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 2026
January
January 7
Bashar Aldaraiseh, MBBS
Chief Resident, PGY-4
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Faculty host: Byound UK Park, MD
“Noncirrhotic portal hypertension: Causes, classification, and clinical features”
January 14
Dina El-Rayes, MBBCh
PGY4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Faculty host: Mahmoud Khalifa, MD, PhD
January 21
Rayan Sabir, MBBS
PGY4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
“I can’t keep up!”: Navigating updates in bone and soft tissue pathology beyond the 2020 WHO classification of soft tissue and bone tumours"
January 28
Andrew Rosenberg, MD
Clinical Professor
Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs
Anatomic Pathology
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Miller School of Medicine
University of Florida, Miami
Faculty host: Emil Racilla, MD
February
February 4
Martin Peifer, PhD
Professor
Department of Translational Genomics
University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Faculty host: Ruping Sun, PhD
"Insights into pathogenesis and tumor evolution of neuroblastoma from sequencing data"
February 11
Elaine S. Jaffe, MD
Head, Hematopathology Section
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland
Faculty host: Michael Linden, MD, PhD
“The microscope as a tool for disease discovery”
February 18
Joanna Gibson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Director of Quality and Patient Safety
Department of Pathology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Faculty host: Molly Klein, MD
“Moving the patient safety needle toward excellence: A tour of quality management in pathology”
February 25
Timothy O’Leary, MD, PhD
Former Chief Research and Development Officer
Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development
Faculty host: Michelle Dolan, MD
“Leadership and professionalism in uncertain times: A personal perspective”
March
March 4
Rameen Baroukhim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Faculty host: Ruping Sun, PhD.
"Detecting positive and negative selection shaping SVs in cancer genomes"
March 11
Emily Snavely, PhD
Associate Professor
Clinical Pathology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Faculty host: Evann Hilt, M(ASCP)CM, MS, PhD
March 18
Lisa Brodersen, PhD
Associate Professor and Clinical Pathology
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Flow Cytometry
Center for Diagnostic Innovation
Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Integrating phenotype and genotype for advanced MRD testing in pediatric acute leukemia”
April
April 1
Megan Fitzpatrick, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Faculty Host: Michael Linden, MD, PhD
"The evolution of acute erythroid leukemia: The past, the present and future directions"
April 8
Frida Rosenblum, MD
Associate Professor
Director, Cytology Fellowship
Department of Pathology
Heersink School of Medicine
The University of Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Faculty host: Diana Oramas-Mogrovejo, MD
April 15
Shoshanna Eggers, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Faculty host: Shannon Sullivan, PhD, MPH
"Metals, microbes, and disease: Insights across systems and outcomes”
April 22
Debdatta Basu, MBBS, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute
Puducherry, India
Faculty host: Paari Murugan, MD
"Bone marrow in the diagnosis of pancytopenia"
April 29
Avinash Darmadhikari, PhD
Assistant Director
Clinical Genomics Laboratory
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Assistant Professor
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Faculty host: Jennifer Laffin, PhD, FACMG
May
May 6
Peter Morawski, PhD
Principal Investigator
Morawski Laboratory
Center for Fundamental Immunology
Benaroya Research Institute
Seattle, Washington
Faculty host: Sara Hamilton Hart, PhD
“Spatial remodeling of transcriptionally distinct stromal niches is uncoupled from overt skin pathology in systemic sclerosis”
May 13
Manisha Sutariya, PhD
LMP Molecular Genetics Fellow
and
Veronika Bachanova, MD
Professor of Medicine
Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
University of Minnesota
“The Yin-Yang of CAR-T therapy: Cure for one malignancy, risk for another”
May 20
Andrew Johnson, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Tools to standardize apheresis reporting"
May 27
Carla Rothlin, PhD
Professor
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Andersen Chair in Immunology
Director, Center of Immunology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Faculty host: Chris Pennell, PhD
"Dying cells in health and disease: From resolution to chronic inflammation"