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Fall 2023

September 13 

Danni Li, PhD 
Associate Professor  
Division of Clinical Chemistry  
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology  
University of Minnesota Medical School  
Minneapolis, Minnesota 

"A blood-based approach to Alzheimer’s disease:  Think outside the box (brain)"


September 20

Srikar Chamala, PhD 
Director, Center for Pathology Informatics and Data Science 
Associate Professor, Clinical Pathology  
Keck School of Medicine  
University of Southern California 
Los Angeles, California
Faculty Host:  Dr. Pawel Mroz 

"Precision Genomic Medicine – Challenges, Opportunities, and a Roadmap for Effective Delivery" 

September 27

Courtney Thomas, DO 
Assistant Professor  
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology  
University of Texas Health 
San Antonio, Texas 

"Updates in molecular and pathologic features of hepatocellular carcinoma"

October 4 

Goutam Charkraborty, PhD. 
Assistant Professor 
Department of Urology  
Icahn School of Medicine  
Mount Sinai 
New York, New York
Faculty Host:  Dr. Sidhartha Senn 

“Functional genomics of prostate cancer: Bedside to bench and back” 

 
October 11

Shihuan Kang, PhD  
Professor  
Department of Animal Sciences  
Interdisciplinary Life Sciences  
Purdue University  
West Lafayette, Indiana
Faculty Host:  Dr. Liam Chen  

"Lipid droplet as a key regulator of muscle stem cells and regeneration" 

October 18

Brittney Harrington, BSC, PhD 
Women’s Malignancies Branch  
National Cancer Institute  
Bethesda, Maryland
Dr. Amy Skubitz

"Using translational genomics to target ovarian cancer stem cells" 
 

October 25

Inga Hofman, MD, PhD 
Medical Director  
Program for Advanced Cell Therapy  
Academic Physician Coach  
University of Wisconsin 
Madison, Wisconsin
Faculty Host:  Dr. Michael Linden 

"What determines your level of academic and personal success - no matter what stage in your career you are at?"

November 1

Michael Farrar, PhD
Professor and Virginia and David C Utz
Land Grand Chair in Fundamental Biology 
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
University of Minnesota Medical School 
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Faculty Host:  Dr. Sara Hamilton Hart

"Immune tolerance and leukemia relapse"


November 8

Mahmoud Khalifa, MD, PhD
Professor 
Donald F. Gleason MD, PhD 
Professorship in Surgical Pathology
Division of Anatomic Pathology 
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 

"Transgender pathology: Our current state"

Objectives:
1. Understanding language and terminology
2. Explore the range of expected histologic  findings
3. Emphasize impact on future screening
4. Explain laboratory administration and compliance challeng

November 15

Laura Niedernhofer, MD, PhD
Professor
Biochemistry Molecular Biology and Biophysics
College of Biological Sciences
University of Minnesota 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 
Faculty Host:  Dr. Sara Hamilton Hart 

"Geroscience approaches to extend healthspan" 

Objectives: 

1) Define Geroscience and the impetus behind this novel approach to managing the health of our aging population. 
2) Define cellular senescence and its role as a drug target  
3) Provide information about the resources provided by UMN Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism to support clinical research.

November 22 – No Grand Rounds 

November 29

Marc R. Courturier, PhD
Professor 
Department of Pathology 
ARUP Laboratories
University of Utah School of Medicine 
Salt Lake City, Utah 
Faculty Host:  Dr. Patricia Ferrieri 

"Digital imaging and machine learning for stool parasite detection"

December 6 

Taylor Brown, MD
Doctoral Candidate 
Medical Science Training Program  
Department of Neuroscience  
Medical School  
University of Minnesota  
Minneapolis, Minnesota  
Faculty Host:  Dr. Liam Chen  

"GFAP+ astrocytes in the zQ175 mouse model of Huntington’s disease and their translatability in human pathology"

December 13 

Forest White, PhD 
Ned C and Janet C (Bemis) Rice Professor 
Biological Engineering  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT  
Cambridge, Massachusetts 
Faculty Host:  Dr. Kaylee Schwertferger

"Functional proteomics for clinical insight"

 

Spring 2023

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 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
Faculty 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.
Faculty 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   
Facultyost:  Dr. Alessio Giubellino

"Mayo Atlas - Going after Variability"

 

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 

"AML-Restricted : Discovery and directed immunotherapeutic development"

March 29

Christopher Zarbock, MD 
Laboratory Medicine & Pathology PGY-3   
University of Minnesota Medical School   
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Faculty host:  Dr. Michelle Stoffel

"Artificial intelligence and pathology"

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 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

"Digging tunnels, shaping signaling, and other functions of cellular morphology"

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 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   
Faculty hosts:  Drs. Amy Karger and Deborah Powell

"Transgender Care, in and beyond the lab"   
 

Fall 2022


September 7

David Rimm, MD, PhD
Anthony N. Brady, Professor of Pathology and
Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
Director, Yale Cancer Center Tissue Microarray Facility, Pathology
Director, Yale Pathology Tissue Services, Pathology
Director, Physician Scientist Training Program, Pathology Research
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Faculty Host:  Dr. Alesio Giubellino

"Low HER2: New Drugs Need a New Assay" 

 

September 14

Juliane Gust, MD, PhD
Acting Assistant Professor
Neurosciences Center, Dept of Neurology
Seattle Children’s Hospital
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Host:  Christopher Pennell

Title: “CAR T cells and the brain – a dangerous dance”

 

September 21

Brian Betts, MD

Associate Professor
Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation
Department of Medicine
Medical School
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Faculty Host:  Dr. David McKenna

Title:  "Targeting CD83 to prevent GVHD and leukemia relapse after alloHCT"

 

September 28

Michael Koob, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

University of Minnesota

 

Title:  "Modeling the genetics of human dementia in mice"

 

October 5

Monica Guzman, PhD
Associate Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Faculty Host:  Dr. Sidhartha Senn

"Targeting leukemia stem cells in AML"

 

October 12

Yuzhuo Wang, PhD
Distinguished Scientist and Professor
Department of Medicine
Vancouver Prostate Centre
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

Host:  Dr. Scott Dehm

"A legacy of achievements at VPC"
 

October 19

Gordana Raca, MD, PhD, FACMG

Director, Clinical Cytogenomics Laboratory, Center for Personalized Medicine

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology

Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California

Host:  Betsy Hirsch

"Utility of RNA sequencing and optical genomic mapping for comprehensive assessment of genomic abnormalities in pediatric B-lymphoblastic leukemia"

