Pathways

These six pathways highlight different dynamic areas of clinical laboratory medicine. Check out the sessions that support your area of interest and make the most of your educational experience this year.

1. Data Science
2. Frontiers in Advancing Care
3. Leadership and Lab Management
4. Microbiology & Molecular Diagnostics
5. Patient Centered Point-of-Care Testing
6. Population Health and Lab Stewardship

You can search pathway sessions for dates and times and all ADLM 2025 sessions using the online session. 

Data Science and AI

• Large language models in laboratory medicine: Foundations, cutting-edge advances, and applications
• Practical considerations in evaluating and implementing artificial intelligence solutions for today’s clinical laboratorian
• CCJ hot topics: Designing and implementing artificial intelligence in laboratory medicine
• Bad, better, best: Putting generative AI to the test
• Large language models in laboratory medicine: Foundations, cutting-edge advances, and applications
• Practical considerations in evaluating and implementing artificial intelligence solutions for today’s clinical laboratorian

Frontiers in Advancing Care

• Metabolomics for diagnosis and monitoring treatment of inborn errors of metabolism
• The role of measuring cytokines in cancer immunotherapy
• Preeclampsia: Precision tools to improve prediction, enabling access in resource limited settings, and personalized medicine in special populations
• Proteomics in diabetes: Development and interlaboratory transfer of LC-MS/MS assays for clinical research and patient care
• Revised criteria for diagnosis and staging: An update on blood-based biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia
• Metabolic reset in the age of GLP-1 receptor agonists: Changes in metabolism beyond diabetes and weight loss  

Leadership and Lab Management

• You are in Jeopardy: Effective strategies for laboratory crisis management
• Beyond pamphlets and brochures: Strategic marketing skills to optimize your lab’s offerings
• Enhancing engagement between laboratory medicine professionals and C-suite executives
• The fee-for-service payment system for lab tests: A challenge for labs, patients, physicians, and insurers
• Expand your reach: Unlocking hospital laboratory potential through outreach

Microbiology & Molecular Diagnostics

• Emerging pathogens: Science, strategy, and lab readiness
• Serologic testing in the age of molecular diagnostics
• When urine trouble and it ‘snot straightforward: Clinically relevant thresholds for workup of urine and respiratory cultures
• Let’s talk about STIs, baby: Considerations for STI diagnoses and pharmacologic changes during pregnancy
• Sepsis mythbusters: The what and why of sepsis
• Breaking down silos: Transfusion medicine, microbiology, and hematopathology intersections with clinical chemistry

Patient Centered Point-of-Care Testing

• Improving laboratory analysis and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) quality to optimize diabetes therapy
• Quantitating compliance for point-of-care testing: Implementation, milestones, and metrics
• From bench to bedside: The evidence and implementation of GFAP & UCH-L1 in TBI evaluation
• Skills to solve problems and resolve challenges in point-of-care testing
• A practical guide to remote sampling: Regulatory and technical considerations for successful implementation of microsampling devices in the clinical laboratory
• Eliminating inequities in STIs using point of care testing: Identifying unmet needs

Population Health and Lab Stewardship

• Population screening for type 1 diabetes: Controversies and opportunities
• Laboratory test showdown! Winning with laboratory stewardship
• Supporting healthy Indigenous communities through laboratory medicine and public health
• Global working groups advancing diagnostics and laboratory medicine: Achievements, gaps, and future directions
• Do sex differences in cardiac troponin cut-offs matter
• Contextualizing the use of race in laboratory medicine