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Seminar Series

This core deparmental conference brings faculty, residents, fellows, graduate students, and staff together for an introduction to new concepts and techniques in both clinical and experimental pathology. It is co-sponsored by the graduate program and is a part of Pathology 504, "Current Topics in Experimental Pathology". It features reports from within the Department and Medical Center as well as presentations by distinugished speakers from outside the University. Topics include developments in molecular pathology, cancer diagnosis and treatment, and clinical quality assurance. CME credit is available for this conference.

Usual schedule: Monday noons, except third Monday of month, Room K-207 (2-6408)
Contact: Sue Van Thof, (585) 275-3184, E-mail: Sue_VanThof@urmc.rochester.edu

April 12 , 2009
TBA
Dr. Christopher Gocke

Johns Hopkins University

December 7 , 2009
TBA
Dr. Benedict Maliakkal

Associate Professor, Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, URMC

November 19 , 2009 - 11:30 a.m. - Surgical Pathology Conference Room G-5303
Pathology of Dysplasia and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Dr. Parakrama T. Chandrasoma

Professor, Pathology, University of Southern California

November 2 , 2009
Beyond IHC: Quantitative Multiplexed Protein Analysis as a Companion Diagnostic Tool for Personalized Medicine
Dr. David L. Rimm

Professor, Pathology, Director of Pathology Tissue Services, Yale University School of Medicine

October 26 , 2009
Towards a Systems Biology Approach to Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Dr. Christopher T. Barry

Associate Professor, Surgery, Transplant & Hepatobiliary Division, URMC

September 21 , 2009
Histiocytic Disorders in Children
Dr. Louis P. Dehner

Professor, Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine

June 29, 2009
AQUA-® Technology: Applications for Tissue Based Analysis
Dr. Richard Carroll

Vice President, Clinical Biomarkers, HistoRX, Inc., New Haven, CT

March 23, 2009
Molecular Cytopathology: From Fiction to Facts
Dr. Bin Yang

Director, Molecular Cytopathology and Cancer Epigentics Core, Cleveland Clinic

Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinical Lerner College of Medicine

February 23, 2009
Mucinous Tumors in the Ovary: An Update
Dr. Anais Malpica

Professor, Pathology and Gynecologic Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

February 16, 2009
Roles of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) in Renal Disease
Dr. Ryuji Ohashi

Fellow, Renal Pathology, University of Washington Medical Center

February 9, 2009
Fused Diagnostics
Dr. John E. Tomaszewski

Professor and Chair, Pathology and Lab Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

January 19, 2009
The Evolving Role of Genomics in the Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Breast Cancer
Dr. David G. Hicks

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Director Surgical Pathology, URMC

January 12, 2009
Pathology of the Pleura:  Emphasizing Diffuse Malignant Mesothelioma
Dr. Eugene Mark

Professor, Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

January 5, 2009
IHC Classification Panels and Personalized Medicine
Mr. Rob Seitz

CEO and Co-Founder, Applied Genomics, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama


December 15, 2008

Transfusion Associated Thrombosis and Immunomodulation (TATI) - A New Paradigm for the Biologic Effects of Blood Transfusions
Dr. Neil Blumberg

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Director Transfusion Medicine, URMC

December 1, 2008
Molecular Culprits of Diabetic Dyslipidemia
Dr. Henry Dong

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

November 10, 2008
New Insights into the Molecular Pathogenesis of Pancreatic Ductal Carcinoma
Dr. Huamin Wang

M. D. Anderson Medical Center

November 3, 2008
How Normal Arteries Become Atherosclerotic - And How This Knowledge Can Help Conquer the Disease
Dr. Kevin Jon Williams

Professor of Medicine, and of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Thomas Jefferson University

October 27 , 2008
Unknown Tumors of the Kidney
Dr. Ming Zhou

Director, Tissue Microarray Core, The Cleveland Clinic

October 20 , 2008
Vision 2020. Surgical Pathology: Quo Vadis?
Dr. Clive R. Taylor

Chair, Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

October 6 , 2008
Integrated Genomic Analysis of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Dr. Tony E. Godfrey

Associate Professor of Surgery, URMC

September 22, 2008
Liver Pathology: Is It a Unique Specialty?
Dr. Swan N. Thung

Director, Hepatopathology Division, The Mount Sinai Medical Center

September 8, 2008
Improving Pathology Operations Through Informatics
Dr. John Sinard

Professor, Pathology and Opthalmology and Visual Science, and Director, Pathology Informatics Program, Yale University

August 25, 2008
Morphogenomics and Morphoproteomics: A Role for Anatomic Pathology in Personalized Medicine
Dr. Robert E. Brown
Professor and Harvey S. Rosenberg Chair in Pathology, The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston

August 11, 2008
Reporting Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy: We Can Do Better
Dr. Ritu Nayar
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Director, Cytopathology Unit, Northwestern University Medical School

June 16, 2008
Histopathological Alterations of the Intrahepatic Biliary Tree in Heterotaxy Syndrome
Dr. Aqiba Bokhari
Pediatric Pathology Fellow, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

June 2, 2008
Whole Slide Imaging Technology
Dr. Zhenghong Qu
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, URMC

with representatives from Aperio, BioImage, and Olympus

May 5 , 2008
Molecular and Immunohistochemical Evidence for Origin of Uterine Leiomyosarcomas from Associated Liomyoma and Symplastic Liomyoma-like Areas
Dr. Fan Chen
Gynecologial Pathology Fellow, New York University Medical Center

March 31 , 2008
New Guidelines and Technology: Effects on the ASC-US Rate and the Future of the Papanicolaou
Dr. Michael J. Thrall
Cytopathology Fellow, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, URMC

March 24 , 2008
The Importance of the ABO Blood Group in Transfusion Medicine
Dr. Lawrence Benton Fialkow
Resident, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, URMC

March 10 , 2008
Prostatectomy in the Information Age: What's New, Pahological Outlook and Clinical Outcomes
Dr. Adnan T. Savera
Chief GU Pathologist and Medical Director, LabMD, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia

January 14, 2008
A Journey to the Kidney
Dr. Ming Wu
Clinical Fellow, Renal/Electron Microscopy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center