 

October 26

Sean Tracy, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
HOT Division
Medical School
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Faculty Host:  Michael Farrar

"Relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia is shaped by the actions of novel CD4+ T-cell subsets"

 

November 2

Volker Witt, MD
Division of Pediatric Apheresis
Department of Pediatrics
St. Anna Kinderspital
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Faculty Host:  Nicole Zantek

"Apheresis in children in Vienna"

 

November 9

Fecundo Fernandez, PhD
Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia

Faculty Host: Dr. Amy Skubitz

"An introduction to high resolution metabolomics for biomarker discovery"

 

November 16

Anthony Killeen, MD, MSc, PhD
Ellis S. Benson Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
Univ of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Importance of biological variation in laboratory medicine”

 

November 30

Sophia Yohe, MD, PhD
Director, Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory
Division of Hematopathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Optical genome mapping in hematologic malignancies"

 

December 7

Anthony Demetris, MD
Starzl Professor of Liver and Transplant Pathology
Department of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Faculty Host: Oyedele Adeyi

"Progress toward precision hepatic and transplant pathology"
 

December 14

Jason Sheltzer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery (Oncology) and Genetics
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Faculty Host:  Ruping Sun

"Oncogene-like 'addictions' to aneuploidy in human cancers"

 

December 21

Annette S. Kim, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology, Associate Pathologist, Pathology
Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Faculty Host:  Sophia Yohe 

"ICUS, UCUS, we all CCUS at Boston Drivers: Some method to the madness!"

 

Spring 2022

January 12
Monica Sanchez-Avila, MD
Surgical Pathology Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
 
 
January 19
Hira Yousaf, MBBS
Cytopathology Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
University of Minnesota 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 
 
 
 
January 26 - DEI Grand Rounds

Andrea Deyrup, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Director, Undergraduate Medical Education
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

and

Joseph Graves, PhD
Professor, Biological Sciences
Department of Biology
North Carolina A & T State University
Greensboro, North Carolina

Faculty Host:  Dr. Deborah Powell

"Race in Medicine: Data or Distraction?"

 

February 2
Anna Pratt, MD
PGY 4 Resident
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 

 

February 9
Jesse Seegmiller, PhD.
Assistant Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
 
February 16
Stuart A. Scott, PhD
Professor, University Medical Line, Pathology
Director, Clinical Genomics Laboratory
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
Host:  Sarah Munro, PhD
 
 
February 23
Sharon Nofec-Mozes, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Sunnybrook
University of Toronto

"Individual risk assessment for patients with DCIS: Lessons learned from the Ontario DCIS Cohort"

 

March 2
Sayak Ghatak, MBBS, PhD
PGY3, Anatomic Pathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
"HER2 del 16 and resistance to targeted therapy in CRC" (part 1, March 2, and part 2, March 30)

 

March 9
Leena Hilakivi-Clarke, PhD
Assistant Director of Research
Professor, Food Science and Nutrition
Hormel Institute
University of Minnesota
Austin, Minnesota
Hosts:  Khalil Ahmed and Janeen Trembley
 
 
March 16
Erika Pearce, PhD 
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology 
Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Johns Hopkins University 
Baltimore, Maryland 
Host: Ameeta Kelekar

"Mitochondrial shape-shifting in the T cell response"

March 30
Sayak Ghatak, MBBS, PhD, PGY3
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
"HER2 del 16 and resistance to targeted therapy in CRC" (part 1, March 2, and part 2, March 30)
 
 
April 6
Tuan M. Tran, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana
Host:  Sara Hamilton Hart
 
 
April 13
Ronald Jackups, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology
Associate CMIO, Laboratory Informatics
BJC Medical, St. Louis, Missouri
Host:  Michele Stoffel
 
 
April 20

Kamila Naxerova, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
PI, Center for Systems Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts 
Host:  Ruping Sun
 
 
April 27
Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Host:  Oyedele Adeyi, MD
 
 
 
May 4
Ling Li, PhD
Professor and VFW Endowed Chair
Experimental and Clinical Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy
University of Minnesota
Host:  Danni Li

"HDL - Good for the Heart and Good for the Mind, a lipid approach to stop the progression of Alzheimer's Disease"

 

May 11
Zohar Sachs, MD, PhD
Lois and Richard King Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplant
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN
Host:  Jim McCarthy
 
 
 
May 18
Amy Karger, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
Host:  Deborah Powell
 

 

May 25
Betsy Hirsch, PhD
Director of Cytogenetics
and Michelle Dolan, MD
Associate Director of Cytogenetics
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"Cytogenetic evolution: Perspectives from within" 

Fall 2021

September 8

Lihong Bu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anatomic Pathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Medical School, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

“The significance of glomerular galactose deficient IgA1 on kidney biopsies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)"

 

September 15

Stephen Jameson, PhD
Professor and Chairman’s Fund
Professorship in Experimental Pathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Medical School, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

and

Michael Koob, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Medical School, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

"A new mouse model for SARS-CoV-2 infection and immune response research: Modeling the 99%"

 

September 22

Douglas Strand, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Urology
Cancer Biology, Genetics, Development and Disease
University of Texas, Southwestern
Dallas, Texas

"A cellular anatomy of human prostate disease"

 

September 29
Jinjuan Yao, MD, PhD
Assistant Attending
Diagnostic Molecular Pathology
Department of Pathology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

“The model of molecular diagnostics at research hospital-MSK experience”

 

October 6

Karen Choi, MD
Assistant Professor
Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary Pathology, Surgical Pathology
Department of Pathology
Michigan Medicine
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

“Gastric adenocarcinoma: A review and updates”

 

October 13

Kristy A. Brown, PhD
Associate Professor
Biochemistry in Medicine
Clinical and Transitional Science Center
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

"Novel mediators of the obesity -- breast cancer link: Opportunities for intervention?"

