Joint Annual Meeting On Demand

National education on a full range of topics conveniently available to you at home, work, and on the road.

If you missed out attending the 2024 ASCLS, AGT & SAFMLS Joint Annual Meeting (JAM), you can still benefit from the scientific sessions. We captured the educational programming, and it is available to stream online for P.A.C.E.^® credit on Labucate (our learning management system).

Options include:

Included sessions are:

• HEM: Challenges and Advancements in Sickle Cell Disease – Farhana Mueez, MD, MHA, MLS(ASCP)^CM, and Joan O’Connell, EdD, MLS(ASCP)
• GEN: Demystifying Artificial Intelligence By Leveraging the Analytical Laboratory Mind – Alexis Carter, MD, FACP, FAMIA
• MIC: Focus on Outbreaks – Sarah Bergbower, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)^CM, and Kelcey Harper, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• ADM: Harmony in Healthcare: Navigating Clinical Misunderstandings through Interprofessional Education – Doryan Redding, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• ETH: Health Disparities and Laboratory Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities – Mahmoud Aarabi, MD, PhD, FACMG, and Octavia M Peck Palmer, PhD
• CHEM: If Sperm Could Talk: Semen Analysis Case Studies and Sperm Morphology – Anna-Marie Bort, MLT(ASCP)^CM
• IH: It’s Safe to Give RhD-positive Blood Products to Massively Bleeding Females – Mark Yazer, MD
• CHEM: Lead Poisoning: A Major Childhood Health Problem and How the Lab Aids in Prevention – Amy Pyle-Eilola, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
• HEM: Surprise! Unusual Hematology Case Studies – Kathryn Golab, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)^CM, SHCM
• ADM: The Clinical Laboratory’s Role in Addressing the Fentanyl Crisis – Stephanie Noblit, Esq, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• CHEM: What’s in the Pill: Contaminations Versus Impurities in Medications and Food Products that Can Lead to Positive Drug Tests – Marisol Castaneto, F-ABFT
• HEM: When Complement Isn’t a Compliment – LaShanta Brice, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)SH

Individual sessions range in price from $5-$10 ($8-$15 for non-members).

The complete list of available sessions are:

