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PACE
This "Virtual lecture" will provide an overview of eight common leadership styles, including a common definition and characteristics that ideal leaders demonstrate. Finally, the lecture will cover how aspects of nature and nurture influence our leadership styles by examining the common personality traits that define the four colors of NCTI’s Real Colors personality assessment.

PACE / State of CA / State of FL
This "Phlebotomy webinar" focuses on the origins of difficult collections and the situations that result in them.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D., will discuss recent information on the advantages and disadvantages of using butterfly needles for blood collection.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Sounak Gupta, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., discusses selecting tissues and other tissue considerations for molecular testing. He also reviews tissue metrics and requirements, which differ based on test platforms. It is important to keep in mind that the details of tissue metrics change over time as they continue to evolve with technology.

PACE / State of CA / State of FL
In this month’s “Virtual Lecture,” Colin West, M.D., Ph.D., speaks broadly about health care professionals' well-being, and discusses various principles for you to use in your own career to prevent burnout symptoms and dissatisfaction.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Elitza Theel, Ph.D., talks about Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ serologic and molecular testing for the identification of infection with dengue virus. Dengue virus poses a significant public health threat worldwide. Rapid and accurate identification of the infection enables directed monitoring of patients who may be at increased risk of developing hemorrhagic fever of dengue shock syndrome.

PACE / State of CA / State of FL
In this month’s “Virtual Lecture,” Tiffany Mainella, HTL(ASCP), shares common practices and workflows that are typically seen within the Histology Laboratory to create a high-quality product for the pathologist to review.

PACE / State of CA / State of FL
This "Phlebotomy webinar" will discuss ethical issues frequently faced by phlebotomists.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Julia Lehman, M.D., will explain important changes that are taking place in Mayo Clinic’s Immunodermatology Laboratory to continue offering the highest quality testing for the interpretation of the bullous pemphigoid 180 and 230 and desmoglein 1 and 3 assay results.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Paul Jannetto, Ph.D., will highlight Mayo Clinic’s new targeted benzodiazepine assay and discuss the advantages and limitations of various urine-screening assays as well as quantitative confirmatory testing to determine compliance to benzodiazepine therapy.

PACE / State of CA / State of FL
In this month’s “Virtual Lecture,” Henry Tazelaar, M.D., breaks down the various risks of environmental lung cancer, from those present in medieval and renaissance times, to modern danger.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Elitza Theel, Ph.D., will discuss the over utilization of IgM serologic testing for herpes simplex virus and the recommendation by multiple agencies, including the CDC and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, to avoid using this test for clinical decision making purposes. As a result of these recommendations and data generated at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Theel will summarize why HSV IgM testing will no longer be offered through Mayo Clinic Laboratories.