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Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Elise Bieri Patzke - Insights

Elise Bieri Patzke has worked at Mayo Clinic for 17 years and is currently a project manager in Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics. She enjoys collaborating with her laboratory colleagues to pursue test development projects and biopharma...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Clyde Christian III - Insights

Following a connection on LinkedIn, Clyde Christian found himself drawn to Mayo Clinic and joined the Hospital Sales division of Mayo Clinic Laboratories in late May 2022. As a hospital account executive for the U.S. Great Lakes region,...

MCL @Work: Ben Levno - Insights

As a senior product manager for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Ben Levno supports the neurology segment of specialty testing. While Mayo Clinic physicians have access to our world-renowned neurology testing to diagnose and care for patients,...

MCL @Work: Amy Turunen - Insights

As the creative director for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Amy Turunen finds that each day brings unique creative opportunities and marketing projects. Through her design work and creative direction, Amy helps to curate testing awareness and...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Sainu Owusu-Afriyie - Insights

Sainu Owusu-Afriyie has held a wide range of laboratory roles throughout her career at Mayo Clinic. Now she’s focused on strategic management, where the work can sometime be ambiguous, but the focus remains squarely on benefitting patients.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Grant Elmquist - Insights

Working with Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics clients, Grant Elmquist is engaged in a wide range of activities that span research and science technology, as well as a host of disease states, all with the end goal of enhancing patient care.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Cara Ryan - Insights

As director of Contract Administration, Cara Ryan’s work spans a diverse range of activities that connect with a variety of groups across the organization, all with a goal of supporting patient care.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Deb Hagen-Moe - Insights

As manager of the department’s Education Program, Deb Hagen-Moe and her team welcome new staff to Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. Then they continue to offer a wide range of continuing education and...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Todd Walker - Insights

Todd Walker is a laboratory supervisor for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Specimen Operations, where he helps lead the department that serves as the gateway between collecting and delivering specimens and getting them processed. Todd credits his...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Tim Plummer - Insights

Tim Plummer is an operations administrator at Mayo Clinic Laboratories supporting the Division of Anatomic Pathology. He supports his team members by providing them with tools and resources to innovate and succeed. He has worked at Mayo...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Paul Schneider - Insights

As a national accounts executive for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Paul Schneider helps to improve and advance diagnostic patient care by bringing Mayo Clinic Laboratories testing to many of the nation’s top health care systems.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Meredith Clark - Insights

As a bid coordinator, Meredith Clark’s work helps expand testing capabilities for Mayo Clinic Laboratories clients, so they can offer the right test at the right time for the right patient.

Epic journey yields unique offering - Insights

The quest to create a test pinpointing the source of the rare, testicular cancer-associated illness successfully concluded in the summer of 2021.

Muscular dystrophy - Insights

Learn how our muscular dystrophy genetic testing can help patients access variant-specific therapies and determine eligibility for clinical trials.

BCR/ABL1 Testing [Test in Focus] - Insights

David Viswanatha, M.D., a hematopathologist and co-director of the molecular hematology and complete genome sequencing laboratories at Mayo Clinic, provides an overview of BCR/ABL1 testing, discusses the best testing methods, NCCN/ELN...

Test Validation Support - Mayo Clinic Laboratories

Test Catalog AlgorithmsDownload Test Catalog & Interpretive HandbookNew TestsNY State Informed Consent TestsPerforming LocationsReferred TestsSpecialty TestingTest Updates...

New Tests Launched in January - Insights

In January 2018, Mayo Medical Laboratories announced five new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.

New Tests Launched in October - Insights

In October 2018, Mayo Medical Laboratories announced one new test along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.

November 2023 - Gastroenterology Pathology Case 1 - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Gastroenterology Pathology.

Anti-hypertensive drug monitoring - Insights

Learn how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ anti-hypertensive drug panel can assist physicians in understanding the reasons for resistant hypertension in patients.

Resources - Insights

The Resources page features a compilation of valuable education and content not specific to a program type.

Phlebotomy - Insights

The Phlebotomy Resource Page is a compilation of on demand content, presentations, and other phlebotomy-related education.

Test identifies Lynch syndrome for targeted cancer monitoring: Wei Shen, Ph.D., and Rhianna Urban, M.S., CGC - Insights

Wei Shen, Ph.D., and Rhianna Urban, M.S., CGC, explain how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' gene panel establishes a diagnosis of Lynch syndrome, which heightens the risk for several cancers. Test results can guide targeted cancer surveillance for...

