William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., tackle myths surrounding COVID vaccines and talk about where to find reliable vaccine information.
(00:50) Would you be able to tell us a little bit about yourself and your background? (01:26) So would you be able to provide us a brief overview of this assay? (02:16) When thinking about the application of this test, which patients should have this testing, and when should it be performed? (03:09) So after the test has been performed, how are the results used to guide patient care? (04:33) So what alternative testing options are available, and how might those compare to pancreatic elastase? (0...
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., discuss potential health care reform and other changes that could affect laboratory medicine in U.S. in the coming years.
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., discuss the new COVID-19 variants that are emerging and how those variants could have an impact on the pandemic going forward.
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., look back at how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped laboratory medicine throughout 2020.
(00:50) So maybe we'll just start with a simple question. If you could tell us a little bit about you and your background? (01:21) Let's go into, then, the dendritic cell enumeration test. What is this exactly? (03:46) What's innovative or different about this test? (04:56) What would you say is the primary use case of this test? (06:02) So how would you foresee this test being used? (08:06) So do you think that we'll be using this test for perhaps our very sick individuals here at Mayo Clinic? ...
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., talk about the increased interest in health care professions, including those in laboratory medicine, that has been spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tell us a little bit about your background and about yourself. Give us a brief overview of what are the previous approaches that have been used in the past for multiple myeloma testing. So can you take a moment and talk to me about the new approach and the new algorithm that your laboratory is working on implementing? So how does this new approach really benefit both hospitals across the country that we serve and the patients that they're trying to treat? What else is the lab working on when it ...
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., debunk common face mask misconceptions in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anja Roden, M.D., a medical director for Mayo Clinic's Immunohistochemistry Laboratory, joins this episode of the "Answers From the Lab" podcast. Dr. Roden and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., discuss the development and evaluation of immunohistochemistry in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues.
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(00:48) Could you provide our listeners with a little bit about you and your background? (01:56) There's a fair amount of genetic hearing loss tests out there. Why did we decide to develop this one here at Mayo? (02:51) Can you tell me a little bit about the process that actually went into developing the test — the different research and that sort of thing? (04:03) What specific need do we meet with this particular test? (06:22) How were these results used in patient care? And what I mean by tha...
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., discuss the latest on COVID-19 vaccines.
(01:07) Has the utility or the role of antibody testing changed or evolved in any way for you over the past months or since the pandemic began? (04:06) What do we know about the antibody response to the virus and how is our knowledge grown in that area? I think one question that people have is do we all make antibodies to the virus and how long do those antibodies last, and will they protect us from re-infection? (06:41) You mentioned briefly there's a neutralizing antibody test that recently re...
William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., review the treatment options currently available for COVID-19.
(00:41) Dr. Bornhorst, could you provide our listeners with a little bit about you and your background? (01:15) Can you provide a brief overview of the alpha-gal galactose-alpha 1,3 galactose assay? (04:19) So I understand that most people obtain this allergy primarily from ticks and meat-derived products, and that it can cause symptoms such as hives, itching, difficulty breathing, and other unpleasant reactions. With that being said, can you tell us which patients should have this testing? (06:...
William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., discuss herd immunity and COVID-19.
(00:47) Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how your role has changed since COVID-19? (02:02) How do you feel that testing will help Mayo and hospitals respond to this coming season's challenge? (03:38) Can you tell us a little bit about the algorithm and how it helps to address perhaps potential resource shortages, knowing that we probably can't test everyone for everything all the time, and that may not be the best approach anyway? (05:50) In your mind, what significance does it ha...
William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., review the testing options currently available to detect COVID-19.
(00:45) Could you just provide our listeners with a little bit of information about you and your background? (01:00) The laboratory recently made some updates to this testing for minimal residual disease. Can you just give us a brief overview of that assay? (03:22) So these patients go through these treatments, and at what point do they really need this testing, or when should it be considered by clinicians to perform it? (05:18) What brought the laboratory to flow cytometry for this MRD test fo...
Resources: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/large-events/considerations-for-events-gatherings.html
Speaker 1: (00:39) Can you start by sharing a little bit about yourself and your expertise for our listeners? Speaker 1: (01:12) We're in this pandemic with COVID-19, and I'm hearing about people having hematologic responses to COVID-19. Can you tell us a little bit about what these responses are? Speaker 2: (04:53) Here at Mayo Clinic, do we have an assay or a testing profile that could assist physicians who are dealing with COVID-19 and their patients and help them look at how their patients a...
William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. With a surge in new cases happening now, and flu season coming soon, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., discuss the importance of continuing to follow safety precautions to help prevent COVID-19.
Speaker 1: (01:20) Today we want to talk about the MDM2 gene amplification assay. Can you give us a little bit of an overview of that test? Speaker 1: (02:16) Is there a certain subset of patients that should have this testing, and when should it be performed on those patients? Speaker 1: (02:50) So for those patients then, are there any other alternative test options that are available for them, or how else might these patients be diagnosed, and how does this specific task compare with the othe...
Full Show Notes: Speaker 1: (00:49) Can you share a little bit about yourself and how your role has changed since COVID-19 started? Speaker 1: (01:52) What kind of shortages have you seen in our laboratories? And maybe you could tell us a little bit about some innovative solutions your team's been working on to combat those shortages. Speaker 1: (04:41) Have you seen shortages in other areas of testing besides COVID testing? Speaker 1: (07:35) Are there any lessons you've learned from this whole...
William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., explain the difference between collecting a specimen sample at home to be used for COVID-19 testing versus performing a COVID-19 test at home. They also discuss factors that can affect test results and how to ensure accura...
Resources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25502528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538476/
William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and President of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the Answers from the Lab podcast for his weekly leadership update. On this episode, Dr. Morice joins Dr. Bobbi Pritt to discuss the different forms of masking that are available and which type you should consider based on your state guidelines, in addition to the scientific studies performed.
Timestamps Dr. Bobbi Pritt: (00:45) Can you share a little bit about yourself and how your role has changed since COVID-19? Dr. Bobbi Pritt: (02:10) Has there been any additional quality management practices that have been put into place since the start of COVID-19? Dr. Bobbi Pritt: (04:13) Do you feel like these practices will continue to be followed going forward? Or do you think that some are just specific to the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Bobbi Pritt: (06:55) What challenges have you encountered...
William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the Answers from the Lab podcast for his weekly leadership update. On this episode, Dr. Morice discusses how we can approach the upcoming flu season, and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., shares the differences between screening and surveillance approaches to testing for COVID-19.
