2025 Program Brochure

Join us September 22-23, 2025 at the Nashua Double Tree by Hilton in Nashua, NH! Register by August 15th for an Early Bird discount of 10%. Enter coupon code NACMID at registration.

Are you a student enrolled full-time in a Medical Laboratory or Microbiology/Biology degree program? Visit our student page for more information and conference registration

Monday September 22, Workshops:

• 2025 Intestinal Protozoa Update, with Lynne Garcia
• 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
• 2025 Blood Parasite Update, with Lynne Garcia
• What is New in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing? with Romney Humphries

Enjoy wine and cheese with our exhibitors on Monday evening from 5-6pm!

Keynote Presentation: Open and FREE to all!

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

*Want to enjoy wine, cheese, and the keynote presentation but can't make it to the rest of the conference? Register at NO CHARGE for the Exhibitor Hall/Keynote Presentation Pass!

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 Veridict? 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)
• Beyond the Genome: Disussing the Limitations of Genotypic Methods for Strain Discrimination, 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.

Nashua Double Tree by Hilton

2 Somerset Parkway

Nashua, NH 03063

603-886-1200

$159/night