Neuropathology

-- Fausto Rodriguez, M.D.
UCLA  

Slide Seminar: UCLA

"A novel variant of an old entity: what should we know"
-- Xiaotang (Alison) Du, M.D., M.S.C.

"Unmasking the unusual: A Close Look at a Unique EBUS-FNA Case with Routine Cytomorphologic Features"
-- Erika Rodriguez, M.D.

"Review of common and not so common oncocytic renal tumors"
-- Anthony Sisk, Jr., D.O.

51st Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"HPV-Independent Carcinomas in the Anal Canal, Perineum, and Perianal Regions with Emphasis on Classification"
--Mahzad Azimpouran, M.D.   -- First Place
Cedars Sinai - PGY2

"Breast Mass"
--Hanim Ozkizilkaya, M.D.  -- Second Place
USC / LAGMC - PGY1

"14-Year-Old Male with Periorbital Mass: A Puzzling Presentation"
--Sarah Edminster, D.O.  -- Third Place
USC / LAGMC - Neuropathology Fellow

"Rare COL1A1::PDGFB fusion in uterine tumor"
--Anamaria Monteanu, M.D.  -- Fourth Place
UCLA - Molecular Genetics Fellow

Slide Seminar: USC / LA General Medical Center

"Identification of Metabolic Disease by Autopsy: Case Example"
-- Julie Huss-Bawab,  M.D.

"Uncommon Gastric Polyps"
-- Yung Gong,  M.D.

"Invasive Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Breast associated with Breast Augmentation Implant Capsule"
-- Nafiseh Janaki,  M.D.

"Usual Presentation of an Unusual Interstitial Lung Disease"
-- W. Dean Wallace, M.D., FCAP

"ctDNA Assays in Oncology: Clinical Uses and Considerations"

-- Eric Vail, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Cutaneous Lupus for General Pathologists"

-- Christopher S. Hale, M.D.
Kaiser Permanente, South Bay Medical Center

27th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Digital Pathology and Pathology Informatics

--Anil Parwani, M.D., PH.D.
and
--Zaibo Li, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture
"What’s New in GYN Pathology"

-- C. Blake Gilks, M.D., FRCPC
Consultant Pathologist
Vancouver Coastal Health

"Non-neoplastic Bone Pathology: Daily Practice"

-- Nooshin K. Dashti, M.D., M.P.H.
Dartmouth  

Slide Seminar:  Kaiser Permanente

"Atypical and Malignant Cutaneous Adnexal Tumors"
-- David Cassarino, M.D.

"Two Interesting GI Cases"
-- Mehran Taherian, M.D.

"Mass at Floor of Mouth"
-- Dandan Wang, M.D.

"Comon Patterns with Uncommon Causes"
-- Winnie Wu, M.D.

"Pediatric Small Round Cell Tumors"

-- Shengmei Zhou, M.D.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Slide Seminar: City of Hope

-- Min Han, M.D., Ph.D.
-- Parastou Tizro, M.D.

50th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"A Tale of Two Tumors in the Pancreas:
A Diagnostic Challenge of Clear Cell Tumors"
-- Precious Fortes, M.D.  -- First Place
UCLA – PGY-3

"B-cell Prolymphocytic Leukemia: An Enduring Bona Fide Entity"
-- Miguel Gonzalez-Mancera, M.D.-- Honorable Mention
Cedars-Sinai – PGY-3

"Rosai-Dorfman Disease Presenting with Diplopia"
-- Tiffany Lee, D.O.-- Third Place
LAC+USC – PGY-2

"Massive Retinal Gliosis Mimicking an Intraocular Neoplasm"
-- Jolee Suddock, D.O.-- Second Place
Keck USC – PGY-5

Slide Seminar: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Less Common Variants of Common Lymphomas"
-- Sumire Kitahara, M.D.

"Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Pain in the Neck"
-- Daniel Manzoor, M.D.

"Gynecology Case Review with an Emphasis on Clinical Significance; A discussion between a pathologist and a gynecology oncology surgeon"

-- Sanaz Memarzadeh, M.D., Ph.D. &  Neda Moatamed, M.D.
UCLA

"Diagnostic Problems in Lipomatous Pathology"

-- Bonnie Balzer, M.D., Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

26th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Neoplastic Dermatopathology & Cutaneous Hematopathology

"Practical approach to Melanocytic Tumors"
"Diagnostic challenges in Cutaneous Soft Tissue Tumors"
"Vascular Tumors Then and Now"
-- Steven D. Billings, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic

"A general approach to the diagnosis of Cutaneous Lymphoid infiltrates and a review of Cutaneous Pseudolymphomas"
"Primary Cutaneous T-cell Lymphomas"
"Primary Cutaneous B-cell Lymphomas and secondary skin involvement by Systemic/Nodal Lymphomas"
-- Antonio Subtil, M.D., M.B.A.
Royal Jubilee and Victoria General Hospitals, University of British Collumbia

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Discussion of the ICC and WHO Classifications for Myeloid Neoplasms"

-- Daniel A. Arber, M.D.
The University of Chicago

"WHO updates for CNS tumors"

-- Kyle Hurth, M.D., Ph.D.
Keck School of Medicine of USC

Slide Seminar: LAC+USC

"Drugs, Gels and Fillers: Foreign Bodies in the Gastrointestinal Tract"
-- Yuna Gong, M.D.

"Approach to the Differential Diagnosis of a Renal Mass on Core Biopsy"
-- Shivani Kandukuri, M.D.

