Grand Rounds Archive
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
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
"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
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:
- 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 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
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
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
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
January 19
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
February 9
February 16
Professor, University Medical Line, Pathology
Director, Clinical Genomics Laboratory
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
February 23
"Individual risk assessment for patients with DCIS: Lessons learned from the Ontario DCIS Cohort"
March 2
March 9
Professor, Food Science and Nutrition
Hormel Institute
University of Minnesota
Austin, Minnesota
March 16
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
"Mitochondrial shape-shifting in the T cell response"
March 30
April 6
April 13
April 20
Kamila Naxerova, PhD
April 27
May 4
May 11
May 18
May 25
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
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
Assistant Attending
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
November 3
Molly Klein, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
November 10
Miami, Florida
“Gastrointestinal tract mesenchymal neoplasms – Location is Everything”
November 17
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
November 24
Thanksgiving Holiday
December 1
Perlman Professor of Oncology and Comparative Medicine
“One pathologist’s dream: Detecting cancer before it starts, and killing it before it forms”
December 8
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
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
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation
"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
Assistant Professor & Director for Cancer Precision Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Dana Farber/Partner Care Center
Boston, Massachusettes
"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
March 17
San Antonio, Texas
March 24
Fellow
Division of Infectious Disease
Department of Medicine
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
March 31
Professor of Medicine, and Cell and Developmental Biology
Director of Graduate Studies in Cancer Biology
Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
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
April 21
Head - Cancer Therapeutics (Delaware Valley), Nemours Childrens Health System
Wilmington, Delaware
Seattle Children's Hospital
April 28
Chief of Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York
"The pathogenesis of coronavirus disease 2019: Insights from surgical pathologists"
May 5
Senior Consultant Physician
University Hospital of Tubingen
"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
Professor of Pathology
"Just okay is not okay! Giving and receiving feedback effectively"
May 26
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
AARP Chair in Gerontology
Director, Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology PhD Program
School of Gerontology
USC Davis
Los Angeles, California
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
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
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*
PGY IV
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota - TC
February 12
Assistant Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
"Prevention of cerebral pathology during severe malaria"
February 19
Aastha Chauhan, MD
PGYIV
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota - TC
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
March 18
and Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Pitt Public Health
Pittburgh, Pennsylvania
March 25 *CANCELLED*
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.
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
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
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
Department of Physiology
Michigan State University
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
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
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
December 18
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
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
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
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
November 14
Shafaat Rabbani, MD
Professor, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
McGill University
Quebec, CANADA
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
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
Professor, Institute for Health Informatics
Spring 2018
January 10, 2018
PGY-4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
January 17, 2018
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
PGY-4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
"Soft tissue neoplasms: Review of fibromatosis and update on treatment guidelines"
February 28, 2018
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
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
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
May 16, 2018
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester Medical Center
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
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
October 18. 2017
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
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
"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
Jan 18, 2017
Jan 25, 2017
Feb 1, 2017
Surgical Pathology Fellow
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
Feb 8, 2017
Feb 15, 2017
Feb 22, 2017
University of Minnesota
March 1, 2017
March 8, 2017
March 15, 2017
March 22, 2017
March 29, 2017
April 5, 2017
April 12, 2017
"Dysregulation of intrinsic epithelial differentiation control in tumor progression and drug response"
April 19, 2017
April 26, 2017
May 3, 2017
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
May 31, 2017
Fall 2016
Sept 7, 2016
"Genomic characterization of T-ALL: A TALL order"
Sept 14, 2016
"Renal cell carcinoma: tumor grading and oncocytic neoplasms"
Sept 21, 2016
Sept 28, 2016
Oct 5, 2016
“Targeting tumor invasion, therapeutic resistance, and the metastatic niche via the Autotoxin–LPA receptor axis”
Oct 12, 2016
"Tackling concussion beyond Hollywood"
Oct 19, 2016
"Sellar and Parasellar Tumors: The University of Minnesota Medical Center Experience"
Oct 26, 2016
“Beyond electrophoresis: A new look at circulating immunoglobulins”
Nov 2, 2016
"Novel agents in therapy-sensitive and therapy- resistant breast and prostate cancer"
Nov 9, 2016
"Manipulating the link between hemihyperplasia and cancer"
Nov 16, 2016
Raquel Walsh Jahnke, DO
November 30, 2016
"The spread of resistant gram negative bacteria"
Dec 7, 2016
"Implementing clinical whole exome sequencing for the care of children with Mendelian disorders and cancer"
Dec 14, 2016
"Novel approaches to target Amphiregulin, a key mediator of estrogen action in breast cancer"
Dec 21, 2016
Spring 2016
January 6, 2016
"Toward Rationality in Thyroid Nodule Management"
January 20, 2016
“Kidney Transplant Protocol Biopsies: Lessons Learned”
January 27, 2016
“Hypoxia, Metabolism and Progression”
February 3, 2016
"Malignant Mesothelioma: An Update"
February 10, 2016
Pediatric Critical Care, University of Minnesota
"Clinical Effects of Red Cell Storage Duration Study in Cardiac Surgery Patients: Results of RECESS”
February 17, 2016
"Gone Fishin’: Evolution of the Zebrafish as a Comprehensive Tool in Cancer Research"
March 2, 2016
"Utilizing Cytology Preps in the Molecular Diagnostic Lab"
March 9, 2016
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
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
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
Fall 2015
September 3, 2015
September 16, 2015
“The Architecturally Dynamic Genetic and Epigenetic Landscape of Cancer Biology and Pathology”
September 23, 2015
"Pathology and Pathogenesis of Degenerative Ataxias: 25 Years and Counting"
September 30, 2015
University of California, San Diego
October 7, 2015
Prachi Raut
Pathology Resident (PGY-5)
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
“Clinical Genetics of Myelodyplastic Syndromes”
October 20, 2015
"Fundamental Aspects of Noninvasive Prenatal Screening (NIPS)"
October 21, 2015
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
"E. coli ST131: A Pandemic Multidrug-Resistant Clone in Our Own Backyard"
November 11, 2015
“Hyaluronan and its Receptor RHAMM in Acute Lung Injury”