Lecture Series

Pathobiology of Disease Seminar Series

Date	Speaker	Title
June 15, 2023	Maneesh K. Misra, PhD Assistant Professor in Pathology, University of Chicago	"HLA in Personalized Medicine"
May 23, 2023	Qihui (Jim) Zhai, MD Professor of Pathology, Director of Research, Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Florida	"Leading with Heart and Ears"
May 18, 2023	Ashwin Woodhoo, PhD Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain	"Targeting RNA-Binding Proteins: A New Frontier for Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor (MPNST) Therapy"
May 4, 2023	Joseph Misdraji, MD Associate Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, Yale University	"Appendiceal Mucinous Neoplasms: Where Are We Today?"
April 13, 2023	Britta Will, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine	"Novel Molecular Safeguards in Leukemic Stem Cells"
March 30, 2023	Kristine M. Cornejo, MD Assistant Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School	"A Compilation of Testicular Neoplasms Beyond the Typical Germ Cell Tumor: An Update Regarding Challenging and Unusual Cases"
March 23, 2023	Cheryl L. Maier, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Director of Emory Special Coagulation Laboratory, Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies, Emory University School of Medicine	"Hiding in Plain Sight: From Phenomenology to Pathobiology in COVID-19"
February 23, 2023	Angela Viaene, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	"Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury: What’s Behind the Ribbon Effect?"
February 16, 2023	Gary W. Procop, MD, MS CEO & Professor of Pathology, American Board of Pathology	"American Board of Pathology Certification: Past, Present, and a Bold & Bright Future"
January 12, 2023	Kathrin Bernt, MD Assistant Professor, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania	“KMT2A- Rearranged Leukemias – Updates and Opportunities”

Date	Speaker	Title
January 13, 2022	Yamuna Krishnan Professor of Chemistry The University of Chicago	“Quantitative Chemical Imaging of Organelles”
January 27, 2022	Allison Chambliss, PhD, DABCC Assistant Professor, Pathology Keck School of Medicine of USC	*"Collaborative and systematic approaches to improving inpatient laboratory stewardship in a large public hospital"*
February 10, 2022	Tatjana Antic, PhD Professor of Pathology Melissa Tjota, MD, PhD MGP Fellow The University of Chicago	“Eosinophilic Renal Neoplasms: From Colloid Iron to Next Generation Sequencing”
March 10, 2022	Lukas Dow, PhD Associate Professor of Biochemistry in Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine, NY	"*Exploring the cancer genome at base pair resolution"*
March 31, 2022	Andrea T. Deyrup, MD, PhD Professor Duke University Joseph Graves, Jr. PhD Professor North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University	"Race in Robbins: Data or Distraction?"
April 21, 2022	Stefania Pittaluga, MD, PhD Senior Research Physician Director, Hematopathology Fellowship Program National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland	"*A pathologist’s approach to primary immunodeficiencies: what can we learn from them?”*
September 29, 2022	Junwei Shi, PhD Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology Department University of Pennsylvania	"Genetic Screening for Cancer Drug Target Discovery"
October 27, 2022	Micah Prochaska, MD, MSc Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Director MacLean Center for Clinical and Medical Ethics, Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation Scholar, University of Chicago Medicine	"Red Blood Cell Transfusion, Patient Symptoms, and Variation in Clinical Practice"
November 10, 2022	Aly Azeem Khan, PhD Assistant Professor, University of Chicago	"New Computational Approaches to Understand Immune Function"
December 8, 2022	Jennifer Pogoriler, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	"Malformations, Mosaicisms and Mutation: An Update Diagnostic Approach to Congenital Cystic Lung Lesions"