"Small Round Cell Tumor of the Ovary"
-- Saloni Walia, M.D.

"Well differentiated Hepatocellular lesions – Approach to diagnosis and utilization of ancillary techniques"

-- Shefali Chopra, M.D.
Keck School of Medicine of USC

Slide Seminar: UCLA

"Interesting Cases in Vulvar Pathology"
-- Yuna Kang, M.D.

"Rationale for the ordering and interpretation of molecular tests in Hematologic Malignancies"
-- Sheeja Pullarkat, M.B.B.S.

49th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Tumor with CRTC1-TRIM11 Fusion"
-- Chau Minh Bui, M.D., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, PGY-3  Honorable Mention

"Follicular patterned thyroid lesions: Diagnoses that are neck and neck"
-- Teresa Kim, M.D., UCLA, PGY-4  1st Place

"Having a Blast with Placental Pathology"
-- Michael Kozak, M.D., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, PGY-2  2nd Place

No title provided
Ariannette Robledo Gómez, M.D., Keck of USC and LAC+USC, PGY-3  3rd Place

Slide Seminar: Kaiser Permanente

"FISH’in for MDM2 (Sept 2020 to Dec 2021)"
-- John Ohara, M.D.

"Uncommon Gyn Tumors with a Common Molecular Underpinning"
-- Winnie Wu, M.D.

"2022 Update of Molecular Testing in Lung Cancer"
"Using Molecular Data in Staging Patients with Multiple NSCLC"

-- Jason Chang, M.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

(Cancelled)

25th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Gastrointestinal Pathology

-- Elizabeth Montgomery, M.D.
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
-- Vikram Deshpande, M.D., M.B.B.S.
Harvard Medical School

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Borderline Breast Lesions: An Entity to Minimize Overdiagnosis of Low-Grade Ductal Carcinoma In Situ"

-- Shahla Masood, M.D.
University of Florida Health

"Clonal Hematopoiesis & Myelodysplastic Syndromes: From Mild-Mannered Cytopenias to Lurking Leukemia"

-- Sheeja Pullarkat, M.D.
UCLA

(Cancelled)

(Cancelled)

Slide Seminar: City of Hope

"TNBC: Triple Negative Breast Cancers or Troubling, Nebulous, Beguiling Cases?"
-- Christina Wei, M.D.

"Ruptured appendix with mucin extravasation: a diagnostic dilemma"
-- Rifat Mannan, M.D.

"Challenging, yet interesting cases"
-- Hany Meawad, M.D.

"Critical Value of Detecting Multiple Patterns/Pathologic Processes"
-- Bharat Nathwani, M.D.

47th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Perinephric Myxoid Pseudotumor of Fat"  1st Place
-- Timothy Law, M.D.
PGY-5, LAC+USC

"Thyroid FNA with abundant bland squamous cells"  2nd Place
-- Vimal Krishnan, M.D.
Fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Fatal case of an immunocompromised teenager with respiratory failure of unknown etiology"  3rd Place
-- Joshua Byers, M.D.
Fellow, UCLA

"PD-L1 Expression in HPV-Dependent vs HPV-Independent Invasive Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma" Honorable Mention
--Chau Bui, M.D.
PGY-2, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Slide Seminar: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Non-HPV Associated Cervical Adenocarcinoma: Getting a grip on the gastric type"
-- Nicholas Bercovici, D.O.
Link to Dr. Bercovici's presentation

"Surgical Hematopathology: It’s a lymphoproliferative disorder, but what do you call it?"
-- Sumire Kitahara, M.D.

"Multiple faces in a case of sinonasal carcinoma"
-- Wenjing Shi, M.D
Link to Dr. Shi's presentation

"Neuro Frozen Sections – A Paramedic Approach"

-- William Yong, M.D.
UC Irvine

"An Alphabet Soup of Thyroid Gland Pathology"

-- Lester D.R. Thompson, M.D.
SCPMG

24th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Genitourinary Pathology

"Prostate Cancer 2021: What Do You Need to Know"
"Diagnostic Pitfalls in Prostate Biopsies and TURP"
"Renal Tumors with Eosinophilic Cytoplasm"
"Renal Tumors with Clear Cytoplasm"
-- Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham

"Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer: Diagnosis and Management"
"Diagnostic Pitfalls in Transurethral Resections of Bladder: Mimickers and Variants"
"Intraductal Carcinoma of the Prostate (IDC-P): A Resurgence of a 'MIA' Lesion"
"Liquid Biopsy in Precision Pathology: Plasma and Beyond"
-- George J. Netto, M.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"COVID-19: facts and controversies"

-- Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic

"Looking Deeper through the Surface"

-- Suzan Kavusi, M.D.
Quest Diagnostics

"COVID-19 Testing and Genetics"

"Testing Methodologies for COVID-19"
-- Rosemary She, M.D.
Keck Hospital of USC

"Genetics of SARS-CoV2"
-- Wenjuan Zhang, Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Slide Seminar: UCLA

"Different Faces of Lichen Sclerosus: A Histopathological Challenge"
-- Sepehr Hamidi, M.D.

"A CHIP in Time"
-- Thomas D. Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

"Salivary Gland Pathology"
-- Dipti Sajed, M.D., Ph.D.

