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Mayo Clinic exercise researcher Michael Joyner, M.D., and his colleagues are tackling questions about oxygen saturation at high altitudes to understand key aspects of physiology.

Pat Hlavka, CSP, Safety Coordinator at Mayo Clinic, talks about the importance of National Stop The Bleed Day, a national awareness campaign about the top cause of preventable death in trauma.

Mayo Laboratory Inquiry (MLI) has been named a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal for the seventh year in a row. MLI was also named a Top Contact Center and took home the top honors in the "Lowest Average Speed of Answer" category.

A breakthrough in pathology, achieved more than a century ago (allegedly on a frozen window ledge in Rochester, Minnesota) has evolved into an innovative aspect of care at Mayo Clinic. Mayo is one of the only medical centers in the United States to routinely use a tissue-freezing process that provides analysis of tissue samples while the patient is still in the operating room.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the development of a microscopic colitis disease activity index.

Mike Baisch, Principal Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses staffing to workload in phlebotomy areas with a focus on indirect effort, which includes tasks performed that don’t involve the patient or a patient’s sample.

Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Parasitology Laboratory and Co-Director of the Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory within the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, is the editor of a new infectious disease guide, entitled, Atlas of Fundamental Infectious Diseases Histopathology: A Guide for Daily Practice.

At the annual meeting of the Association for Molecular Pathology this past November, Joseph Maleszewski, M.D., a cardiovascular pathologist and Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, presented about phenotypes and genotypes in the understanding and diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. He spoke with CAP Today further about gene testing in cardiomyopathy analysis.

On Thursday, March 15, Mayo Clinic put out a call to all of its Rochester area staff members for blood donations. Justin Kreuter, M.D., Medical Director of Mayo’s Blood Donor Program, commented on the urgent call.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., Clinical Pathologist and Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and Theresa Malin, an Education Specialist in Transfusion Medicine at Mayo Clinic, have launched “Transfusion Toons” as an innovative approach to teaching and learning transfusion medicine. View this post to see the new toon.

In a recent article in Medical Lab Management, Darci Block, Ph.D., Director of Laboratory Services and Co-Director of the Central Clinical Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses how to establish and maintain a compliant body fluid testing program.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights cardiovascular concerns in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.

Jeff Meeusen, Ph.D., Co-Director of Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, provides a clinical update on ceramides.