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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

CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The roundtable is made possible by a special educational grant from Tosoh Bioscience Inc.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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

CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from OncoLens and Diaceutics.

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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.

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.

Triage for HPV screen-positives gets a boost

June 2024—When it comes to detecting cervical precancer (CIN3), p16/Ki-67 dual stain testing cuts down on the number of colposcopies compared with using Pap cytology to triage HPV-positive patients. “Using cytology [for triage], you need to do about 32 colposcopies to identify one cervical precancer [CIN3]. If you were to switch to dual stain, it cuts it in half,” says Thomas Lorey, MD, senior consultant and former director of laboratory services for Kaiser Permanente Northern California, from which much of the data underpinning the guidelines on cervical cancer screening and management have been collected. Dr. Lorey and others are coauthors of new clinical management dual stain test recommendations, released in March by the member organizations of the Enduring Consensus Cervical Cancer Screening and Management Guidelines effort. The new recommendations address only the Roche CINtec Plus Cytology test, which detects both p16 and Ki-67 and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2020.

How well does ChatGPT do on pathology questions?

June 2024—Since ChatGPT sprang on the scene a year and a half ago, debate and concern about the OpenAI chatbot and how closely it can replicate human abilities have been widespread, as have thoughts on how to translate AI-based applications into clinical practice.

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