(Cancelled due to COVID-19)

"A Case-based Introduction to Hepatitis"

-- Kevin Waters, M.D., Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

23rd Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Hematopathology

"Acute Myeloid Leukemia"
"Updates in Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Related Entities"
"Updates in Select Mature Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Bone Marrow"
"Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma in 2020"
"Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: What's New?"
"Eosinophilia: A Practical Approach"
-- Kaaren K. Reichard, M.D.
Mayo Clinic

"Extramedullary Myeloid Proliferations"
"Approach to Histiocytic Proliferations"
"Updates in Small B-Cell Lymphomas"
"Diagnostic Strategies and Selected Updates in Large B-Cell Lymphoma"
"Practical Spleen Pathology"
-- April Chiu, M.D.
Mayo Clinic

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Difficult and Unusual Cases in Dermatopathology"

-- David Cassarino, M.D., Ph.D.
Kaiser Permanente

(Cancelled)

(Cancelled)

"An Update on Reporting Prostate Carcinomas: New Recommendations and Evolving Considerations"

-- Manju Aron, M.D.
USC Keck School of Medicine

Slide Seminar: LAC + USC

"Unusual duodenal tumor in a 21 year old"
-- Shefali Chopra, M.D.

"Thrombocytopenia and the importance of history"
-- Ashley Hagiya, M.D.

"64 year old male with back pain"
-- Shivani Kandukuri, M.D.

"Curious Case of a Bartholin Duct Cyst"
-- Saloni Walia, M.D.

46th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

(Cancelled)

Slide Seminar: City of Hope National Medical Center

"Interesting Cases in Molecular Pathology"
-- Michelle Afkhami, M.D.

"Non-Invasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features (NIFTP) from FNA to Resection"
-- Sue Chang, M.D.

"Melanoma or Not?"
-- Vishwas Parekh, M.D.

"The Kids are Marginalized, and Still Alright. A Case of Pediatric Marginal Zone Lymphoma"
-- Saba Ali, M.D.

"Tumor Mutational Burden: From Burden to Biomarker"

-- Eric Vail, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Two Cases of Bronchiolar Disease"

-- Michael N. Koss, M.D.
Keck Hospital of USC

22nd Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Placental & Perinatal Pathology

"10 diagnoses you don’t want to miss and why"
"Slide seminar: Maternal vascular malperfusion"
"The utility of Perinatal pathology for the clinician"
-- Drucilla J. Roberts, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital and
Harvard Medical School

"Placental pathology: frequent flyers in the medicolegal arena"
"Constellation disorders in placental pathology"
"Slide show: Fetal vascular malperfusion"
-- Theonia K. Boyd, M.D.
Harvard Medical School and
Boston Children’s Hospital and
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"The Esophagus: Where does it End? A Path to New Discovery"

-- Parakrama 'Para' Chandrasoma, M.D.
LAC/USC

"Practical Neuropathology in the Era of Who 2016 — Case Studies and Pitfalls"

-- William 'Bill' Yong, M.D.
UCLA

Slide Seminar: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Clear as Mud: A Case of Conspicuously Clear Hepatocytes…"
-- Brent Larson, D.O.

"Elusive cause of renal failure in an elderly gentleman"
-- Mercury Lin, M.D.

"In Pursuit of Precision Medicine: The Ever-Expanding Utility of Solid Tumor NGS"
-- Eric Vail, M.D.

"Inflammatory Skin Disorders: It’s About Clinicopathological Correlation!""

-- Suzan Kavusi, M.D.
Foothill Dermatology, Glendora, California

Slide Seminar: UCLA

"Non Neoplastic Neuromuscular Pathology - General Biopsy Considerations"
-- Negar Khanlou, M.D.

"Papillary Lesions of the Breast"
-- Thomas J. Lawton, M.D.

"Updates in HPV-associated Oropharyngeal Carcinoma"
-- Dipti Sajed, M.D., Ph.D.

"Evaluation of non-neoplastic renal disease in adult tumor nephrectomy specimens"
-- Jonathan Zuckerman, M.D., Ph.D.

45th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Plexiform Fibromyxoma"
-- Mary Wong, M.D.  (PGY-3)  1st Place
Cears-Sinai Medical Center

"When Renal Cell Carcinoma Isn't Clear, Beware of Genetic Puppeteers"
-- Fang Bu, M.D . (PGY-4)   2nd Place
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

"Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Hobnail Features arising in a background of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis in Thyroid Gland"
-- Yan Liu, M.D.  (PGY-3)   3rd Place
Loma Linda University

"Diffuse Follicular Lymphoma Variant: A Distinct Entity"
-- Moe Takeda, M.D.  (PGY-2)  4th Place
LAC+USC

"Teratoma with a Secret"
-- John Paul Govindavari, M.D.  (PGY-2)  Honarable mention
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

" 'Ph-like' B-lymphoblastic Leukemia: Filling in the Gaps"
-- Maximilian Goebel, M.D. (PGY-3)        Poster prize
LAC+USC

Slide Seminar: Loma Linda University

"The Lowly Appendix: Interesting tidbits of common entities"
-- Yamil Lopez, M.D.

"SARCOIDOSIS: A Paradigm Shift?"
-- Ravi Raghavan, MBBS, MD, MRC Path

"Mammary Analog Secretory Carcinoma of the Salivary Gland"
-- Heather Rojas, M.D.

"Post-transplant lymphoproliferative Disorders (PTLD) - 2017 WHO Revision & Updates"
-- Jun Wang, M.D.

