Time to Renew Your ASCLS Membership | ASCLS Responds to CLIAC Termination | Congratulations to New ASCLS Officers and Leaders | Volunteer Opportunities | 2025 ASCLS, AGT & SAFMLS Joint Annual Meeting Highlights | Mark Your Calendar for the 2025 Labvocate Symposium | Save the Date for the Next Emerging Laboratory Managers Collaborative Conference (ELMC2) | and More
Time to Renew Your ASCLS Membership
ASCLS is currently renewing memberships for the 2025-26 Society year. Thank you to the over 1,000 members who have already signed up for the next Society year.
For those of you who have not yet renewed, paper notices will arrive by mail next month. However, you can renew now to skip the additional paper and mailing.
Renew by July 31 to ensure access to your membership benefits, stay connected to your community of medical laboratory professionals, and maintain your continued membership status. Thank you for your support of ASCLS, and we look forward to another year to educate, motivate, celebrate, and labvocate with you.
ASCLS Responds to CLIAC Termination
ASCLS recently joined the Association of Public Health Laboratories in signing a letter to Secretary Kennedy urging the reinstatement of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC).
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spokesperson recently confirmed CLIAC was terminated on March 31, 2025, in accordance with Executive Order 14217, “Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy.” G2 Intelligence reported this news on May 29, 2025.
The committee’s informed recommendations to the federal agencies that oversee the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) regulations are critical to ensuring relevant updates are made to CLIA as laboratory testing services and practice evolve. Without a forum to discuss needed improvements, CLIA regulations will become outdated and disconnected from current laboratory practice.
Congratulations to New ASCLS Officers and Leaders for the 2025-26 Society Year
During the 2025 Joint Annual Meeting, the ASCLS House of Delegates, Ascending Professionals Forum, Developing Professionals Forum, and Diversity Advocacy Council elected new officers, who took office at the close of the meeting. The Board of Directors also installed new members for the 2025-26 Society year. Congratulations, and thank you to all the candidates who ran this year.
Board of Directors
- President Kyle Riding (New Hampshire)
- President-Elect Stacey Robinson (Maryland)
- Secretary-Treasurer Kemorine Roberts (Georgia)
- Director Jesse Day (Tennessee)
- Director Melissa Kaspar (Wisconsin)
- Director Miles Tompkins (Oklahoma)
- Developing Professional Director Grace Gyolai (Wisconsin)
- Ascending Professionals Director Ogechi Ohaeto (Florida)
Nominations Committee
- Nikola Chin (Idaho)
- Mark DeLuna (Florida)
- Justin Hannenberg (New Jersey)
- Lacey Murphy (Utah)
- Perry Scanlan (Tennessee)
- Darius Wilson (Tennessee)
Judicial Committee
- Jean Bauer (Minnesota)
Developing Professionals Forum
- Chair Grace Gyolai (Wisconsin)
- Vice Chair Eleanor Guhl (Wisconsin)
- Secretary Alison Vacanti (South Dakota)
Ascending Professionals Forum
- Chair Sarah Steinberg (Wyoming)
- Vice Chair Doryan Redding (Virginia)
- Secretary Andrew Samon (Kansas)
Diversity Advocacy Council
- Chair Justin Hall
- Vice Chair Elizabeth Dahlgren
- Secretary Chloe Philippe
Volunteer Opportunities
Developing and Ascending Professional Committee Members
ASCLS is looking for Developing and Ascending Professionals who wish to provide their creativity, energy, and passion to our mission. Opportunities to serve in volunteer leadership positions for the ASCLS are now open for the Society year that runs until July 2026.
ASCLS has opportunities for Developing and Ascending Professional members to serve on a variety of national committees. Learn more.
Diversity Advocacy Council Councilors-At-Large
As a volunteer-driven group, the ASCLS Diversity Advocacy Council (DAC) needs passionate members like you to succeed.
Councilors-At-Large assist the DAC officers to fulfill the charges of the DAC. Learn more.
2025 ASCLS, AGT & SAFMLS Joint Annual Meeting Highlights
For the fifth year, ASCLS, the Association of Genetic Technologists (AGT), and the Society of American Federal Medical Laboratory Scientists (SAFMLS) held a Joint Annual Meeting (JAM), both in-person and virtually. This year’s event, held June 8-12, included about 625 registered attendees; nearly 470 were in Sacramento, California, and more than 150 attended online. The event also included 35 industry partners, 43 educational sessions, one pre-conference workshop, 60 speakers, and 33 poster presentations. View photos from the event.
- The Developing Professionals Forum held the third annual Race to JAM Trivia Contest in the spring. University of California, Davis, Health and Wichita State University Team 2 went head-to-head in the finals at JAM. Congratulations to this year’s winner, University of California, Davis, Health.
- The ASCLS Education & Research (E&R) Fund Silent Auction and related activities raised nearly $5,200, allowing the E&R Fund to provide scholarships for medical laboratory students and research grants.
