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: Minghao Zhong, MD, PhD
“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: Anthony Killeen, MD, PhD
March
March 4
Rameen Baroukhim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Faculty host: Calvin Sun, PhD, Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy
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
TBD
March 25
Andrew Johnson, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Transfusion Medicine
Dept of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
April
April 1
Meagan Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
School of Medicine
University of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Faculty host: Michael Linden, MD, PhD
April 8
Frida Rosemblum, MD
Associate Professor
Director, Cytology Fellowship
Department of Pathology
Heersink School of Medicine
The University of Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Faculty host: Yanli Ding, MD, PhD
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
April 22
Debdatta Basu, MD
Professor
Department of Pathology
Jawaharial Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research
Dhanvantri Nagar
Puducherry India
Faculty host: Paari Murugan, MD
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
May 13
Evann Hilt, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
Infectious Disease and Diagnostic Laboratory
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 20
Betsy Hirsch, PhD
Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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