 

October 20

Andrew Hoofnagel, MD, PhD
Head, Division of Clinical Chemistry
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

"Proteomics: Catching flies with chopsticks"

 

October 27

Leticia Oliveira-Ferrer, PhD
Institute of Anatomy
University Hospital – Eppendorf
Hamburg, Germany

“Mechanisms of ovarian cancer progression:  Tumor heterogeneity and the role of ascites-derived tumor cells”

 

November 3

Molly Klein, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Neoadjuvant therapy for breast carcinoma: Evaluation of inter-regimen breast biopsies to identify candidates for de-escalation of therapy"

 

November 10
Elizabeth Anne Montgomery, MD
Professor of Pathology
Vice Chair, Anatomic Pathology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

“Gastrointestinal tract mesenchymal neoplasms – Location is Everything”

 

November 17
Christopher Mason, PhD
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York
Host:  Sarah Munro, PhD
 
 
 
November 24 

Thanksgiving Holiday

 

December 1
James Modiano, VMD, PhD
Perlman Professor of Oncology and Comparative Medicine
Director, Animal Cancer Care and Research Program
College of Veterinary Medicine and Masonic Cancer Center
University of Minnesota
 

“One pathologist’s dream:  Detecting cancer before it starts, and killing it before it forms”

 

December 8
Nicole Cipriani, MD
Associate Professor
Head and Neck Cancer
Department of Pathology
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

"Where have all the cancers gone? Diagnostic dilemmas in follicular-patterned thyroid neoplasms"

 

December 15

Jonathan Kirk, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Director, Loyola Proteomics Core
Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University
Maywood, Illinois

“Cardiac sarcomere protein quality control and BAG3: Repairing the engine without stopping the car”

Spring 2021

January 13 

Aimi Toyama, MD, PGYIV
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

“PRAME and its potential in mucosal melanomas and germ cell tumors”      

 

January 20 

Ryan Martinez, MD, PhD, PGYIV
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Thymic B cells in autoimmunity and cancer”

 

January 27
Beau Webber, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics 
Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota 
Host:  David McKenna, MD

"Gene edited T cells for cancer immunotherapy"

 

February 3

Antoine Wrice, MD, PGYIV
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Bias in healthcare: Implicitly explicit”

 

February 10
Eliezer Van Allen, MD
Assistant Professor & Director for Cancer Precision Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Dana Farber/Partner Care Center
Boston, Massachusettes
Faculty Host: Dr. Scott Dehm

"Computational oncology and precision cancer medicine"

 

February 17   

Yung Gong, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology/Laboratory Medicine
Division of Cytology Section
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Faculty Host:  Dr. Faqian Li

"Strategic approach to a correct FNA diagnosis of metastatic neoplasms"

 

February 24

Pooria Koshnoodi, MD, PGYIV
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

“The current landscape of rhabdomyosarcomas”

 
March 3

Navdeep Chandel, PhD
David W. Cugell, MD Professor
Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
Faculty Host: Ameeta Kelekar, PhD

"Mitochondria control cancer and immunity"

 

March 10
Tony Ng, MD PhD 
Clinical Associate Professor | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA 
Faculty Host:  Mahmoud Khalifa, MD, PHD
 
Title: Molecular diagnosis of sarcomas: novel methodologies and clinical implications


March 17
Andrew P. Cap, MS, MD, PhD, FACP
Colonel, Medical Corps, US Army
Director of Research, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
Hematology-Oncology Consultant to the US Army Surgeon General
NATO Blood Panel Co-Chair
Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University
Hematology/Oncology/BMT Staff, San Antonio Military Medical Center
San Antonio, Texas
Faculty Host:  Nicole Zantek, MD, PhD
 

 

March 24
Caleb Skipper, MD 
Fellow 
Division of Infectious Disease 
Department of Medicine 
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Faculty Host:  Patricia Ferrieri, MD

"Cytomegalovirus viremia as a risk factor for mortality in advanced HIV disease with concomitant opportunistic infections"

 

March 31      
Jin Chen, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, and Cell and Developmental Biology
Director of Graduate Studies in Cancer Biology
Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Faculty hosts:  Dr. Khalil Ahmed and Dr. Janeen Trembley

"Enhancing anti-tumor immunity by regulating vascular signaling and selective targeting of tumor glutamine metabolism"

 

April 7

Tiffany Hebert, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Faculty Host:  Deborah Powell, MD

"Training the next generation of pathologists:  The Montefiore experience"

 

April 14

Jennifer Hunt, MD
Chair, Pathology
College of Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Faculty Host:  Sophia Yohe, MD, PhD

"Women in Leadership"

 

April 21           
Betsy Hirsch, PhD
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Director, Cancer Genomics Shared Resource
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
 
Edward Anders Kolb, MD
Director - Blood & Bone Marrow Transplantation (BBMT) - HEM/ONC
Head - Cancer Therapeutics (Delaware Valley), Nemours Childrens Health System
Wilmington, Delaware

 

Todd Cooper, DO
Co-Interim Division Chief, Hematology-Oncology
Evans Family Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cancer
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, Washington

"Children’s Oncology Group: Advances in clinical trials and treatment of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia"

 

April 28
Rhonda Yantiss, MD
Chief of Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York
Faculty Host:  Emil Racila, MD


"The pathogenesis of coronavirus disease 2019: Insights from surgical pathologists"

 

 

May 5
Christian Martijn Schuerch, MD
Professor, Ad Interim
Senior Consultant Physician
Institute of Pathology
University Hospital of Tubingen
Tubingen, Germany

"Predicting cancer immunotherapy response by highly multiplexed tumor imaging"

 

May 12

Jan Czyzk, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Anatomic Pathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota 

“The role of serpinB13 in beta cell development and diabetes”

 

May 19
Sarah Bean, MD
Professor of Pathology
Clinical Sciences Department
Duke University
Raleigh, North Carolina
Faculty Hosts:  Michelle Dolan and Deborah Powell

"Just okay is not okay!  Giving and receiving feedback effectively"

 

May 26
Maha Guindi, MD
Medical Director, Digital and Telepathology
Director of GI and Liver Pathology, and Fellowship Program
Cedar Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

 

Fall 2020

September 9

Hooman Rashidi, MD
Professor and Vice Chair, GME
Director of Flow Cytology and Immunology
Sacramento, California
Faculty Host:  Dr. Sarah Williams

"Automated machine learning & the introduction of MILO (Machine Intelligence Learning Optimizer)"

September 16

Meghan Hupp, MD
Fellow, Division of Hematopathology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

"College of American Pathologists Proficiency Testing and Laboratory Accreditation Program"  

 
September 23

Laurie Littlepage, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indianna
Faculty Host:  Dr. Kaylee Schwertferger

"Tumor metabolism and chemokine signaling as vulnerabilities of breast cancer metastasis"

 

September 30

Hua Zhu, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of  Microbiology, Biochemistry
   and Molecular Genetics
Rutgers University
Newark, New Jersey
Faculty Host:  Dr. Faqian Li

"Plasma membrane damage repair in myocardium injury"

 

