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Tammy Fletcher, Business Intelligence Manager for Mayo Medical Laboratories, has earned a fellowship designation from the American College of Health Care Executives and is now recognized as board-certified in health care management.

William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and President of Mayo Medical Laboratories, has been selected as a keynote speaker this year's Executive War College, being held May 1–3 in New Orleans.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights a model for predicting breast cancer risk in women with atypical hyperplasia.

For people with encephalitis, rapid treatment of their acute brain inflammation is critical for avoiding devastating physical and cognitive deficits. But appropriate treatment requires identifying the culprit causing the symptoms.

We wrapped up another fun National Medical Laboratory Professionals' Week with a door-decorating contest and, of course, treats. View this post to see all of the door submissions, and the winner!

R. Ross Reichard, M.D., Medical Director of the Office of Decedent Affairs at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Chair of the CAP Forensic Pathology Committee, comments on the opioid crisis in CAP Today.

Mike Baisch, Principal Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses staffing to workload in phlebotomy areas with a focus on "on-site operational needs," which is defined as "staff effort that does not deal directly with patients or their samples, or with the indirect tasks needed to support those patient-care efforts."

Elitza Theel, Ph.D., Director of the Infectious Diseases Serology Laboratory, Co-Director of the Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory, and Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and her team at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, were recently interviewed by CAP Today about tuberculosis testing.

Karen Fritchie, M.D., and Dong Chen, M.D., Ph.D., were recently selected as recipients of the 2018 Pathology Teacher of the Year Award from the Mayo Fellows’ Association.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights different mutational rates and mechanisms in human cells at pregastrulation and neurogenesis.

Multiple Mayo Clinic locations have received national recognition for their sustainability efforts through Practice Greenhealth, a national organization dedicated to reducing health care’s impact on the environment. The annual awards recognize health care organizations that have implemented programs to improve environmental performance and continuously work toward higher sustainability goals.

Elizabeth Gamache, a student in Mayo Clinic’s Medical Laboratory Science class of 2018, discusses the 2018's class impending graduation and what they have to look forward to afterward.

Regional Health has selected Mayo Medical Laboratories as its primary reference laboratory. The agreement provides Regional Health Rapid City Hospital physicians and caregivers with access to Mayo Clinic’s extensive menu of more than 4,000 laboratory tests in every subspecialty of medicine.