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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

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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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July 2024

Labs juggle string of LDT unknowns

July 2024—Like a long-awaited second act, the FDA’s final rule regulating laboratory-developed tests as medical devices took the stage this spring. As with any FDA performance, this one opened to mixed reviews.

The spring curtain-raising followed the earlier proposed rule from last October, which drew some 6,500 responses during the public comment period. If that was an out-of-town tryout, no one quite knew what to expect from the rewrite, or if there would even be one.

As it turns out, there were indeed changes, but they didn’t necessarily bring clarity. As Jane Pine Wood, counsel for McDonald Hopkins, puts it, the final rule “certainly raised a whole lot more questions than it answered.”

The rule calls for a four-year, five-stage phaseout policy with the FDA enacting greater oversight of in vitro diagnostic products that are offered as LDTs.

Stage one, beginning on May 6, 2025, calls for labs to comply with medical device reporting requirements, correction and removal reporting requirements, and quality system requirements regarding complaint files.

HPV test self-collection set in motion

July 2024—With the Food and Drug Administration approval in May of two HPV self-collection devices for use in clinic settings, physicians in and out of the laboratory are optimistic the approach can reach underscreened patients, even if FDA approval is only a first step.

Mayo pathologists create and test their own AI algorithms

July 2024—A Mayo Clinic project is “democratizing artificial intelligence,” its leaders say, by enabling pathologists with varying levels of AI expertise—most of whom had never before participated in an AI project—to create and implement algorithms.

Using LEAP, Saudi laboratory attains accreditation

July 2024—Earlier this year the laboratory at King Salman Armed Forces Hospital joined more than 120 other Saudi labs in achieving CAP accreditation. And it did so with a boost from LEAP. The 665-bed hospital needed to adopt standards for nearly all technical specialties and comply with more than 1,000 CAP requirements.

Recommendations issued on PD-L1, TMB testing

July 2024—In patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, a validated PD-L1 immunohistochemistry expression assay should be used, with other targetable genomic biomarker assays where appropriate, for the selection of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies. And the appropriate validation should be performed on all specimen types and fixatives. Those are two of the six recommendations of the CAP, Association for Molecular Pathology, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, Pulmonary Pathology Society, and LUNGevity Foundation, released in April and now in print in their PD-L1 and tumor mutation burden testing guideline for the selection of such therapies.

Lab 2.0, Medicare 2030, AI—how they come together

July 2024—The term value-based care is spoken of often, but what part do laboratories play in it and how can they be paid for it? What is Medicare 2030, and what does it mean for laboratories? How can AI be used to practice the medicine of tomorrow? Myra Wilkerson, MD, in speaking in May at the Pathology Informatics Summit, answered these and other questions. She is chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and of the Diagnostic Medicine Institute at Geisinger Health in Danville, Pa. She is a founding member of the Project Santa Fe Foundation, for which she serves on its board and as treasurer. She opened her talk in May about Project Santa Fe’s Clinical Lab 2.0 model—what it looks like now and the work they’re doing. We bring to you here what she shared there.

In hematopathology, online learning mirrors practice

July 2024—The CAP’s hematopathology online education program, HPATH, is now in its 10th year, with real-world cases for which there’s real-time feedback and hundreds enrolled each year. Interesting cases, ones every hematopathologist should have experience with or be familiar with, are what the expert authors of the cases provide, says Kyle Bradley, MD, chair of the CAP Hematopathology Committee and associate professor of hematopathology at Emory University School of Medicine. Each case includes laboratory data, whole slide images, images of ancillary studies, feedback about the case and test results, and self-assessment questions. “And some of the high quality comes from brevity,” Dr. Bradley says. “We whittle down a lot of information into something very manageable and high yield for busy pathologists.”

At U of Maryland, low titer O whole blood use in trauma

July 2024—The University of Maryland Medical Center is one of many sites using low titer O whole blood in trauma cases. As of May, 720 patients at UMMC had received whole blood, and that number of patients treated since the program’s start in 2021 speaks for itself, says Bryon P. Jackson, MD, MHA, Midtown Campus laboratory director and director of blood management and associate director of transfusion medicine services.

Lab, vendor views on instruments, assays, and data

July 2024—Instruments, assays, patient flow, and IT were some of what laboratory directors and IVD company representatives spoke of when CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle convened the group online on May 3. Here’s what they said about what instruments and assays are deployed where and the considerations that come into play in large health systems.

From the President’s Desk

July 2024—Remote sign-out has become a major issue for pathologists, spurred in large part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the CAP’s advocacy efforts that led to our ability to sign out cases from other locations. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has allowed remote sign-out to continue long after the public health emergency was declared over and is considering making this a permanent rule. I recognize how popular remote sign-out has become and have enjoyed many of its advantages in my own practice. However, I also see a few possible unintended consequences that I think are very important for us to consider before we let things get too far.

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