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Empowering Laboratory Professionals to Optimize Biomarker Testing – [Video Podcast] Ep 45

July 18, 2024

 

New opportunities are emerging for dedicated biomarker testing navigators facilitated by laboratory professionals to better streamline sample collection and optimize test ordering and results for patients with cancer. In this episode, CANCER BUZZ TV speaks with Lynnette Pineault, MBA, SCT (ASCP), chair of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Biomarker Testing Navigation Feasibility Study and manager of Laboratory Operations and Genetic Counseling Services, Medical Library and Pathology Services, at HealthPartners – Regions Hospital, who shares insights on reshaping multidisciplinary cancer care team workflows to enable laboratory professionals to improve biomarker testing efficiency.

“We see these roles [dedicated biomarker testing navigators] playing across and matrixing to support the sample [biomarker testing specimen] along its pathway, so the patient and the sample get to their destination and their treatment/follow-up at the appropriate times together.”—Lynnette Pineault, MBA, SCT (ASCP)

 

pineault-lynnette-circle Lynnette Pineault, MBA, SCT(ASCP)

Chair, ASCP Biomarker Testing Navigation Feasibility Study

Manager, Laboratory Operations and Genetic Counseling Services

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Services

                                      HealthPartners – Regions Hospital

                                      St. Paul, MN

 

 

This video podcast was produced in partnership with the American Society for Clinical Pathology and by support from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Exact Sciences, and Merck. 

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The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s)/faculty member(s) and do not reflect the official policy or position of their employer(s) or the Association of Community Cancer Centers.