Cybersecurity attacks and natural disasters are unfortunate and frequent realities that worldwide health care systems face. This webinar will focus on the rationale that microbiology laboratories can apply and steps they can take to prepare for such service-disrupting events.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize and categorize the various types of risks, whether from malicious actors or natural disasters, that can directly impact laboratory operations.
- Identify strategies the laboratory can use to prepare for the risk of and minimize fallout from a cyberattack.
- Develop an emergency preparedness plan in the case of natural disasters and other unexpected events.
Webinar Date and Time
Aug. 20, 2025, 2-3 p.m. ET
Presenters
- Cecilia M. Thompson, Ph.D., D(ABMM), MLS(ASCP)CM, Director, Microbiology; Director, Quality, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Assistant Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
- Natalie Williams-Bouyer, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Associate Professor, Department of Pathology; Director, Division of Clinical Microbiology, UTMB Health; Clinical Consultant, Laboratory Services, Shriners Hospitals for Children-Texas.
Audience
Clinical and public health microbiologists/virologists, infectious disease clinicians and trainees.
Level of Instruction
Intermediate.
Availability
This free webinar is available with unlimited access to the webinar recording through Aug. 20, 2026.
Additional Information
- This webinar is free to 黑料正能量members and non-members.
- The live webinar will be held on Aug. 20, 2025, and the recording will become available by Aug. 27, 2025.
- Zoom closed captioning is provided. Please email 黑料正能量if other accommodations are needed.
- Questions? Contact Nicole Jackson, clinmicro@asmusa.org.
Continuing Education (CE) Credit
CE for this webinar was kindly sponsored by .
Each presentation is approved for 1.0 P.A.C.E. ®, California or Florida credit.
The 黑料正能量 is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program. Professional Acknowledgment for Continuing Education (P.A.C.E. ®) is an administrative system established to stimulate and serve as the quality assurance mechanism for continuing education programs offered to clinical laboratory professionals by ASCLS constituent societies, laboratory industry, government agencies, hospitals and educational organizations.
The 黑料正能量 is accredited by the California Department of Health to offer continuing education for California Clinical Laboratory Personnel.
The 黑料正能量 is accredited by the Florida Department of Health to offer continuing education for Florida Clinical Laboratory Personnel.
Sponsor
This webinar is supported in part by .