October 7

Susan Carole Lester, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Faculty Host:  Dr. Emil Racilla

"Spindle cell lesions of the breast: Avoiding perilous pitfalls"

 
October 14

Hilary Kenny, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Faculty Host:  Dr. Amy Skubitz

 
October 21

Jaclyn Biegel, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Chief of Genomic Medicine
Center for Personalized Medicine
Keck School of Medicine, USC
Los Angeles, California
Faculty Host:  Dr. Betsy Hirsch

"Genetic predisposition to pediatric solid tumors" 

 
October 28 
Eileen Crimmins, PhD
University Professor
AARP Chair in Gerontology
Director, Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology PhD Program
School of Gerontology
USC Davis
Los Angeles, California
Faculty Host:  Dr. Bharat Thyagarajan

"Social, psychological, behavioral and biological risks for aging health: Evidence from the US Health and Retirement Study"

  

November 4

Richard Kaufman, MD
Medical Director, Adult Transfusion
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Faculty Host:  Dr. Claudia S. Cohn

"Severe CD4 lymphopenia in frequent platelet donors"  

  

November 11

Hui Zhu, MD
Department of Urology
Cleveland Clinic
Warrensville Heights, Ohio
Faculty Host:  Dr. Faqian Li

"Head and neck neoplasms masquerading as squamous cell carcinoma"

 

November 18

Danny Welch, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
The University of Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas
Faculty Host:  Dr. James McCarthy

"Mitochondrial polymorphisms as contributors to metastasis"

 

November 25

No Grand Rounds
Thanksgiving Break

 

December 2

Amanda Paulovich, MD, PhD
Professor, Clinical Research Division
Fred Hutch
Seattle, Washington
Faculty Host:  Dr. Stefani Thomas

"Developing MRM assays for the translation of novel diagnostics and therapeutics to enable precision medicine"

 

December 9

Adolfo Garcia Ocana, PhD
Dept of Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes
  and Bone Disease
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
New York, New York
Faculty Host:  Dr. Jan Czyzk

"Regeneration and preservation of pancreatic beta cells for diabetes"

 

December 16

Laura Su, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Faculty Host:  Dr. Sara Hamilton

"The ghost of immunological memory past, present, and future"

 

Winter Break
Grand Rounds will resume on January 13, 2021

Spring 2020

January 8

Saar I Gill, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"CAR-T cells 2020"

January 15

Anthony A.  Killeen, MD, PhD
Ellis S. Benson Professor
Director, Clinical Laboratories
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota - TC

"Using large clinical laboratory datasets to study biological variation"

January 22

Mahmoud Khalifa, MD, PhD
Professor and Donald F. Gleason MD, PhD Professorship in Surgical Pathology
Director, Anatomic Pathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota - TC

"Endometrial cancer pathology: An evolutionary story"

January 29

Bartosz Grzywacz, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Hematopathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota - TC

"Clinical and research studies on Natural Killer cells in hematopathology and immunotherapy"

 

February 5

*CANCELLED*

Meaghan Hupp, MD
PGY IV
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota - TC
 
"College of American Pathologists Proficiency Testing and Laboratory Accreditation Program"

February 12

Sara Hamilton Hart, PhD
Assistant Professor 
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota - TC

"Prevention of cerebral pathology during severe malaria"

February 19

Aastha Chauhan, MD
PGYIV
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota - TC

"Role of cytology cell blocks for PD-L1 testing in advanced non-small cell lung carcinoma: An institutional experience"

February 26

Huihui Ye, MD, MS
Clinical Associate Professor
Chief, Genitourinary Pathology
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

"Pathology of genitourinary tumors in the era of molecular medicine"

 

March 4

Robert Bast, Jr., MD
Vice President for Translational Research
Internist and Professor of Medicine
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
Division of Cancer Medicine
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

"Early detection of ovarian cancer:  An update"

March 11

Dina Greene, PhD
Technical Director, Kaiser Washington Laboratories 
Clinical Associate Professor 
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 
 
"Breaking down gender for cis to trans"

March 18

Luis A. Ortiz, MD
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, Department of Medicine
and Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Pitt Public Health
Pittburgh, Pennsylvania
 
"Of vesicles and right ventricles: How MSC improve pulmonary fibrosis" 

March 25  *CANCELLED*

Navdeep S. Chandel, PhD
David W. Cugell MD, Professor
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
 
 

April 1 - *NOTE* - All Grand Rounds will be presented via Zoom. 

Claudia S. Cohn, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
Director, Blood Bank Laboratory 
Associate Director, Clinical Laboratories
University of Minnesota Medical School 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 
 

 

April 8 

Gerald Berry, MD
Professor of Pathology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California

"Giant Cell Arteritis: What have we learned about the pathogenesis"

   

April 15 

Jeremy Segal, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

"A multi-institutional collaborative effort to drive cost reduction and standardization of academic oncology next generation sequencing diagnostics"  

 

April 22 - *CANCELLED*

Chunhai Hao, MD, PhD
Bicentennial Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana

 

April 29

Adam Bagg, MD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

“B-cells behaving badly: A better basis to behold belligerence in small B-cell lymphomas”

 

May 6 

Laura Lamps, MD
Godfrey Dorr Stobbe Professor and Director
Gastrointestinal Pathology
Patient Safety Officer
Department of Pathology
Michigan Medicine
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan  

 
"Emerging Infections: historical perspectives, precipitating factors, and pathologic diagnosis" 

 

May 13 

Ameeta Kelekar, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School - TC

"Reprogramming immune- and cancer-cell metabolism with small proteins and metabolites"   

 

May 20

Raouf Nakhleh, MD
Professor of Pathology
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, Florida  

"Evidence Based Laboratory Practice Guidelines"

 

May 27

David Parham, MD
Chief, Director and Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 

"Rhabdomyosarcoma: from obscurity to clarity in diagnosis and classification"

Fall 2019

September 11

Kenny Beckman, PhD
Director, University of Minnesota Genomics Center (UMGC)
Adjunct faculty member in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 

 

September 18

Wenqing Cao, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Director, Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology Service
Director, Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology Fellowship Program
NYU Langone Health, New York, New York

"Studies on diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in gatrointestinal and liver malignancies"

 

September 25

Shelly Williams, MD
Transfusion Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota 

“The Life of an NK cell: A Manufacturing and Cell Therapy Perspective”

 

October 2

Eran Andrechek, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
Michigan State University 

"Sequencing mouse models of breast cancer reveals altered regulation of signaling pathways and tumor micro-environment"

