“…The medical world, and to a striking extent, public policy makers, turned to academic pathology leaders both to make sense of diagnostic testing for the new pathogen that was SARS-CoV-2 and understand how health care could be provided in the midst of the evolving pandemic. 5 , 6 Under dire circumstances, the real-time sharing of frontline information helped prepare academic pathology leadership across the continent (U.S. and Canada) for the emergency command meetings occurring within their own institutions, their interactions with regional civic and public health officials, and perhaps most importantly, for making the decisions that had to be made for their own laboratory operations. In the words of one academic pathology leader, this network “helped save lives”.…”