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A century ago marked a critical time for Mayo Clinic. By every measure, the organization was successful. Yet William J. Mayo, M.D., was at a crossroads, with a mounting sense of pressure. He and his brother, Charles H. Mayo, M.D., faced a question that confronts many entrepreneurs: What will happen when I retire or die?

The "Mpls-St Paul" magazine article highlights 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, and her research on ticks and parasites.

Bobbi Pritt, M.D., spends her work hours identifying and diagnosing infectious diseases. In her free time, she celebrates their beauty by creating bug-related artwork and blogging about parasites.

Brian Rognholt says his Mayo Clinic training helped him to keep his cool when he competed on "Forged in Fire," a History Channel reality series.

On June 13, a ceremony was held in honor of 38 graduating Mayo Clinic Residency and Fellowship Program trainees. Program directors, associate program directors, consultants, and education staff celebrated the tremendous accomplishments of the graduates.

When Bernard van der Steen, a hotel and food industry entrepreneur from California, was a patient at Saint Marys Hospital in 1968, he established a fund that supports patients with cancer who have financial needs. Since its inception, the Bernard H. van der Steen Trust has provided more than $17 million to patients with financial needs who receive treatment for cancer at Mayo Clinic's Arizona and Rochester campuses.

Joseph Grande, M.D., Ph.D., was recently awarded the 2018 Teacher of the Year Award for basic science education from the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine.

Jeff Meeusen, Ph.D., Co-Director of Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine, recently had his paper, “Plasma Ceramides—A Novel Predictor of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events after Coronary Angiography” accepted by the peer-reviewed journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB), part of the American Heart Association’s group of journals.

For Sharon Preuss, Education Manager at Mayo Medical Laboratories in Rochester and winner of the title of "Blood Donor of the Month" this past February, a space at the entrance of her building, the Superior Drive Support Center, helped stave off Old Man Winter.

The Doctors Mayo and Sisters of St. Francis created a unique model of teamwork in service to patients, which continues today.

Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., has been elected President of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology. Dr. Binnicker will serve a two-year term beginning in 2020.

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has awarded a Translation Research Program grant to Andrew Feldman, M.D., for his work, “Biomarker-Based Strategies for Personalized Therapy of ALK-Negative Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma.”

Jane Hermansen, Outreach and Network Manager at Mayo Medical Laboratories in Rochester, Minnesota, recently authored an article featured in MedicalLab Management on integrating laboratory outreach across the health system.