KU Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Check out the sweet items available in the online auction fundraiser to support students in the KU School of Health Professions!

2024 Making Health Care Heroes Silent auction '2024 Making Health Care Heroes' hosted online at 32auctions.

The KU School of Health Professions is holding its second annual Making Health Care Heroes golf tournament on Aug. 23, 2024.

Last year's inaugural event raised more than $40,000 in net proceeds, allowing us to greatly expand our financial support to students as they prepare to become leaders in health care.

Register online today:

Making Health Care Heroes Golf Tournament The KU School of Health Professions golf fundraising event benefits students in our school.

Yesterday CLS students took a few minutes to enjoy a 89% eclipse outside the Eaton laboratory 😎

JAN IS RETIRING!!!
After over 18 years of dedicated service to KU's CLS department Jan is riding off into the sunset (on her bike) into the lands of retirment.
Please join us August 28, 2023 from 4-7pm at Taco Republic in Corinth Square (4100 W 83rd St. Prairie Village, KS 66208) to celebrate a happy hour in her honor!

Appetizers and drinks will be provided (only if you RSVP)
Please RSVP through DM or by commenting on this post
Thanks and hope to see you there!!!

Making Health Care Heroes 2023 Golf Tournament Sign up your team or join us to sponosor our August 2023 event to benefit students in our school!

Ungrading: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask by Teaching in the CTEI The world of higher ed. is all abuzz with the word "ungrading". You may have heard of the term, also referred to as "alternative grading", but what does it mean exactly? How can the practice of ungrading transform your teaching and your students' learning? In this episode, Angela and distinguished g...

Camping, Credits & Camaraderie in Great Bend for the ASCLS-KS spring meeting. Multiple CLS faculty presented on various topics!

Rocking out some swag in the CLS student laboratory.

CLS3 students visit to the Midwest Transplant Network! An awesome way to celebrate and learn about transplant services. Happy

Dr. Renee Hodgkins and Dr. Letycia Nunez-Argote will be presenting at this meeting! Very excited to create opportunities for CE and share knowledge with our laboratory colleagues in Kansas.

Camping! Credits! and Camaraderie! We are bringing the Kansas annual meeting to the West this year.

The Joint meeting of The ASCLS-Kansas and ASCP Wheatlands is approaching!

April 27-28th at Camp Aldrich Conference Center in Clafin, Kansas

Celebrate National Laboratory Professionals Week with our laboratory colleagues in ASCLS-Kansas 3rd Annual 5K event. Check it out! ⬇️👀

Come join us for the Lab Week 5k!

Policy driven by evidence and research, not fear and prejudice, has culminated in this very needed change. So many more lives will now be saved. As laboratory professionals whose job is to ensure safe testing of blood products we applaud this decision. 🩸❤️🙌🏽👏🏾

🚨🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a draft guidance, “Recommendations for Evaluating Donor Eligibility Using Individual Risk-Based Questions to Reduce the Risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission by Blood and Blood Products.”

AABB is currently reviewing the draft guidance and preparing a summary for the community. https://bit.ly/3HAAduc

In celebration of the 6th year of One Day. One KU., the University of Kansas School of Health Professions is joining forces once again to expand opportunities for a diverse group of potential students to attend our programs via new scholarships and other financial assistance. Your support is essential to provide much-needed financial support to our students to successfully complete their studies, graduate and serve our community as healthcare leaders.

Each one of the nine Health Professions programs, as well as SHP Dean’s diversity scholarship fund, are listed as options to support with a gift. If you have a specific area that you would like to donate to other than the listed funds, please indicate in “other,” and we will make sure your gift will be designated for an appropriate area within our school!

Thank you for considering a gift to help our students and future healthcare professionals. Every gift at any amount makes a great impact on our students as they pursue delivery of excellent health care.

2023 One Day. One KU. Thursday, February 16

KU clinical laboratory science doctoral student Carlo Ledesma, M.S., MLS(ASCP)cm, was selected for the Power List 2022 by The Pathologist magazine.

This honor is an annual recognition of great and inspirational minds that underpin the medical laboratory and aims to recognize people across the many worlds of pathology and laboratory medicine. Congratulations Carlo Ledesma!

The Power List 2022 Welcome to our annual celebration of the great and inspirational minds that underpin the medical laboratory.

Letycia Nunez Argote, Ph.D., MLS(ASCP)cm, and Cristian Lozano, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)cm, were selected as TOP 5 among the American Society for Clinical Pathology's 40 Under Forty distinction for 2022.

This recognizes their achievements and leadership qualities that are making an impact on pathology and laboratory medicine. Nuñez Argote is a faculty member in KU's Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences. Lozano is the first to complete the department's new doctorate degree and graduated last May. Congratulations!

40 Under Forty Forty Under 40 is a program designed to recognize the extraordinary work being done in the pathology and laboratory medicine by ASCP members under the age of 40. These are the future leaders of the medical laboratory.

Two members of the KU Medical Center CLS family have been recognized as ASCP 40 under forty honorees this year!
—Dr. S. Cristian Lozano, first graduate of the KU DCLS program.
—Dr. Letycia Nunez Argote, faculty member with the KU CLS department.