NELL-1 [Test in Focus] - Insights

Sanjeev Sethi, M.D., Ph.D., discusses how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ new immunohistochemistry test for the detection of NELL-1 antigen, a biomarker for membranous nephropathy found in 10% to 15% of patients, provides diagnostic certainty and...

Assay provides quick diagnosis of VEXAS syndrome: David S. Viswanatha, M.D. - Insights

David S. Viswanatha, M.D., explains how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' new assay provides rapid, definitive diagnosis of VEXAS, a recently identified syndrome affecting older men. Early diagnosis is key to managing the syndrome, which severely...

New Tests Launched in February - Insights

In February 2018, Mayo Medical Laboratories announced two new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.

New Tests Launched in December - Insights

In December 2017, Mayo Medical Laboratories announced seven new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.

MCL - Blood Spot Collection Instructions (Spanish) - Brochure - MC4091-67SP

MCL - Blood Spot Collection Instructions (Spanish) - Brochure

Guide to Reference Laboratory Request for Proposals - Insights

Based on conversations with community-based laboratories around the country, we have developed this document that details some basic tips and common questions to consider when writing your organization’s next request for proposal. The...

Next-generation sequencing: Examining an often oversimplified & misunderstood technology - Part III - Insights

With the rise of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, multigene panel testing is expanding so rapidly that clinical practice is racing to keep pace. And questions within genetic tests have expanded along with it, making definitive...

Pathways Case Studies: April 2023 - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for April include the following sub-specialties: Gynecological Pathology, Pulmonary...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Deb Wells - Insights

Deb Wells is the director of Quality Management Services at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. A science lover from a young age, Deb has long worked in medical laboratory science and is passionate about being an advocate for lab safety and quality.

January 2023 - Biochemical Genetics - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Biochemical Genetics.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Shannon Bennett - Insights

As director of Regulatory Affairs for the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Shannon Bennett helps safeguard Mayo Clinic’s reputation for quality care by ensuring that its clinical laboratories operate at the highest level of...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Lisa Wortman Raring - Insights

In her role as a proposal writer, Lisa Wortman Raring helps show clients everything Mayo Clinic Laboratories has to offer, making it clear how the organization can best meet their needs and the needs of their patients.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Heather Van Buskirk - Insights

As a client account representative, Heather Van Buskirk uses her problem-solving skills to make sure invoices get paid in a timely manner, so Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ services remain available to providers and their patients.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Daniel Kronemann - Insights

As a clinical laboratory technologist, Daniel Kronemann enjoys going beyond his day-to-day work as he explores new ways to enhance processes and systems in Bacteriology.

Seeking, and finding, answers, comfort, and hope: Joe Mondloch - Insights

Joe Mondloch and his wife Sue have existed in a grey area of uncertainty due to the unpredictable autoimmune neurological illness Joe has lived with for the last seven years. Rare, incurable, and debilitating, the newly classified disorder...

CPT codes and LOINC update: November 2023 - Insights

This page includes updates posted to Mayo Clinic Labs during the month of November.

Meet our experts - Insights

Connect with us at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition to learn how our evaluations can inform your clinical practice. Schedule a one-on-one session with our representatives.

Gynecological cancer - Insights

Find out how our gynecological cancer panels evaluate genes with relevance to diagnosing and treating uterine, ovarian, and endometrial cancers.

Ova and parasite testing - Insights

Learn about our ova and parasite test and its role as a fundamental laboratory method to detect parasitic helminths and protozoa in stool specimens.

New tests launched in February - Insights

In February 2023, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced fifteen new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.

Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Sept. 4 - Insights

This week’s Research Roundup highlights individual patient-level meta-analysis of the performance of the Decipher genomic classifier in high-risk men after prostatectomy to predict development of metastatic disease.

Neurofilament Light Chain (NFLC) - Insights

Alicia Algeciras, Ph.D., describes Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ new blood test to detect NFLC, or neurofilament light chain protein. NFLC is a biomarker for several neurodegenerative conditions. The new assay can determine if a patient’s...

Pathways Case Studies: February 2022 - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for February include the following sub-specialties: Clinical Biochemistry, Bone and...

Understanding Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, Including C3 Glomerulopathy: Part 1 - Insights

Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) is a pattern of glomerular injury. Based on the etiology of MPGN, Drs. Sethi and Fervenza proposed a new histologic classification of MPGN into Ig/IC-mediated MPGN and complement-mediated...

Pathways Case Studies: June 2023 - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for June include the following sub-specialties: Gastroenterology Pathology,...

MCL @Work: Brian Dukek - Insights

As a senior principal developer for the brand-new Process Innovation Through Automation Laboratory, Brian Dukek helps labs throughout the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology evaluate new automation tools and streamline...