"Neonatal Enteropathies: Relevant Entities With Distinct Histopathologic Features and Molecular Signatures"

-- Nick Shillingford, M.D.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

"Neuroblastoma, Recent Progress in Pathology Research"

-- Hiroyuki "Hiro" Shimada, M.D., Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

21st Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Cytopathology

"The 2017 Bethesda System for Thyroid Cytopathology"
"Molecular Testing of Thyroid FNA"
"The 'Atypical' Thyroid FNA"
-- Edmund S. Cibas, M.D.
Harvard Medical School and
Brigham & Women's Hospital

"Minimally Invasive Sampling of Lung Lesions"
"Contemporary Workup of NSCLC"
"Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Tumors"
"Ancillary Testing in NSCLC"
"Mesothelioma and Effusion Cytology"
-- Paul A. VanderLaan, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School and
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Updates in Bladder Cancer Diagnosis and Staging"

-- Donna Hansel, M.D.
University of California, San Diego

"Mesenchymal lesions of the gastrointestinal tract - Approach to diagnosis and an update". for handout.

Shefali Chopra, M.D.
USC Keck School of Medicine

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Slide Seminar: Kaiser Permanente

"Follicular Mucin - Benign or Malignant"
-- Christopher Hale, M.D.

"Is It or Isn't It #1" and "Is It or Isn't It #2"
-- John Ohara, M.D.

"Interesting Cases in Perinatal Pathology"
-- Sandy Wu, M.D.

"Chagas Disease: a Tropical Infection Now Found in Los Angeles"

-- David M. Engman, M.D., Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Slide Seminar: USC Keck School of Medicine

"Pulmonary ANCA-associated Vasculitides"
-Wafaa Elatre, M.D.

"An Unusual Location for an Uncommon Adult CNS Tumor"
-- Anna Mathew, M.D.

"Paratesticular Neoplasms"
-- Guang-Qian Xiao, M.D.

"Intracholecystic Papillary-tubular Neoplasms"
-- Evan Yung, M.D.

44th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"An Under-Recognized Atypical Pediatric Spindle Cell Tumor"
-- Alexander Nobori, M.D.   (PGY-2)    1st Place
University of California, Los Angeles

"25-Year-Old with a Large Mass in the Right Lower Lobe"
-- Andrew Siref, M.D.   (PGY-2)    2nd Place
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Multifocal Colorectal Adenocarcinoma Arising in an Immunocompromised Child with FLCN Gene Mutation: Causation or Coincidence?"
-- Li Lei, M.D.   (PGY-4)    3rd Place
Loma Linda University

"The Diagnostic Ambiguity of Cilia and Mucin in a Subpleural Nodule"
-- Felicita Baratelli, M.D.   (Surgical Pathology Fellow)    Honorable Mention
Los Angeles County + University of Southern California

"Loss of ATRX Expression Identifies a Unique Subset of Unfavorable Histology Neuroblastoma"
-- Ali Nael Amzajerdi, M.D.   (Pediatric Pathology Fellow)    Honorable Mention
Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles

"Suspected Pulmonary Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma Without Histologic Evidence of Squamous Component on Biopsy: A Diagnosis by Molecular Study"
-- Luan Henry Nguyen, M.D. (PGY-2)    Poster Winner
Harbor UCLA

"Selected Tumors and Tumor-like Lesions of the Urinary Bladder Common Diagnostic Pitfalls"

-- Manju Aron, M.D.
USC Keck School of Medicine

"Cutaneous Lymphomas"

-- Christiane Querfeld, M.D., Ph.D.
City of Hope Medical Center

Cancelled

20th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Gastrointestinal Pathology

"BE and BE-related Dysplasia"
"IBD and IBD-related Dysplasia"
"Diagnostic Approach to GI Mesenchymal Tumors"
"Case Presentations"
-- John Goldblum, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine

"Pattern Based Approach to Non-IBD Colitis"
"Colorectal Polyps-- What's New"
"Diagnostic Approach to Small Bowel Pathology"
"Non-Neoplastic Gastric Pathology"
-- Deepa Patil, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Personalization of Cancer Care thru Diagnostics: Opportunities and Challenges of Tumor Genomic Profiling"

-- Julia Elvin, M.D., Ph.D.
Foundation Medicine, Inc.

No CME credits for this event

In observance of Election Day, this meeting did not occur.

Slide Seminar: City of Hope National Cancer Center

"Enhancing Assessment of Tumors with Next Generation Sequencing"
-- Michelle Afkhami, M.D.

"6 Year Old with an Enlarged Neck"
-- Joo Y. Song, M.D.

"Lesion of the Fallopian Tube"
-- Sharon P. Wilczynski, M.D., Ph.D.

"Medico-legal death investigation in LA county-- A team approach"

-- Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.
Medicine Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner/Director (Retired)

Slide Seminar: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Pitfall in Her2 Interpretation"
-- Rania Bakkar, M.D.

"54 yo Female with a Highly Unusual Breast Lesion"
-- Xuemo (Sean) Fan, M.D., Ph.D.

"Mavericks in the Liver"
-- Maha Guindi, M.D.

"WHO 2014 Includes a New Type of Biphasic Uterine Tumor"
-- Joanne Rutgers, M.D.

