In the third session, laboratory professionals serving as laboratory educators and those promoting visibility of the laboratory through community outreach will be featured. This 90-minute webinar session will feature 5 esteemed panelists highlighting their career trajectory, as well as a moderated Question and Answer session. We encourage all ASCP members to share promotions on this series widely with their trainees, students, and others who may be interested in entering the laboratory workforce or navigating career transitions within the laboratory workforce!

In the second session, laboratory professionals across dynamically varied roles supporting clinical laboratory testing will be featured. This 90-minute webinar session will feature 5 esteemed panelists sharing a bit about their career trajectory, as well as a moderated Question and Answer session. We encourage all ASCP members to share promotions on this series widely with their trainees, students, and others who may be interested in entering the laboratory workforce or navigating career transitions within the laboratory workforce!

In this inaugural session, laboratory professionals in executive leadership positions across laboratories and healthcare will be featured. This 90-minute webinar session will feature 5 esteemed panelists highlighting their career trajectory, as well as a moderated Question and Answer session. We encourage all ASCP members to share promotions on this series widely with their trainees, students, and others who may be interested in entering the laboratory workforce or navigating career transitions within the laboratory workforce!

The fifth and final session of this year’s Building Bridges series, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Manager of Food Safety, Ms. Kirsten Larson, MPH, will present a case study to demonstrate the importance of clinical laboratory isolate submission to public health laboratories (PHLs) for whole genome sequencing (WGS) as part of the PulseNet system. Ms. Kelly Wroblewski, MPH, MT(ASCP), APHL Director of the Infectious Diseases Program, will present an overview of how partners share critical and timely data to support the influenza surveillance system.

In the fourth session of this year’s Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, “Twinning and Sharing Best Practices: Regional Partnerships,” we are excited to bring you short case studies featuring regional consortia (RCs) of public health laboratories sharing best practices, shared experiences of twinned laboratory partners (representing MO, Ml, and AK public health laboratories), and presentation of a large-scale regional Biosafety Training for both clinical and public health partners conducted by the Northeast Regional Consortia.

During the third session of this year’s Building Bridges series, Dr. Angel Fritzinger, Ph.D. will share a case study on the Virginia Commonwealth University/VA Public Health Laboratory collaborative training program for clinical laboratory partners interested in entering public health. Dr. Karen Honeycutt, Ph.D. MEd, MASCP, MLS(ASCP) will highlight the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s MLS program that supports unique educational partnerships to stretch the reach of their MLS training. Finally, Dr. Kelly Winter, Ph.D. MPH will wrap-up the session with a case study on the innovative and collaborative effort of CDC’s OneLab Initiative and its paired open access learning management

During the second session of this year’s Building Bridges series Dr. Dana Powell Baker, Ed.D., MBA, MS, MLS(ASCP), will share a case study about laboratory outreach efforts in underserved communities, and Drs. Marilyn Bibbs Freeman, Ph.D., M(ASCP) and Cliff Sullivan MD, F(ACHI), FASCP will discuss how medical professional societies can help support DE&I initiatives for patients and their members.

In the inaugural session of this year’s Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, “Responding to Emerging Outbreaks: Sharing the Load among Laboratory System Partners,” Dr. Christine Bean, PhD, MBA, MLS(ASCP) shared a case study about collaborative approaches to tackling a New Hampshire HCV outbreak, and Dr. Rodney E. Rohde, PhD, MS, SM(ASCP)CM, SVCM, MBCM, FACSc, Global Fellow discussed the multidisciplinary effort to launch a large-scale oral Rabies vaccination program for wildlife in Texas.

In this fourth session of the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, ASCP, and CDC are excited to bring you a case study featuring Suzanne Dale, Ph.D., D(ABMM) on how the Labcorp team worked closely with the CDC and FDA to validate and scale high-throughput testing platforms to response to the emergence of mpox during the summer of 2022. Reference labs are uniquely suited to rapidly increase testing capacity and access to laboratory testing to support public health responses. In addition, the large amount of data generated from high-throughput testing for infectious diseases can provide real-time insights on the

In this 3rd session of the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, we are excited to bring you a case study featuring collaborations in support of the CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System. Wastewater Surveillance has been used since the 1960s to identify communities with polio transmission. During the COVID pandemic, this surveillance approach was modified to detect infection trends. Wastewater data is a leading indicator of increases and decreases in COVID and is used to inform public health messaging, resource allocation and personal decisions, like masking and travel.