 

October 9

Jesse Seegmiller, PhD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Chemistry
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Assessment of renal function:  Gold standards to new innovations"

 

October 16

Richard S. Vander Heide, MD, PhD, MBA
Professor
LSU Health, School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana

“The cardiac cytoskeleton:  Not just a bag of bones”

 

October 23

C. Dirk Keene, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Service Leader of Neuropathology
Director of Neuropathology Fellowship Program
UW School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington

"UW Precision Neuropathology Core: Integrating traditional methods with quantitative approaches to advance brain science"  

 

October 30

Hatem Sabaawy, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Medical Oncology
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey

“Patient derived organoids as a platform for drug testing in precision medicine oncology”

 

November 6

David H. Ingbar, MD
Professor, Medicine, Pediatrics and Integrative Biology & Physiology
Director, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Division
CTSI Associate Director;  Education, Career Development & Training (CTSI-Ed)
Executive Director, Center for Lung Science and Health
University of Minnesota 

"CTSI training opportunities"

 

November 13

Ed Stelow, MD
Professor of Pathology
School of Medicine
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, Virginia   

"Classification of sinonasal carcinoma"  

 

November 20

*CANCELLED*

Danny R. Welch, PhD
Professor
Cancer Biology, School of Medicine
KU Medical Center
The University of Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas

"Mitochondrial polymorphisms as contributors to metastasis and other complex diseases"

 

December 4

Thomas Giordano, MD, PHD
Henry Clay Bryant Professor of Pathology
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Director, Molecular Pathology Research Laboratory
Department of Pathology
Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 

"Evolving insights into thyroid cancer from genetics and genomics"

 

December 11

Carlos Torres Cabala, MD
Department of Pathology
Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

“Navigating cutaneous lymphomas: integrating clinical, pathological, and molecular findings in the routine practice”

 

December 18

Sophie Arbefeville, MD 
Assistant Professor 
Infectious Disease and Diagnostic Laboratories
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 

“Sequencing in the clinical infectious diseases diagnostic laboratory: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”

 

Spring 2019

January 9

Gregory A. Fishbein, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, California

"Lung transplantation pathology: Overview and update"

January 16

Bronwyn H. Bryant, MD
Pathologist Assistant Professor
Larner College of Medicine
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

"Entrustable professional activities: A practical tool for pathology graduate education"

January 23

Daniel Kurtycz, MD
Faculty
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin

"The development of a standard terminology: The Milan System for reporting salivary gland cytopathology"

February 6

Regina Plummer, DO
PGY4
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 

"The role of flow cytometry in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal hematolymphoid neoplasms"

February 13

Aaron Barnes, MD, PhD
PGY3 – CP Only
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 

"Birds of a Feather: Enterococcus faecalis biofilm colonization in mammalian model systems"

February 20

Karin Rodland, PhD
Researcher, Integrative Omics
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, Washington

"Proteogenomics and Pathways: Functional insights from integrated omics"

February 27

Alexander Wyatt, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Urology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

"Plasma circulating tumor DNA and therapy response prediction in metastatic prostate cancer"

March 6

Amy Beckman, MD 
PGY4 
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
University of Minnesota

"The cytogenomic landscape of myeloid neoplasms in Down syndrome"

March 13

Robert F. Padera, Jr. MD, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Department of Pathology 
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

"Medical device pathology: Rise (and fall) of the machines"

March 20

Loren Wold, PhD
Associate Professor 
Physiology and Cell Biology
College of Medicine, Ohio State University 
Columbus, Ohio

"External triggers of CV dysfunction: role of particulate matter exposure"

March 27

Brian Steffen, PhD
Researcher 

and 

Michael Tsai, PhD
Professor 
Division of Research
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
University of Minnesota

"Risk enhancing factors for ASCVD and heart failure: an update"

April 3

Jason Baron, MD 
Assistant Professor
Medical Director, Core Laboratories, Pathology Services 
Massachusetts General 
Boston, Massachusetts

"Enhancing laboratory diagnosis through analytics and AI"

April 10

John N. Eble, MD 
Chair, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
School of Medicine, Indiana University 
Indianapolis, Indiana  

"Cystic nephroma and mixed epitheial and stromal tumor"

April 17

Ralph Deberadinis, MD, PhD
Chief and Professor 
Division of Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

"Metabolic heterogeneity and liabilities in cancer"

April 24

James M. Musser, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Pathology & Genomic Medicine
Professor of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Institute for Academic Medicine
Houston Methodist
Weill Cornell Medical College 
Houston, Texas

"The many secret lives of Streptococcus pyogenes, a flesh-eating pathogen"

May 1

Lynette M. Sholl, MD 
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology 
Harvard Medical School 
Brigham and Women’s Hospital 
Boston, Massachusetts

"Mutational pattern recognition: Implications for diagnosis and prediction in solid tumors"

May 8

Pepper Schedin, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon 

"Challenging established paradigms in young women’s breast cancer"

May 15

Nicole D. Pecora, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester Medical Center 
Rochester, New York 

"Implementation of whole genome sequencing in clinical microbiology"

May 22

Jeffrey Meeusen, PhD
Clinical Chemist and Co-Director
Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine
Mayo Clinic 
Rochester, Minnesota

"Plasma ceramides predict major adverse cardiovascular events"

May 29

George Birdsong, MD 
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Chief of Service for Anatomic Pathology 
Winship Cancer Institute 
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

"Regulatory and quality assurance issues in cytology: A brief history"

Fall 2018

September 5

Hanlin L. Wang, MD, PhD
Professor; Program Director, GI/Liver Fellowship, Pathology and Lab Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, California

"Identification of diagnostic markers that differentiate benign from malignant hepatocellular lesions" 

September 12

Nancy M. Dunbar, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Lebanon, New Hampshire

"Questioning dogma:  A research journey in transfusion medicine" 

September 19

Aqsa Nasir, MBBS
PGY 4 
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
University of Minnesota

"Follicular lymphoma: Clinical significance of Ki-67 proliferative index, PD-L1 & LAG3"

September 26

Michael Gough, PhD
Clinical Research Assistant Professor 
Radiation Medicine, School of Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University
Portland, Oregon

"Integration of immunotherapy with radiation therapy of cancer"

October 3

Cynthia C. Nast, MD
Professor of Pathology
Director, Renal Pathology
Medical Director, Electron Microscopy
Cedar Sinai
Los Angeles, California 

"Complement-mediated renal lesions"

