Battling COVID-19

Episode 5 Part 2 - University of Nebraska Medical Center

In the second part of a two-part episode featuring interviews with laboratory experts from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha, Nebraska, we continue to cover the work medical laboratories are doing to combat COVID-19. ASCP CEO Dr. E. Blair Holladay speaks with Dr. Steven Hinrichs, Chair of the Department of Pathology and Microbiology, about the relationship between the University and State that led to the development of the unique biocontainment facility housed on the University’s campus. They also talk about the critical role that laboratory science is playing to fight this pandemic.

Episode 5 Part 1 - University of Nebraska Medical Center

As ASCP continues our series covering the work medical laboratories are doing to combat COVID-19, we visit the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha, Nebraska. In the first of a two-part episode, ASCP CEO Dr. E. Blair Holladay speaks with Dr. Peter Iwen, Director of the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory, housed on the University’s campus. Dr. Iwen and Amanda Bartling, molecular laboratory technologist, give us an extraordinary, behind the scenes look inside this unique biocontainment laboratory and how samples are tested for the novel coronavirus.

Episode 4 Part 2 - UCLA Health System

In the second part of our interviews from UCLA Health System, ASCP CEO Dr. E. Blair Holladay speaks with clinical microbiologist Stephanie Horiuchi about how rewarding it is to be working behind the scenes to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic head-on and support patients who are battling COVID-19. Meanwhile, ASCP Past President Dr. Lee Hilborne, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, talks about the importance of having a strong laboratory infrastructure in order to protect people across the country.

Episode 4 Part 1- UCLA Health System

In the first part of a two-part episode speaking to UCLA laboratory experts, learn about how clinical laboratories are working to meet the needs of patients who need diagnostic testing and support the health systems as best they can. Dr. Alyssa Ziman and Omai Garner talk with ASCP CEO Dr. E. Blair Holladay about how clinical laboratories have stepped up during this extremely challenging time to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Episode 3 Part 2- University of Washington

Episode 3 Part 1- University of Washington

Epsiode 2 - Cleveland Clinic

Episode 1 - NorthShore University HealthSystem