Supporting Asian American and Pacific Islander ASCLS Members
A message from ASCLS President Maddie Josephs and the ASCLS Board of Directors:
Society News Now – March 2021
Sign up for new member events and open volunteer opportunities, apply for scholarships and the Leadership Academy, join your friends in the 2021 Lab Week Run, check out new virtual learning opportunities on labucate.org, and more!
Society News Now – February 2021
Upcoming Member Webinars, Ask Me Anything about Licensure, Apply for an ASCLS Award, Sign up for the 2021 Lab Week Run, and more.
LABVOCATE WITH ASCLS
Maddie Josephs, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS President Few organizations perform advocacy as well as ASCLS. After all, it is one of the Society’s strategic pillars. As the premier organization for medical laboratory professionals, ASCLS clearly has advocacy at the core of its goals and objectives. Our leadership and staff, committee and task force members work to…
WHEN “WHO THEY ARE” ISN’T AN OPTION
Sara Oswald, ASCLS Developing Professionals Forum Vice Chair A few months ago, one of my work colleagues was visibly upset when she got off the phone with a provider. The chemistry results for this patient were all out of whack, and when she called to report the issue to the provider, she was informed this…
PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY:
THE EMERGING ROLE OF LABORATORY PROFESSIONALS IN THE COVID-19 RESPONSE Shawn Luby, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM Photo credit: Lisa Ferdinando, U.S. Department of Defense So, what can you tell me about these T-cells I keep hearing about?” This was a question I honestly never imagined I would be answering during a weekly video call with my family…
CLINICAL LABORATORY PERSONNEL NEEDED: COUNTING BALLOTS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Susan J. Leclair, PhD As with many working couples, my husband and I had an average relationship with our town. We paid our taxes and complained but did little more. After retirement, we started to become more active and thus began to interact with the people who worked in the town offices. The new town…
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM THREATENED WITH CLOSURE
HOW ASCLS-HAWAII MOBILIZED TO SAVE IT Sheri Gon, MPH, MLS(ASCP)CM; Claire Muranaka, MLT(ASCP), ASCLS-Hawaii President; and Kristen Croom, MLS(ASCP)CMMB(ASCP), ASCLS Region X Director The University of Hawaii at Manoa Budget Committee initially recommended eliminating the Medical Technology Program to save money during the COVID-19 induced recession. A distinguishing feature of ASCLS is that it serves…
THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY: OUR TIME TO SHINE
Phyllis Ingham, EdD, MLS(ASCP)CM, AHI(AMT), ASCLS Virtual Learning Steering Committee Chair, ASCLS-Georgia President “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll What we choose to do with the great opportunities and impossible situations gives us our Golden Opportunity. Way before COVID, headlines about growing…
VIRTUAL CLEC 2021 DESIGNED TO INSPIRE EDUCATORS
Terry Kotrla, MS, MT(ASCP)BB, CLEC Steering Committee Chair; DeAnne Maxwell, CLEC Steering Committee Vice Chair; and Dana Powell Baker, MBA, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, CLEC Steering Committee Past Chair CLEC 2021 attendees will have access to more than 40 educational sessions, including all session recordings for 30 days after the event. We are elated to serve as…