Date	Speaker	Title
May 30, 2019	Daria Esterhazy, PhD Assistant Professor The University of Chicago Chicago, IL	"Immune Homeostasis via Compartmentalized Gut Lymph Node Drainage"
May 23, 2019	Rhonda Yantiss, MD Professor of Pathology Weill Cornel Medical College New York, NY	"What Happened to Mucinous Adenoma and Pseudomyxoma Peritonei? Is this Evidence-based Medicine or Have We Gone Off the Rails?"
May 16, 2019	Eric Pietras, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora, CO	"Understanding Chronic Inflammatory Disease: Lessons from Hematopoietic Stem Cells"
May 2, 2019	Kira Gritsman, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Medicine & Cell Biology Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY	"P13 Kinase in Normal and Malignant Hematopoiesis"
April 25, 2019	Ping Wang, PhD, DABCC, FAACC Associate Professor of Pathology Hospital of University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	"Enhancing Diagnostic Solutions to Address Clinical Needs"
April 18, 2019	Geoffrey Wool, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology The University of Chicago Chicago, IL	"Autoimmune Hemostatic and Thrombotic DisordersL Laboratory-based Diagnosis and Management"
March 28, 2019	Gang Huang, PhD Associate Professor of Pathology Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH	"Underlying Mechanisms of Myelodysplastic Syndromes"
March 14, 2019	Christopher Weber, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology The University of Chicago Chicago, IL	"Tight Junction Function in the Gut and Beyond"
March 7, 2019	Peter Savage, PhD Associate Professor of Pathology The University of Chicago Chicago, IL	"Regulatory T Cell Choreography Directed by Endogenous Self Ligands"
February 28, 2019	Petur Nielsen, MD Professor Department of Pathology Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA	"Chordoma and the tail of the ferret"
February 21, 2019	Todd Druley, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Genetics and Developmental Biology Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO	"Error-corrected sequencing for MRD and bone marrow transplantation"
February 7, 2019	Megan Mcnerney, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology The University of Chicago Chicago, IL	"The role of the 7q tumor suppressor gene, CUX1, in myeloid neoplasia"
January 24, 2019	Nicole A. Cipriani, MD Assistant Professor of Pathology Medical Director, Gross Pathology The University of Chicago Chicago, IL	"Where have all the cancers gone? Diagnostic dilemmas in noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasms with papillary like nuclear features (NIFTP)"
January 17, 2019	Amber Pincavage, MD, FACP Associate Professor of Medicine Clerkship Co-Director, Internal Medicine The University of Chicago Chicago, IL	"Giving Effective Feedback"
January 10, 2019	Deepa S. Subramaniam, MD, M.Sc. Associate Professor Director, Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Clinic MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Washingon, DC	"Tumor Heterogeneity & Clonal Evolution: Role of Serial Biopsies in Lung Cancer"

Date	Speaker	Title
December 6, 2018	Dariusz Borys, MD Professor of Pathology and Orthopedic Surgery Chief of Orthopedic and Pediatric Pathology Loyola University Medical Center Maywood, IL	"Can we Predict Neo-adjuvant Therapy Response in Patients with Osteosarcoma?"
November 8, 2018	Aliya Husain, MD Thomas Krausz, MD, FRCPath Jeffrey Schulte, MD David Chapel, MD Department of Pathology The University of Chicago Chicago, IL	"Updates in The University of Chicago Mesothelioma Research"
November 1, 2018	Vickie Jo, MD Assistant Professor Department of Pathology Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA	"Updates in Sinonasal Tract Pathology"
October 11, 2018	Justin Kline, MD Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Section of Hematology/Oncology University of Chicago Medicine Chicago, IL	"PD-L1 Gene Alterations Identify a Subset of Diffuse Large B cell Lymphoma Harboring a T cell Inflamed Phenotype"
October 4, 2018	Mark Terasaki, PhD Associate Professor Department of Cell Biology University of Connecticut Health Center Farmington, CT	"Reconstruction of the Mouse Glomerulus Capillary Network"
May 24, 2018	Hiroyuki Shimada, MD, PhD Director, Electron Microscopy, Experimental Pathology, and Biorepository Professor of Pathology (Clinical Scholar) Keck School of Medicine of USC	"Pathology of Neuroblastoma: An Update"
May 17, 2018	Amer Heider, MD Assistant Professor of Pathology University of Michigan Ann Arber, MI	"Pediatric Cytopathology, Is It a Paradigm Shift?"
May 3, 2018	Munir R. Tanas, MD Assistant Professor of Pathology Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa Health Care Iowa City, IA	"The Hippo Pathway in Sarcomas"
April 19, 2018	Rienk Offringa, PhD Professor Head, Division of Pancreatic Cancer Research & Head, Department Molecular Oncology of Gastrointestinal Tumors University Hospital Heidelberg German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Germany	"Immunotherapeutic Strategies for Countering Recurrence in Patients with Primary Resectable PDAC"
April 5, 2018	Stephen J. Kron, MD Professor University of Chicago Medicine Biological Sciences Division, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology Chicago, IL	"Beyond PD-L1 IHC: Multiplexed Staining of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment for Immunotherapy Diagnostic Pathology"
March 15, 2018	Zhong-Yin Zhang, PhD Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Chair in Pharmacology Head, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Director, Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery Purdue University West Lafayette, IN	"Drugging the Undruggable: Therapeutic Potential of Targeting Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases"
February 15, 2018	Aly Azeem Khan, PhD Research Associate Professor Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Chicago, IL	"New Computation Approaches to Understand Immune Function"
January 25, 2018	Chris French, MD Associate Professor in Pathology Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Boston, MA	"NUT Carcinoma: The Elusive Perfect Target"
January 11, 2018	Mariusz A. Wasik, MD Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA	"Cancer Biology as the Ultimate Diagnostic and Therapeutic Guidance"