Presenter: Richard B. Thomson, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Director, Microbiology Laboratories, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois This two-part workshop will provide a complete review of the Gram stain. Specimen selection, smear preparation, staining, microbial morphotype recognition and reporting, inflammatory cells and indicators of pathology, and clinical interpretation. […]
Presenter: Richard B. Thomson, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Director, Microbiology Laboratories, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois This two-part workshop will provide a complete review of the Gram stain. Specimen selection, smear preparation, staining, microbial morphotype recognition and reporting, inflammatory cells and indicators of pathology, and clinical interpretation. […]
Presenters: Mary Dikeman, Technical Manager, Microbiology Affinity Health System - St. Elizabeth Hospital, Appleton, WI Michael Costello Ph.D., Technical Director - Microbiology, ACL Laboratories, Rosemont, IL Description: This program will address common misconceptions and pitfalls pertaining to collection and transportation of clinical microbiology specimens. The profound effect poor specimen collection and transport can have on […]
Presenter: Nathan Ledeboer, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Director of Clinical Microbiology for Dynacare Laboratories and Froedtert Hospital Description: The speaker will discuss the culture of blood, CSF and other sterile body fluids including: (a.) reading, interpreting and reporting of the primary gram stain (b.) culture […]