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February 17, 2022 Adapting as COVID-19 Changes: Dr. Bill Morice
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt consider how COVID-19 precautions may shift as the omicron surge ebbs, and how labs will adapt as the pandemic continues to change.
12 min
February 10, 2022 Interpreting Lab Test Results: Dr. Bill Morice
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt discuss the importance of properly interpretating lab test results, and they review the crucial difference between screening tests and diagnostic tests.
10 min
February 03, 2022 Tackling COVID-19 Misinformation: Dr. Bill Morice
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt set the record straight on some common misinformation about COVID-19 that’s been circulating recently.
16 min
January 27, 2022 A Global Perspective on COVID-19: Dr. Bill Morice
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt look beyond the borders of the United States and discuss the impact COVID-19 is having around the world.
13 min
January 20, 2022 COVID-19 Antigen Tests: Dr. Bill Morice
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt talk about the increased availability of antigen tests for COVID-19 and review when it’s most appropriate to use an antigen test.
11 min
January 18, 2022 SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A and B, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) testing: Joseph Yao, M.D.
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Before we get started, Dr. Yao, could you please provide our listeners with a little bit about you and your background?

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Can you provide a brief overview and intended use of this testing?

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Could you describe which patients should have this testing and when should it be performed?

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Are there other options on the market? And if so, what makes our testing unique?

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How are the test results used in patient care?
9 min
January 13, 2022 Respiratory Virus Testing: Dr. Matthew Binnicker
On this week’s episode of the "Answers From the Lab" podcast, Bobbi Pritt, M.D., is joined by Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., chair of Mayo Clinic’s Division of Clinical Microbiology. Dr. Pritt and Dr. Binnicker discuss the current state of laboratory testing for COVID-19 amid the omicron surge, as well the status of testing for other common respiratory viruses, including influenza.
11 min
January 06, 2022 Omicron Update: Dr. Bill Morice
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt discuss the current surge in COVID-19 cases that’s being fueled by the omicron variant, and what it could mean for the pandemic as we move into 2022.
10 min
December 30, 2021 Reflections on how far we’ve come: Dr. Bill Morice
This week on the podcast, William Morice, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, joins "Answers From the Lab" with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. This episode reflects on how far we have come during the COVID-19 pandemic from creating tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus to developing vaccines and therapeutics to combat serious illness.
12 min
December 28, 2021 Autoimmune Axonal Testing: Divyanshu (Div) Dubey, M.B.B.S.
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Before we get started, Dr. Dubey, could you just tell us a little about your role in the lab?

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Just in case our audience missed it, you're seeing patients Dr. Dubey, right, and spending considerable time in the lab. So really bench to bedside?

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Can you just remind the audience what this test is meant to do?

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Can you just elaborate on that a little bit and why we think it's not appropriate to search for a catch all type of evaluation?

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What are the red flags that would point to this axonal evaluation being appropriate as a next step?

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If we order based on axonal or demyelinating, we don't have to compliment that testing with another motor sensory panel is, am I understanding that correctly?

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Can you speak to what is still remaining to round out our neuropathy menu? Eventually we'll have a comprehensive evaluation in those cases where the EMG results are also a little unclear, right?

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Do you think that physicians can replace Pavel with the axonal evaluation in every case, or are there still sometimes when Pavel or the paraneoplastic evaluation that we've historically offered is more appropriate?

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Can you speak to how axonal has taken a lot of the same antibodies, but improved the testing based upon methodology and specificity? What are some of the key changes that we made for axonal?

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What are you most excited about and what do you want physicians to take away with the promotion of this axonal auto-immune evaluation?
23 min

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