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
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
Assistant Professor
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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
March
March 1
Yan Zhou, MD, PhD
Co-Chief Resident
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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
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
University of Washington School of Medicine
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
March 29
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Explain the basic tenets underlying machine learning
- Describe 2 applications of machine learning within pathology
- Outline major benefits but also important limitations of machine learning
April
April 5
Professor
College of Medicine - Memphis
University of Tennessee Health Sciences
Memphis, Tennessee
April 12
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Department of Pharmacology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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
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