Educational Webinars

Download the 2020 Educational Webinar Registration Form and mail or email to ASCT with payment. You will receive your webinar access information via email from ASCT after payment is received. Using your email address, the ASCT will send you the link to access the webinar. Participants can choose to hear the audio via the phone or over their computer speakers. Each webinar will offer one CE credit as defined by the ASCP CMP.

All Members and Non-Members may purchase ASCT educational webinars online by clicking here.

Individual Webinar Registration
$40 member (price per webinar)
$50 non-member (price per webinar)

Laboratory Webinar Registration
$150 member registers lab (price per webinar)
$175 non-member registers lab (price per webinar)
$700 Member signs up the lab (price for all scheduled webinars in the current membership year.)

2020 Educational Webinar Registration Form 

December 11, 2019

EBUS ROSE with an Emphasis on Telecytology and Diagnoses other than Lung Cancer

Michael Thrall, MD
Methodist Hospital
Department of Pathology
Houston, Texas

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate a system for using telecytology to facilitate EBUS ROSE that incorporates cytotechnologists
2. Describe EBUS ROSE scenarios that are not related to lung carcinoma, with their unique challenges
3. Understand how to triage specimen samples during ROSE when lymphoma and/or infection are in the differential diagnosis

January 8, 2020
The Pursuit of Happiness

Barbara A Crothers, DO
Joint Pathology Center
Silver Spring, MD

Learning Objectives
• Highlight the impact of stress on healthcare professionals
• Describe some recent evidence for reducing stress
• Provide tools for decreasing stress and increasing happiness

February, 2020
Employee Engagement in the Laboratory: Empowering a Positive Workforce

Jodie M. Woodside MS, CT (ASCP)CM
Rutland Regional Medical Center
Rutland, Vermont

Learning objectives:
• Learn what employee engagement is
• Learn advantages and disadvantages to employee engagement
• Learn ways to engage employees in the lab

March 18, 2020
Aspiration Cytology of Neck Cysts in Adults: Morphologic Features and Ancillary Testing Strategies

Dr. Christopher Griffith 
Cleveland Clinic 
Cleveland, Ohio 

Learning Objectives:
• Name common differential considerations in adults with a cystic neck mass
• Discuss the challenges encountered in evaluating aspiration material from an adult with a neck cyst
• Identify cytologic features in neck cyst aspirates which increase the likelihood of metastatic carcinoma
• Apply optimal ancillary testing stragtegies to detect high-risk Human Papillomavirus in neck cyst aspiration material

April 22, 2020
Molecular Cytopathology in an Era of Precision Medicine: Doing More with Less

Dr. Sinchita Roy-Chowdhuri  
MD Anderson Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Learning objectives:
• To provide an overview of the current molecular testing performed in cytopathology for clinical management of patients
• To compare and contrast different cytologic specimen preparations and discuss various processing and handling techniques to identify pre-analytical variables for successful molecular testing
• To illustrate the practical implementation of the specimen acquisition process and triage and the issues pertaining to collecting an adequate sample for molecular testing

June 2020
Soft Tissue and Bone FNA

Dr. Benjamin Witt
Associate Professor of Anatomic Pathology
University of Utah/ARUP Laboratories
Salt Lake City, Utah
 
Learning Objectives: 
• Employ cytomorphology to differentiated soft tissue and bone lesions into general diagnostic categories
• Based on morphologic categorization implement directed panels of immunostains to work within the appropriate differential diagnosis
• Gain familiarity with instances wherein fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) testing can inform the diagnosis

July 2020
Details Pending

August 2020
Details Pending

September 2020
Details Pending

October 2020
Details Pending

November 2020
Details Pending

December 2020
Details Pending