Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 00:45 Can you start us off by giving an overview of this latest outbreak of Monkeypox? And also if you could contrast that against Covid-19? 03:25 What do you think this increase means for our hospital laboratories? 05:44 How can we provide the greatest value to our clinical colleagues and to our patients? 08:17 I know we sometimes do culture a virus and look at viruses. Is it that testing that some of us have in our laboratories that’s not specific enough, it looks like o...
Oct 07, 2022•13 min•Ep. 71
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 01:32 So for residents who have recently started, now that orientation is behind us, where should their focus be? 09:05 Do you have any advice for what step 1 or 2 might look like for a new resident? 13:46 What is a new skill or two that residents should really focus on developing? 18:26 Could you share with the student listeners, what do you recommend to residents when they feel like they aren’t making the progress they would like? 23:54 How do you recommend residents app...
Sep 16, 2022•29 min•Ep. 70
Timestamps 0:00 Intro 01:10 Why is social media a tool that our lab medicine and pathology community should consider using? 04:01 How do you reassure or talk to a pathology resident or a medical laboratory technologist, who is just getting started on social media, when a patient reaches out with a question? 07:29 What is your advice about how to use your time wisely on social media? 09:57 How do you think about the social media landscape at this point, realizing things are dynamic and changing? ...
Sep 02, 2022•18 min•Ep. 69
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 01:01 What is a patient-scientist? 01:36 What’s the perspective of value they can bring to the table? 03:57 What has surprised you the most about this experience of being a patient-scientist? 08:05 Since you have shared this, what has been your experience interacting with the research community? 08:57 What are your reflections about how the medical community should understand about developing these relationships, seeking out or welcoming patient scientists in their researc...
Aug 19, 2022•13 min•Ep. 68
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 00:42 What does the tick season look like this year? Is it true that is has been predicted to be a severe tick season? 01:20 What are the different things that influence the tick season? 03:49 What does “severe tick summer” mean for all of us working and learning in the hospital? 05:08 Have you been getting invitations to talk to some of our clinical colleagues about that differential diagnosis? 05:53 There has been a lot of concern over “superbugs”, are tick-borne disease...
Aug 05, 2022•13 min•Ep. 67
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 00:46 Why is 3D imaging and printing important for patient care? 03:18 Can you help our audience understand when should we be using this? When is it not so good? 09:38 How does that conversation go now differently? Now that somebody can hold this, how has that transformed the questions and the understanding that the patient has? 13:05 Can you help us get our arms around what is the value in the scan, what is the print value? 14:01 Technologies for scanning are improving an...
Jul 15, 2022•19 min•Ep. 66
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 00:53 Why is the medical field interested in saliva? 02:00 What sorts of information could be gleaned from saliva? 03:17 Are there certain limitations of what could come out of saliva testing? 04:56 Can you elaborate what you mean when you say “matrix?” 06:16 How do you approach navigating what could be interferences? 08:16 Would that be considered part of the matrix? Or is the matrix just the specimen itself? 9:29 Could you elaborate those preanalytic variables a clinicia...
Jul 01, 2022•16 min•Ep. 65
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 00:51 Could you give us an update about what has been happening regarding convalescent plasma? 03:46 What are some take-home points from this new AABB guidelines that are out? 15:07 Were there challenges discussed or things that you see these guidelines either domestically or internationally? 18:20 Is there an aspect that you would like to see addressed with more robust data as we go forward? 20:12 Outro Resources: AABB Guidelines https://www.aabb.org/news-resources/news/a...
Jun 17, 2022•21 min•Ep. 64
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:00 Coming off a relaxed 4th year, how do you recommend we get back into the study flow for training? 6:45 Once residency starts and we are working all day and studying in the evenings, do you have recommendations on how to ease back into that? 9:30 How do you recommend finding a mentor in residency training? How do you know if it’s a good fit or if you need to figure out how to find another mentor? 13:35 How would you maximize your time on AP rotations? How is this appro...
