pathologists.”
March 2022—The omicron surge was waning on Feb. 1 when Compass Group members met by Zoom with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle. Inpatient numbers, test demand, and positivity rates were declining. “We’re on the downslope,” Northwell Health’s Dwayne Breining, MD, reported. But other pressures persist: the shortages of blood and staff.
February 2022—New year, new variant. For Compass Group lab leaders on a call with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle on Jan. 4, omicron was new but the struggles were similar. They spoke of staffing and supplies but also of the CDC’s day-five guidance, crisis planning, instrument downtimes and hard-to-get parts, and doing such things as limiting routine phlebotomy draw times for COVID-positive inpatients.
December 2021—The staffing crisis lives on, despite labs having plans of all kinds in place to alleviate the shortage. “It’s the only thing we’re talking about,” Ochsner Health’s Greg Sossaman, MD, said on Nov. 2 when members of the Compass Group met by Zoom. SARS-CoV-2 testing and test supplies and vaccination are “taking a back seat” to staffing, he said.
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.
October 2021—Rules, slide reviews, test ordering, and provider education were part of the conversation when CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle convened a hematology-focused virtual roundtable in late August. Workforce problems too: “We have a bigger exodus now and our pipeline is smaller,” said Eric D. Hsi, MD, of Wake Forest University.
September 2021—SARS-CoV-2 spread and the staffing shortage drove the conversation when Compass Group members met Aug. 3 for their monthly call led by CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle. “Like others, we were seeing problems before COVID, but COVID seems to have kicked it into overdrive,” Steven Carroll, MD, PhD, of the Medical University of South Carolina, said of the shortage. And more long term, it’s time to jump-start training programs, he and others say. The Compass Group is an organization of not-for-profit IDN system laboratory leaders who collaborate to identify and share best practices and strategies. Here is what they shared last month.
