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Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00–1:00 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the expanded clinical utility of HER2 IHC scoring in metastatic breast cancer and its impact on your practice

Webinar presenter Michelle Shiller, DO, AP, CP, MGP, FACP, Baylor University Medical Center.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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

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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COVID-19

COVID-19

Uncharted season forges new paths for all hands “Uncharted territory for influenza” is how Frederick Nolte, PhD, D(ABMM), of the Medical University of South Carolina, describes the prospect of testing for influenza at the scale labs have been testing for SARS-CoV-2. And does a positive test for influenza mean the patient doesn’t have COVID-19? In a child with mild illness, how will it be known if it’s COVID or a rhinovirus? Having to make the latter diagnosis “will make for

Letter to the editor: Billing and the road ahead

I enjoyed the recent roundtable on billing and reimbursement (April 2020), along with the product guide on billing software. As we all know, since that time COVID-19 has taken center stage. Here are some thoughts and predictions to bring your readers up to date. Never before has a nation turned off a large percentage of its health care system overnight. This change has caused a train wreck-like boxcar effect that is rippling through medical billing operations for laboratories and pathology

Gregory Sossaman, MD, on ramping up SARS-CoV-2 testing

High rates of positivity but glimmers of hope. That’s what Gregory Sossaman, MD, was seeing in southeast Louisiana on April 14 when writer Meredith Salisbury spoke to him for CAP TODAY. Dr. Sossaman is system chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Ochsner Health, New Orleans. Ochsner is an integrated delivery network located primarily in southeast Louisiana, though it has formed partnerships in recent years with other systems and hospitals in the state. Here is what Dr. Sossaman had to say.

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