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Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community Webinar Series

The 2026 series is focused on strengthening communication across the laboratory profession and the broader healthcare system. Through practical strategies and real-world examples, participants will learn how to enhance advocacy, build collaborative partnerships, and elevate the visibility of the laboratory’s essential contributions.

Each 90-minute webinar features subject matter experts, actionable insights, and moderated discussion and is eligible for 1.5 CMLE credits. A single registration provides access to the full webinar series.

2026 Schedule

  • March 11: Fighting Misinformation in the Public Sphere
  • April 22: Professional Identity
  • May 20: Making the Lab’s Value Heard in the C-Suite
  • June 17: Collaboration in Action
  • July 22: Empowering Patients and Families
  • August 19: Bridging the Generational Divide
  • September 16: Advocating for Labs on Capitol Hill

Past Webinar Series

Since 2023, the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community webinar series has highlighted and identified opportunities for collaboration and partnership (“building bridges”) across the laboratory community.

These webinars were made possible through Cooperative Agreement number CDC-RFA-OE22-2202 (CFDA No. 93.322), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Career Map Template

Download a blank version of the career map template used by panelists during the 2025 Building Bridges series, as you promote your own career journeys and the laboratory profession!

Training Resources

Job Aid: Aligning Your Lab Team: Leveraging Personnel Strengths to Support Your Lab

General guidance to better match the supportive tasks in your laboratory with the personal interests and inclinations of your team.

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Aligning with Your Lab Team Quiz

This quick, interactive logic-based quiz, designed both for use by laboratory leaders and laboratory team members, considers self-identified skills and preferences and shares suggestions on supporting laboratory tasks that may be of interest to you.

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This CMLE-bearing series dives into the core building blocks of medical laboratory work (Laboratory Safety, Laboratory Terminology, Laboratory Math, Basic Operations of Laboratory Equipment, Routine Procedures, and Quality Control) to empower new lab team members with essential knowledge.

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Phlebotomists and lab team members are encouraged to take this free eLearning course to increase their knowledge, skills, and competence in applying best practices for adult blood culture collection in clinical laboratories.

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This case-based educational activity is designed to help clinical laboratory directors, clinical laboratory managers, and laboratory professionals increase the knowledge, skills, and competence in effective test utilization best practices for clinical laboratory settings.

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Check out this new job aid on how to boost efficiency, streamline administrative tasks, and enhance your laboratory management workflows using large language models (LLMs).

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The Negotiation & Advocacy Toolbox aims to provide clinical laboratory directors with adaptable and practical tools to help demonstrate the value of their laboratories to C-Suite and hospital administration.

This comprehensive and evolving Toolbox includes 100+ templates, tools, presentations, guides, and vetted resources developed or recommended by ASCP members. These resources are divided into the 5 pillars of content shown here.

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Learn strategies to mitigate supply chain issues and reduce unnecessary supply consumption.

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