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 2024
January
January 10
Robert Freund, MD
PGY4
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN
January 17
Katarina Cheng, MD
Co-Chief Resident, PGY4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Cancer prognostications, health equity & diasporas"
January 24
Liberty Bonestroo, DO
PGY4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Anal cancer screening – Pap smear and biopsy concordance: A 13-year institutional review"
January 31
Mohammad Barouqa, MD
Assistant Professor
Pathology
Frederick P. Widdon College of Medicine
University of Southern Alabama
Mobile, Alabama
Faculty Host: Ismail Elbaz Younes, MD
"Neutrophil extracellular traps detection in peripheral blood smears"
February
February 7
Christina Orr, MD
Assistant Professor
& Christopher Davidson, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Faculty Host: Deborah Powell, MD
"Experience and insights from the early adoption of a competency-based residency program in pathology"
Objectives:
1. To become familiar with elements of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada’s approach to CBME
2. To gain an appreciation of the challenges faced in our CBME based program
3. To gain an appreciation of the positive effects resulting from the introduction of CBME
February 14
Susan Thibodeaux, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Faculty Host: David McKenna, MD
“Exploring challenges and opportunities of cell therapy product collections”
February 21
Education Grand Rounds
Gary Procop, MD, MS
Chief Executive Officer
American Board of Pathology
Chicago, Illinois
Faculty Host: Deborah Powell, MD
"The American Board of Pathology: The Past, present, and a bright, bold future"
February 28
Amy Moran, PhD
Associate Professor
Cell, Development and Cancer Biology
& Cancer Biology Graduate Program
School of Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University
Faculty Host: Sara Hamilton Hart, PhD
"Targeting androgens to improve anti-tumor immunity in prostate cancer"
March
March 6
Robert Zeiser, PhD
Professor
Hematology and Oncology
Department of Medicine 1
University Medical Center
Freiberg, Germany
Faculty Host: Christopher Pennell, PhD
"Strategies to enhance the GVL effect"
March 13
Katrina Collins, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgical Pathology and Genitourinary Pathology
Associate Program Director, Genitourinary Pathology Fellowship
Indiana University Health Pathology Laboratory
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
"What’s new in GU Pathology and the WHO 2022 classification”
March 20
Parmjeet S. Randhawa, MD
Professor
Transplantation Pathology
Department of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Faculty Host: Oyedele Adeyi, MD
"Renal transplant histopathology vs tissue transcriptomics areas of agreement & disagreement"
March 27
Tony Wyss-Corray, PhD
D H Chen Professor II
Dept Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Faculty Host: Anna Prizment, PhD, MPH
Title: TBD
April
April 3
Abner Louissaint, Jr. MD, PhD
Medical Director, Core Laboratory
Massachusettes General Hospital
Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard University
Faculty Host: Michael Linden, MD, PhD
Title: TBD
April 10
Mohammed K. Eldomery, MD
Assistant Member
Department of Pathology
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee
Faculty Host: Siddhartha Sen, MD, PhD
Title: TBD
April 17
Jim Zimring, MD, PhD
Thomas Tillack Professor of Experimental Pathology
School of Medicine
University of Virginia
Faculty Host: Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD
Title: TBD
April 24
Anthony Killeen, MD, PhD
Ellis S. Benson Professor
Director, Division of Clinical Pathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Title: TBD
May
May 1
Sunil Ahuja, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Director, VA Center for Personalized Medicine
San Antonio, Texas
Faculty Host: Bharat Thyagarajan, MD, PhD, MPH
“Immune resilience: Why some people get sick less often and live longer?"
May 8
Vijayalakshmi Padmanabahn, MD
May 15
Michelle Stoffel, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Clinical Pathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Title: TBD
May 22
Ameeta Kelekar, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Division
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Title: TBD