Laboratories on the Front Lines: Battling COVID-19

As COVID-19 arrived in the United States, ASCP rapidly developed a plan to showcase the behind-the scenes work that our professionals and their laboratories across the nation are doing to care for our population. A docuseries was planned and ASCP CEO E. Blair Holladay, PhD, MASCP, SCT(ASCP)^CM traveled to several sites and highlighted the work of our members.

The sites included NorthShore University Health System with Karen Kaul, MD, PhD, FASCP; Cleveland Clinic with Gary Procop, MD, MASCP, and Brian Rubin, MD, PhD; University of Washington with Geoffrey Baird, MD, PhD, FASCP, Interim Chair of Pathology, Alex Greninger, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Virology, and many other UW leaders; UCLA Health System with Alyssa Ziman, MD, Omai Garner, PhD, MT(ASCP), Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Lee Hilborne, MD, MPH, FASCP, DLM, and laboratory professional Stephanie Horiuchi, MLS, SM(ASCP); and University of Nebraska Medical Center with Peter Iwen, PhD, SM(ASCP), and Amanda Bartling, MS, molecular laboratory technologist, and Steven Hinrichs, MD, FASCP, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology and Microbiology and Director of Microbiology and Virology.

View the docuseries here. 

Other articles in the March 2020 Special ePolicy News:

• ASCP, Lab Community Secure Regulatory Flexibility to Allow Remote Pathology Services
• Historic $2 Trillion Stimulus Bill Approved, Big Impact on Labs




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