2025 NACMID Annual Conference

This year's conference was one of our most successful, with a record number of vendors and incredible number of attendees. Thank you to all that participated! Speaker slide decks will be added to this page over the next two weeks. We look forward to seeing you all again in 2026!

Monday September 22, Workshops:

• Laboratory Identification of Blood Parasites with Blaine Mathison
• Microbiology Specimen Management and Diagnostic Stewardship, with Robert C. Jerris and J. Michael Miller
• Applying NGS in Infectious Diseases: From Theory to Real-World Use, with Emily Snavely
• Gastrointestinal Parasites: Revisiting and Rebooting our Knowledge of Organisms, Detection Methods, and Practical Laboratory Issues with Marc Roger Couturier
• What is New in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing? with Romney Humphries

Keynote Presentation: 

Measles Immunological Amnesia and the Outsized Benefits of Vaccination with Michael Mina, MD, PhD

Tuesday September 23, General Sessions:

• Blood Cultures Backwards and Forward, with Matthew A. Pettengill
• Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines, with Donna Wolk
• Challenges in the Diagnosis of Fungal Infections, with Esther Babady
• Utility of Digital Images Captured After 4 Hours of Incubation on a Microbiology Laboratory Automation System in Guiding the Work-up of Subcultures from Positive Blood Cultures, with Melvili Cintron (Sponsored by Copan)
• Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens: An Update for Clinical Laboratorians, with Ben T. Bradley (Sponsored by ARUP)
• Vaginal Cultures or NAAT for Vaginitis/Vaginosis: What's the Verdict? with Phyu Thwe
• CHROMagar So Bright - You Gotta Wear Shades: Paving the Way to Brilliant Detection and  Differentiation, with Nathan Ledeboer (Vendor Focused Session, Presented by CHROMagar)
• Strengthening Partnerships Between Hospital and State Labs Using the IR-Biotyper, with Phil Jessmon and Melissa Guenther (Vendor Focused Session, Presented by Bruker)
• Ceftobiprole: A New Instrument in the Toolbox, with David P. Nicolau (Vendor Focused Session, Presented by Innoviva)
• "Parasite AI Has Entered the Chat": Parasitology Finally Leads the Field in Clinical Microbiology, with Marc Roger Couturier
• Speeding to Solutions for Sepsis: Fast Phenotypic Susceptibility in the Era of Rapid Molecular Identification, with Alexa Ekchian (Sponsored by Biomerieux)
• Lab Life After a New LIS and EMR: Epic Successes and Lessons Learned, with Eric Ransom
• Panel Discussion: Reference Labs - Friend or Foe? Perspectives on Expansion into Hospital-Based Testing, with Eric Ransom, Matthew A. Pettengill, Beverley L. Orr, moderated by Christopher Doern

Refund policy: NACMID understands life happens and conflicts can arise. As such, refunds are available up through the day of the conference. Please contact NACMID at nacmid1983@gmail.com for refund processing.