[Histonet] IHC

Tue Oct 13 09:40:15 CDT 2026

I think it really depends the lab. There are no specific regulations that
require that it be separate. However, if you don't have a good training
plan for new hires - or you have a team that isn't consistently dedicated
to performing procedures by the book I have seen where IHC and other things
like Neuro/Renal/Autopsy/Frozen sections are performed by only specific
portions of an overall Histology team.

The pitfalls of having dedicated IHC folks does mean if anyone is ever out
on leave, or finds another position if you don't have enough people cross
trained you can end up shooting yourself in the foot operationally. So I
have found that trying to share the work across the team has worked best
for me in my experience. Where I am at we only let our ASCP certified techs
do IHC, we don't do any of the other specialty histo workflows
unfortunately.

I hope this helps!

On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 8:43 AM Whitaker, Bonnie via Histonet <
histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:

> Ours are separate.  When I was at Emory, years ago, they were separate,
> and when I was at UT Houston, the IHCs were with renal and neuro in the
> "special" lab. 🙂One private lab I was at was semi-separate, and the other
> private lab didn't do immunos (at least while I was there).
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> Bonnie Whitaker
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> We all do it here as well!
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> Jessica Piche, HT(ASCP)
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> No it is not separate.  We all know how to do everything.
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> Question:  does your histology lab have IHC separate from Histology?
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> From my experience, IHC is separate.  It may be in the same space, but the
> techs are IHC SMEs
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> How about you?
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