Leveraging the Laboratory: Vision to Action

Overview

Join us for our annual outreach conference on Sept. 16–17, 2025, in Nashville. This year’s event, “Leveraging the Laboratory: Vision to Action,” offers a wide variety of perspectives pertaining to health system laboratory outreach programs.

You’ll hear from health system executives, industry experts, and hands-on managers about ways to optimize your outreach program and position your organization for success in the ever-changing healthcare environment. You’ll also have access to information about expanding your laboratory’s reach in the community, creating and maintaining strong internal relationships, and carrying out competitive strategies to achieve success with your outreach program. We look forward to helping you and your industry peers learn and grow through networking and discover how to leverage your laboratory.

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Conference Information

Date: Sept. 16–17, 2025

Location: Hilton Nashville Downtown
121 Forth Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee 37201


Note: This program will be in person only and will not be livestreamed.

Presented by: Mayo Clinic Laboratories

Questions: Contact the Education Department at 800-533-1710 or 507-284-3156, or email mcleducation@mayo.edu.

Learning objectives

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:

  • Develop and advance a laboratory outreach strategy. 
  • Establish a competitive advantage. 
  • Refine outreach infrastructure areas.
  • Connect and share best practices with peers.

Intended audience

The intended audience for this conference includes individuals from hospital laboratories, such as administrators and directors, business managers, operations managers, outreach coordinators, phlebotomy managers, marketing representatives, laboratory managers, pathologists, and sales managers.

Agenda

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The agenda is subject to change, and room locations are forthcoming.

Faculty

Course directors

  • Jane Hermansen

Planning committee

  • Ellen Dijkman Dulkes
  • Brianne Newton

Mayo Clinic faculty

  • Michael Baisch
  • Peter Duda
  • Danielle Withers

Guest faculty

  • Dennis Davis
  • Christine Goldman
  • Mike Hiltunen
  • Robert Michel
  • Rochelle Odenbrett
  • Danielle Sloan

Credit

ASCLS P.A.C.E.®

Mayo Clinic Laboratories is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® program. This program has been approved for a maximum of 11 P.A.C.E.® contact hours.

State of Florida

Mayo Clinic Laboratories is approved as a Continuing Education Accrediting Agency for the Clinical Laboratory Sciences for the State of Florida. Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel has designated this program for General credit. This program has been approved for 11 contact hours.

Travel & accommodations

A block of rooms has been secured for participants and their guests with special conference rates at the hotel listed below. Reservations can be made using the link below.

Hilton Nashville Downtown
121 Forth Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee 37201

$299 single/double – Standard  

Group rates will not be available after Monday, Aug. 25, 2025.

Registration

The cost to attend the full two-day conference is $650. A single-day registration option is available for $325. Costs incurred by the registrant, such as airline or hotel fees or penalties, are the responsibility of the registrant.

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Cancellation policy

If you cancel your participation in this conference on or before Aug. 22, 2025, your registration fee, less a $75 administrative fee, will be refunded. Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ Education Department must receive written notification of your cancellation. No refunds will be made after Aug. 22, 2025.

Mayo Clinic Laboratories reserves the right to cancel or postpone any conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event Mayo Clinic Laboratories must cancel or postpone this conference, Mayo Clinic Laboratories will refund the registration fee but is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.

Exhibitors

If you would like to exhibit at this year’s conference, please complete the following:

  1. Download and review the Exhibitor Prospectus
  2. Download and sign the Exhibitor Agreement
  3. Complete the Exhibitor Registration
    1. Attach a copy of the signed Exhibitor Agreement during registration.

For questions, please email stellmaker.allison@mayo.edu.