Join us at MLS Day

Join the diagnostic community for a special MLS Day on Tuesday, July 28 at ADLM 2026 in Anaheim, CA.

Experts and peers will connect around medical laboratory science work that drives accurate diagnoses and effective treatment decisions.

MLS Day will provide access to 20+ conference sessions, 100+ posters of accepted abstracts, and the Clinical Lab Expo with more than 750+ exhibitors all happening at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. Register by June 4 and SAVE.

Register early

MLS attendees will receive a 60% discount (with code MLSDay):

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

Interested in attending the full conference? MLS attendees receive $100 off early registration rates. (Exclusions and restrictions apply)

What to expect at ADLM 2026

ADLM 2026 sessions will be announced in early April. In the meantime, take a sneak peek at a few of the ADLM 2026 activities and planned sessions and check out some of the popular roundtable sessions that were covered at ADLM 2025. 

Networking events

Make new connections that matter during the Expo, Posters, Sessions, and the MLS Day Happy Hour on Tuesday, July 28. If attending the full conference, start making connections as early as Sunday's Opening Mixer (July 26).

2026 Plenary session

Elizabeth Head, PhD, MA will present on “Alzheimer disease biomarkers in Down syndrome” - Tuesday, July 28

Explore the plenaries

2026 Sneak Peak Scientific sessions

• I spy with my lab inspector eye: Accreditation citation risks
• The shot not taken: Dangers of declining vaccination rates and impacts to the lab
• Wearable devices for diagnostics, is this point-of-care testing?
• Advancing equity in maternal drug testing: From ethical challenges to informatics solutions
• The integration journey: Preparing for EHR/LIS
• Ethical, legal, and social implications of third-party uses of DNA
• New directions for clinical mass spectrometry

Interactive small group roundtables (2025)

• Challenges and strategies for adopting POCT for infectious diseases (Tuesday, July 29)
• Antimicrobial resistance diagnostics and the need for reference materials (Tuesday, July 29)