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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

February 23, 2009
An Update on Ovarian Serous Tumors
Dr. Anais Malpica

Professor, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

January 19, 2009
TBA
Dr. John E. Tomaszewski

Professor and Vice Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania


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


December 3 , 2007
Harvesting Major Gains in Histology and Anatomic Pathology: The Cleveland Clinic Experience
Dr. David G. Hicks
Director of Surgical Pathology, University of Rochester Medical Center

November 26, 2007
Relationship Centered Health Care and Value Centered Learning
Dr. Anthony L. Suchman
Relationship Centered Health Care, Rochester, NY

November 12, 2007
SRF-Myocardin in Development and Disease
Dr. Joseph M. Miano
Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center

October 8, 2007
Microarray Technology Seminar
Dr. Iman Kishawi
Senior Applications Consultant, Agilent Technologies

September 10 , 2007
Computer Approach to Classification of Blasts Cells in AML/MDS
Dr. Jean Goasguen
Universite de Rennes 1

August 27 , 2007
Digital Imaging in Pathology - Application to Research, Clinical Medicine and Education
Dr. Michael Feldman
University of Pennsylvania Health System

July 9 , 2007
Molecular Genetic Profiling of Breast Cancer Clinical Samples: Translating Basic Science Discoveries into New Tools for Diagnosis and Patient Management
Dr. David G. Hicks
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

April 23 , 2007
Regulation of and by the c-Myc Oncoprotein
Dr. Edward V. Prochownik
Department of Pediatrics and Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Rangos Research Center

April 2 , 2007
Modeling Leukemogenic FLT3 Mutations in Mice
Dr. Benjamin H. Lee
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital

January 29 , 2007
Psychoneuroimmunology and Diabesity
Dr. Gregory G. Freund
Department of Pathology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

January 22 , 2007
AML--Why Can't We Cure It?
Dr. Archibald S. Perkins
Department of Pathology
Yale University School of Medicine


November 20 , 2006
Thrombotic Microangiopathies
Dr. Michael Petzar
Pathology and Lab Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center

November 13 , 2006
Mechanisms Regulating the Nuclear/Cytoplasmic Distribution of Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase
and
Looking for the "Second Oncologic Hit" in Follicular Lymphoma
Dr. W. Richard Burack
Department of Pathology,
Washington University School of Medicine

October 30 , 2006
New Insights into Red Cell Disorders: Of Mice and Men (and Molecules)
Dr. Mohandas Narla
Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute
New York Blood Center

October 23 , 2006
Hepatic Adaptations to Glucose Availability: Interaction with Infection
Dr. Owen P. McGuinness
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Vanderbilt University

October 16 , 2006
Biomarkers in Autoimmune Disease
Dr. Jennifer H. Anolik
Departments of Medicine and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center

October 9 , 2006
Molecular Therapy of Diabetes
Dr. Lawrence C. B. Chan
Departments of Medicine and of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine

October 2 , 2006
Adipocyte-Derived Factors: Effects on Metabolism, Inflammation and Cancer
Dr. Philipp E. Scherer
Departments of Cell Biology and Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

September 11, 2006
NF-kB Re1 A Transcription Factor in Acute Leukemias and Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Dr. Carlos Bueso-Ramos
Department of Hematopathology
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center