2024 ASCLS, AGT & SAFMLS Joint Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh July 8-12

Society News Now – January 2025

From Advocacy to Action | Nominations Deadline Extended | Apply for ASCLS Awards and Scholarships | ASCLS Volunteer Opportunities | Last Chance to Attend the 2025 Emerging Laboratory Managers Collaborative Conference | Upcoming Events | and More From Advocacy to Action: Generating Momentum Moment by Moment ASCLS-Montana President-Elect Anne Tate has been reflecting on how we…

2024 Clinical Laboratory Educators Conference in Las Vegas, February 22-24

Society News Now – December 2024

Call for Nominations for National Positions | CLS Journal Seeks Manuscripts from DCLS Perspective | CLEC 2025 Early Registration Discount Ends Today | Unlock Your Leadership Potential at ELMC2 | Save the Dates for 2025 Events | and More Call for Nominations for National Positions Nominations Due January 15 The Nominations Committee is seeking qualified members…

Pat Tille

Ethics of Association Leadership—Walking a Fine Line

Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Pat Tille, PhD, MLS(ASCP), AHI(AMT), FACSc, ASCLS President Leadership. What does that mean, and how does one navigate the relationship and expectations of others in a member-driven organization such as the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)? As a member of ASCLS since 1992, several strategic actions…

Larissa Todd

From the Classroom to the Bench

Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Instilling Values that Ensure Patient Safety Every Step of the Way Larissa Todd, MLS (ASCP)CM, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee While the workings of the laboratory may seem distant from the patient experience, it’s essential to recognize that patients are ultimately the end users of laboratory services. Ensuring patient…

Sarah Bergbower

Turning a Patient Case into Patient Advocacy

Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Sarah Bergbower, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Today Volunteer Contributor A 32-year-old G4 P3003 presents for a regular obstetric visit at 28 weeks gestation. A point-of-care urine dipstick was performed on a freshly voided sample with the results of interest shown in Table 1. Results were not discussed with the…

Jin Heo and Andrew Samon

Choosing Your Path

Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 A Medical Laboratorian’s Experience in Hospital Vs. Reference Laboratories Jin Heo, MLS(ASCP)CM, CLT(NY), ASCLS Ascending Professionals Forum Councilor Andrew Samon, MLS(ASCP)MB, ASCLS Ascending Professionals Forum Councilor Hello, we are Andrew and Jin, two laboratory professionals who started our professional careers in either a reference or hospital laboratory and…

Work phone and personal phone

A Tale of Two Phones

Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Heather R. Parks, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Today Volunteer Contributor Or shall I say, many, many phones. And phone calls. While brainstorming about patient safety, I thought back to times when I (gasp!) have made mistakes in the lab. Usually, I did not hit save on the computer, I…

Kristen Smith and Amanda Suchanek

Antimicrobial Breakpoints Are Key to Patient Safety

Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Kristen L. Smith, PhD, D(ABMM) Amanda Suchanek, PhD Our role as medical laboratory science professionals is to provide information that clinicians can use to guide treatment of their patients. This directive is intimately tied to patient safety. From developing the test menu to the final interpretation of test…

Victoria Roop

Laboratory Involvement in Patient Safety Measures

Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Victoria Roop, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Today Volunteer Contributor Laboratory medicine plays an important role in the clinician’s care of patients. Therefore, it is important for laboratory professionals to implement an effective quality assurance (QA) program with the focal point on patient safety to be able to identify and prevent…