May 20, 2022•54 min•Ep. 62
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:04 Why is molecular information important for you in your practice to integrate into anatomic pathology? 06:22 How did you recognize that molecular information was really a critical competency for you to develop as an anatomic pathologist? 09:51 Do you find yourself going to different sessions when you go to conferences, or are you specifically paying attention to ones that have a molecular thread through them? 11:23 How do you recommend that we all continue to embrace...
May 06, 2022•16 min•Ep. 61
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:30 Why is it important for us to look at our past when planning for our future? 05:37 Sometimes people struggle with celebrating and I think also, maybe some people get nervous about that--taking time to celebrate accomplishments that have been. What’s your take on that? 07:01 What are one or two aspects of pathology and lab medicine’s past that you are thinking about celebrating this year? 11:56 How do you see these aspects that you’re celebrating in forming kind of t...
Apr 22, 2022•22 min•Ep. 60
Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Why is it important to look at the past when planning for the future? 4:30 Keeping in mind our audience, we've got laboratorians, we've got pathologists, we have other physicians from the health care team listening, what might be a good resource, or what would you recommend to be aware of these larger trends? 6:50 What are one or two aspects of pathology and laboratory medicines past that you are interested in celebrating this lab week? 8:58 How do we use this ...
Apr 15, 2022•24 min•Ep. 59
00:00 Intro 01:02 How did you get started in magic? 03:57 How does this roll into your practice as an Anatomic Pathologist? How do you see this skill translate? 06:29 What is a mentalist? 11:05 How do you approach teaching our residents and fellows about how they might think about and use magic in their practice? 14:20 How can we get better at suspending that belief for our residents without getting caught up in the nitty gritty? 16:15 What would an ACGME milestone on magic in pathology look lik...
Apr 01, 2022•25 min•Ep. 58
00:00 Intro 00:58 Why are wellness efforts a need-to-have, rather than a want-to-have? 04:18 What are we learning about wellness that is important for our audience to understand? 07:44 What are those first steps that our listeners can take and initiate for their own local practice, what would their initial support look like? 14:23 Are there classic struggles with improving wellness that you can help our listeners navigate if there are some pearls to share in that regard? 22:01 What do you think ...
Mar 18, 2022•22 min•Ep. 57
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:23 Why is health equity important for laboratory medicine and pathology? 03:13 What are we learning about how as a laboratory we may better advocate for health equity? 05:27 What’s the nuance there that we need to grapple with, not just more testing but better testing? 08:30 Are there examples of how we can do this better from other professions that we can learn from? 09:59 Is that something that you feel with your previous experience as a hematopathologist has prepare...
Mar 04, 2022•20 min•Ep. 56
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:32 From your points of view, why do you think it’s important to start a pathology interest group? 07:24 What are some important elements that you think are important for a successful interest group in your experience? 11:24 Is there one or two activities that really stands out that’s been perceived as the most valuable and best experiences so far? 13:18 Has there been any challenge with some faculty being able to explain or demonstrate their work, or is there any way t...
Feb 18, 2022•25 min•Ep. 55
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Feb 04, 2022•8 min•Ep. 54
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:05 From your perspective, why is interprofessional education an important for us clinicians, lab medicine colleagues, and students? 04:18 What are a few of those key lessons that you’ve learned about how to do this interprofessional education? 07:15 How do you think we make it a meaningful experience for the students? 10:37 What sort of approach do you take to feedback, to get that feedback that’s really going to help you meaningfully iterate in a positive way? 13:47 D...
Jan 21, 2022•21 min•Ep. 53
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:00 Why is it important to respond with grace while we’re under pressure? 03:36 How do you think you develop this ability to project poise when in stressful situations? 05:33 Was there a mentor, situation, or experience where it gave you pause and made you think, “Wow, that’s somebody that really showed grace under pressure and leadership abilities.” Is there anybody in your life who comes to mind? 07:15 Did you find yourself having some of these mental conversations? H...
Jan 07, 2022•18 min•Ep. 52
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:05 How did you first get interested in supporting organ transplantation? 04:53 What are the organs that we can transplant? 06:00 When we are at the Department of Motor Vehicles, we can register as a donor and make our wishes known to our family, is that right? 07:03 If people are interesting in donating a kidney, for example, do they reach out to their local hospital and let them know they are interested in being a donor? 08:50 How does your work in the Histocompatabil...
