Lab Medicine Rounds

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:23 Why is health equity important for laboratory medicine and pathology? 03:13 What are we learning about how as a laboratory we may better advocate for health equity?  05:27 What’s the nuance there that we need to grapple with, not just more testing but better testing? 08:30 Are there examples of how we can do this better from other professions that we can learn from? ...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:32 From your points of view, why do you think it’s important to start a pathology interest group? 07:24 What are some important elements that you think are important for a successful interest group in your experience? 11:24 Is there one or two activities that really stands out that’s been perceived as the most valuable and best experiences so far? 13:18 Has there been an...

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Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:05 From your perspective, why is interprofessional education an important for us clinicians, lab medicine colleagues, and students? 04:18 What are a few of those key lessons that you’ve learned about how to do this interprofessional education? 07:15 How do you think we make it a meaningful experience for the students?  10:37 What sort of approach do you take to feedback,...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:00 Why is it important to respond with grace while we’re under pressure? 03:36 How do you think you develop this ability to project poise when in stressful situations? 05:33 Was there a mentor, situation, or experience where it gave you pause and made you think, “Wow, that’s somebody that really showed grace under pressure and leadership abilities.” Is there anybody in y...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:05 How did you first get interested in supporting organ transplantation?  04:53 What are the organs that we can transplant? 06:00 When we are at the Department of Motor Vehicles, we can register as a donor and make our wishes known to our family, is that right? 07:03 If people are interesting in donating a kidney, for example, do they reach out to their local hospital an...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:24 Why does clinical context matter for what test clinicians order? 08:41 What determines what kind of test to order? 13:07 How does the communication happen between the lab and the clinician? How should it happen to provide best care for the patient? 18:21 What do you think about for the future of ordering laboratory tests?  21:59 Outro

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:48 What’s your origin story? How did you get interested in medical school education? 06:18 What are we learning about better ways to educate?  13:42 How can faculty make it a safe environment? How can we get students to give it a try? 16:25 How do you bring about and navigate curricular change? 20:15 Was there something that you did that prepared you for this role? Is th...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:07 Why is it so challenging to ask questions in an interview? 03:19 Can you go over what are a few aspects that somebody can ask about? 04:41 What was your process when you made your list, that cheat sheet, the actual how we’re doing of formulating a question. What was your approach there? 05:54 Are there any interesting questions you’ve gotten from applicants over the y...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:22 Why is it important for labs to learn from their COVID-19 experiences? 05:34 Did you have any other lessons learned from this experience? 8:31 How are these meetings focused on maintaining a high quality? How did you manage the rest of your workload (developing new tests, etc.)? 12:51 Have some of those lessons from the experience of how those meetings were run, is th...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:02 What are a few of the potential risks and benefits of using social media as a professional? Why should I be doing this and thinking about it? 03:31 People can adjust their privacy settings on social media, so why is it important for healthcare professionals and students to behave professionally on social media?  06:08 Some might say that there are several shades of gr...

In this episode of Lab Medicine Rounds, Chris Hartley, M.D., Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, discusses the topic of cytopathology, and what some of the challenges and advancements are.

Disclosure of relevant financial relationship: Dr. Mazepa received honoraria from Sanofi. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:52 Why is it important for physicians to have some understanding about TTP? 04:26 What’s new in this immune TTP area? 08:57 If you have a new patient show up, you do caplacizumab and plasma exchange together or are there certain patient populations, like certain characteristics who...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:43 Why is it important for physicians to understand about the reversal of these direct oral anticoagulants? 03:09 The complications or the bleed rate was a lot less, with these direct oral anticoagulants? 03:57 Although there is less severe bleeding, there was a concern by patients and physicians about, if it is severe, what is the plan?  04:51 What have we learned new?...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:10 Why is reference laboratory testing important for physicians and laboratorians to understand? 02:00 No lab does all the testing in their own laboratory. Labs can’t really have a whole panel of laboratory tests; it just doesn’t make sense, right? 04:39 What have we learned in the last couple years about reference laboratories, how we can best support clinical practice?...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:15 Why are external rotations in pathology important from the student perspective? 03:51 Do you get to understand the particulars of a program or maybe what kind of questions you might be asking when you later interview because you do a rotation?  05:03 What is unique from an international perspective?  07:53 Can you compare and contrast the in-person pathology elective,...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:44 With this latest outbreak of the Delta variant with COVID-19, are laboratorians still working on new innovations for COVID? 02:23 Could you go into more detail, elaborate for us about this COVID-19 innovation around sequencing?  04:25 Could you help us understand a little bit on what work is being done in those areas?  07:47 Could you help our audience understand what...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:05 From your perspective, why is the blood inventory important to a hospital? 04:17 What have you learned about managing a hospital’s blood inventory these past 18 months or so? 08:09 I was wondering if you could give us a specific example on how are they trying to bridge that gap?  08:55 Can you explain who the Dream Team is? 12:34 How does PVM look different on the hos...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:15 Why is it not enough for learners just to focus on the curriculum of their program? 04:30 What are two or three things that learners should pay attention to during their training? 07:19 Paying attention to the habits of our mentors and understanding that those habits are what is reassuring them, that is a key source for their confidence in their clinical practice. Wha...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:19 Could you help us understand, why should I consider getting an ethics consult? What value could this bring to my clinical practice? 07:49 What should our audience understand in order to really work better with our local med ethics team? 13:58 Could you help us understand about organizational ethics? How does that compare and contrast with that hospital ethics committe...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:45 Why is it important to perform molecular testing on solid tumors? 02:47 What is the significance of this testing for the patients and physicians? 07:18 Can you share with us, what are some recent examples that have blown this door open about hereditary oncology? 10:28 Can you talk a little bit about the challenge on how do we get the rapid rise in molecular knowledge...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:11 What are frozen sections, and why are they an important part of patient care? 04:50 What are some of the challenges of actually performing a frozen section diagnosis? 07:03 How has frozen section changed in recent years, or over the course of practice? Has it been practiced similarly over the years, and are there differences in frozen section practice in different hos...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:00 How does the cardiovascular laboratory support patient care? 01:47 Can you tell us a bit about ceramides? What are they? 04:14 When should ceramides be tested?  06:04 Can you modify someone’s ceramides such that the test can be repeated and monitored, or is it once in a lifetime because ceramides or more static? 08:05 What is the controversary around ceramides?  09:52...

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:00 Can you give us the lay of the land and explain how does the cardiovascular laboratory provide patient care? 03:24 Can you elaborate for us what it looks like when you have clinical chemists, cardiologists, and other professionals with different backgrounds working together? 05:56 Can you talk about bringing these people into the laboratory and developing a test that...

00:00 Intro 01:15 What’s your origin story? How did you become a forensic pathologist? 03:53 What are some of the misconceptions about forensic pathology? 06:15 Is there a big public health component to forensic pathology? 07:29 Covid is a nice example on how you have partnered with public health, can you elaborate more on that?   10:15 What other types of physicians are you interacting with perio...