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The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees announced on August 10 that it has elected Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., Vice President and CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida to succeed John Noseworthy, M.D., as president and CEO of Mayo Clinic. Dr. Noseworthy remains President and CEO through his retirement at the end of the year. Drs. Noseworthy and Farrugia will work closely together through this period of transition.

At the 2018 American Association for Clinical Chemistry annual meeting in Chicago, Mayo Clinic experts discussed how laboratories can stay viable and competitive under the reimbursement model.

Mayo Clinic carves out a section of its History of Medicine Library for part of recovering bibliophile's collection and renames the library in his honor.

The Washington Post recently reported on hookworms burrowing into a teenager's skin during a trip to Florida. Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Lab and Co-Director of Vector-Borne Diseases Lab Services at Mayo Clinic, commented on the two main types of hookworm: human hookworms and animal, or "zoonotic," hookworms.

Andrew McKeon, M.D., M.B., B.Ch., and Sean J. Pittock, M.D., neurologists and co-directors of the Mayo Clinic Neuroimmunology Laboratory in Rochester, Minnesota, answer questions about Mayo Clinic's new test.

Darci Block, Ph.D., Director of Laboratory Services and Co-Director of the Central Clinical Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, and Nikki Baumann, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Central Clinical Laboratory and Director of the Central Processing Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, were recently published in "Clinical Biochemistry" for their manuscript, “An Approach to Analytical Validation and Testing of Body Fluid Assays for the Automated Clinical Laboratory.”

A birthday concert in honor of Sister Lauren Weinandt's 97th birthday was a special coda ahead of a major restoration and refurbishing of the carillon in Rochester.

Allan Jaffe, M.D., Consultant and Chair of Mayo Clinic’s Division of Clinical Core Laboratory Services, and Loralie Langman, Ph.D., Consultant in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo, were recipients of this year's AACC Annual Scientific Meeting honors.

Minetta Liu, M.D., an oncologist at Mayo Clinic, answered a reader's question in Mayo Clinic's "Q and A" about liquid biopsies. The question was, "What is a liquid biopsy? Can it be used in place of a tumor biopsy to find cancer?"

In Rochester, the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital was building a reputation as a regional referral center. Take a step back to 1975 by reading this article from the February issue of Mayovox.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society for Microbiology recently released a new guidebook for laboratories, A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2018 Update. The guide lists five Mayo Clinic physician/scientists as contributing authors.

The American Society for Clinical Pathology has announced the 2018 “40 under Forty" honorees. This year’s list features Kara Hansing, Program Director for the Cytotechnology Program at Mayo Clinic.

On a recent tick drag with Minnesota Department of Health researchers, Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Lab and Co-Director of Vector-Borne Diseases Lab Services in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology, talked about testing for tick-borne diseases.