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Volume 38 Number 3 | June 2024 Katrina (Kate) Moreau, MPH, MAT, MLS(ASC)CM, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee Vice Chair Georgia Vega, MBA, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee Chair Every spring, the fourth-year medical laboratory science students in our program eagerly embark on a semester-long rotation through clinical laboratories at our affiliates. It’s a huge transition,…
Volume 38 Number 3 | June 2024 Candice S. Grayson, MS, MA, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Clinical Laboratory Educators Forum Chair I feel like there needs to be a disclaimer here: The writer of this article is not a writer, but can play one on TV. However, here I am writing anyway, and why? Because I tried…
Volume 38 Number 3 | June 2024 The ASCLS Nominations Committee is pleased to present the following candidates for office in the 2024-25 Society year. Candidates selected by the House of Delegates will take office during the 2024 ASCLS, AGT & SAFMLS Joint Annual Meeting. Delegates will elect one president-elect; four 3-year term directors; one…
Volume 38 Number 3 | June 2024 Kate DeAngelo, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Today Volunteer Contributor I received a call in November 2022 from the Be the Match program informing me that I was a potential match for an 11-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. After being on the bone marrow registry for seven years, I jumped…
Volume 38 Number 3 | June 2024 Aditi Sarkar, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Developing Professional Director At the threshold of a new era in healthcare and the ever-evolving landscape of scientific exploration and technological advancement, the laboratory profession stands at the epicenter of unprecedented change and growth. As we explore the implications of the future, it…
Volume 38 Number 3 | June 2024 Sami Daniel, MD, ASCLS Today Volunteer Contributor Sami Daniel, MD and Darby Naheedy, MLS As a clinician, I establish and foster relationships with patients daily. We are elated to share favorable results and devastated when we must deliver bad news. In that regard, the exam room simultaneously serves…
Volume 38 Number 3 | June 2024 Theresa Summons, MHA, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Today Volunteer Contributor Everything we do in the lab can be considered a project; but this is not how clinical laboratories traditionally think. Projects are often defined as a process to develop tangible products or solutions. In the clinical lab, we deal with…
Volume 38 Number 3 | June 2024 Shawn Luby, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee As I was strolling through the showroom floor at my first Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) Annual Scientific Meeting last summer, I marveled at the new technologies. I was mesmerized by delivery systems; I teared up during…
Volume 38 Number 2 | April 2024 Claude Rector, MA, MLS(ASCP), ASCLS President I am asked from time to time about what it’s like to be a medical laboratory scientist. My answer might surprise many who are reading this article today. I would like to share my story of the best day ever of my…
Volume 38 Number 2 | April 2024 Stacy Walz, PhD, MLS(ASCP) Picture it: College freshman sets foot on campus, full of dreams and confidence, declares biochemistry as her major, and seeks to go to medical school to become a physician. Fast forward a few weeks, and that same college freshman is struggling in her 17…