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 2023

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January

January 11

Elena Frye Naharro 
Co Chief Resident 
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
University of Minnesota Medical School 

"Navigating the new classification systems in hematopathology: Mature B cell lymphomas" 

  • Discuss the formation of the International Consensus Classification (ICC)
  • List the new entities within the ICC and the WHO 5th edition as it relates to mature B cell lymphomas
  • Identify and assess the differences in classification between the WHO 4th revised edition, WHO 5th edition, and ICC
 
January 18
Stefani Thomas, PhD

Assistant Professor
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Targeted mass spectrometry assays for serum protein high-grade serous ovarian cancer diagnostic biomarkers"

 
January 24

Christopher Tignanelli, MD
Institute for Health Informatics
Office of Academic Clinic Affairs
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Faculty host:  Leo Furcht, MD

"The Minnesota Learning Health System: Data to Knowledge, Knowledge to Performance, Performance to Data"
 

 

February

February 1

Andrew Stone, MD, PhD
PGY4
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

 “Rule Out MPN: Evaluation of molecular testing patterns for suspected myeloproliferative neoplasms"

February 8

Arun Rishi, PhD
Professor
Department of Oncology
Department of Internal Medicine
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

Hosts:  Drs. Khalil Ahmed and Janeen Trembley

"CARP-1/CCAR1: A Master Regulator of Cell growth & Survival Signaling"

February 15

Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH
Chief, Division of Pathology and Lab Medicine
Director, Transfusion Medicine
Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.

Host:  Dr. Claudia Cohn

"Access to safe blood transfusion in low and middle income nations: From 'big data' to mosquitos”

February 22

Hamid Tizhoosh, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Information, Artificial Intelligence
and Informatics
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Host:  Dr. Alessio Giubellino

"Mayo Atlas - Going after Variability"

March

March 1

Yan Zhou, MD, PhD
Co-Chief Resident
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

"An approach to pediatric primary hepatocellular malignancies: Hepatoblastoma vs. hepatocellular carcinoma"

March 8

Elizabeth Wellberg, BS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Harold Hamm Diabetes Center
Stephenson Cancer Center
College of Medicine
The University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

"FGFR/ER-signaling in the breast tumor environment links weight gain and endocrine-therapy resistance in a preclinical model of obesity"

 

March 15

Sanjay Patel, MD, MSc, MPH
Assistant Professor
Division of Hematopathology
Weill Cornell/New York Presbyterian Hospital
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

Faculty Host:  Dr. Bartosz Grzywacz

“Spatial mapping of human hematopoiesis at single-cell resolution reveals topographic remodeling associated with aging”

March 22
Soheil Meshinchi, MD, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Washington School of Medicine 
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
Faculty Host:  Dr. Betsy Hirsch 
 

 

March 29
Christopher Zarbock, MD
Laboratory Medicine & Pathology PGY-3
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Faculty Host:  Dr. Michelle Stoffel
 
 
Objectives:
  1. Explain the basic tenets underlying machine learning
  2. Describe 2 applications of machine learning within pathology
  3. Outline major benefits but also important limitations of machine learning
 
 
 
 
 
 

April

April 5
Tiffany Seagroves, MBA, PhD
Professor 
Department of Pathology
College of Medicine - Memphis 
University of Tennessee Health Sciences 
Memphis, Tennessee 
Faculty Host:  Dr. James McCarthy 
 
“Targeting metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer"
 
April 12
Meghan Driscoll, PhD
Assistant Professor
Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 
Department of Pharmacology
University of Minnesota Medical School 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 
Faculty Host:  Dr. Michael Greenwood 
 
 
 
April 19

Pawel Mroz, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Implementation of pharmacogenomic testing program at MHealth Fairview"

 
April 26

Vanessa Dayton, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School

"Diagnosing T-large granular lymphocytic leukemia in Vietnam: What WHO-HAEM5 isn’t telling us about T-LGLL in Asians (…yet)"

 

May

May 3

Eyal Gottlieb, PhD
Professor
Department of Cancer Research
Vice President for Research
MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
Houston, Texas

Faculty Host:  Dr. Ameeta Kelekar

“Genetically- and environmentally-induced metabolic vulnerabilities of cancer”

 
May 10

Kevin Lin, BS
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD/PhD Candidate
Myers/Bielinsky Lab
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Faculty Host:  Dr. Andrew Nelson

“Scalable chemical screen platform for predicting drug mode of action”

May 17

Petros Giannikopoulos, MD
Director, IGI Clinical Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Faculty Host:  Dr. Sophia Yohe

"The Role of Pathology in the Era of CRISPR-based Genomic Therapies"

 

May 24

Gabrielle N Winston McPherson, PhD
Associate Director of Chemistry
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan
           
DEI Lecture
"Transgender Care, in and beyond the lab"
Hosts:  Drs. Amy Karger and Deborah Powell