As Amy Ennis put her daughter down for a nap on a Saturday afternoon, she received a call from work. More than 5,000 specimens would soon be arriving at Rochester International Airport (RST) for plasma testing. The logistics involved in the...
Hearts and Hogs for Heroes worked with other businesses to donate over 400 meals to staff within the division of clinical microbiology at the Hilton Building and Superior Drive Support Center.
Welcome 2017–18 Residents and Fellows - Insights
The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology would like to take the opportunity to welcome the new residents and fellows to the department.
A Home for the Iconic Mayo Brothers Statue #ThrowbackThursday - Insights
When construction crews broke ground on an expansion project for the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minnesota, in 2015, one of the earliest decisions they and the City of Rochester faced was deciding what to do with the iconic bronze...
Congrats to 2017 Residency and Fellowship Program Graduates - Insights
On June 14, a ceremony was held in honor of 36 graduating Mayo Clinic Residency and Fellowship Program trainees. At the event, administrators, program directors, associate program directors, consultants, and education staff celebrated the...
Ross Reichard, M.D., Named DLMP Vice Chair of Quality and Associate Chair of Practice - Insights
Ross Reichard, M.D., has been appointed the new Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) Vice Chair of Quality and Associate Chair of Practice, effective June 28, 2017. These two leadership positions were created by the DLMP...
Nikola Baumann, Ph.D., Director of the Central Clinical Laboratory and Central Processing Laboratory, and Brooke Katzman, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Hospital Clinical Laboratory and Point of Care, at Mayo Clinic, recently discussed biotin...
Remembering Nancy Reagan and a "Magical Friendship" #ThrowbackThursday - Insights
Nancy Reagan liked to say she had a "magical friendship" with Mayo Clinic, since it was a future surgeon's sleight-of-hand that introduced her to the institution. Mrs. Reagan, who died March 6, 2016, was a loyal Mayo patient and advocate...
February 2023 - 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.
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: March 12 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights cardiovascular concerns in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
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Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: May 14 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights potential genetic modifiers of disease risk and age at onset in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and GRN mutations.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: June 11 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the detection of gastric cancer with novel methylated DNA markers: discovery, tissue validation, and pilot testing in plasma.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: March 29 - Insights
This Feature Includes: Preclinical modeling in glioblastoma patient-derived xenograft (GBM PDX) xenografts to guide clinical development of lisavanbulin-a novel tumor checkpoint controller targeting microtubules.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: March 22 - Insights
This Feature Includes: A clinically compatible drug-screening platform based on organotypic cultures identifies vulnerabilities to prevent and treat brain metastasis.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Aug. 13 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights diagnostic thresholds for androgen-producing tumors or pathologic hyperandrogenism in women by use of total testosterone concentrations measured by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: July 2 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the comparison of risk stratification models to predict recurrence and survival in pleuropulmonary solitary fibrous tumor.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Aug. 6 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights how a novel enhancer regulates MGMT expression and promotes temozolomide-resistance in glioblastomas.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Feb. 26 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the blast phase myeloproliferative neoplasm with a Mayo-AGIMM study of 410 patients from two separate cohorts.
Audrey Schuetz, M.D., Comments on First-Ever Case of Human Eye Worms - Insights
A recent article in HealthDay News reported on a case of an avid 26-year-old outdoorswoman from Oregon who became the first human ever infected by a type of eye worm previously seen only in cattle. Audrey Schuetz, M.D., Senior Associate...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 23 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights different mutational rates and mechanisms in human cells at pregastrulation and neurogenesis.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: October 5 - Insights
This week's research roundup features: Therapeutic trials in adult FSGS: lessons learned and the road forward.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Jan. 1 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights multifaceted Fanconi anemia signaling.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Jan. 29 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights pathways impacted by genomic alterations in pulmonary carcinoid tumors.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Feb. 5 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights cryptogenic cirrhosis and sitosterolemia, a treatable disease if identified but fatal if missed.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Jan. 22 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights improving immune-vascular crosstalk for cancer immunotherapy.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: July 12 - Insights
This week's research roundup features: PFKFB3 works on the FAK-STAT3-SOX2 axis to regulate the stemness in MPM.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories and American Hospital Dubai announce strategic partnership - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories and American Hospital Dubai announce a strategic partnership aimed at improving advanced laboratory diagnostics in the Dubai region. Under the agreement, the two organizations will begin delivering laboratory...
