Imagine 2025 and Beyond - Taking Your Laboratories into the Future

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Target Audience

Pathologists, Pathology Assistants, trainees, and medical laboratory professionals at all levels of practice.

Description

Precision Medicine, Digital Innovations, and the Evolving Healthcare Landscape

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to advance your knowledge, improve your practices, and network with fellow professionals. Join us and take the next step in your career and contribute to the future of pathology and laboratory medicine.

Understanding how to leverage digital innovations such as AI to drive quality and reduce costs is crucial in today's medical landscape. Additionally, precision medicine and informatics approaches are valuable for classifying genomic, molecular, and biomarker data to produce health intelligence. Strategies to enhance awareness and education pathways for careers in laboratory medicine are also essential.

Our objectives aim to enhance your expertise by enabling you to identify new technological advances relevant to medical laboratory professionals and describe practice-changing developments in subspecialties. Regulatory or policy issues impacting laboratories and strategies to navigate them will be discussed, along with ways precision medicine, digital innovations, and laboratory data can drive value in care environments. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to advance your knowledge, improve your practices, and network with fellow professionals.

For a FULL AGENDA, speakers, plenary sessions and breakout session details: Imagine 2025 AGENDA.

Elective Tracks

Anatomic & Clinical Pathology Track

Digital Innovations Track 1

Digital Innovations Track 2

Hotel Accommodations:
A courtesy block has been set at the following hotels:

Aloft Chapel Hill
Special group rate: $449.00 per night
Distance from Friday Center: 1.2 miles (4 mins.)
Link expires: Friday, August 22, 2025
Reservation link: Book your room for Imagine 2025 & Beyond

Hilton Garden Inn/Durham University Medical Center
Special group rate: $229.00 per night
Distance from Friday Center: 12.9 miles (24 mins.)
Link expires: Friday, September 4, 2025
Reservation link: Book your room for Imagine 2025 & Beyond

Westin Raleigh-Durham Airport
Special group rate: $229.00 per night
Distance from Friday Center: 18 miles (30 mins.)
Link expires: Friday, September 5, 2025
Reservation link: Book your room for Imagine 2025 & Beyond



Call for Abstracts
We will be accepting abstracts for a planned poster session for Imagine 2025. Submissions deadline is Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM / midnight EST. Authors will be notified of acceptance and details of poster format by September 25, 2025.

Click here for additional information, abstract requirements & submission form: Call For Abstracts

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Advocate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statement
American Medical Association (AMA)
Advocate Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure
Faculty disclosures are being reviewed and will be presented to the audience in advance of the program.

ADA Statement
If you need any auxiliary aids or services identified in the Americans with Disabilities Act in order to attend this conference, please contact Tamara Smith-Tillman by email tamara.tillman@atriumhealth.org.

This conference is being held at The William and Ida Friday Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill, NC.

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Objectives

• List at least three new technologic advances relevant to medical laboratory professionals.
• Describe two practice-changing developments in a subspecialty of anatomic or clinical pathology relevant to the participant.
• Discuss the two regulatory or policy issues that may impact laboratories and strategies to navigate a dynamic regulatory environment.
• Identify ways precision medicine, digital innovations, and laboratory data can drive value in the current and/or value based care environments.
• Identify two strategies to expand awareness for medical laboratory professions aimed to address projected workforce shortages.

Electives

BREAKOUT 1 - 9:50AM - 10:20AM

BREAKOUT 2 - 10:30AM - 11:00AM

BREAKOUT 3 - 3:15PM - 4:15PM

BREAKOUT 4 - 4:25PM - 4:55PM