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, MD
Title: TBD
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
Title: TBD
February 19
Koorosh Shahpasand, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Title: TBD
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
Title: TBD
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
Title: TBD
March 12
Meghan Lindstrom, MD
PGY4 – Co Chief Resident
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Title: TBD
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
Title: TBD
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
Title: TBD
April
April 2
DEI Lecture
Madison Esposito
University of Minnesota Medical School
April 9
Angela Lager, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory
Department of Pathology
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Faculty Host: Jennifer Laffin, PhD
Title: TBD
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
Title: TBD
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
Title: TBD
April 30
Andrew Bellizzi, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Director of Gastrointestinal Pathology
Co-Director
Immunopathology Laboratory
Department of Pathology
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City, Iowa
Faculty Host: Alessio Giubellino, MD, PhD
Title: TBD
May
May 7
DEI Lecture
Katie Wilson, MY1
University of Minnesota Medical School
Faculty Host: Oyedeli Adeyi, MD
Title: TBD
May 14
Elaine S. Jaffe, MD
NIH Distinguished Investigator
Head, Hematopathology Section
National Cancer Institute
Center for Cancer Research
Bethesda, Maryland
Faculty Host: Michael Linden, MD, PhD
Title: TBD
May 21
M. Saeed Sheikh, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
UPSTATE Medical University
Syracuse, New York
Faculty Hosts: Janeen Trembley, PhD and Khalid Amin, PhD
Title: TBD