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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

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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.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 1:00-2:00 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.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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February 2013

Steep climb to suitable reference standards

February 2013—It’s a long way from ancient Greek philosophers to modern-day clinical laboratory directors. Yet both types of scholars have one thing in common: the pursuit of truth. Socrates and his disciples thought of truth as correspondence to an objective universal ideal in the mind. Today’s clinical laboratory scientists need a more concrete standard against which to measure their results, leading to the continuing search for suitable reference materials to be used in method development, test validation, internal QC, assay calibration, and proficiency testing.

Twilight zone for CVD risk markers?

February 2013—Times are tough all over. For the middle class, for newspapers, for François Hollande and his fellow French Socialists.

Consider adding cardiac risk markers to that list. Despite decades of research and clinical experience, the marker conversation—what to measure, how, in whom—has become more an endless loop than a solid lineup. Old standbys still turn up in studies of novel markers, and tests that have arguably outlasted their usefulness still adhere, like barnacles, to laboratory menus. Some observers are even questioning the tenets of risk assessment.

Latest anticoagulants—nuts and bolts for labs

February 2013—The list of anticoagulants has grown in recent years, which means there’s more to know about whether, when, and how to monitor. Last month in CAP TODAY, Michael Laposata, MD, PhD, spoke briefly about the newer drugs and explained how the older ones—warfarin, heparin, and low-molecular-weight heparin—work, and what that means for labs. This month, he returns to the newest of the major anticoagulants.

From the President’s Desk: Transformational practice—2 in spotlight

February 2013—A National Football League playoff game was on the ceiling monitor in the airport lounge where I was trying to work on this column, and the announcer was talking about how well they were moving the ball. My first reaction was that he sounded awfully excited for a guy with only one ball to move. Maybe he should come to work at the CAP and see what real excitement is.

AMP case report: Multilocus sequencing for rapid identification of molds

February 2013—CAP TODAY and the Association for Molecular Pathology have teamed up to bring molecular case reports to CAP TODAY readers, starting this month. AMP members will write the reports using clinical cases from their own practices that show molecular testing’s important role in diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and more. We aim to publish a few a year. The first such report comes from the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle. (If you would like to submit a case report, please e-mail the AMP at amp@amp.org. For more information about the AMP, visit www.amp.org.)

Hemolysis—can better processes add up to millions?

February 2013—If anybody is a believer in programs to reduce hemolysis rates in the hospital, it’s Dennis Ernst, MT(ASCP), director of the Center for Phlebotomy Education. Ever since he left the bench 15 years ago, Ernst has been traveling the country with a mission: to show clinical laboratories, nursing departments, hospital administrators, and clinicians that the payoff from high-quality phlebotomy is much greater than they might realize. Despite hemolysis being the No. 1 reason the laboratory rejects blood specimens, hemolysis does not strike randomly, and it’s not inevitable, Ernst emphasizes. “Typically the causes of hemolysis are all behavioral,” he says.

AP tracking: an eagle eye on blocks and slides

February 2013—A high-tech blend of hall monitor, bloodhound, and lost and found, tracking systems to manage tissue specimens, blocks, and slides have gradually been taking root as part of an automated workflow in some anatomic pathology laboratories. As manual labeling, logging, and data capture give way to bar coding and even radio frequency identification, it’s a revolution of sorts, but a quiet one.

Anatomic pathology systems product guide

February 2013—In the market for an anatomic pathology system? Check out the 27 AP offerings from 24 vendors. The systems profiled in this annual product guide are commercially available in the United States. In this year’s lineup for the first time is information pertaining to whether vendors provide a list of client sites to potential customers on request.

Clinical pathology selected abstracts

February 2013—Outcome of patients who refuse transfusion after cardiac surgery: Jehovah’s Witness patients may refuse blood transfusion, due to religious beliefs, following cardiac surgery. Strategies to conserve blood for such patients may include the preoperative use of erythropoietin, iron, and B-complex vitamins, as well as hemoconcentration; intraoperative use of antifibrinolytics and cell-saver and smaller cardiopulmonary bypass circuits; and tolerance of low hematocrit levels postoperatively.

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