- To celebrate Blood Donor Advocacy Week, ASCLS and Bio-Rad hosted a successful Blood Drive on Tuesday morning during JAM. We exceeded our goal, collecting 25 units (including 14 first time donors)! Alongside medical laboratory professionals, several vendors and community members also stepped up to donate.
- Region V won the ASCLS Political Action Committee (PAC) donation contest this year with $3,024 in total donations. Overall the PAC raised $5,526 at JAM!
- The ASCLS House of Delegates voted to approve a new Mission, Vision, and Values Statements and a new Body of Knowledge for the profession. The House also approved changes to the Bylaws that open up national officer elections more widely to our membership. More details and specifics, including eligible membership categories, will be forthcoming this Society year.
Select JAM educational sessions that were recorded will be available for individual purchase or as bundles. Stay tuned for more information about the 2025 JAM On Demand coming to ASCLS Labucate this summer.
Save the dates for the 2026 JAM in St. Louis, Missouri, June 28-July 2!
Mark Your Calendar for the 2025 Labvocate Symposium
October 20-21, 2025 | Alexandria, VA | Virtual
The annual Labvocate Symposium (formerly called the Laboratory Legislative Symposium) gives you the chance to come together with medical laboratory professionals from six laboratory organizations and make our concerns known inside Congress.
The Labvocate Symposium provides a great education on the how-tos of lobbying. Attendees are coached on presentation techniques so they can effectively talk to their congressional representatives during appointments. You’ll also learn all the important details about the legislative policies affecting our profession so you can labvocate with confidence.
You will come away from the two-day event with first-hand knowledge of the political system in action and inspiration that you can make a difference.
Again this year, all ASCLS Developing Professional members can virtually attend Labvocate 2025 for free.
This year’s event will be held October 20-21 at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia. In-person and virtual attendee options are available.
Save the Date for the Next Emerging Laboratory Managers Collaborative Conference (ELMC2)
November 14-15, 2025 | Virtual
The Emerging Laboratory Managers Collaborative Conference (ELMC2) is designed specifically for medical laboratory professionals to help you prepare for and thrive in management roles.
ELMC2 was previously held in January and has moved to November. It provides two days of virtual programming (live and streamed for up to 30 days after the live event), up to 20 hours of P.A.C.E.® credit, networking events, access to an attendees-only online community, and follow up programming expected to take place 6-12 weeks after the conclusion of the virtual conference, as well as special meet-ups at the ASCLS, AGT & SAFMLS Joint Annual Meeting next July.
Seeking Session Proposals Focused on Laboratory Management
The ELMC2 Steering Committee is currently accepting session proposals for the November 2025 program.
The committee is looking for topics related to medical laboratory personnel/human resources, financial management, workplace culture, infomatics and automation, operations, legal and ethics, and compliance. All sessions are 60 minutes and virtual, presented via Zoom. Submit your proposals by August 1.
CLEC 2025 On Demand
All educational sessions from the highly-rated CLEC 2025 were recorded and are now available to stream online via labucate.org. This library of on-demand courses includes content created by your peers and is focused on topics of relevance to today’s medical laboratory science educators.
- Individual sessions are $10 for ASCLS members/$15 for non-members.
- The All Access CLEC 2025 On Demand bundle gives you 42 sessions and 42 hours of P.A.C.E.® credit ($275 for ASCLS Members/$400 for non-members).
Access to CLEC 2025 On Demand is good until March 31, 2026.
ASCLS is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.
CDC OneLabTM
CDC’s OneLab initiative provides opportunities for education and training, as well as a space for collaboration between clinical, public health, individuals who perform or coordinate testing at non-laboratory sites, and CDC laboratory education and training professionals. They provide free training courses, job aides and resources, links to webinar recordings, and much more.
The OneLab Rapid Education and Capacity-building Hub (REACH) is a laboratory education and training learning management system specifically designed and tailored for the needs of clinical and public health laboratory professionals. OneLab REACH supports the laboratory community by providing relevant and timely education and training resources.
CDC’s OneLab Network provides opportunities for education and training, as well as a space for collaboration between clinical, public health, individuals who perform or coordinate testing at non-laboratory sites, and CDC laboratory education and training professionals.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Laboratory Systems is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.
OneLab™ and OneLab REACH™ are registered trademarks of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
New Off the Bench Podcast Episode
Subscribe to the Off the Bench Podcast for discussions on scientific and not-so-scientific ideas in laboratory medicine. New episodes drop the last Friday of each month.
The May 30 episode focused on leadership opportunities for medical laboratory professionals. Hosts Sophia Chandrasekar and Doryan Redding sat down with Dr. Carol Rentas, Tony Kurec, and Dr. Cathy Otto to talk about their experiences as a leader, and what advice they would share with others looking to be a leader in their community. They also talked about the learning modules that they created for the Leadership Development Committee’s Leadership Certificate Curriculum.
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