ADVANCE Outlook: Lab Professionals : Education

AMP Starts on Positive Note

Matthew T. Patton — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:00 GMT

KISSIMMEE, FL -- Christmas decorations next to palm trees are a fun treat for your Philadelphia-based reporter at the Gaylord Palms Convention Center in Kissimmee, FL, where opening remarks for the 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for Molecular...(read more)

Signs of the Times

Matthew T. Patton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:46:00 GMT

Acknowledging healthcare reform has been controversial would definitely be an understatement. Almost everywhere I've traveled lately I've heard highly emotional and passionate positions for both sides of the debate. This past weekend, a large group of...(read more)

Be SMART

Kerri Penno — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:50:00 GMT

bioMérieux, an in vitro diagnostics company, heightened its role in the fight against antimicrobial resistance by launching its Solutions to Manage the Antimicrobial Resistance Threat (SMART) Campaign at the 49th Annual Interscience Conference for Antimicrobial...(read more)

Artel Launches Online Training Videos

Caitlin Maloney — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:26:00 GMT

Artel, Westbrook, ME, a liquid handling company, announced the launch of an online series of pipetting technique training videos at http://www.artel-usa.com/ . The new addition to the company's training tools includes a series of 10 two-minute videos...(read more)

SGO Publishes Paper on HPV Vaccine’s Impact on Cervical Cancer

Caitlin Maloney — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:50:00 GMT

The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) has published the first of a four paper series on a cervical cancer issues and topics that were the focus of last September's SGO forum "The Future Strategies for Cervical Cancer Prevention: What Do We Need...(read more)

AACC Unveils New Lab Tests Online Web site

Caitlin Maloney — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:12:00 GMT

The AACC, a professional society dedicated to improving healthcare though laboratory medicine, has unveiled a rebranded and resigned Lab Tests Online Web site. After 9 years and more than 200 million page views, the AACC finally revealed the change at...(read more)

Quality Control and Quality Management

Matthew Patton — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:03:00 GMT

Precision and accuracy for quality control used to be a lot more simple said Elissa Passiment, executive director of ASCLS. She presented Friday morning on quality control management. CDC and CLSI have evaluated quality control systems and are examining...(read more)

Who Is Going to Lead Your Laboratory in 2014?

Matthew Patton — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:25:00 GMT

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)

The Educational Tool Box

Matthew Patton — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:45:00 GMT

Brandy Greenhill, MS, MT(ASCP), assistant professor, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, spoke Wednesday afternoon at McCormick Place, providing tips on how to enhance educational activities for medical lab students. One idea she defined...(read more)

PERFAR and BD Make Progress in Africa

Caitlin Maloney — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:34:00 GMT

The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PERFAR) and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) have made progress in improving laboratory conditions and skills of lab personnel battling against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) in sub-Saharan Africa....(read more)

Resisting Change

Amanda Koehler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:58:00 GMT

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)

Phlebotomy Book Gets Nominated

Amanda Koehler — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:49:00 GMT

The Center for Phlebotomy's latest book has been selected as a finalist in the Independent Book Publisher's Association's annual Ben Franklin Awards. Blood Specimen Collection FAQs was published last fall by the Center and nominated for outstanding interior...(read more)

Preparing for a Bio-Katrina

Matthew T. Patton — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:03:00 GMT

In an interview with Federal News Radio in March, Tara O’Toole, MD, MPH, was asked what she would tell President Obama if she had the chance. Her reply: "There is a possibility, a real possibility, that there could be the equivalent of a bio-Katrina on...(read more)

Technology Transfer

Kerri Penno — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:44:00 GMT

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)

Pathogen Immunity

Kerri Penno — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:35:00 GMT

One of today's ASM Award Lectures was the Maurice Hilleman Merck Award, presented to Stanley A. Plotkin, Sanofi Pasteur, Doylestown, PA. Maurice Hilleman is known for having developed more than 40 vaccines and is credited with having saved more lives...(read more)