Volume 36 Number 5 | October 2022 Kerry Toups, MT(ASCP), ASCLS Marketing and Communications Committee Member For the first time in over 20 years, I celebrated Medical Laboratory Professionals Week outside of a clinical laboratory. My former employer set the bar high for celebrating Lab Week with employee cook-offs, games, prizes, and gifts. I wanted…
Volume 36 Number 5 | October 2022 James T. Griffith, PhD, ASCLS Past President, ASCLS Government Affairs Committee Advisor As clinical laboratory professionals, we are guardians of certain scientific knowledge, a way of professional practice, as well as an infrastructure that allows for patient interaction, specimen collection, test performance, and result reporting. All of this…
Volume 36 Number 5 | October 2022 K. Lindsey Davenport-Landry, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Region VI Director There is a continuing need to advocate for our profession—not only for our laboratory community, but also for ourselves. There are Facebook groups saying we do not get the respect we deserve; news segments discussing the shortage of (laboratory)…
Volume 36 Number 5 | October 2022 Andrea Prinzi PhD, MPH, SM(ASCP) I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Carol Rauch, MD, PhD, adjunct associate professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and an active College of American Pathologists (CAP) committee member, about the CAP process for inspecting and accrediting…
Volume 36 Number 5 | October 2022 S. Renee Hodgkins, PhD, MT(ASCP), DCLS Oversight Committee Member Development of the Doctorate in Clinical Laboratory Science (DCLS) has been a long relay race that has passed through many hands. In the document, “History of the DCLS Task Force and Oversight Committee,” discussions of development of the DCLS…
Volume 36 Number 5 | October 2022 Muneeza Esani, PhD, MPH, MHA, MT(ASCP), ASCLS Choosing Wisely Committee The ASCLS Choosing Wisely Committee, in collaboration with the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), has published 10 recommendations for the Choosing Wisely initiative, operated by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation. These recommendations were authored…
Volume 36 Number 5 | October 2022 This recognition celebrates an ASCLS member who has made significant contributions to ASCLS at all levels. This is the eighth year for this award. The recipient will have made significant contributions to ASCLS as well as the laboratory field, and who, by example, has inspired others. There were…
Volume 36 Number 5 | October 2022 Elizabeth A. Gockel-Blessing, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM Amanda Reed, MAE, MLS(ASCP)CM This is the first in a series of articles addressing 10 questions to consider before you take the “plunge” to start an online medical laboratory science (MLS) education program. The considerations we share here are applicable to building…
In comments submitted earlier today, ASCLS provided a ringing endorsement of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed intent to consider the Doctor of Clinical Laboratory Science as a qualifying degree for High Complexity Laboratory Director under CLIA. “DCLS degree-holders are laboratory leaders that recenter the clinical laboratory’s work on patients and more…
ASCLS selected to partner with CDC, Stop Lab Cuts Advocacy Day, new and improved ASCLS Connect, and more. ASCLS Selected to Partner with CDC on Workforce Development ASCLS is one of four organizations selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS) to partner with the…