Imagine 2025 and Beyond: Taking Your Laboratories into the Future

Chapel Hill, NC US
October 4, 2025

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.

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

NOTE: Please note this activity will be presented 8:00 am - 5:10 pm EST


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

Target Audience

This course is intended for Physicians, Pathologists, Pathology Assistants, trainees, and medical laboratory professionals at all levels of practice.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, learners should be able to:

  1. List at least three new technologic advances relevant to medical laboratory professionals. 
  2. Describe two practice-changing developments in a subspecialty of anatomic or clinical pathology relevant to the participant. 
  3. Discuss the two regulatory or policy issues that may impact laboratories and strategies to navigate a dynamic regulatory environment.
  4. Identify ways precision medicine, digital innovations, and laboratory data can drive value in the current and/or value based care environments.
  5. Identify two strategies to expand awareness for medical laboratory professions aimed to address projected workforce shortages.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Aurora Health Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Aurora Health Care designates this activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 7.25 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
    • 7.25 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Course opens: 
01/31/2025
Course expires: 
12/30/2025
Event starts: 
10/04/2025 - 7:00am CDT
Event ends: 
10/04/2025 - 4:10pm CDT
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The William & Ida Friday Center at UNC Chapell Hill
100 Friday Center Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
United States

Travel

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

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

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

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

Faculty

  • Ulysses Balis, MD –University of Michigan
  • Anne Bartels, MD –University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Phillip Boyer, MD – East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine
  • Steven Cotton, PhD, DABCC – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Gregory Davis, MD –University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Richard Dick, PhD – InterOp Key, LLC
  • Sean Gui, MD – Atrium Health Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • John Hanna, MD – East Carolina University
  • Giovanni Insuasti, MD – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • Ruth Lininger, MD, MPH – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • Michael Olivier, PhD – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • Doryan Redding, MLS(ASCP) – University of Virginia Health System
  • Kyle Riding, PhD, MLS(ASCP) – University of New Hampshire
  • Lynne Rosenblum, PhD, FACMG – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • Thomas Seay, MFA, MBA – AI Catalyst
  • Scott Shone, PhD – NC Department of Health and Human Services
  • Kathy Swanson, MS, RPh – Project Santa Fe Foundation
  • Susan Taylor, MS, MLS(ASCP), MBA – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • John Toffaletti, PhD – Duke University
  • Haodong Xu, MD, PhD – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • Jim “Qihui” Zhai, MD, FCAP – Louisiana State University Health Shreveport

Disclosure

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

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Advocate Health and Duke Health, ECU Health, UNC health and Atrium Health WFB. 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 Statement(s)

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.

The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)
South Piedmont AHEC is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.

Earn up to 1.0 CMP credits in Medical Ethics

Available Credit

  • 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Aurora Health Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Aurora Health Care designates this activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 7.25 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
    • 7.25 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

Price

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For Further Information

 

If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact Tamera Tillman at [email protected]

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