Volume 35 Number 6 | December 2021 Alex Shaw, ASCLS Developing Professionals Forum Councilor-at-Large As an MLS student and active ASCLS member, I have become more and more aware of the issues that plague the clinical laboratory. There are many laboratory personnel getting closer to retirement, not enough new graduates ready to fill those openings,…
Volume 35 Number 6 | December 2021 Patient Safety Corner Catherine Otto, PhD, MBA, MLS(ASCP)CMSHCMDLMCM, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee We often think of advocacy within the context of lobbying for personnel licensure in our state legislatures or meeting with our Congressional representatives and senators to share our points of view regarding pending legislation or the…
Volume 35 Number 6 | December 2021 Angela Tomei Robinson, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM Laboratory professionals are the medical laboratory scientists, laboratory technologists, and technicians who perform and manage the complex laboratory methodology techniques and sophisticated state of the art instrumentation with automation and computer interfacing to aid in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Clinical…
Volume 35 Number 6 | December 2021 At the Joint Annual Meeting in June 2022, ASCLS delegates will choose from the candidates who have indicated a willingness to serve in the leadership positions for the coming year. This is one of the many benefits and responsibilities of belonging to a grassroots organization: being able to…
Take Action to Delay Disastrous Medicare Cuts to Clinical Labs; Handmade for the Holidays Silent Auction Benefits ASCLS Education & Research Fund; Sign Up for CE Events; and more. Take Action to Delay Disastrous Medicare Cuts to Clinical Laboratories Congress Needs to Hear Your Story Take action now! Cuts to the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee…
On October 25, nearly 120 medical laboratory professionals from six organizations joined together in Alexandria, Virginia, and virtually for the 2021 Laboratory Legislative Symposium. Members from ASCLS, the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Association of Genetic Technologists (AGT), American Medical Technologists (AMT), National Society for Histotechnology (NSH), and the Philippine Association of Medical Technologists-USA…
October 20 ASCLS webinar on sharing science; ASCLS publishes new Choosing Wisely recommendations; 2021 Joint Annual Meeting sessions available on demand; October 4 registration deadline for the Laboratory Legislative Symposium; new Off the Bench podcast episodes; and more. ASCLS Free Monthly Webinar Sharing Science: Conference Poster Presentations October 20, 8 pm Eastern Speaker: Rachel Morris,…
Volume 35 Number 5 | October 2021 Hassan Aziz, PhD, FACSs, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS President This year’s Joint Annual Meeting, Lab JAM 2021, with a hybrid combination of in-person and remote plenary and break-out educational sessions, was a huge success. Thanks to the many presenters and participants who converged in Louisville, Kentucky, and those who joined…
Volume 35 Number 5 | October 2021 Kim Von Ahsen, MHA, MLS(ASCP)CM, SLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS President-Elect Last summer, we gathered from our digital spaces for the 2020 ASCLS-AGT Joint Annual Meeting to find a moment of normalcy and a sense of community. To lean on our professional family at a time when the demand for COVID-19…
Volume 35 Number 5 | October 2021 Claude Rector, MA, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Region VII Director In 1979 the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. During their championship season, the Pirates had a team motto: “We Are Family.” The motto was borrowed from a song of the same title recorded by the…