“The ASCP 40 Under Forty program recognizes members under the age of 40 for their achievements and leadership qualities that are making an impact on pathology and laboratory medicine.

“Pathologists, Laboratory Professionals and Residents are chosen annually through an application or nomination process. The program has recognized worthy members of the laboratory team both nationally and internationally.

“Five individuals are selected as the 40 Under Forty Top Five through a combination of public voting and committee selection.

“Vote for your favorite honoree by July 19, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. CT and help select the Top Five!”

Checkout this link to read about this honor and about the honorees. You can also vote for top 5 😉

https://woobox.com/z9fmeh/gallery/RPex9B6I9H0

WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU! Rock Chalk!

ASCP 40 Under Forty Recognize the brightest emerging leaders and innovators of pathology, laboratory medicine, and ASCP by voting!

Learn about our program and speak with current students and faculty from KU clinical laboratory science tonight! We're hosting a virtual open house from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. -- sign up online!
https://go2.ku.edu/register/SHP2+2

School of Health Professions 2+2 Bachelor’s Degree Programs Virtual Open House  

Tomorrow is One Day One KU! Please consider giving back to our amazing university! When you do please select Clinical Laboratory Science for your donation and help the future Laboratory Jayhawks
https://kansas.scalefunder.com/gday/

2022 One Day. One KU. Thursday, February 17

Virginia Johnston, Ph.D., the first chair of the KU Department of Clinical Laboratory Science at the University of Kansas Medical Center, passed away on December 5, 2020. Learn more about her remarkable career on her obituary.

The family is having a memorial/internment service for her and her husband Friday, October 15, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. at St. Peters and All Saints Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Mo.

Dr. Virginia Johnston 1929-2020 Dr. Virginia (Ginny) Johnston, age 91, of Deer River, MN, passed away on Saturday December 5, 2020.

So proud of DCLS student Carlo Ledesma for passing the board exam for the high level certification of Diplomate in Laboratory Management - DLM(ASCP)!
According to ASCP, DLMs have responsibilities such as managing “operational and capital budgets while striving to hire and retain engaged staff. Strong laboratory leadership is essential to achieve compliance with the many regulatory and human resources guidelines.” By passing this exam, DLMs demonstrate a set of key leadership skills that can ensure quality standards are maintained and improved in the clinical laboratory.
CONGRATULATIONS Carlo for this achievement!






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Carlo Ledesma, MS, MLS(ASCP)SH, QLS, MT(AMT) on LinkedIn: I am extremely proud to say especially after taking that super hard | 34 comments I am extremely proud to say especially after taking that super hard exam.... I passed the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)'s Diplomat in... 34 comments on LinkedIn

Congratulations to the graduates of The University of Kansas Medical Center Dept of Clinical Laboratory Sciences.
Your resilience, flexibility, and adaptability have pushed you through the finish line despite the COVID-19 pandemic challenges. We are so grateful you fought through and now join the ranks of exceptional scientists who work every day to provide needed information to patients and the other members of the
You are joining a group of passionate and hard working professionals from a program that is in its 88th year! We salute you. Rock Chalk!
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University of Kansas Medical Center

Congratulations Professor Brad Pfaltzgraff on being presented the 2021 Stata Norton Distinguished Teaching Award!!! Very well deserved honor for an awesome teacher, mentor and colleague!

The SHP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee is excited to announce and share the first episode of the limited series, interview format podcast KUMC Cultivate. KUMC Cultivate was created to raise awareness and visibility of campus and local community members actively supporting and educating others in the acceptance of persons with diverse abilities, cultures, and ethnicities. Listen in to hear personal experiences, new perspectives, and ways to get involved! Please, share the opportunity to listen in with others.

Now streaming and available to you through YouTube and Spotify is episode 1 of KUMC Cultivate, where committee member Jennifer Tanquary interviews Karina Saechao and Romy Keuwo (members of the KU Student Equity and Inclusion Workgroup).

YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Tj9kk4bWqks

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/5BXAtfYDNsaA8gM7uGW5zI

Be sure to follow or subscribe on either platform to access future episodes, which include interviews with:
Antoinette Redmond, KUMC Office of DEI
Qiana Thomason, President, and CEO of the Health Forward Foundation

If you know of someone or a group that may want to be a part of KUMC Cultivate, please connect anyone interested with the SHP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee.
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University of Kansas Medical Center

KU Medical Center CULTIVATE Podcast Listen to KU Medical Center CULTIVATE Podcast on Spotify. A series from the University of Kansas School of Health Professions covering topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia, health care, and research.

CLS3 Students are holding a fundraiser for the KUMC Laboratory Student Organization. Funds are used for students to plan activities and promote the profession.
And yes... you guessed it... it is face masks! 😷
The design below is original from one of our students and is super cute! These are cloth masks with cotton loops. Our first shipment is coming (we will update with photos).
If you are interested in supporting this fundraiser fill out the form:
https://tinyurl.com/b64kaan9
Thank you for your support! 🤗

During National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (April 18-24) we celebrate all the scientists and heroes who have worked every day to provide vital biomarker testing data to patients and clinicians during this pandemic!
Please celebrate with us and thank a laboratory professional