43rd Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Post Transplant Urothelial Carcinoma: Something To Think About"
-- Deepika Sirohi, M.D.   1st Place
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Genitourinary Pathology Fellow

"Throbbing headache in a 31 year old male nursing student returning from the Philippines with recently treated mycobacterial lymphadenitis"
-- Linda Szymanski, M.D.   2nd Place
Keck/LAC+USC Medical Center - Neuropathology Fellow

"When GIST is more than just a GIST"
-- Christina Wei, M.D.   3rd Place
Keck/LAC+USC Medical Center - PGY2 Pathology Resident

"MUC4 Expression Distinguishes Pediatric Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma"
-- Julia Chu, M.D.   Honorable Mention
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles - Pediatric Pathology Fellow

"Copper Deficiency: A Mimicker of Myelodysplastic Syndrome"
-- Tae Hun Kim, M.D.   Honorable Mention
LAC+USC Medical Center - PGY1 Pathology Resident

"Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome in Adults - Who Knew?!"
-- Catherine Chang, M.D.   Poster Award
LAC+USC Medical Center - PGY2 Pathology Resident

Slide Seminar: UCLA

"Non Neoplastic Neuromuscular Pathology"
-- Negar Khanlou, M.D.

"Diagnostic Dilemma in Rare Pulmonary Tumor"
-- W. Dean Wallace, M.D.

"Applied Next Generation Sequencing in Hematologic Malignancy"
-- Rena Xian, M.D.

"WHO’s next? The case for a ‘new’ salivary gland lesion"
-- Sung-Eun (Stephanie) Yang, M.D.

"An Algorithmic Approach for the Surgical Pathologist"

-- David Frishberg, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"The Placenta as a Fetal Organ".

-- Jeffrey D. Goldstein, M.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

19th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Breast Pathology

"Spindle Cell Lesions"
"Mimics in Breast Pathology"
"Intraductal Proliferative Lesions/Interobserver Reproducibility"
"Vascular Lesions"
"Update on Margin Evaluation"
"Lobular Carcinoma in Situ"
-- Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and
Harvard Medical School

"Columnar Cell Lesions and Flat Epithelial Atypia"
"Papillary Lesions"
"Contemporary Issues in Breast Core Needle Biopsy"
"Fibroepithelial Lesions"
"Ductal Carcinoma in Situ"
"Triple Negative Breast Cancer"
-- Laura C. Collins, M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and
Harvard Medical School

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"The Seven Things You Need to Know About Bone Before Signing Your Report"

-- Michael J. Klein, M.D.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

"Transplant Pathology"

"Pathology of Cardiac Transplantation"
-- Michael C. Fishbein, M.D.
UCLA

"Renal Transplant Pathology for the Practicing Surgical Pathologist"
-- Aviv Hever, M.D., FCAP, FASCP
Kaiser Permanente

"Pathology of Liver Transplantation"
-- Bita Naini, M.D.
UCLA

"Update on Lung Transplant Pathology"
-- W. Dean Wallace, M.D.
UCLA

Slide Seminar: Loma Linda University

"The Many Faces of Mammary Myofibroblastoma"
-- Laura J. Denham, M.D.

"More than Skin Deep"
-- Justin Kerstetter, M.D.

"A Bloody Nose…"
-- Mia C. Nepomuceno-Perez, M.D.

"Unexpected Brain Findings in a Patient Presenting with Aphasia"
-- Ravi Raghavan, MBBS, M.D.

"Changes in HER2 Testing Guidelines: A Personal Perspective"

-- Michael F. Press, M.D., Ph.D.
USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Slide Seminar: Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

"A Neoplasm Masquerading as Peyronie's Disease"
"An Unusual Renal Neoplasm"
-- John A. Ohara, M.D.

42nd Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Mixed Endometrial Adenocarcinoma: Mystery Solved?"   First Place
-- Kara Duncan, M.D.
LAC+USC/Keck   

"Male Adnexal Tumor of Woffian Origin"   Second Place
-- Mukul Divatia, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center    

"Integration of EGFR and CK5/6 Immunoexpression in Predicting
Survival of Triple Negative Breast Cancer"   Third Place
-- Kristine Astvatsaturyan, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center    

"IgG4-related Kidney Disease"   HHonorable Mention
-- Lihong Bu, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center    

"Childhood and Adolescent Melanoma"   Honorable Mention
-- -Xiaoyan Zhou, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center    

Slide Seminar: USC

"71 Year Old Female with Purple Skin Lesion on the Left Breast"
-- Meenakshi Bhasin, M.D.

"Two CD34 Positive Tumors in the Same Tumor?"
-- Shefali Chopra, M.D.

"Diffuse Glioma Diagnostic Case Challenge"
-- Kyle Hurth, M.D., Ph.D.

"A Stomach Ulcer in a Patient with a History of Orthotopic Liver  Transplantation"
-- Ria Vergara-Lluri, M.D.

"Cervical Cancer Screening: Not Your Grandmotherʹs Pap Test"

-- Juan C. Felix, M.D.
Keck Hospital of USC

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

"Therapeutic Misadventures"

-- Christopher B. Rogers, M.D., M.B.A.
Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner - Coroner

18th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Pulmonary Pathology

"Small Biopsies of Inflammatory Lesions of the Oral Cavity"
"Salivary Glands: Old and New Entities"
"Oropharyngeal Carcinoma"
"Diagnosing Small Biopsies of the Sinonasal Tract"
-- Lester D.R. Thompson, M.D.,
Southern California Permanente Medical Group

"Practical Problems in Melanocytic Lesions"
"Inflammatory Skin Disease Every Pathologist Should Know"
"Deceptive Soft Tissue Tumors: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
-- Steven D. Billings, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Does Barrett’s Mucosa Deserve to Die?"