October 10  

Timothy Kien Amukele, MD, PhD
Chief of Pathology, Clinical Laboratories 
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland

"Medical drones and other innovations to strengthen laboratory medicine in low and middle-income countries" 

October 17    

Martin J. Walsh, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacological Sciences and Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

"lincRNAs, enhancer RNAs and their modifications as emerging principles regulating metabolism, cancer and stem cells" 

October 24    

Aruna Vanikar, MD, PhD 
Professor and Head 
Department of Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Services & Immunohematology
Dr. H. L. Trivedi Institute of Transplant Sciences
Ahmedabad Gujarat India

"Transplantation tolerance: Journey from minimization to no conventional immunosuppression" 

October 31

David Stenehjem, PharmD, BCOP
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota - Duluth 

"Real world evidence studies in precision oncology: harnessing the electronic medical record"  

Sponsored by the Division of Molecular Pathology and Genomics

November 7   

William Westra, MD
Vice Chair of Translational Pathology & Chief, 
Surgical Pathology 
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

"The changing face of head and neck cancer in the 21st century: HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer and its impact on the practice of pathology"  

November  14           

Shafaat Rabbani, MD
Professor, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
McGill University 
Quebec, CANADA

"Targeting tumor microenvironment and epigenome: Diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic Implications. 
November  28 

Michael Matthay, MD
Professor 
Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
University of California, San Francisco

"Mesenchymal stromal cells and acute respiratory distress syndrome" 

December 5    

Michelle Mielke, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Neurology 
Mayo Clinic 
Rochester, Minnesota

"Developing biofluid-based biomarkers for operationalizing the new Alzheimer's disease research framework"

December 12  

George Thanassoulis, MD
Assistant Professor 
Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine
Research Institute of the McGill University Health 
Montreal, Quebec
CANADA

"Therapeutics for Aortic Stenosis Using Genetics (TArGet) Program"

December 19
Ahmad AbuSalah, PhD, MSc 
Professor, Institute for Health Informatics 
University of Minnesota 

Spring 2018

January 10, 2018
Katie Sackett, DO, MS
PGY-4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"An analysis of post-transplant back-type formation: Comparing cord blood, peripheral blood, and bone marrow sources"

January 17, 2018 
Jason Locasale, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Duke Center for Genomic & Computation Biology
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

“Cancer metabolism and epigenetics”

January 24, 2018

Kevin Ha, DO
PGY-4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"A walk through therapeutic apheresis" 

January 31, 2018

Lon R. White, PhD
Clinical Professor, Geriatric Medicine
Kuakini Medical Center
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Manoa, Hawaii

"Recent progress toward understanding the pathogenesis of late-life dementia"

February 7, 2018

Anja Nohe, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences 
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

Development of new potential therapeutics for skeletal diseases

February 14, 2018

Carrie Inwards, MD
Departments of Anatomic Pathology, Orthopedic Oncology, 
and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
Mayo Clinic 
Rochester, Minnesota

"Chondrosarcoma:  Evolution of diagnostic concepts"

February 21, 2018
Jessica Gruenberg, MD
PGY-4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"Soft tissue neoplasms: Review of fibromatosis and update on treatment guidelines"

February 28, 2018
Bruce Smolller, MD
Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center 
Rochester, New York
March 7, 2018

Victor Santiago, MD
PGY-4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"Are hematogones heroes or villians after transplant?"

March 14, 2018

Leticia Quintanillade Fend, MD
Director, Core Facility 
Institute of Pathology, University Hospital and Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Tubingen, Germany

"EBV+ T cell and NK cell lymphoproliferative diseases of childhood and other EBV-associated disorders" 

March 21, 2018

Joseph Rudolf, MD
Assistant Professor 
Director of LMP Informatics 
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
University of Minnesota

"Using secondary data to enhance the value of pathology and laboratory services" 

March 28, 2018

Michael Laposata, MD, PhD
Chairman, Department of Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas

"The diagnostic management team: An essential leadership role for pathologists" 

April 4, 2018

Trevor Shepherd, PhD
Associate Professor 
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
and Anatomy & Cell Biology
London Regional Cancer Program 
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Western Ontario
Canada

"Deciphering stress-induced survival mechanisms that support the spread of ovarian cancer"

April 11, 2018

Chad Cowan, PhD
Harvard Cell Institute 
Harvard Medical School 

"Investigating metabolic disease with human pluripotent stem cells"

 

  • Understand the current use of human pluripotent stem cells for modeling metabolic disease;
  • Apply modern gene-editing techniques to understand the genetic causes of metabolic disease;
  • Develop a strategy to identify novel therapeutics for metabolic disease

 

Sponsored by the Division of Molecular Pathology and Genomics 

April 18, 2018

Sara Hamilton Hart, PhD
Assistant Professor 
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
University of Minnesota

"The impact of immune experience on T cell responses to infection and vaccination"

April 25, 2018

Mark Haas, MD, PhD 
Professor of Pathology 
University of California - Los Angeles 

"The pathogenesis and pathologic findings associated with disease progression and therapeutic response in IgA nephropathy"

May 2, 2018

Felix Feng, MD 
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology: Urology; and Medicine
Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Director of Translational Research
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of California, San Francisco

"Understanding the prostate cancer genome: From biomarker discovery to clinical application"  

May 9, 2018

Jason Hornick, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School 
Brigham and Women’s Hospital 
Boston, Massachusetts

"The evolution of immunohistochemistry for soft tissue tumors: From differentiation to molecular genetics"  

May 16, 2018
Nicole D. Pecora, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology 
and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York

Clinical pathogen genomics: Implementation and applications
Sponsored by the Division of Molecular Pathology and Genomics
May 23, 2018

Timothy Allen, MD, JD, FCAP, FSCAP
Professor, Department of Pathology
Director, of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology
Laboratory Director, Department of Laboratory Services 
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas

"Coping with medical malpractice"

May 30, 2018
Robert Englander, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education 
University of Minnesota Medical School 

Fall 2017

September 6, 2017

Todd E. Druley, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Washington University School of Medicine 
St. Louis, Missouri

"Improving minimal residual disease detection via error-corrected DNA and RNA sequencing"

Sponsored by the Division of Molecular Pathology and Genomics

September 13, 2017

Lydia Pleotis Howell, MD
Professor and Chair
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 
University of California – Davis

Growing Our Own in Academic Pathology:  Faculty Development, Leadership and Diversity  

September 20, 2017

Haodong Xu, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Updates in lung cancer classification and staging" 

