Celebrate CLS Day with ADLM & Your Peers

Who Should Attend

Registration

ADLM 2025 will showcase the cutting-edge science and technology shaping the future of laboratory medicine.

Join us at the McCormick Place Convention Center on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.

CLS attendees will receive a 60% discount (with code CLSDay):

• $210 special one-day member rate
• $230 special one-day non-member rate  

Attending the full conference, July 27 - 31?  Clinical Laboratory scientists will automatically receive a $100 CLS discount during online registration. Register by July 26th to beat onsite pricing

Featured Events

CLS Day registration* offers access to the full day conference sessions and events, including:

8:45 – 10:15 a.m. | Plenary Session: Infodemic! Is misinformation killing us?

Popular culture is filled with health myths, science hype, and pseudoscientific noise. Indeed, the spread of conspiracy theories and harmful health misinformation is a defining characteristic of our time. This shapes our perceptions about – and policies surrounding – health, wellbeing, and biomedical research issues. In this provocative plenary session, Professor Caulfield will look at some of the most pernicious falsehoods and explore the cultural forces driving the rise and spread of misinformation and twisted science, including celebrity culture, fearmongering, social media, science hype, and our cognitive biases. In addition, he will provide suggestions regarding concrete steps that can (and should) be taken by both individuals and organizations to both take a more critical approach to these topics and to fight the spread of misinformation.

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Scientific Session: 33101 CCJ hot topics: Designing and implementing artificial intelligence in laboratory medicine 

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as an important tool for the prediction and diagnosis of disease. In the past 5 years, numerous studies have explored possible uses of AI in laboratory medicine. However, few AI-based algorithms have been implemented into clinical use. This session will summarize the current guidelines and recommendations for designing and using AI in laboratory medicine. In addition, the session will emphasis key attributes of AI research which enable reproducibility and generalizability. The target audience includes: general laboratory medicine practitioners considering the use of AI; AI researchers developing applications for laboratory medicine.

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Scientific Session: 33103 Quantitating compliance for point-of-care testing: Implementation, milestones, and metrics

Point-of-care testing (POCT) has unique compliance challenges for medical laboratories, including waived, moderate- and high-complexity testing, as well as provider-performed microscopy procedures (PPMP). Each testing complexity adheres to distinct and stringent regulatory requirements. Keeping up-to-date on these requirements and ensuring all users remain compliant are important but demanding tasks for POC teams. This session will include clinical laboratory directors who oversee POCT at three different academic medical centers. Through case examples, each speaker will introduce a challenge unique to POCT and share potential solutions implemented at their institution. The three topics presented will include PPMP compliance, strategies for addressing undocumented testing, and utilizing dashboards to engage stakeholders in maintaining quality and regulatory compliance. This program complements skills-based workshops by equipping lab directors with essential regulatory knowledge to support effective compliance. This session is essential for laboratory professionals aiming to enhance their compliance frameworks and ensure high quality POCT.

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Careers in Industry Luncheon: 

Attend this free luncheon and hear from leaders working at top diagnostic companies with a diverse set of backgrounds as they share their career paths, expertise, and experiences, followed by Q&A and Networking.

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Poster Presentations

Discover 100+ posters of abstracts with CLS areas of interest on display in the Poster Hall on the Expo Show floor. Topics include Hematology and Coagulation, Laboratory Management and Patient Safety, Microbiology and Infectious Disease, and Point-of-Care Testing.

2:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Scientific Session: 33225 The compliance detective: Finding errors before they become issues

Clinical laboratory personnel may struggle with understanding and maintaining regulatory and accrediting body compliance due to various challenges. These include knowledge gaps related to updates in regulations, deficiencies in key requirements such as quality assurance and personnel competency, and process errors that may result in noncompliance. To address these issues, this highly interactive session will engage participants, individually and as a team, to identify common areas of non-compliance with standards and develop corrective action plans focused on four key areas: maintenance of instrumentation/equipment, personnel, method evaluations, and proficiency testing/external quality control. Real-world, case-based examples from the clinical chemistry and clinical microbiology laboratory settings will be utilized.

2:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Scientific Session: 33226 The dilemma of bad testing: Is something better than nothing?

In this interactive session, attendees will delve into three critical areas influencing decision-making in laboratory testing. These areas include the release of results from non-standard specimens (off-label test use), handling poor quality specimens, and interpreting tests with no interpretive criteria. Each scenario presents unique challenges that complicate the performance and reporting of tests. Often, these decisions do not fully incorporate the perspectives or insights of the patient care team regarding the interpretation and value of the results.

The session is designed to simulate real-world situations, balancing the need for quality testing, physician requests, and patient-centered care. We will begin with a real-life clinical scenario, followed by a moderated debate where two laboratory professionals will argue for or against the decision to proceed with testing. This will be complemented by video clips offering insights into how treatment teams interpret these results, providing a comprehensive view of the decision-making process.

5:00 – 6:30 p.m. | CLS Happy Hour

A chance to network and socialize with clinical laboratory colleagues.

*Use code CLSDay for your discount.

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