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Wednesday, September 23, 2026. 12 PM-1 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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Thursday, September 24, 2026 11 AM-12 PM CT
This session explores the evolving role of RAS in precision oncology, from the biology of RAS mutations to the expanding landscape of targeted therapies. Through expert presentations, real-world case discussions, and interactive audience polling, participants will examine best practices for RAS biomarker testing across solid tumors, including lung, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers. The session will highlight practical considerations for tissue and liquid biopsy, strategies to address testing gaps, and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration to ensure timely identification of patients who may benefit from RAS-targeted therapies.

Webinar presenters David Braxton, MD, Chief of Molecular Pathology Services, Hoag Family Cancer Institute & Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, and Carlos Becerra, MD, Research Director for Medical Oncology, Margaret Given Larkin Endowed Chair for Developmental Cancer Therapeutics, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

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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Thursday, October 1, 2026 1 PM-2 PM ET
This presentation will explore the value of in-house CGP, offer insights into the benefits and drawbacks of incorporation, and provide information about important practical factors when considering in-house implementation of CGP.

Webinar presenter Allison M. Cushman-Vokoun, MD, PhD, FCAP, Medical Director, Molecular Diagnostics and Personalized Medicine Laboratory, Director, Division of Diagnostic Molecular Pathology and Human Genetics, Henry F. Krous Professor of Pathology, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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Tuesday, October 20, 2026 11 AM-12 PM ET
Hear experts review the biological and clinical significance of the HER2 expression continuum in breast tissue, providing a clearer understanding of how these variations might impact diagnosis, and discuss the emerging importance of documenting HER2-low and HER2-ultralow categories using a validated IHC assay.

Webinar presenters Keith Wharton, MD, PhD, Global Medical Affairs Leader–Pathology, Roche Diagnostics Solutions, and Hannah Y. Wen, MD, PhD, Director, Breast Pathology Fellowship, Associate Team Leader, Breast Pathology Team, Attending Pathologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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With high-sensitivity troponins, watching and waiting continue

May 2016—Laboratories and hospitals in the U.S. continue to look forward to high-sensitivity troponin assays. Judd E. Hollander, MD, says all he’s heard for the past five years is that an assay will be out at the end of the year. “And once you get halfway through the year, it will be out next year,” says Dr. Hollander, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and associate dean of strategic health initiatives at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.

FilmArray ME panel—clinical trial to 1st clinical test

May 2016—The BioFire FilmArray meningitis/encephalitis (ME) panel received FDA clearance last October, and in November Jennifer Dien Bard, PhD, D(ABMM), of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, presented the results of the multicenter clinical evaluation of the panel, in a webinar produced by CAP TODAY in collaboration with BioFire. The panel’s use in the clinical setting will reduce turnaround time and may, pending further studies, have a positive impact on patient care and outcomes, said Dr. Dien Bard, director of the clinical microbiology and virology laboratories at Children’s Hospital LA.

Cytopathology in Focus: Managing adults with thyroid nodules and cancer—2015 guideline highlights

May 2016—In January of this year, the American Thyroid Association published the 2015 update to its guidelines for the management of adults with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer.1 Separate guidelines were published for the pediatric population in July 2015.2 Although the guidelines for adult patients were published as a “Special Article” in Thyroid, they run the length of a small book—133 pages in total.

Cytopathology in Focus: Paris System: a new paradigm for urinary cytology

May 2016—The Paris System Working Group has proposed and published a standardized reporting system that redefines the primary purpose of urinary cytology: the detection of high-grade urothelial carcinoma (HGUC).1 A program to address standardization of urine cytology reporting was conceived at the 18th International Congress of Cytology in Paris in May 2013 where a number of people of like interest assembled and formed the Paris System Working Group.

Cytopathology + More | Assessing needle core biopsy adequacy—survey of practices

May 2016—In the era of personalized medicine1 it is paramount to collect samples that will have sufficient material not only for an accurate diagnosis but also in many cases for prognostication or eligibility for targeted therapy or both. This may involve use of immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, microbiological culture studies, and molecular studies. Fine needle aspiration and needle core biopsies (NCB) are used routinely for diagnosis of mass lesions from various sites in the body, and both FNA and/or cell blocks and NCB have been used successfully for these purposes.

FilmArray GI: findings from first months of clinical use

April 2016—Treating Clostridium difficile can be dreadfully difficult, even when a clinician doesn’t have to navigate ordering restrictions based on testing frequency. So when Julie A. Ribes, MD, PhD, director of clinical microbiology at UK HealthCare in Lexington, Ky., received a phone call last year from a clinician who asked for repeat C. difficile testing, she was more than sympathetic.

IQCP without agony at the point of care

April 2016—For many point-of-care testing coordinators, the prospect of developing Individualized Quality Control Plans is far from enticing. But there has never been much chance that laboratories could opt out of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ new quality control framework for much of their nonwaived testing.

Next-gen sequencing workflow in full spate

April 2016—With next-generation sequencing’s clear benefits—for diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and trials—come its new challenges, and clinical laboratories are doing what it takes and sharing how. Two plenary speakers at last year’s meeting of the Association for Molecular Pathology spoke of variant calling in the bioinformatic pipeline and validation, and of clinical reporting. Colin Pritchard, MD, PhD, of the University of Washington and one of the speakers, sees reporting a genomic sequencing assay as more like making a histologic diagnosis, which he calls craftwork, than reporting a sodium value. “That’s an idea that hasn’t really permeated yet,” he said.

In late flu season, early signs of new tests’ impact

April 2016—The 2015–2016 influenza season is shaping up to be lighter than physician offices and hospitals have seen in recent years, with fewer flu positives reported, a lower death count, and a smaller share of flu-like illnesses among outpatients.

Prostate pointers—PIN, ASAP, mimics, and markers

April 2016—Presenting on prostate cancer diagnosis at CAP ’15 last fall, David G. Bostwick, MD, MBA, recalled how he and Kenneth A. Iczkowski, MD, came up with the term “atypical small acinar proliferation suspicious for but not diagnostic of malignancy,” or ASAP, when they were at Mayo Clinic in 1997. They had scoured the Mayo files trying to spot the right term because they didn’t know what to call it, said Dr. Bostwick, who is medical director of Granger Diagnostics in Richmond, Va. “Should we call it suspicious but not diagnostic? Should we call it worrisome? Problematic?” Dr. Bostwick joked that his favorite expression seen in the files as a prostate biopsy finding in the 1980s was “semi-malignant,” saying, “I still don’t know what that means.”

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