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Identifies Lyme Disease Signs and Symptoms - Insights
With tick season underway in parts of the United States, it's important to understand the signs and symptoms of Lyme disease to determine when to seek medical treatment. Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory in...
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., and J. Kenneth Schoolmeester, II, M.D., were recently selected as recipients of the 2017 Pathology Teacher of the Year Award from the Mayo Fellows’ Association.
1914: "Mayo Clinic" becomes Official Name #ThrowbackThursday - Insights
Given the stature of Mayo Clinic, it can be surprising to learn that this name was not developed by a high-powered consulting firm. Audience analytics and focus group metrics played no part in creating it. For that matter, even the people...
Tom Smith, Ph.D., Honored in "Journal of Clinical Microbiology" - Insights
In 2012, the Journal of Clinical Microbiology began publishing quarterly biographical features of pioneers and innovators in clinical microbiology. Of the more than 15 microbiologists who have been profiled over the years, the career...
Jerry Katzmann, Ph.D., an emeritus consultant in the Mayo Clinic Protein Immunology Laboratory, has received the AACC Academy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Chemistry in a Selected Area of Research.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: November 22 - Insights
This week's research roundup features: Progression of chronic kidney disease following radical and partial nephrectomy
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: January 24 - Insights
This weeks research roundup features: Automated scoring of total inflammation in renal allograft biopsies
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: January 31 - Insights
This week's research roundup features: Emergence of restless legs syndrome during opioid discontinuation
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: December 13 - Insights
This week's research roundup features: In vitro activity of a hypochlorous acid-generating electrochemical bandage against yeast biofilms
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: February 15 - Insights
This week's Research Roundup features: Activity of a hypochlorous acid-producing electrochemical bandage as assessed with a porcine explant biofilm model.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: February 28 - Insights
This week's Research Roundup features: Laboratory and metabolic investigations.
Coaching for Staff Development - Insights
"Coaching" has become the latest buzzword on the staff-development scene. In its purest form, coaching is a developmental process carried out between the coach and a "talent" in order to promote desirable and sustainable change.
Metacognitive Practices - Insights
Deb Hagen-Moe, Education Coordinator at Mayo Clinic, discusses how metacognition can be used to enhance an individual’s ability to learn and retain information.
Regional Health-Mayo Medical Laboratories Collaboration to Benefit Patients, Providers - Insights
Regional Health has selected Mayo Medical Laboratories as its primary reference laboratory. The agreement provides Regional Health Rapid City Hospital physicians and caregivers with access to Mayo Clinic’s extensive menu of more than 4,000...
St. Charles Health System Teams Up with Mayo Medical Laboratories to Perform Testing - Insights
St. Charles Health System in Bend, Oregon, has selected Mayo Medical Laboratories as its primary reference laboratory, giving the health system access to Mayo Clinic’s extensive menu of laboratory tests and clinical expertise.
sphingotec GmbH, a biotechnology company that develops biomarkers for the detection and management of diseases, has recently signed an agreement with Mayo Clinic to collaborate on the evaluation and use of several biomarkers that may...
Mayo Laboratory Inquiry Receives Top Honors - Insights
Mayo Laboratory Inquiry (MLI) has been named a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal for the seventh year in a row. MLI was also named a Top Contact Center and took home the top honors in the "Lowest Average Speed of Answer" category.
From Michigan to Mayo for Esoteric Lab Needs - Insights
Munson Healthcare, an eight-hospital system, has worked with Mayo Clinic Laboratories for more than 30 years. The system’s community hospital labs provide basic testing, but Munson turns to Mayo Clinic Laboratories for its highly...
Mayo Clinic's Frozen Section Breaks Ground at Simulation Center - Insights
Traditionally, Mayo Clinic's Simulation Center is used for surgical procedures and teaching students how to run a code. Mayo Clinic pathology consultant Karen Fritchie, M.D., recently developed a new and innovative way to use the center.
Laboratory Nonconformance (Event) Management - Insights
PACE / State of FL This “Continual Improvement” webinar provides an overview of the event management process deployed by the Mayo Clinic Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.
Testing algorithm streamlines assessment for COVID-19 - Insights
In a recent "Answers From the Lab" podcast, Aaron Tande, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and associate chair for outpatient practice in Mayo Clinic's Division of Infectious Diseases, explains the algorithm Mayo has developed to make...