Short Topics

The short topics below are thirty minutes or less, and provided as an education opportunity and resource for laboratory professionals.

*Please note: Our short topics do not provide continuing education credits.

Spotlight on Test Utilization:
Clinical Performance Comparison of FDA-Cleared HPV Tests by Robert Schlaberg, MD, MPH
Spotlight on Test Utilization:
HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening by Robert Schlaberg, MD, MPH
Spotlight on Test Utilization:
Arsenic Fractionation by Frederick Strathmann, PhD, DABCC (CC,TC)
Spotlight on Testing:
Warfarin Pharmacogenetics by Gwendolyn A. McMillin, PhD
Spotlight on Testing Technologies:
Technologies Used for Drug Testing by Gwendolyn A. McMillin, PhD
Spotlight on Testing:
Drug Testing with Umbilical Cord Tissue by Gwendolyn A. McMillin, PhD
Test Utilization:
Appropriate Utilization of Drug Tests for Pain Management Patients by Gwendolyn A. McMillin, PhD
Painweek Booth Presentation:
Strategies to Detect and Prevent Adulteration and Substitution in Urine Drug Testing by Kamisha Johnson-Davis, PhD, DABCC
Painweek Booth Presentation:
Managing Costs Associated with Chronic Pain by Early Detection of Nonadherence & Cost-conscious Urine Drug Monitoring by Gordon Nelson, C(ASCP), NRCC-TC
AACC Booth Presentation:
Utility of Anti-Müllerian Hormone as a Marker of Ovarian Reserve by Joely A. Straseski, PhD
AACC Booth Presentation:
Roles of the Clinical Laboratory in Pain Management by Gwendolyn A McMillin, PhD
AACC Booth Presentation:
Analysis Approaches for the Clinical Exome by Elaine Lyon, PhD
AACC Booth Presentation:
Gastrointestinal Polyposes and Cancer Syndromes: Pathologic and Genetic Diagnosis by Mary Bronner, MD
APS Booth Presentation:
Cost-effective Utilization of Urine Drug Testing for Chronic Pain Management Patients by Gordon Nelson, C(ASCP), NRCC-TC
APS Booth Presentation:
A Novel Approach to Drug Screening with Blood by Gwendolyn A. McMillin, PhD
APS Booth Presentation:
Patterns of Opioid Metabolites in Urine - the Buprenorphine story by Gwendolyn A. McMillin, PhD
Test Utilization:
Improving ordering practices for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori by Marc Roger Couturier, PhD
Test Utilization:
The Changing Landscape of Fetal Lung Maturity Testing by David G. Grenache, PhD
Discussions on Test Utilization:
Should the Qualitative Serum Pregnancy Test Be Considered Obsolete? by David G. Grenache, PhD and Larissa V. Furtado, MD
Test Utilization:
Inherited Thrombophilia Testing: Pros and Cons by George M. Rodgers, MD, PhD and Kristi J. Smock, MD