• Appropriate Utilization and Lab Stewardship – Elissa Passiment, EdM, MLS(ASCP)
• Assessing Laboratory Communications: Lessons Learned from CKD-EPI 2021 Implementation – Shawn Luby, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• Basics of Clinical Flow Cytometry: Examples from a Cellular Therapy Laboratory – Albert Donnenberg, PhD
• Bench Buddies: A Novel Development for Training Students and New Professionals in the Lab – Sarah Steinberg, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• Bigger Is not Always Better (a Decentralized Lab Story) – Sofia Shank, MSHA, MLS(ASCP), Maria Langeslay, MSMHA, MLS(ASCP)^CM, and Jose Miguel Velazquez, MS, MLS(ASCP)
• Challenges and Advancements in Sickle Cell Disease – Farhana Mueez, MD, MHA, MLS(ASCP)^CM, and Joan O’Connell, EdD, MLS(ASCP)
• Clinical Applications of ctDNA Testing: Present and Future – Liam Lee, PhD, MB(ASCP)
• The Clinical Laboratory’s Role in Addressing the Fentanyl Crisis – Stephanie Noblit, Esq, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• Clinical Relevance while off the Bench: Innovative Solutions for the Military Laboratory Technician to Ensure Competency through a Career with Diverse Roles – Matthew McCloskey, MLT(ASCP), Christopher Patterson-Jordan and Wanda Lewis
• Clinical Utilities of Optical Genomic Mapping at Clinical Cytogenetic Labs – Ying Zou, MD, PhD, FACMG
• Complicated Proficiency Surveys in Microbiology: LPX, WID, TMO, OMG! – Emilia Marrero-Greene, MEd, M(ASCP)^CM
• Demystifying Artificial Intelligence By Leveraging the Analytical Laboratory Mind – Alexis Carter, MD, FACP, FAMIA
• Dual Perspectives: Alzheimer’s Disease from the Laboratory to Clinical Trial Subject – Michael L. Bishop, MS, MLS(ASCP), and Michelle R. Campbell, MS, MLS(ASCP), MB, SC
• Effective Leadership and Management – Eva Kristina Calero, MS, MLS(ASCP), Marybeth (Beth) Luna, MPA, MLS(ASCP), and Mikal Stoner, MS, MLS(ASCP)
• Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance, a One Health Model – Grace Leu Burke, MSCLS, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• ESKAPE Pathogens: A Daily Struggle in Complex Susceptibility Testing – Joel Mortensen, PhD, and Pat (Patricia) Tille, PhD, MLS(ASCP)
• Focus on Laboratory Careers (Educational Programs to Recruit and Retain Talent within the Laboratory & To MLS and Beyond: Career Laddering from MLT Certification) – Jessie Frank, MLS(ASCP), and Kasey Edwardson, PhD, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• Focus on Outbreaks (Fungal Meningitis Outbreak following Cosmetic Surgery Tourism: A Case Study & Searching for a Horcrux: A Microbiologist’s Role in Solving Foodborne Outbreaks) – Sarah Bergbower, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)^CM, and Kelcey Harper, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• Focus on Regulations (Application of Westgard Rules on Assays Newly Regulated by CLIA 2024 & Comfort in Uncertainty: Regulation of LDTs) – Sten Westgard, MS, and Jim Flanigan, CAE
• Focus on Risk Assessment in Transfusion Medicine (Enhancing Blood Donation Inclusivity and Safety: Has the New Individual Risk-based Assessment Made a Difference? & Risk Assessment—How Do I Do it in the Transfusion Service?) – Yan Zheng, PhD, MLS(ASCP)^CM, Suzanne Butch, MA, MLS(ASCP)^CM, SBB^CM, DLM^CM
• Focus on Test Interferences (Effective Methods for Monitoring Diabetes in Patients with Hemoglobinopathies & How to Address Biotin Interference on Laboratory Test Results) – Carolyn Hosenfeld, DHSc, MLS(ASCP), and Vishnu Samara, PhD
• Harmony in Healthcare: Navigating Clinical Misunderstandings through Interprofessional Education – Doryan Redding, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• Health Disparities and Laboratory Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities – Mahmoud Aarabi, MD, PhD, FACMG, and Octavia M Peck Palmer, PhD
• “I Took a Pill in Ibiza”: Case Studies of Celebrity Toxicology – Christal Lane, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• An Introduction to Epilepsy-associated Variant Interpretation – Rachel Lewis, MS, MB(ASCP)
• Introduction to Health/Healthcare Equity: How Laboratorians Can Play a Vital Role in Eliminating Disparities – Juli-Anne Gardner, MD, CG(ASCP)^CM, Pamela Gibson, MD, and Alicia Hill, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• If Sperm Could Talk: Semen Analysis Case Studies and Sperm Morphology – Anna-Marie Bort, MLT(ASCP)^CM
• Laboratory Identification of Biological Warfare Agents – Elizabeth Babcock, MS, MLS(AMT) and William (Bill) Dorman
• The Laboratory’s Role in National Biosecurity: 2023 Biodefense Posture Review – Patrick Cutter, MMOAS, MLS(ASCP)^CM, and Maira Malhabour, MD, MLS(AMT)
• Lead Poisoning: A Major Childhood Health Problem and How the Lab Aids in Prevention – Amy Pyle-Eilola, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
• Normalized Deviance—Tackling Unsafe Trends – Jason Nagy, PhD, MLS(ASCP), and Dan Scungio, MLS(ASCP), SLS, CQA (ASQ)
• Oh No—The Apocalypse! Planning for an Extended/Network Downtime – Elizabeth Dahlgren, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM
• Pediatric Vaccine-Induced Antibody Thresholds: Rethinking Pre-Immunosuppression Serologic Testing and Revaccination Implications – Sarah Wheeler, PhD, NRCC
• Pursuit of Scientific Achievement: Journey of a Farm Boy – A Story of Perseverance – Sen Pathak, PhD, FNASc
• It’s Safe to Give RhD-positive Blood Products to Massively Bleeding Females – Mark Yazer, MD
• Setting up Optical Genome Mapping in your Cytogenetic Laboratory: Points for Consideration in Analysis and Test Validation – Wahab Khan, PhD, FACMG
• Stepping into Laboratory Leadership—Dos and Don’ts from the Bench to the Boardroom – Ally Storla, MSQA, MLS(ASCP)^CM, CSSBB(ASQ)
• Surprise! Unusual Hematology Case Studies – Kathryn Golab, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)^CM, SHCM
• Translational Medicine in Action: Creating a Laboratory and Clinical Service in Central Pennsylvania for a Unique Underserved Population – Erik Puffenberger, PhD
• The Unique Role of Medical Laboratory Scientists in the U.S. Public Health Service – Amalia Francisco, MHAP, MLS(ASCP), Jacqueline Kouadio, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, Travelle Mason, MPH, MLS(ASCP), and Osamede Onaghise, MPA, BB(ASCP)
• What’s in the Pill? Contaminations Versus Impurities in Medications and Food Products that Can Lead to Positive Drug Tests – Marisol Castaneto, F-ABFT
• When Complement Isn’t a Compliment – LaShanta Brice, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)SH
• Why Do Pathogens Continue to Emerge and Reemerge? An Update – Rodney E. Rohde, PhD, SM(ASCP)^CM