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Who Is Going to Lead Your Laboratory in 2014?
July 23, 2009 3:25 PM by Matthew Patton
Approximately 20 percent of lab managers report planning to retire in the next 5 years, and a shortage of nearly 5,000 medical technologists is projected per year. On Thursday afternoon, Tara Kochis, executive vice president of Slone Partners, Miami Beach, Read More...
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Resisting Change
June 24, 2009 8:58 AM by Amanda Koehler
Yesterday at the AMT National Meeting, Jim Hernandez, MD, MS, assistant professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine; medical director of Laboratories and Chair of Clinical Pathology, Mayo Clinic-Arizona, spoke to attendees Read More...
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Technology Transfer
May 18, 2009 3:44 PM by Kerri Penno
This afternoon, students and other ASM attendees were invited to a career options symposium, where three presenters offered information on three different microbiology career paths: technology transfer, clinical microbiology and microbiology in the military. Read More...
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Taste of Philadelphia
May 18, 2009 1:45 PM by Kerri Penno
This year's American Society of Microbiology General Meeting is in Philadelphia, just a few miles away from the ADVANCE home base in King of Prussia, PA. The meeting kicked off yesterday with an opening session focusing on microbes and evolution. This Read More...
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Shaping the Future
April 18, 2009 3:00 PM by Kerri Penno
This afternoon, President Lynette Savaloja, SCT(ASCP); and President-Elect Don Simpson, PhD, MPH, CT(ASCP)CM, moderated a discussion about the future of the profession. The issues were not new, but those that have faced cytology for the past couple of Read More...
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Newest Professionals
April 18, 2009 12:07 PM by Kerri Penno
Part of this morning's session focused on the importance of students to cytology. ASCT administrators and volunteers are working to expand opportunities and funding for more students to attend the meetings. This year, Third Wave Technologies provided Read More...
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Beginning With the End
April 18, 2009 10:29 AM by Kerri Penno
Don Simpson, PhD, MPH, CT(ASCP)CM, chairman, Department of Laboratory Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, and president-elect, ASCT, welcomed the group to the second day's events. Dr. Simpson spoke to the organization's Read More...
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Pancreatobiliary Tract
April 15, 2009 3:56 PM by Kerri Penno
Barbara A. Centeno, MD, senior member and director of cytopathology, Moffitt Cancer Cente; and professor, University of South Florida College of Medicine, kicked off the general session with a discussion of diagnostic cytology of the exocrine pancreatobiliary Read More...
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ASCT 2009
April 15, 2009 3:55 PM by Kerri Penno
Coming from Philadelphia, where I think the term "April showers" may have been coined, St. Petersburg, FL, is certainly a welcome respite from the gloomy weather back home. The "Sunshine City," known for its record-breaking great weather and award winning Read More...
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Opportunity for Students
February 24, 2009 12:37 PM by Amanda Koehler
Students planning on attending the 2009 ASCLS Annual Meeting July 21-25 in Chicago can apply for the Beckman Coulter Student Travel Grant. According to Michele "Mickey" Yost, ASCLS Student Forum Chair, the grant will assist in supporting up to five students Read More...
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Conference Connections
May 29, 2008 10:28 AM by Kerri Penno
ADVANCE will be at the American Society for Microbiology and the Clinical Ligand Assay Society's annual meetings next week. Will you be attending either meeting? Let us know how they go for you. We'd love to hear your networking, learning and fun experiences Read More...
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Free Webinar Tomorrow
April 30, 2008 8:44 AM by Amanda Koehler
We received the following e-mail from Swisslog: Swisslog presents Free Webinar to Clinical Laboratory Professionals featuring Pneumatic Tube System Product Manager, John Kennedy Swisslog Healthcare Solutions (Denver, CO), a provider of hospital material Read More...
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AABB Scholarship
March 24, 2008 12:40 PM by Kerri Penno
AABB is currently accepting applications for the Suzanne Ledin Travel Award for Specialist in Blood Banking (SBB) Students. Anyone enrolled in, accepted into, or who has completed an SBB program within the past 12 months in an AABB-accredited institution Read More...
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CLMA ThinkLab Update
March 17, 2008 2:51 PM by Amanda Koehler
We asked CLMA to update us on the status of ThinkLab '08, to be held March 29-April 1 in Atlanta, where a recent tornado did some damage to the Georgia World Congress Center. Here's what they said: "CLMA is closely monitoring the situation in Atlanta Read More...
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Back from AABB
October 24, 2007 2:06 PM by Amanda Koehler
I just flew back from Anaheim, CA, from my first laboratory conference, and boy, are my arms tired! (I heard someone actually use that "punch line" the other day ... is that even a teeny bit amusing anymore?) Seriously, though. I left the strangely-warm-for-this-time-of-year Read More...
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