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Explore how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ focused myositis specific antibody (MSA) panel equips healthcare professionals with individualized insights to reduce diagnostic uncertainty and assist with the selection of tailored treatments for...
Find out why testing for anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic and anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies is recommended for differential diagnosis.
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Kimberly Knight - Insights
As a national accounts executive for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Kimberly Knight helps clients see and understand the importance of laboratory testing and how partnering with Mayo Clinic Laboratories on that testing can help them and their...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Jason Majorowicz - Insights
As an event management coordinator for the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, Jason Majorowicz acts as an investigator when something may deviate from its established process. With a background in biotechnology...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Doug Smith - Insights
As a clinical specialty representative for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Doug Smith works to promote Mayo Clinic’s core values and support community-based health care and integrated delivery systems through the sale of Mayo Clinic Laboratories...
MCL @Work: Michael Goard - Insights
More than 17 years ago, Michael Goard started his career at Mayo Clinic in Specimen Operations. Today, he takes great pride in his role as a field service manager working with clients and making a difference for our patients.
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Callie Bishop - Insights
As a director of operations for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Callie Bishop helps meet the needs of Mayo Clinic Laboratories clients both virtually and onsite in the field.
MCL @Work: Rachel Freeman - Insights
Rachel is a referral specialist serving as the important link between Mayo Clinic Laboratories and our clients. With an eye on quality assurance, she helps patients and clinicians get answers faster.
MCL @Work: Annette Bjorheim - Insights
As supervisor of the Tissue Registry Archive, Annette Bjorheim finds purpose in her work to provide archived material for patient testing, education, and research needs.
MCL @Work: Spencer Beekmann - Insights
As a field service coordinator at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Spencer Beekmann spends much of his time onboarding and training new staff on the Client Site Specimen Processing and Regional Service Representative teams. After seven years at...
Cytology: A compelling molecular testing approach - Insights
Learn more about how Mayo Clinic Laboratories is advancing the use of cytology specimens for solid tumor next-generation sequencing.
CPT codes and LOINC update: February 2024 - Insights
This page includes updates posted to Mayo Clinic Labs during the month of February.
March 1917: The "Lost Oration" #ThrowbackThursday - Insights
Intense changes roiled the world in March 1917, including Mayo Clinic. For several years, the Mayo brothers had seen the need to create formal programs in advanced education for physicians. They created an entity called the Mayo Foundation...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Vanessa Gonzalez Casar - Insights
As a hospital account executive for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Vanessa Gonzalez Casar supports and partners with local hospitals to ensure their patients receive the right test at the right time.
6 Ways Individualized Medicine Is Advancing Patient Care - Insights
Keith Stewart, M.B., Ch.B., Carlson and Nelson Endowed Director, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, presented six ways precision medicine has further advanced into patient care over the past year.
March 2023 - Cytopathology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Cytopathology.
Top 5 reasons to attend this year's Leveraging the Laboratory Conference - Insights
This fall, healthcare professionals and laboratory outreach enthusiasts will travel to Chicago to attend Mayo Clinic's annual conference, "Leveraging the Laboratory." Outreach manager Jane Hermansen along with outreach solution strategists,...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: January 10 - Insights
This week's research roundup features: Drug testing in support of the diagnosis of neonatal abstinence syndrome: The current situation
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June 2023 - Liver Pathology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Liver Pathology.
MCL @Work: Joune Twist - Insights
Joune Twist has always embraced her natural interest for learning new information and improving processes. In 2019, her curiosity and previous work led her to join Mayo Clinic’s Neuroimmunology Lab. As a medical laboratory scientist, Joune...
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Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ nephrology experts, pathologists, and laboratory scientists uphold the highest standards of renal laboratory care.
Genetic Testing for Inherited Cardiovascular Disorders - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Linnea Baudhuin, Ph.D., discusses Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ up-to-date gene panel tests for cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias, connective tissue and vascular fragility disorders, dyslipidemias, and congenital...
Diagnostic Testing Algorithms for Celiac Disease - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Melissa Snyder, Ph.D., will review the diagnostic testing algorithms for celiac disease and highlight the advantages and limitations of certain tests, including serology and genetic assays.
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Urinary Steroid Profile [Test in Focus] - Insights
Irina Bancos, M.D. gives an overview of this test available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories. She discusses when this testing should be ordered, how this testing compares to other testing approaches, and what clinical action can be taken...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 2 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma of germinal center origin, which presents with significant biologic and clinical heterogeneity. Using RNA-seq on B cells sorted from 87 FL...
Autoimmune Profile Updates [Test in Focus] - Insights
Andrew McKeon, M.B., B.Ch., M.D., discusses updates that are being made to Mayo Clinic Laboratories' autoimmune profile that will remove some antibodies from those profiles. He describes the rationale behind the updates, reviews which...
Hepatitis C Virus Genotypic Antiviral Drug Resistance [Test in Focus] - Insights
Joseph Yao, M.D., gives an overview of this new test available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories. He discusses when this testing should be ordered, how this testing improves upon other testing approaches, and what clinical action can be...
4 statistics that showcase the broad impact of laboratory medicine - Insights
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week is a time to appreciate the profound impact of laboratory medicine on healthcare and innovation.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: March 26 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Implant-associated infections (IAIs) pose serious threats to patients and can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. These infections may be difficult to diagnose due, in part, to...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: October 17 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Given the prevalence of dementia and the development of pathology-specific disease modifying therapies, high-value biomarker strategies to inform medical decision making are critical. In-vivo tau...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: October 31 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: It is widely held that heart failure (HF) does not cause exertional hypoxaemia, based upon studies in HF with reduced ejection fraction, but this may not apply to patients with HF and preserved ejection...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Dec. 24 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup determines the clinical validity of hereditary colorectal cancer and polyposis susceptibility genes using the clinical genome resource clinical validity framework.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: August 8 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Age-based versus young-adult thresholds for nephrosclerosis on kidney biopsy and prognostic implications for CKD.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories vector-borne disease testing is guided by an algorithm approach that supports the right test in the right region. Our comprehensive suite of vector-borne disease tests includes testing for the most commonly...
Assay identifies patients eligible for new ovarian cancer drug: Maryam Shahi, M.D. - Insights
Maryam Shahi, M.D., explains how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' unique biomarker test (TEST ID: AFOLR) determines which patients would likely benefit from a new treatment for recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer. Disease recurrence is common, and...
Axonal autoimmune neuropathies - Insights
Find out about our panel-based approach to axonal autoimmune neuropathies, which we recommend because of the overlap in clinical symptoms.
Clean and dry kidney stones - Insights
To optimize laboratory evaluation of kidney stones, specimens must be both clean and dry. The sensitivity of the analytical method used to determine kidney stone composition requires samples be completely dry, since excess water in the...
Hereditary peripheral neuropathy - Insights
Learn how our test menu can assist in identifying genetic causes across the spectrum of hereditary peripheral neuropathies.
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.
MCL @Work: Samantha Aldrich - Insights
Before joining Mayo Clinic, Samantha Aldrich worked for a multisite hospital system in Michigan for 10 years. Now, as a regional service representative for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, she serves as a client advocate and works to help send out...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Connie Ohnstad - Insights
Connie Ohnstad is the supervisor for Mayo Clinic Laboratories Inventory, which includes Mayo Clinic Laboratories Packaging and Specimen Kit Orders (SKO). Connie wears many hats as a supervisor at MCL, and she has a long history with Mayo...
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: 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.