-- Henry D. Appelman, M.D.
University of Michigan

"Small Round Cell Tumors of Bone and Soft Tissue: An Update"

-- David M. Parham, M.D.
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Slide Seminar: City of Hope National Medical Center

"An Intraperitoneal Inflammatory Sarcoma"
-- Peiguo (Gerry) Chu, M.D., Ph.D.

"What is the diagnosis of that big lymph node?"
-- Young Kim, M.D.

"CD30 Positive Lymphoma, a Challenging Case"
-- Joo Y. Song, M.D.

"Cotyledonoid Leiomyoma: a Benign Smooth Muscle Tumor of the Female Pelvis that has a Scary Gross Appearance"
-- Sharon Wilczynski, M.D., Ph.D.

"Melanoma Risk: Malpractice Claims"

-- David Troxel, M.D.
Medical Director, The Doctors Company

Slide Seminar: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

-- Sumire Kitahara, M.D.
-- Anna Laury, M.D.
-- Jean Lopategui, M.D.
-- Christine VanBeek, M.D

41st Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Well Differentiated Lipoma-like Liposarcoma"  First Place
-- Evan Yung, M.D.
LAC+USC

"Chemokine Receptor CCR9 in DLBCL and FL"  Second Place
-- Winnie Wu, M.D.
UCLA

"Acquired Hemophilia A"  Third Place
-- Caleb Cheng, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai

"Perivascular Identity of Glomus Tumor"  Honorable Mention
-- James Aaron, M.D.
UCLA

"H. pylori Gastritis"  Honorable Mention
-- Dorina Gui, M.D.
UCLA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Slide Seminar: UCLA

"Common Issues and Pitfalls in Frozen Section Examination of the GI Tract"
-- Bita V. Naini, M.D.

Title not available
-- M. Fernando Palma Diaz, M.D.

"The Do’s and Don’ts of Skin Frozen Section"
-- G. Peter Sarantopoulos, M.D.

"Mucinous Neoplasms in the Ovary during Frozen Section"
-- Peggy S. Sullivan, M.D.

Title not available
-- W. Dean Wallace, M.D.

"Experiences with Malpractice Litigation as a Pathology Expert Witness"

-- Para Chandrasoma, M.D.
LAC+USC Medical Center

"Update on Classification and Grading of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors"

-- Scott D. Nelson, M.D.
UCLA Santa Monica and Orthopaedic Hospital

17th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Pulmonary Pathology

"Molecular Testing of Lung Carcinoma"  and
"Adenocarcinoma Classification Should be Easy"  and
"Case Presentations"
-- Sanja Dacic, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

"A Pattern-Based Approach to Interstitial Lung Disease" and
"Case Studies"
-- Kevin O. Leslie, M.D.
Mayo Clinic Arizona

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Rudolf Virchow – Not Just a Triad"

-- Stephen A. Geller, M.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

"Neuropathology of Dementias/Alzheimer Disease"

-- Harry Vinters, M.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Slide Seminar: LAC+USC / University of Southern California

"Renal cell carcinoma presenting as a multilocular cyst – A case of a rare but distinct subtype of renal cell carcinoma"
-- Manju Aron, M.D.

"59 Year-Old Male with Work-Related Head Trauma"
-- Grace Kim, M.D.

"Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis"
-- Cuauhtemoc Magana, M.D.

"Cervical Mass in a 19 Year-Old Woman"
-- Fabiola Medeiros, M.D.

"Strongyloidiasis Hyperinfection in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus"
-- Evan Yung, M.D.

"Primary Cutaneous T-cell Lymphomas: Classification & A Practical Diagnostic Approach"

-- David S. Cassarino, M.D., Ph.D.
Kaiser Permanente

Slide Seminar: Loma Linda University Medical Center

-- Summer Blount, M.D.
-- Laura Denham, M.D.
-- Cyrus Oster, M.D.
-- Bingbing Song, M.D.
-- Ying Zhao, M.D.

40th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"CNS Histiocytic Sarcoma"    First Place
-- Winnie Wu, M.D.
UCLA

"Erdheim-Chester Disease" Runner up
-- Sara Acree, M.D.
LAC+USC

"Borderline Serous Tumor"     Runner up
-- Monica Phillips, M.D.
U UCLA

"Subacute Nonsuppurative Cholangitis"
-- Vanda Farahmand, M.D.
UCLA

"Leigh Syndrome"
-- Saloni Walia, M.D.
LAC+USC

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Slide Seminar: Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

"Challenging Dermatohematopathology Case"
-- David Cassarino, M.D., Ph.D.

"Physician-in-Charge"
-- Karen L. Chang, M.D.

"Another case of Elevated LFTs"
-- Nafis Shafizadeh, M.D.

"Evaluation of Dwarfism in Fetal Autopsies"
-- Sandy Wu, M.D.

"Pulmonary Lymphoid Lesions for the General Surgical Pathologist"

-- Michael Koss, M.D.
Keck Medical Center of USC

"Acute Liver Disease, a Case Based Discussion"

Charles R. Lassman, M.D., Ph.D.
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

16th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Gynecologic Pathology

"Epithelial Ovarian Cancer"
-- Robert J. Kurman, M.D., The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

"The Origin of Ovarian Cancer"
"Ovarian Carcinomas"
"Adeno Carcinoma of Endocervix"
-- Elvio G. Silva, M.D., University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:

"Selected Problems in the Diagnosis of Melanocytic Lesions"
"Benign Melanocytic Lesions"
"Less Common Variants of Cutaneous Melanoma"
-- Raymond L. Barnhill, M.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Slide Seminar: UCLA Medical Center

"High Concordance Between HercepTest IHC & HER2 FISH Before & After Implementation of ASCO/CAP 2007 Guidelines"
-- Sophia K. Apple, M.D.

