Drawing directly from CMPH, each session focuses on core laboratory workflows for different specimen types—including media selection, incubation conditions, colony work-up and reporting practices. With laboratory professionals and microbiology technicians in mind, this series provides participants an opportunity to revisit best practices, strengthen technical understanding and discuss real-world challenges encountered in the clinical lab.
Each session concludes with a question-and-answer period offering the opportunity to engage directly with the presenters.
Moderators
, is 91麻豆天美’s Personnel Standards and Workforce Subcommittee Chair and Co-Editor in Chief of CMPH. She is also the Senior Director of Clinical Laboratories and Director of Microbiology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and a clinical professor of pathology and pediatrics at The Ohio State University.
, is the founding Editor in Chief of and Co-Editor in Chief of CMPH. She is also the CEO at Pattern Bioscience and a professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.
Respiratory Cultures—February 24, 2026, 12 p.m. ET
During this presentation, Kevin Alby, Ph.D., will help participants digest the sticking points of sputum and other respiratory cultures—providing guidance on some of the work-up and reporting strategies described in the Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook.
Questions Discussed Will Include the Following:
- What are the best ways to evaluate specimens for culture?
- Are quantitative cultures worth the effort?
- How should challenging identifications from MALDI-TOF be approached?
Speaker:
Kevin Alby, Ph.D., D(ABMM),
Director of Microbiology, Brown University Health
Speaker: Blake W. Buchan, Ph.D., D(ABMM)
Professor, Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin
Director, Clinical Microbiology, Children’s Wisconsin
Speaker: Nicholas M. Moore, Ph.D., D(ABMM), MLS(ASCP)CM
Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology & Associate Professor, Rush University Medical Center
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