Answers from the Lab

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 a recent report to Congress that outlined potential laboratory fee reimbursement changes, and what that could mean...

(00:32) Dr. Dubey, could you just tell the audience a little bit about yourself and your background? (01:56)  No one knows (better) what tests are necessary for these auto-immune patients than our lab directors who are doing really both things, seeing patients and working in the lab, so I think that's a really unique thing we want to highlight, right?   (03:11)  Can you maybe describe a little bit...

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 where the pandemic stands now, and discuss concerns that continue to linger regarding COVID-19 and other respiratory...

Sanjeev Sethi, M.D., Ph. D., explains Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ newly developed test to detect neural epidermal growth factor-like 1 protein (NELL-1), a biomarker for membranous nephropathy (MN). The immunohistochemistry assay examines tissue samples for NELL-1 antigen, which are found in 10% to 15% of MN patients. Discovered by Dr. Sethi in 2017, NELL-1 is the second most common antigen associate...

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 update. In this episode, Dr. Morice explains his dual leadership role and how engaging in the business of a reference laboratory informs his work within academic medicine.

(00:31): But before we get started, Dr. Pritt, could you provide our listeners with a little bit about you and your background?   (01:22): Can you provide a brief overview and intended use of this testing?   (03:16): Could you describe what clinical action is enabled by the results of this test?   (05:31): Now let's discuss which patients should have this testing and when should it be performed?’...

(00:31): Before we get started, Dr. Halling, could you provide us with a little bit about you and your background?   (01:11): Would you like to give us a basic summary of this test? (02:43): So in talking about patients, can you tell us which patients should have this testing? And when it is typically performed?   (05:01): Do you want to talk about some of the guidelines that were used to shape th...

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, hosts this episode of the "Answers From the Lab" podcast. He’s joined by Gianluca Pettiti, senior vice president and president of specialty diagnostics at Thermo Fisher Scientific to discuss their organizations’ collaboration and its value for pati...

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 future of laboratory medicine in a post-pandemic world.

(00:32): Before we get started, I'm really interested, could you give me a little bit of background on yourself and, uh, just where you work at Mayo Clinic?   (01:31): So before we start talking about the tests, can you just tell me a little bit about TMA and in that disease state itself?   (03:08): As we talk very specifically about this testing, so can you give me a brief overview of the assays...

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 Mayo Clinic Laboratories, review its history, and describe how its work furthers Mayo Clinic’s mission.

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., reflect on the dramatic advances that have taken place in laboratory medicine during the pandemic and what those changes m...

(00:41)  Before we get started talking about the panels, Dr. McKeon, could you provide a little background about yourself and your role here at Mayo Clinic?   (01:23)  I think it's important for our audience to know that you're both seeing patients and working in the lab, which helps us at Mayo Clinic to have a real understanding of what patients and physicians need to get an accurate diagnosis. I...

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 safety of COVID-19 vaccines in light of the recent pause in distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

(00:55)  Can you tell us what you've been working on since last May?   (03:19)  How many assays did you end up validating just for detection of that single virus?    (04:36)  How many specimens at the peak of the pandemic were you able to test in one day?     (05:29)  So can you tell us a little bit more about this test that you're using for sequencing?    (08:18)  How would a clinician who orders...

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 vaccine passports. They review how proof of vaccination could be used along with other tools, like testing, to hel...

(00:34) I'm joined here today by Dr. Chris Klein. Sir, would you mind introducing yourself to our audience and telling them a little bit about your background?   (1:19) I don't want this to be a review of the paper, sir, but could you just give maybe a recap of one or some of the key takeaways?   (5:59) It was one of the first tests discovered, but we're not satisfied with the status quo and we co...

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 current rate of COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S. and address common questions about the vaccines.

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., take a look at issues contributing to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. They address common myths surrounding the vaccines and d...

William Morice II, M.D., Ph. D., joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. This week, Dr. Morice talks with Bobbi Pritt, M.D., about his career and the path he took to his current role as chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories.

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. March is Women's History Month, and in this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., mark the occasion by discussing the legacy of female leaders 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., consider how laboratory medicine will continue to evolve to meet health care needs beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 changing face of laboratory medicine in the time of COVID-19.

(00:43)  Could you please provide us with a little background on yourself, sir?     (01:05)  So Dr. McKeon, can you just give us a brief overview on what this test is?   (02:18)  And you mentioned the CRMP-5 antibody and recoverin antibody. Are those the only two antibodies involved in this particular evaluation?   (02:43)  So those two antibodies, are they both tested up front ? And then, if so,...

Matthew Binnicker, Ph. D., vice chair of practice for Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, joins William Morice II, M.D., Ph. D., president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, for this week's "Answers From the Lab" leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Binnicker and Dr. Morice discuss the impact that emerging COVID-19 variants could have on virus testing, vaccine and spread.