"Mucocele-like Lesions of the Breast"
-- David Y. Lu, M.D.

"Prognostic Factors in Breast Cancer"
-- Neda A. Moatamed, M.D.

"Solid Papillary Carcinoma: Invasive or Not?"
-- Peggy S. Sullivan, M.D.

"Branding, Visibility & Targeted Education: Creating Pathology Reports that Matter"

-- Eric Glassy, M.D.
Little Company of Mary Hospital /p>

"Intraoperative Diagnosis of CNS Lesions"

-- Parakrama T. Chandrasoma, M.D.
USC Medical Center/p>

Slide Seminar: City of Hope National Medical Center

"Enteropathy-Associated T-cell Lymphoma"
-- Karl Gaal, M.D.

"Acute Leukemic Presentation of ALCL 20 Years After Bone Marrow Transplantation"
-- Quin Huang, M.D.

"Introduction to Mast Cell Sarcoma"
-- Young Kim, M.D.

"Undifferentiated Endometrial Carcinoma"
-- Sharon Wilczinsky, M.D.

39th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

-- Kiran Qidwai     First Place
LAC + USC

-- Sara Acree    Second Place
LAC + USC

-- Robin Rawson   Third Place
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

-- Ria Vergara-Lluri
UCLA

-- James Lee
Harbor UCLA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Slide Seminar: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Plasmablastic Lymphoma and Differential from Other Overlapping Lymphoproliferative Disorders"
-- Serhan Alkan, M.D.

"Clear-Cell Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma: Diagnostic Criteria and What Have We Learned in the 6 Years Since its First Description"
-- Amin Mahul, M.D.  

"Revenge of the Reduviidae"
-- Daniel Luthringer, M.D.

"Bullous Skin Lesions: How to Approach and When to Order DIF"
-- Julie Wu, M.D.

Participants may contact SShirley Jacke for handouts.

"An Update on Oropharyngeal Carcinoma"

-- Lester Thompson, M.D.
Southern California Permanente Medical Group

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

"Urine Cytology and Adjunct Markers"

-- Jianyu Rao, M.D., FCAP
UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

15th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary

"Symposium in Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Pathology: Esophagus, Stomach, & Small Intestine"
"Symposium in Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Pathology: Nonneoplastic Colon, Colorectal Polyps, & Topics in Anal Pathology"
-- Elizabeth A. Montgomery, M.D., The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

"Update on the Gleason Grading System"
"Mimickers of Bladder Neoplasia"
"Common Medicolegal Situations and How to Avoid Them: Genitourinary Pathology" 
-- Jonathan Epstein, M.D., The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Advances in Molecular Microbiology"

-- Gary W. Procop, M.D., M.S.
The Cleveland Clinic

"Tumor and Tumor-Like Lesions of the Head and Neck: Cytologic Diagnosis with Histologic Correlation"

-- Mai Gu, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California Irvine Medical Center/p>

Slide Seminar: LAC+USC / University of Southern California

Thyroid Pathology
-- Kristopher Kersch, M.D.

Dermatopathology
-- Daman Samrao, M.D.

Pulmonary Pathology
-- Sara Acree, M.D.

Gynecologic Pathology
-- Grace Kim, M.D.

Peritoneal Pathology
-- Neil Rawlinson, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Implications of the New IASLC/ATS/ERS Lung Adenocarcinoma Classification"

-- William Travis, M.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/p>

Slide Seminar: Loma Linda University Medical Center

"An Unusual Spindle Cell Tumor of the Breast"
-- Cassie Lee Booth, M.D.

"Coughs Are Not Always Colds"
-- Brian Hutchins, M.D.

"A Clear Case"
-- Brandon Ellsworth, M.D.

"Cave Diving: Unforeseen Consequences of Recurrent Exploration of the Cavum Trigeminale"
-- Christopher Ake, M.D.

"Holy Iodine, Batman: A Most Unusual Thyroid Tumor"
-- Kate Grogan, M.D.

"The Great Mimicker"
-- Justin Kerstetter, M.D.

38th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

-- Lisa Stoll, M.D.  First Place
UCLA      

-- Sara Acree, M.D.  Second Place
USC  

-- Michelle Afkhami, M.D.  Third Place
USC 

-- Fernando Antelo, M.D.
Harbor-UCLA

-- Jennifer Cotter, medical student
LAC + USC

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Slide Seminar:  Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

"Primary Cutaneous Mucinous Carcinoma"
-- David S. Cassarino, M.D., Ph.D.

"A Pelvic Mass of Unexpected Origin"
-- Roger Chan, M.D.

"Acute Renal Failure in a Patient with Monoclonal Gammopathy"
-- Aviv Hever, M.D.

"Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis, Autoimmune Hepatitis, and Autoantibodies"
-- Nafis Shafizadeh, M.D.

"Kaposiform Hemangioendothelioma Mistaken as a Sign of Child Abuse in an Infant"
-- Scott Young, M.D.

