Nominate Your Laboratory Team to be an ASCP Choosing Wisely Champion! Apply by April 30

ASCP’s Choosing Wisely Champions program is seeking to recognize successful laboratory-related initiatives by pathologists, laboratory professionals, individual clinicians, and clinical teams for their commitment to the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely Campaign. The deadline to apply is April 30.  The ASCP will select three Champions to present at the ASCP 2022 Annual Meeting, Sept. 7-9, in Chicago, IL.  

Since ASCP joined the Choosing Wisely campaign in 2013, members have been advancing its ideals intended to encourage clinicians and patients to question which tests are medically necessary. Effective test utilization reduces test overuse and improves the nation’s healthcare system.

If you are interested nominating an organization, team or individual (including your own) as one of ASCP’s 2022 Choosing Wisely Champion, consider these criteria for selection:

• Advanced Choosing Wisely in their practice
• Contributed in the development of Society recommendations
• Helped educate Society members about Choosing Wisely and/or recommendations
• Conducted measurement of recommendations
• Validated research of importance of recommendations
• Demonstrated leadership of a localized Choosing Wisely effort
• Served as a spokesperson for the Society or campaign

Nominations must include a brief description (300 words maximum) of how laboratory medicine Choosing Wisely recommendations have been implemented and include specifics (e.g., objective performance improvement data) regarding how those contributions have already advanced the goals of the campaign. Because Choosing Wisely is focused on evidence based findings, submissions must include relevant supporting data, metrics, articles, and impact reports. Applications not showing specific findings and impact will not be further considered. Finalists are selected based on the responses to the criteria listed above and the impact discussed.

The deadline for submitting nominations is April 30, 2022. Please submit all materials to Edna Garcia, MPH, Director, Scientific Engagement and Research, ASCP Institute of Science, Technology and Policy, at edna.garcia@ascp.org.