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
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The roundtable is made possible by a special educational grant from Pillar Biosciences.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Illumina.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Roche.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 1 PM-2 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the challenges of detecting NRG1 fusions and how RNA-based testing can support more comprehensive fusion identification in clinical practice.
Webinar presenter Benjamin Weinberg, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Attending Physician
specializing in gastrointestinal medical oncology
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Diaceutics.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
July 2019—Elizabeth R. Cary, MD, state commissioner for Mississippi for the CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program, died on May 31 at age 81.Dr. Cary was the chief of clinical pathology at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, Miss. In 1994, the CAP appointed Dr. Cary as Mississippi state commissioner. The following year, the VA appointed her as regional commissioner for the national VA system.
July 2019—Prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolic disease is accomplished through the use of anticoagulant agents, which are prescribed for millions of Americans annually. A revolution in anticoagulant use has occurred over the last decade, as direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) were introduced to the market. The new agents have a number of advantages over warfarin, the traditionally administered oral agent, which is a vitamin K antagonist (VKA).
July 2019—New from CAP Press is Medical Kidney Diseases—Morphology-Based Novel Approach to Renal Biopsy, by Huma Fatima, MD, assistant professor and director of the renal pathology laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. It presents a simple and practical approach to renal biopsy by providing a pertinent differential diagnosis related to various patterns of injury involving renal parenchyma by light microscopy and reaching a correct diagnosis by assimilating immunofluorescence and electron microscopy findings. The 90-page book contains 66 cases, two of which we are reprinting here.
July 2019—Most fresh blood in lung wedge biopsies is artifact, but when it’s diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, the pathologist must call the clinician because DAH patients can go downhill fast. Maxwell L. Smith, MD, a consultant in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic Arizona and associate professor, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, shared that pearl from one of the 10 consultation cases he and Brandon T. Larsen, MD, PhD, co-presented in their CAP18 session on diagnosing interstitial lung disease. Their discussion of two of those cases follows.
July 2019—One vendor or two. Automating esoteric testing. The desire for more smart systems. The need for analytics. Seven people spoke with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle in May about chemistry and immunoassay testing. They are David Alter, MD, DABCC, of Emory University; Nina Babic, PhD, DABCC, of Medical University of South Carolina; Denise Pastore of Siemens Healthineers; Timothy Lenz, PhD, of Randox; Delena Carite of Roche Diagnostics; and Jessica Tubman, MPH, MT(ASCP), and Stephen Ishii, MT(ASCP), of Beckman Coulter. What follows is what they told us.
June 2019—It took David Ledbetter, PhD, a mere six years or so to become a hero. Dr. Ledbetter, executive vice president and chief scientific officer, Geisinger, had helped oversee the expansion of the health system’s MyCode precision medicine project, which began as a traditional research biobank in 2007.
June 2019—Meningitis and encephalitis have been called by some the most terrifying diseases in medicine, in part because of the difficulty of diagnosing their underlying pathology. The clinical stakes of laboratory testing are high for diagnosing and treating the inflammation that meningitis/encephalitis (ME) causes within the central nervous system.
June 2019—The pathologic approach to evaluating specimens as part of a workup for medical lung disease demands a different strategy than is typically used for the patient with a question of neoplasia, says Brandon T. Larsen, MD, PhD.
June 2019—New data support testing patients for their PD-L1 immune cell status when they are diagnosed with metastatic or unresectable locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer to determine if they might benefit from a checkpoint inhibitor.
June 2019—Abbott unveiled a new and improved fourth-generation prototype HIV assay at the 2019 HIV Diagnostics Conference in March. In an Abbott-funded study, the prototype assay was compared with the fourth-generation Abbott Architect HIV Ag/Ab Combo and Roche Elecsys HIV Combi PT run on the Cobas e602.