September 27, 2017

Ellen J. Beswick, PhD
Assistant Professor
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
School of Medicine
University of New Mexico

"G-CSF in colorectal cancer: compelling good cells to behave badly"

October 4, 2017

James R. Wright, Jr., MD, PhD
Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Paediatrics
University of Calgary/Alberta Health Services – Calgary
CANADA

"The Calgary Laboratory Services Clinical and Academic Mode

October 11, 2017

Feng Vankee Lin, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor 
School of Nursing 
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

"Mechanistic discovery for neuroplasticity-based behavioral interventions among groups at risk for Alzheimer's disease"

October 18. 2017
Peter B. Bitterman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair for Research
Associate Director, M.D./Ph.D. Program
University of Minnesota Medical School
 
October 25, 2017

Brendan F. Boyce, MBChB
Professor 
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

The pathology and biology of skeletal and extra-skeletal osteoclast-rich lesions

November 1, 2017
Lucian R. Chirieac, MD
Associate Professor 
Pathology
Harvard Medical School 
Boston, Massachusettes
 
November 8, 2017

Bernard Weissman, PhD
Professor 
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and 
Pediatrics 
Cancer Genetics
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

"The role of SWI/SNF complex mutations in human tumor development"

November 15, 2017
Heather Stefanski MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant
University of Minnesota 

"Improving immunity post bone-marrow transplant"

November 29, 2017

David Masopust, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology 
University of Minnesota Medical School 
Minneapolis, MN 

December 6, 2017

Alan T. Remaley, MD, PhD
Senior Investigator
Lipoproteiin Metabolism Section 
NHLBI, National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, Maryland

"Hypertriglyceridemia and novel apoC-II mimetic peptide treatment" 

December 13, 2017

Sean Davidson, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research
Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry & Microbiology
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati

"High density lipoprotein: A structured platform for cardiovascular and immune functions"

December 20, 2017

Anthony A. Killeen, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
Medical School, University of Minnesota 
Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Lowering the bar for blood pressure goals: The SPRINT hypertension trial"

Spring 2017

Jan 11, 2017
Ioana Moisini, MD, PhD
Cytopathology Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota  
 
 
Jan 18, 2017 
Mahmoud Khalifa, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Division of Anatomic Pathology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 
 
 
Jan 25, 2017
Scott Gilles, MD, PGYIV
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 
 
 
Feb 1, 2017
Crystal Cordell, MD
Surgical Pathology Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
 
Feb 8, 2017
 
Elizabeth Courville, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 
 
 
Feb 15, 2017
Kenneth Van Golen, PhD
Associate Professor and Senior Research Scientist
the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
 
 
Feb 22, 2017
Maryam Shahi, MD
AP/CP Resident, PGY-5
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
 
March 1, 2017
Susan Berry, MD 
Division Director for Genetics and Metabolism
Department of Pediatrics 
University of Minnesota 
 
 
March 8, 2017 
Jonathan Irish, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cancer Biology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee  
 
March 15, 2017
Michael T. Lewis, PhD
Associate Professor
Breast Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
 
 
March 22, 2017 
Stephanie Kinney, MD
Blood Bank Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
 
March 29, 2017 
Danni Li, PhD
Assistant Professor and Director
Clinical Chemistry
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
 
April 5, 2017
Deborah E. Powell, MD
Director of Medical Student Education
Dean Emerita and Professor 
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
 
 
April 12, 2017
Shijie Sheng, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, Michigan

"Dysregulation of intrinsic epithelial differentiation control in tumor progression and drug response"

April 19, 2017
Ann Parr, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery 
Assistant Professor, Stem Cell Institute
Medical School, University of Minnesota
 
 
April 26, 2017
Ricardo V. Lloyd, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin
 
 
May 3, 2017
Scott Kaufmann, MD, PhD
Professor of Oncology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
 
“BAK, BCL2 and the response to anticancer therapy”
 
May 10, 2017

Ronny Drapkin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“Leveraging Insights from genomics and pathogenesis to target ovarian cancer”

May 17, 2017

Tom Gdniak, PhD
Blood Bank Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 

"Pathogen inactivation of blood products"

May 24, 2017
Christopher Crum, MD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Division Chief, Women’s and Perinatal Pathology
Boston, Massachusetts
May 31, 2017
Betsy Hirsch, PhD
Professor, Division of Molecular Pathology and Genomics
and Michelle Dolan, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Molecular Pathology and Genomics
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 
University of Minnesota 

Fall 2016

Sept 7, 2016
Matthew Meredith, PhD
Cytogenetics Fellow
University of Minnesota

"Genomic characterization of T-ALL:  A TALL order"

Sept 14, 2016
Kanishka Sircar, MD
Associate Professor
Genitourinary Pathology
Division of Pathology/Lab Medicine
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas  

"Renal cell carcinoma:  tumor grading and oncocytic neoplasms"

Sept 21, 2016
Raj Mody, MD
Medical Director
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Prevention and Control Division
Minnesota Department of Health
St Paul, Minnesota 

"Zika virus update"

Sept 28, 2016
Simon Raphael, MD, FRCPC
Professor and Anatomic Pathology Program Director
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

"Hospital mergers"

Oct 5, 2016 
Gabor J. Tigyi, MD, PhD
Professor of Physiology, UTHSC
Professor of Physiology and Chemistry
University of Memphis
Harriet S. Van Vleet Chair in Oncology Research
Associate Director for Basic Science
UT Cancer Institute
Memphis, Tennessee 

“Targeting tumor invasion, therapeutic resistance, and the metastatic niche via the Autotoxin–LPA receptor axis”

Oct 12, 2016
Lili-naz Hazrati, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Pathology
Pediatric Laboratory Medicine
Toronto General Hospital
University of Toronto, Canada

"Tackling concussion beyond Hollywood"

Oct 19, 2016  
Matthew Katus, MD
Surgical Pathology Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 

"Sellar and Parasellar Tumors: The University of Minnesota Medical Center Experience"

Oct 26, 2016
David L. Murray, MD, PhD
Consultant and Co-Director of Protein Immunology Laboratory
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota  

“Beyond electrophoresis: A new look at circulating immunoglobulins”

Nov 2, 2016
Ganesh Raj, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Urology
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, Texas

"Novel agents in therapy-sensitive and therapy- resistant breast and prostate cancer" 

Nov 9, 2016
Timothy Moss, MD, PhD
Molecular Genetics Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"Manipulating the link between hemihyperplasia and cancer" 

