Grand Rounds Archive
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
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
Faculty hosts: Drs. Amy Karger and Deborah Powell
"Transgender Care, in and beyond the lab"
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
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"
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
"Cytogenetic evolution: Perspectives from within"
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
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
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”
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"
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"