The Laboratory’s Role in Health and Equity
In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Dr. Bill Morice, professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, and president of @MayoClinicLabs,
Lab Medicine Rounds · Mayo Clinic Laboratories
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Show Notes
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:23 Why is health equity important for laboratory medicine and pathology?
03:13 What are we learning about how as a laboratory we may better advocate for health equity?
05:27 What’s the nuance there that we need to grapple with, not just more testing but better testing?
08:30 Are there examples of how we can do this better from other professions that we can learn from?
09:59 Is that something that you feel with your previous experience as a hematopathologist has prepared you for or are these additional skills you’ve picked up along the way?
12:10 What are two or three ways that we are trying to navigate this for increasing health care equity?
14:36 What kind of feedback can a pathologist provide that helps them build a better test?
20:20 What does the future of health equity look like, what does that laboratory support of health equity look like in the coming years?
21:27 Outro
Resources:
The COVID pandemic: Testing and disparities:
https://chs.asu.edu/diagnostics-commons/blog/covid-pandemic-testing-and-disparities
To hear more on this topic from Dr. Morice, register for the 2022 Phlebotomy Conference: https://news.mayocliniclabs.com/edu-conferences/phlebotomy-2022-performance-public-health-people-in-a-post-covid-world/