Welcome to NACMID 2025!
Thank you for joining us at our annual conference! See below for important information including networking and lead retrieval with vendors, how to access CMLE after the conference, session locations and function room layout, and more. Any important announcements throughout the conference will also be posted here.
Important Conference Questions - Answered!
Please contact us at nacmid1983@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Each attendee and speaker has a QR code on the BACK of their name badge. Scan this barcode to add the person's name, email address, job title, and place of work to your phone's contact list. Information will also include the comment "NACMID 2025" so you can easily search your list for contacts acquired during the conference.
This QR code is used for registration purposes only. The registration booth will scan this code when you check in for the conference.
An online evaluation will be emailed to each attendee at the completion of the conference. Fill out the evaluation for each session you attended; a CMLE certificate will be issued by email within 3 days of submission.
If you attend both days, you can claim a total of 9.5 CMLE credits:
- Monday total credits = 5.5 (3 credits for the morning workshops and 2.5 credits for the afternoon workshops). Note: No CMLE credits are available for the keynote address.
- Tuesday total credits = 4 (1 credit per session EXCLUDING the vendor focused talks in block 3)
You can find meal tickets behind your badge in the badge holder. You should have a ticket for each day you are registered for the conference. If you are missing a meal ticket, please ask for one at the registration booth.
NACMID bingo encourages attendees to visit all of our vendors! This year we have so many vendors that we have two separate bingo cards. Simply visit all of the vendors on your card by 2:15pm then turn in your card at the NACMID booth in the exhibits hall. Raffle prizes for completed cards will be given both days of the conference.
Yes! Students will be presenting their posters at 1:30pm on Monday. Other posters are also on presentation outside the exhibits hall. A list of poster titles and authors are below.
NACMID 2025 Session Locations
Monday Workshops
Workshop A (8am-12pm) - Hunt Club
Laboratory Identification of Blood Parasites, with Blaine Mathison
Workshop B (8am-12pm) - Trafalgar
Microbiology Specimen Management and Diagnostic Stewardship, with Robert C. Jerris and J. Michael Miller
Workshop C (8am-12:30pm) -Amphitheater
Applying NGS in Infectious Diseases: From Theory to Real-World Use, with Emily Snavely
Lunch (12:30pm-2:30pm) - Exhibits Hall
Workshop D (2:30pm-5pm) - Hunt Club
Gastrointestinal Parasites: Revisiting and Rebooting our Knowledge of Organisms, Detection methods, and Practical Laboratory Issues, with Marc Roger Couturier
Workshop E (2:30pm-5pm) - Trafalgar
What is New in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing? with Romney Humphries
Tuesday General Sessions
Session A (8am-9am) - Trafalgar
Blood Cultures Backwards and Forward, with Matthew A. Pettengill
Session B (8am-9am) - Amphitheater
Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines, with Donna Wolk
Session C (8am-9am) - Hunt Club
Challenges in the Diagnosis of Fungal Infections, with Esther Babady
Session D (10:30am-11:30am) - Amphitheater
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
Session E (10:30am-11:30am) - Hunt Club
Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens: An Update for Clinical Laboratorians, with Ben T. Bradley
Session F (10:30am-11:30am) - Trafalgar
Vaginal Cultures or NAAT for Vaginitis/Vaginosis: What's the Verdict? with Phyu Thwe
Session G (11:30am-12:30am) - Hunt Club
CHROMagar So Bright - You Gotta Wear Shades: Paving the Way to Brilliant Detection and Differentiation, with Nathan Ledeboer
Session H (11:30am-12:30am) - Amphitheater
Strengthening Partnerships Between Hospital and State Labs Using the IR-Biotyper, with Phil Jessmon and Melissa Guenther
Session I (11:30am-12:30am) - Trafalgar
Ceftobiprole: A New Instrument in the Toolbox, with David P. Nicolau
Session J (2:50pm-3:50pm) - Hunt Club
"Parasite AI Has Entered the Chat": Parasitology Finally Leads the Field in Clinical Microbiology, with Marc Roger Couturier
Session K (2:50pm-3:50pm) - Trafalgar
Speeding to Solutions for Sepsis: Fast Phenotypic Susceptibility in the Era of Rapid Molecular Identification, with Alexa Ekchian
Session L (2:50pm-3:50pm) - Amphitheater
Lab Life After a New LIS and EMR: Epic Successes and Lessons Learned, with Eric Ransom
Session M (4pm-5pm) - Trafalgar
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