Celebrate Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
April 19-25, 2026
To help celebrate and build awareness about the profession, here are some resources:
- ASM’s Clinical and Public Health Microbiology section with a variety of resources.
- Information on careers in clincal and public health microbiology, including a PowerPoint template to help you promote the clinical and public health microbiology professions with an accompanying flyer.
- A certificate program to help clinical laboratory scientist become ASCP certified.
- Many webinars to stay up-to-date in clinical microbiology or to advance your laboratory career.
- FAQs for laboratories that are testing for avian influenza A(H5N1), oropouche virus and more.
- ASM’s clinical reference books and clinical microbiology journals, including the newly-launched ASM Case Reports, an open-access journal serving as a dedicated platform for clinical microbiology and infectious disease.
- ASM's Medical Lab Scientist membership, which includes CE-accredited webinars at $5 each, case studies, listservs, practice guidelines and more.
- A video showing clinical microbiologists in a lab and the real life “who done it” scenarios they deal with every day.
Disclaimer: ASM does not endorse any products mentioned or shown in this video.
As team members of one of the largest industries in the U.S., the dedicated efforts of laboratory professionals often go unnoticed by the general public, as well as by the very institutions employing their services. With the public now demanding the assurance of quality health care and professional accountability, organizations representing practitioners of this critical science have a responsibility to ensure that the public is well informed about clinical laboratory competency.
ASM's Lab Week 2026 Activities
Daily Anagrams
- April 19: ACINORDA
- April 20: TETPPIE
- April 21: ROEANBAE
- April 22: SEAMANCEBAPER
- April 23: TIDEROPHID
- April 24: CYTOMECUREM
- April 25: IMPERATASIA
A winner for the contest will be announced by May 1, 2026. The winner will receive a $50 Visa gift card!
Illustration provided by JR Caldera, Ph.D., D(ABMM), MLS(ASCP)CM, Associate Science Director, Infectious Disease, Quest Diagnostics.
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Thursday, April 23 at 2 p.m. ET—CPEP Program Application Tips
Please join us for the CPEP Lab Week Coffee Chat Q&A on Thursday, April 23, 2026, at 2 p.m. ET. We will host a virtual coffee chat to answer all your CPEP questions. This is a chance to learn more about the CPEP program and get tips on how to improve your application.
Panel:
- Morgan Pence, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Cook Children’s Medical Center, CPEP Chair.
- Jennifer Dien Bard, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, CPEP Program Director.
- Svetlana Dambaeva, Ph.D., D(ABMLI), Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, CPEP Program Director.
- Shekina Gonzalez-Ferrer, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Second Year CPEP Fellow.
Wednesday, April 22 at 10 a.m. ET—Explore Clinical and Public Health Microbiology Careers
Join us on April 22, from 10-11 a.m. ET, for a Career Pathways in Microbiology webinar to discover where a degree in microbiology can take you! Hear insights from panelists Lars Westblade, Ph.D., D(ABMM), associate professor & Director, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and Arthur H. Totten, Ph.D., F(CCM), D(ABMM), Deputy Chief, New York State Department of Health, on the skills and experience needed to launch your career in clinical and public health microbiology.
Register Now-Free to Attend!