Webinar

Nathan Buchbinder, VP of Operations, Proscia, Inc.

Olga Colgan, PhD

Alexander Baras, Associate Director of Pathology Informatics, Johns Hopkins Medicine

In recent years, digital pathology has gone from an intriguing idea to an integral part of how academic and commercial labs operate. Join Leica Biosystems and Procia Digital Pathology as they discuss why institutions are going digital today and how they...

Cecilia Yeung, Pathologist – Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Assistant Professor – University of Washington, Dept. of Pathology

In this session, we will briefly review the basics of molecular biology, examine critical factors which affect the quality of nucleic acids in the tissues and cells which are submitted for downstream molecular diagnostics, and briefly introduce some...

Herbert Skip Brown, M. Div., HT(ASCP), Director of Education & Training, Lab Management Consultants

In this age of healthcare regulatory standards and compliance, every aspect in diagnostic patient care must be developed, documented, and validated ‘before’ they can be used in testing and diagnoses. Procedures which were once deemed as ‘routine’, as in the...

Herbert Skip Brown, M. Div., HT(ASCP), Director of Education & Training, Lab Management Consultants

In this day and age of heightened efficiency, productivity, and streamlined workflow, laboratories as well as organizations frequently become conditioned into only concerning themselves with the daily processes in their direct environment, and not the global...

Andrew Lisowski, M.S., HTL (ASCP)

Andrew will explain how glass is made and how we change its surface, so it is not inert.He will also review the common factors contributing to specimen loss and describe the benefits and dangers of the adhesives currently used. These modifications dictate the...

April Schrank-Hacker, MSOD, CG(ASCP)CM, Leica Biosystems

April Schrank-Hacker will offer a holistic look at the Cytogenetics laboratory workflow to increase confidence and accuracy in the final diagnosis. She will discuss new perspectives on creating optimized, safe and reliable workflows that your lab could...

Allison Eck, HTL(ASCP)CM, QLS, AHI(AMT)

Working as a histo-technologist or histology technician has been recognized as potentially damaging to health. The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network identified exposure to hazardous conditions, to contaminants, and to disease and...

Allison Eck, HTL(ASCP)CM, QLS, AHI(AMT)

Working as a histo-technologist or histology technician has been recognized as potentially damaging to health. The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network identified exposure to hazardous conditions, to contaminants, and to disease and...

Herbert Skip Brown, M. Div., HT(ASCP), Director of Education & Training, Lab Management Consultants

One of the most fundamentally critical elements of diagnostic histopathology is first the ability to suspend all cellular activity in tissue and prevent degradation, and secondly to process that specimen in a manner that facilitates subsequent steps such as...

Anthony Magliocco, M.D.

This presentation will review the challenges of creating a system to assess the quality and consistency of diagnoses produced by individual pathologists and discuss setting goals to improve the processes in anatomic pathology for enhanced patient safety. All...