On Demand Education organized by MLS credit categories.
The following on demand education is related to the “Other” category in medical laboratory science (MLS), which encompasses a variety of specialized topics and emerging areas that don’t fall into traditional categories like hematology,...
Enhanced detection of genetic mutation to optimize leukemia treatment - Insights
Rong He, M.D., describes how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ NPM1Q assay detects all known forms of a genetic mutation found in about 30% of people with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML. Identifying the NPM1 mutation is critical for clinical...
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,...
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.
MCL - Informed Consent for Genetic Testing - MC1235-117
MCL - Informed Consent Genetic Testing - Informed Consent Genetic Testing Testing genetic conditions complex warranted obtain professional genetic counseling prior
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: 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.
Widening the net to capture elusive pathogens - Insights
Central nervous system infections, such as meningitis and encephalitis, can be devastating for affected patients. While specific treatments are available for some of these infections, it first requires identifying the precise cause of...
Founded in 2017, Mayo Clinic's Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory is a visionary space. In 2021, the lab developed the Mayo Complete Solid Tumor Panel, a clinically validated assay that analyzes 515 genes using next-generation sequencing. This...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Dr. Vanda Lennon - Insights
A pioneering researcher, Dr. Vanda Lennon has spent five decades delving into questions of neuroimmunology. Today, she continues that work as director of the Neuroimmunology Research Laboratory in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory...
MCL @Work: Brie LaJoye - Insights
Brie LaJoye began her career with Mayo Clinic in 2018 as an intern and has been with the organization for nearly six years. She currently works as a Laboratory information system (LIS) technical specialist, managing lab instrumentation,...
Medical Drones: High Hopes, Grounded in Science - Insights
While online retailers experiment with drones as a way to swiftly deliver consumer purchases, laboratory medicine physicians and scientists have a lifesaving goal: using drones to rapidly deliver laboratory specimens.
Whole genome sequencing - Insights
Check out Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ whole genome testing, a next-generation sequencing assay that interrogates nearly every base pair of an individual’s DNA, including the mitochondrial genome.
Testing for a surprising antigen enables insight into a chronic kidney illness - Insights
Mayo Clinic renal pathologist Dr. Sanjeev Sethi identified NELL-1 as a biomarker for membranous nephropathy (MN) in 2019. Two years later, Dr. Sethi helped implement the first ever IHC test to detect NELL-1 antigen, which appears in about...
Dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's, and multiple system atrophy - Insights
Learn more about how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' cerebrospinal fluid biomarker test for synucleinopathies, such as Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, can accurately identify α-syn pathology even before definitive symptoms...
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Yuma Regional Medical Center: Changing perceptions and powering growth - Insights
Looking to elevate laboratory operations, Yuma Regional’s hospital directors established a leadership model that pairs medical and administrative leaders, resulting in a changed perception of the laboratory’s ability to drive profitability...
MCL @Work: Sarah Mason - Insights
In her current role as senior manager for global logistics at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Sarah Mason oversees the coordination of patient sample shipments by working with a network of stakeholders, couriers, carriers, and vendors. Sarah...
Modified two-tiered testing for Lyme disease - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Elitza Theel, Ph.D., discusses the modified two-tiered testing algorithm for Lyme disease entirely based on enzyme immunoassays (EIA).
Antifungal Drug Susceptibility Testing of Yeast: A Primer for Beginners - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Nancy Wengenack, Ph.D., discusses susceptibility testing of yeast for those who are considering performing it in their laboratory, perhaps for the first time, or for those who choose to send their yeast isolates...
Live and recorded presentations featuring Q&A with subject matter experts who share lessons learned, reflect on current applications for testing, project the future of lab medicine, and provide resources for growing your laboratory.
Future Direction of Lab Medicine - Insights
Looking into the future of laboratory medicine and pathology and providing insight into the direction its heading.
Membranous nephropathy assay: PMND1 - Insights
John Lieske, M.D., describes Mayo Clinic Laboratories' new test for primary membranous nephropathy. PMND1 is a diagnostic cascade that provides a cost-effective approach to detecting antigens known to cause membranous nephropathy — a...
IDH assay facilitates timelier leukemia treatment: Rong He, M.D. - Insights
In this test-specific episode of the "Answers From the Lab" podcast, Rong He, M.D., explains how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' IDHQ test improves upon next generation sequencing for assessing AML treatment options.