Nov 16, 2016

Raquel Walsh Jahnke, DO

Hematopathology Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"Red cell alloimmunization rates in patients undergoing cord blood versus peripheral blood and bone marrow transplant: a historial perspective"

November 30, 2016
Karen Frank, MD, PhD
Chief, Microbiology Service
Department of Laboratory Medicine
NIH Clinical Center Senior Staff
Bethesda, Maryland

"The spread of resistant gram negative bacteria"

Dec 7, 2016 
Sharon E. Plon, MD, Ph.D. 
Professor of Pediatrics - Oncology and Molecular and Human Genetics
Director of the Neurofibromatosis Clinic and Cancer Genetics Clinical and Research Programs
Texas Children's Hospital
Baylor College of Medicine
Sponsored by the LMP Division of Molecular Pathology and Genomics 

"Implementing clinical whole exome sequencing for the care of children with Mendelian disorders and cancer" 

Dec 14, 2016
Paraic Kenny, PhD
Dr. Jon and Betty Kabara Endowed Chair in Precision Oncology 
Director, Kabara Cancer Center Research Laboratory
Gundersen Medical Foundation
La Crosse, Wisconsin

"Novel approaches to target Amphiregulin, a key mediator of estrogen action in breast cancer" 

Dec 21, 2016
Miro Sekulic, MD, PGYIV
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 

Spring 2016

January 6, 2016
Evan Sell, MD
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 

"Toward Rationality in Thyroid Nodule Management"

January 20, 2016 
Lynn D. Cornell, MD
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Mayo Medical Center, Rochester MN 

“Kidney Transplant Protocol Biopsies: Lessons Learned” 

January 27, 2016
M. Celeste Simon, PhD
Scientific Director and Investigator
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

“Hypoxia, Metabolism and Progression”

February 3, 2016
Shifteh Vahidi, MD, PGY4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"Malignant Mesothelioma: An Update"

February 10, 2016
Marie Steiner, MS, MD
Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology,
Pediatric Critical Care, University of Minnesota

"Clinical Effects of Red Cell Storage Duration Study in Cardiac Surgery Patients: Results of RECESS”

February 17, 2016
Jason N. Berman, MD, FRCPC, FAAP, MSc
Clinician Scientist in Pediatric Oncology
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
Staff Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, IWK Health Centre Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine
IWK Health Centre

"Gone Fishin’: Evolution of the Zebrafish as a Comprehensive Tool in Cancer Research"

March 2, 2016
David Cartwright, MD
Molecular Genetics Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"Utilizing Cytology Preps in the Molecular Diagnostic Lab" 

March 9, 2016
Rebecca Johnson, MD
Chief Executive Officer
American Board of Pathology
Board Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Hematopathology, and Immunopathology. 
Former Trustee of ABP from 2002-2012

“American Board of Pathology Continuing Certification Update 2016”

March 16, 2016
Derek Radisky, PhD
Associate Professor of Cancer Biology
Cancer Basic Science
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL

"Epithelial and Stromal Alterations that Identify Progression from Benign Breast Disease to Cancer"

March 23, 2016

Jamie Boone, DO
Hematopathology Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"Intra-tumor Heterogeneity and Molecular Testing in Colorectal Carcinoma"

March 30, 2016

Mohammed El Hag, MBBS
Surgical Pathology Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 

"SOX-17 Expression in Endometrial Carcinoma: A Search for a Prognostic and a Diagnostic Marker"

April 13, 2016

Andrew Evans, MD, PhD, BSc, Associate Professor, Pathology, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto

"Digital Pathology for Clinical Uses: Overcoming Barriers of Adoption

April 20, 2016
Josh Lang, MD
Assistant Professor, Hematology and Oncology
Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin
 
 
April 27, 2016

Jesse Seegmiller, PhD
Clinical Chemistry Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota 

"Applying Mass Spectrometry in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology"

May 4, 2016

Aliyah Sohani, MD
Hematopathology Service, Department of Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

"Pathology and Global Health: Supporting Diagnosis and Discovery in Resource Challenged Settings"

May 11, 2016

Hari Koul, PhD
Chair and Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Carroll W. Feist Endowed Chair in Cancer
Louisiana State University

“Oxidative Stress and Prostate Cancer:” Role of NOX4 (NADPH Oxidase-4) in Prostate Cancer”

May 18, 2016

Michael Wendt, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Purdue University 

"The Evolution of Growth Factor Receptor Expression During Breast Cancer Metastasis: Insight into Therapeutic Targeting of Late-stage Disease"

Fall 2015

September 3, 2015
Bruce Friedman, MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Pathology
University of Michigan

“Integrated Diagnostics and Integrated Diagnostic Servers: A New Direction for Pathology Information“

September 16, 2015
Gary S. Stein, PhD
Co-Director, University of Vermont Cancer Center
Chair, Department of Biochemistry
University of Vermont

“The Architecturally Dynamic Genetic and Epigenetic Landscape of Cancer Biology and Pathology”

September 23, 2015
H. Brent Clark, MD, Phd
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"Pathology and Pathogenesis of Degenerative Ataxias: 25 Years and Counting"

September 30, 2015
Rafael Bejar, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
October 7, 2015
"Review of Spindle Cell Lesions of the Breast"

Prachi Raut
Pathology Resident (PGY-5)
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

“Clinical Genetics of Myelodyplastic Syndromes” 

October 20, 2015
Brynn Levy, MSc (Med), PhD, FACMG
Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
Director, Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory
Co-Director, Division of Personalized Genomic Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University Medical Center
& the New York Presbyterian Hospital

"Fundamental Aspects of Noninvasive Prenatal Screening (NIPS)" 

October 21, 2015
Sarah Drawz, MD, PhD
PGY4 Resident
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

"E. coli ST131: A Pandemic Multidrug-Resistant Clone in Our Own Backyard"

November 11, 2015
Rashmin Savani, MD
Professor and Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center

“Hyaluronan and its Receptor RHAMM in Acute Lung Injury”

December 9, 2015
Fang Fan, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Kansas Medical Center

"Evaluating and Reporting Breast Cancer After Neoadjuvant Therapy--Generating a Meaningful Pathology Report" 

December 16, 2015
Etty (Tika) Benveniste, PhD
Alma B. Maxwell UAHSF Endowed Chair
Chair, Department of Cell, Development and Integrative Biology
Senior Associate Dean for Research
School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham

“The Role of Protein Kinase CK2 in Cancer and Autoimmunity”

Spring 2015