Lab Medicine Rounds

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., speaks with Robert Michel, editor-in-chief of The Dark Report, an intelligence service and publication that provides economic and strategic assessment of the clinical laboratory industry, to provide useful tools for laboratory management. Timestamps:

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., speaks with Beshoi Nashed, a visiting medical student from the Medical University of the Americas in Saint Kitts and Nevis, about his personal perspective on life that has helped him succeed where many others are challenged.   Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 01:08 Where were you first introduced to this no excuses philosophy perspective, and w...

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., speaks with Dr. Nour Al-Mozain, a hematopathologist and transfusion medicine consultant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, about the importance of reaching out to colleagues for advice. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 01:05 What are a few of the reasons why you have reached out to colleagues for advice? 02:36 What are...

0:00 Intro 01:04 What is your origin story? How did you come to work in this unique health setting of educating patients? 05:19 What are some of the common ways that you see healthcare really fail to successfully educate patients? 09:59 How do you navigate the complexity of what you’re talking about?  16:12 How do you navigate those situations where the patient doesn’t seem to be understanding the...

Timestamps 0:00 Intro 00:45 Why is workforce stability such an important topic for health care right now? 04:25 What are a couple of the current challenges? Maybe a few with hiring, and then a few with retaining some of these quality employees. 07:17 What are your thoughts about how do you keep your fingers on the pulse of the current needs and interest of the workforce? What’s the way to be a con...

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:46 Why is it important for pathologists to know a thing or two about the legal system? 3:49 Quality practices are something we are all involved in. Can you unpack those a little bit so listeners can think about how they’re engaging in that? 5:05 High probability a physician or pathologist will eventually be involved in a legal proceeding. Tips for if/when that happe...

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 01:54 How did you get started in the field of histocompatibility? 03:44 Was that a mentor that helped you find this new role and pathway, or was there a particular patient that you took care of that opened your eyes to these other possibilities in lab medicine? 05:28 What are a few things that you think healthcare professionals in general should understand about organ transp...

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:37 Why is it important to update multiple myeloma testing? 1:51 Lab testing driving treatment that is being done 3:30 Explanation about multiple myeloma, how testing started, and how it has evolved 6:02 Needing more sensitivity to detect it 7:47 Driving treatment decisions 9:02 What does this look like in practice? 10:57 Minimal residual disease 12:41 Outside of the...

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:40 Non-traditional education for pathologists 11:17 Getting involved 13:41 Self-learning 16:19 Becoming an expert 18:46 Other interests in practice or life 22:05 Importance of completing projects 23:59 Outro 

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:18 What is the difference between marijuana, hemp, THC, and CBD? 2:58 So, is CBD legal in the United States? 4:08 What are the common products you can find CBD in? 4:25 How can CBD impact our health? Especially since it is not regulated. 5:28 You run our drugs of abuse and forensics lab, is this having any effect on the testing you do there? 10:45 For our laboratory...

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Justin Juskewitch, M.D., Ph. D., and Andrew Norgan, M.D., Ph. D., both assistant professors of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic, to talk about informatics for the pathologist.  

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. I...

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 the...

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 y...

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 understa...

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 di...

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 wha...

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...

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 dat...

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...

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...

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 c...

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 labo...

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 get...

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 he...