Grand Rounds
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Grand Rounds are designed to improve the broad practice of laboratory medicine and pathology, including patient care, research, medical education and innovation. Sessions are open to the public and presentations are posted online for review. CME credits are available.
Time & Location
Grand Rounds are held weekly on Wednesdays from 8:00-9:00 a.m. via Zoom.
Spring Semester 2025
January
January 15
Mohamad Alutaibi, MBBS
PGY4, Co-Chief Resident
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Colorectal cancer from the surgical pathology point of view"
January 22
Matt Paz, DO
PGY4 Resident
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Beyond the skin: a discussion of extracutaneous melanoma"
January 29
Teddy Mamo, MD, PhD
PGY4 Resident
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
"The clinical role of laboratory medicine in powering the growth of cellular therapies"
February
February 5
Ajay Rana, PhD
Endowed Professor
Department of Surgery and Medicine
Transitional Oncology Program, Cancer Center
College of Medicine
University of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Faculty Hosts: Kaylee Schwertferger, MD and Khalil Ahmed, PhD
"Mechanism-based targeting of MLKs in cancer"
February 12
Cate Paschal, PhD
Senior Technical Director
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics Lab
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington Faculty Host: Jennifer Laffin, PhD
"The potential applications of long-read sequencing in clinical genetic testing"
February 19
Koorosh Shahpasand, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
February 26
Brian Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California Faculty Host: Shannon Sullivan, PhD, MPH
"Epigenetic mechanisms of smoking, air pollution, and lung cancer in diverse populations"
March
March 5
George Hauser, MD
Associate Professor
Laboratory Medicine
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Faculty Host: Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD
"Alloantibody Exchange: A national tool for transfusion history review"
March 12
Meghan Lindstrom, MD
PGY4 – Co Chief Resident
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
"The past, present, and future of pathology in medical education"
March 19
Mustafa Yousif, MD
Assistant Professor
Breast Pathology and Informatics
Michigan Medicine
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Faculty Host: Michelle Stoffel, MD, PhD
March 26
Peter Van Loo, PhD
Professor and CPRIT Scholar
Department of Genetics
Division of Discovery Science
MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
Houston, Texas
Faculty Host: Ruping Sun, PhD
"Molecular archeology of cancer"
April
April 2
Madison Esposito
University of Minnesota Medical School
"Investigating Sudden Unexplained Infant Death: A multisystem approach"
April 9
Angela Lager, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory
Department of Pathology
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Faculty Host: Jennifer Laffin, PhD
"The clinical utility of Optical Genome Mapping (OGM) in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL)"
April 16
Scott Koepsell, MD, PhD
Vice Chair for Clinical Operations
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Professor and Medical Director
Nebraska Medicine Apheresis Services
University of Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska
Faculty Host: David McKenna, MD
"Pathogen-reduced platelets: What is the real cost and benefit?"
April 23
Jon Morrow, MD, PhD
Raymond Yesner Professor of Pathology
Professor
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Faculty Host: Minghao Zhong, MD, PhD
"The spread of spectrin - unexpected pathology from an ancient ghost protein"
April 30
Andrew Bellizzi, MD
Clinical Professor
Director of Gastrointestinal Pathology
Co-Director
Immunopathology Laboratory
Department of Pathology
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City, Iowa
Faculty Host: Liam Chen, MD, PhD
May
May 7
Katie Wilson, MY1
University of Minnesota Medical School
Faculty Host: Deborah Powell, MD
“Avenues in advocacy for pathology: Centering equity, visibility, and public health impact”
May 14
Linda B. Baughn, PhD
Co-Director
Clinical Genomics Laboratory
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
"Understanding the biology of t(11;14) multiple myeloma"
May 21
M. Saeed Sheikh, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
UPSTATE Medical University
Syracuse, New York
Faculty Hosts: Janeen Trembley, PhD and Khalil Ahmed, PhD
Title: TBD