We are on the verge of losing our position as leaders in the science of public health. The loss of expertise/committed individuals will be felt for years to come and will have a real impact on our communities. Whatever we think we may have saved, its not worth it and unfortunately time will tell.

I had the privilege of interacting on several occasions with Jeanne Marrazzo during her tenure at NIAID. She is one of many individuals at NIH and CDC who made these organizations world class.

Approaches to developing and implementing a molecular diagnostics stewardship program for infectious diseases: an ASM Laboratory Practices Subcommittee report Diagnostic stewardship (DxS) for infectious disease testing requires a multi-disciplinary approach to optimize test selection, performance, interpretation and patient treatment. Nucleic acid amplifica...

Celebrating the ongoing work of the American Society for Microbiology CPHM Lab Practices Subcommittee in the diagnostic stewardship space - this time with a focus on molecular diagnostics.
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The modern alchemy of clinical pathology: turning the output of microbiology laboratory operations into gold | Journal of Clinical Microbiology The clinical microbiology laboratory is an extremely data-rich environment. A typical laboratory generates thousands of observations daily from a broad range of sample types that come from an even wid...

Labs need to look at innovative approaches to enhance quality and demonstrate their value in the continuum of patient care which is why this paper by Sanjat Kanjilal demonstrating some innovative approaches to both using machine learning was such an interesting read
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