Dec 17, 2021•18 min•Ep. 51
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:24 Why does clinical context matter for what test clinicians order? 08:41 What determines what kind of test to order? 13:07 How does the communication happen between the lab and the clinician? How should it happen to provide best care for the patient? 18:21 What do you think about for the future of ordering laboratory tests? 21:59 Outro
Dec 03, 2021•20 min•Ep. 50
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:48 What’s your origin story? How did you get interested in medical school education? 06:18 What are we learning about better ways to educate? 13:42 How can faculty make it a safe environment? How can we get students to give it a try? 16:25 How do you bring about and navigate curricular change? 20:15 Was there something that you did that prepared you for this role? Is there some advice for people who are interested in taking a leadership role in education at their insti...
Nov 19, 2021•27 min•Ep. 49
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:07 Why is it so challenging to ask questions in an interview? 03:19 Can you go over what are a few aspects that somebody can ask about? 04:41 What was your process when you made your list, that cheat sheet, the actual how we’re doing of formulating a question. What was your approach there? 05:54 Are there any interesting questions you’ve gotten from applicants over the years that really stood out to you? Conversely, what are some questions that you think applicants sho...
Nov 05, 2021•18 min•Ep. 48
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:22 Why is it important for labs to learn from their COVID-19 experiences? 05:34 Did you have any other lessons learned from this experience? 8:31 How are these meetings focused on maintaining a high quality? How did you manage the rest of your workload (developing new tests, etc.)? 12:51 Have some of those lessons from the experience of how those meetings were run, is there anything that you’re taking forward that you hadn’t been doing before COVID? 14:43 What do you t...
Oct 22, 2021•19 min•Ep. 47
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:02 What are a few of the potential risks and benefits of using social media as a professional? Why should I be doing this and thinking about it? 03:31 People can adjust their privacy settings on social media, so why is it important for healthcare professionals and students to behave professionally on social media? 06:08 Some might say that there are several shades of gray when it comes to professionalism. So, what do we need to understand about professionalism on socia...
Oct 08, 2021•18 min•Ep. 46
In this episode of Lab Medicine Rounds, Chris Hartley, M.D., Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, discusses the topic of cytopathology, and what some of the challenges and advancements are.
Sep 24, 2021•23 min•Ep. 45
Disclosure of relevant financial relationship: Dr. Mazepa received honoraria from Sanofi. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:52 Why is it important for physicians to have some understanding about TTP? 04:26 What’s new in this immune TTP area? 08:57 If you have a new patient show up, you do caplacizumab and plasma exchange together or are there certain patient populations, like certain characteristics who would or would not get this medication? 11:29 I was wondering if you could elaborate a little bit mo...
Sep 17, 2021•20 min•Ep. 44
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:43 Why is it important for physicians to understand about the reversal of these direct oral anticoagulants? 03:09 The complications or the bleed rate was a lot less, with these direct oral anticoagulants? 03:57 Although there is less severe bleeding, there was a concern by patients and physicians about, if it is severe, what is the plan? 04:51 What have we learned new? Are we learning more about what patient population to use them in, as well as the plans to reverse th...
Sep 10, 2021•23 min•Ep. 43
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:10 Why is reference laboratory testing important for physicians and laboratorians to understand? 02:00 No lab does all the testing in their own laboratory. Labs can’t really have a whole panel of laboratory tests; it just doesn’t make sense, right? 04:39 What have we learned in the last couple years about reference laboratories, how we can best support clinical practice? 06:10 Do you have an insight for how that communication goes? 8:46 How might a hospital reach out a...
Sep 03, 2021•14 min•Ep. 42
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:15 Why are external rotations in pathology important from the student perspective? 03:51 Do you get to understand the particulars of a program or maybe what kind of questions you might be asking when you later interview because you do a rotation? 05:03 What is unique from an international perspective? 07:53 Can you compare and contrast the in-person pathology elective, with some of the virtual resources that are available at this point and time? 11:02 Are there any add...
Aug 27, 2021•20 min•Ep. 4