PIK3CA assay guides treatment of progressing breast cancer - Insights
Katherine Geiersbach, M.D., explains how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' PIK3CA assay informs breast cancer treatment. The assay identifies patients eligible for a certain second-line therapy when initial treatment has failed.
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...
Phlebotomy Top Gun: Drawing Blood from a Patient Receiving Intravenous Fluids - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D., presents a case-based scenario on drawing blood from a patient receiving intravenous fluids.
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Shining light on one family's struggle: Barbara, Deborah, Pamela, and Rylie - Insights
Before testing at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Barbara Domaille, Deborah Neville, Pamela Neville, and Rylie Ronnenberg thought there could be a genetic connection to the hip problems they shared. After the testing, they knew for sure.
Transformative diagnostics - Insights
With a sophisticated laboratory test catalog and thousands of Mayo Clinic experts, we’re here to help you answer the toughest clinical questions.
Next-generation sequencing: Examining an often oversimplified & misunderstood technology--Part I
In the last decade, genetic testing has evolved from single-gene Sanger based assays to much more complex next-generation sequencing (NGS) based assays.
Phage immunoprecipitation sequencing identifies previously unknown disease biomarkers - Insights
In Mayo Clinic’s Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory, there are dozens of projects underway at once to develop new technologies, discover novel findings, validate new tests, and support physicians in providing advanced patient care. For...
Leveraging technology to transform Anatomic Pathology - Insights
As Mayo Clinic’s Anatomic Pathology moves from traditional glass slides to digital images, the advance in technology is achieving clear benefits in collaboration, learning, and patient care.
One of the biggest misunderstandings about genetic testing is a perception that once a variant is identified and analyzed thoroughly, using all the best tools available, it can be associated with a specific disease or condition. But many...
For people with encephalitis, rapid treatment of their acute brain inflammation is critical for avoiding devastating physical and cognitive deficits. But appropriate treatment requires identifying the culprit causing the symptoms.
COVID-19: The pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing - Insights
Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a lasting impact on the lives of millions of people around the world, including the many brave health care workers who risked their own health to provide lifesaving care to those infected by...
Integration, innovation, precision: Propelling leading-edge diagnostics - Insights
The third episode of “Life of a Specimen” video series discusses the integration that drives the development of innovative tests, including the movement disorders evaluation, at Mayo Clinic Laboratories.
December 2023 - Clinical Microbiology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Clinical Microbiology.
December 2022 - Clinical Informatics - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Clinical Informatics.
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How digital pathology provides faster answers - Insights
Almost four years ago, Mayo Clinic launched the Digital Pathology Program, a major pathology initiative. Phase 2 of this multi-phase rollout has recently been completed, which involved the implementation of cutting-edge digital equipment...
Mayo Clinic Classical Hematology Conference - Insights
This conference will provide reviews and updates about the laboratory and clinical aspects of nonmalignant hematology and bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Combining the clinical and laboratory experience of Mayo Clinic faculty, we will...
Mayo Clinic Classical Hematology Conference - Insights
This conference will provide reviews and updates about the laboratory and clinical aspects of nonmalignant hematology and bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Combining the clinical and laboratory experience of Mayo Clinic faculty, we will...
Mayo Clinic Classical Hematology Conference - Insights
This conference will provide reviews and updates about the laboratory and clinical aspects of nonmalignant hematology and bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Combining the clinical and laboratory experience of Mayo Clinic faculty, we will...
Mayo Clinic Classical Hematology Conference - Insights
This conference will provide reviews and updates about the laboratory and clinical aspects of nonmalignant hematology and bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Combining the clinical and laboratory experience of Mayo Clinic faculty, we will...
Mayo Clinic Classical Hematology Conference - Insights
This conference will provide reviews and updates about the laboratory and clinical aspects of nonmalignant hematology and bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Combining the clinical and laboratory experience of Mayo Clinic faculty, we will...
Mayo Clinic Classical Hematology Conference - Insights
This conference will provide reviews and updates about the laboratory and clinical aspects of nonmalignant hematology and bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Combining the clinical and laboratory experience of Mayo Clinic faculty, we will...
Mayo Clinic Classical Hematology Conference - Insights
This conference will provide reviews and updates about the laboratory and clinical aspects of nonmalignant hematology and bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Combining the clinical and laboratory experience of Mayo Clinic faculty, we will...