Topic: 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.

Faculty:

• Kirsten Larson, MPH
  Manager, Food Safety
  Association of Public Health Laboratories
  
• Kelly Wroblewski, MPH, MT(ASCP)
  Director, Infectious Disease Programs
  Association of Public Health Laboratories
  

Topic: 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.

Faculty:

• Lorelei J. Kurimski, MS
  Director, Quality Systems and Analytics
  Association of Public Health Laboratories
  
• Bertina Su, MPH
  Manager, Quality Systems and Analytics
  Association of Public Health Laboratories
  
• Ryan Bernard, MBA
  Administration Manager
  Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
  
• John Laurance IV
  Select Agent Program RO, Biosafety Officer
  Division of Public Health, State of Alaska
• Jason Wholehan, MLS(ASCP)
  Bioterrorism Training Coordinator
  Michigan Department of Health & Human Services
  
• Christine Bean, PhD, MBA, MLS(ASCP
  Chief Learning Officer
  Association of Public Health Laboratories
  
• Jill Power, MS, M(ASCP), CMQ/OE(ASQ)
  Deputy Director (ret.)
  NH Public Health Laboratories, Concord, NH
  

Topic: 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 system, OneLab REACH, which provides a centralized location for lab pros to access emerging training resources to support lab capacity building and preparedness efforts.

Faculty:

• Angela Fritzinger, Ph.D.
  Scientist Manager (Contractor)
  Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
  
• Karen Honeycutt, Ph.D. MEd, MASCP, MLS(ASCP)
  Program Director, Medical Laboratory Science Program
  University of Nebraska Medical Center
  
• Kelly Winter, Ph.D. MPH
  Chief, Training and Workforce Development Branch
  Division of Laboratory Systems
  Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS)
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  

Topic: 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.

Faculty:

• Dana Powell Baker, Ed.D., MBA, MS, MLS(ASCP)
  Manager, Academic Partnerships
  Association of Public Health Laboratories
  
• Marilyn Bibbs Freeman, Ph. D., M(ASCP)
  Deputy Director, Department of General Services
  Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
  
• H. Cliff Sullivan MD, F(ACHI), FASCP
  Laboratory Director, Cellular Therapy Laboratory
  Co-Director, HLA Laboratory
  Emory University
  

Topic: 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.

Faculty:

• Christine Bean, PhD, MBA, MLS(ASCP)
  Chief Learning Officer, Association of Public Health Laboratories;
  Former Laboratory Director, New Hampshire Public Health Laboratories
• Rodney Rohde, PhD, SM(ASCP)^CM, SV^CM, MB^CM, FACSc
  Global Fellow; Professor and Chair of Medical Laboratory Science Program
  Texas State University

Topic: In this second session of the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, ASCP and CDC are excited to bring you a case study featuring Juan Gomez, Ph.D. on how his team re-purposed existing and idle 3D printers at Texas State University to produce nasal swabs in support of the City of Austin’s COVID-19 testing response. This innovative strategy helped to locally address the widespread supply chain bottleneck involving access to nasal swab observed early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Gomez will share his experience collaborating with the city and other academic centers to support this effort as well as successes, challenges, and lessons learned to better inform future public health emergency response supply chain manufacturing and management.

Faculty:

• Juan Gomez, Ph.D.
  Research Associate; Department of Physics – Shared Research Operations; Texas State University

Topic: The New York State Laboratory Leadership Consortium, presenting on their mobilization to exchange laboratory best practices at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to support local COVID-19 testing and emergency responses and subsequently to collectively impact state-wide policies affecting laboratory licensure for laboratory professionals in New York.

Faculty:

• Jim Crawford, MD
  Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hofstra/Northwell Health
• John Tomaszewski, MD
  Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Buffalo
• Jenny Libien, MD
  Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, SUNY Downstate
• Eloise Aita, PhD
  President, New York State Clinical Laboratory Association
• Kenra Ford
  Vice President of Clinical Services Operations, NYC Health and Hospitals