"Differential Diagnosis of Hodgkin Lymphoma"

-- Lawrence M. Weiss, M.D.
City of Hope

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

"The Role of the Surgical Pathologist in Evaluation and Management of Germ Cell Tumors of the Testis"

-- Mahul B. Amin, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

14th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Bone & Soft Tissue

"Selected Fibrous and Fibro-osseous Lesions"
-- Carrie Y. Inwards, M.D.
Mayo Clinic

"Common Morphologic Patterns in Soft Tissue Tumors"
-- John Goldblum, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic

"Imaging Soft Tissue Tumors"
-- Leanne L Seeger, M.D., FACR
UCLA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Digital Imaging in Anatomic Pathology – Is There Added Value?"

-- John Sinard, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale

"Follicular Lymphoma: Molecular Pathogenesis, Histology and Immunophenotyping"

-- Bharat N. Nathwani, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Slide Seminar: UCLA Medical Center

"Selected Enteropathies of the Very Young"
-- Galen Cortina, M.D., Ph.D.

"Mucinous Tumors of the Appendix"
-- Sarah Dry, M.D.

"Pancreatic Cancer: Look Again!"
-- David Dawson, M.D., Ph.D.

"Diagnosing MALT Lymphoma"
-- Steven Hart, M.D.

"Glycogenic Hepatopathy and Type 2 NASH"
-- Charles Lassman, M.D., Ph.D.

"Comprehensive Classification for Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma"

-- Ronald Barr, M.D.
University of California, Irvine and br>Laguna Pathology Medical Group, Laguna Beach, CA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Slide Seminar: City of Hope National Medical Center

-- MasMassimo D'Apuzzo, M.D., Ph.D.
-- Karl Gaal, M.D.
-- Qin Huang, M.D.
-- Sharon Wilczynski, M.D., Ph.D.

37th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS)"    First Place
-- Sara Acree, M.D.
LAC+ USC     

"Trypanosoma Cruzi"  Second Place
--- Brit Shackley, M.D.
UCLA      

"Glioblastoma, Giant Cell Variant"   Third Place
-- Aaron S. Wagner, M.D.
UCLA      

"Monoclonal B-lymphocytosis (MBL)"
--- Renuka Agrawal, M.D.
City of Hope

"Cutaneous Amoebiasis"
--- Andrea D’Auria, DO
LAC + USC

"Malignant Myopericytoma"  
--- Sanam Loghavi, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Resident & Fellow Poster Presentations:

-- Michelle Afkhami, M.D.,  USC
-- Fernando Antelo, M.D.,  Harbor
-- Serge Alexanian, M.D.,  UCLA
-- Sima Fargahi, M.D.,  UCI
-- Rachel H. Finck, M.D.,  UCLA
-- Matthew Fleming, M.D.,  UCLA
-- David Y. Lu, M.D.,  UCLA
-- Eric Miller, M.D.,  UCLA
-- Michiko Nagamine, M.D.,  USC
-- Bita V. Naini, M.D.,  UCLA
-- Galya Rees, M.S.,  UCLA
-- Angela A. Steinhardt, M.D.,  UCLA
-- Winnie Wu, M.D.,  UCLA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Molecular Pathology in the Age of Personalized Medicine"

-- Wayne W. Grody, M.D., Ph.D.
UCLA School of Medicine

"Laminin332 in Triple Negative Breast Carcinoma"

-- Philip M. Carpenter, M.D.
UC Irvine

"Update on AML Classification: An Algorithmic Approach to the use of Ancillary Studies"

-- Daniel Arber, M.D.
Stanford University Medical Center

13th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Pancreatic & Thyroid

"Problematic Issues in the Diagnosis, Classification, and Reporting of Solid Pancreatic Tumors" and
"Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas: Significance, Classification and Differential Diagnosis"
-- Volkan Adsay, M.D.

"Update on Thyroid FNA – the Bethesda Classification System"
-- Shika Bose, M.D.

"Thyroid Follicular Epithelial Cell Lesions"
"Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma: Fallacies and Realities of Diagnosis"
-- Bruce Wenig, M.D., Ph.D

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Immunohistochemical Approaches To The Diagnosis Of Undifferentiated Malignant Tumors"

-Mark Wick, M.D.
University of Virginia Health System

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Slide Seminar: LAC+USC/University of Southern California

-- Michael Welker, M.D.
-- Jacqueline Benjamin, M.D.
-- Zhe Piao, M.D., Ph.D.
-- Sara Acree, M.D.
-- Marina Sandoval, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

"Diffuse Aggressive B-cell Lymphomas"

-- Jonathan Said, M.D.
UCLA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

"Origins of Prostate Cancer"

-- David G. Bostwick, M.D., MBA
Bostwick Laboratories

Slide Seminar:  Loma Linda University Medical Center

"Angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphoma"
-- Marnelli Bautista, M.D.

"Desmoplastic Fibroblastoma"
-- Brandon Ellsworth, M.D.

"Intraductal Prostate Carcinoma" 
-- Jin Guo, M.D.

"EH vs FDCT"
-- Justin Kersteter, M.D.

"Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor"
-- Miriam Peckham, M.D.

"PTLD Classic HD Type"
-- Hannah Wong, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

36th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Leukemic Synovitis"     First Place
-- Sara Acree, M.D.
USC

"Adult T-cell Leukemia / Lymphoma"    Second Place
-- Fernando Antelo, M.D.
Harbor

"Epithelioid Sarcoma"    Third Place
-- Monica Phillips, M.D.
CSMC

"Chondroid Syringoma"
-- Jessica Chan, M.D.
UCLA

"Juvenile Polyposis Syndrome"
-- Yvonne Noronha, M.D.
LLU

"Medullary Breast Carcinoma"
-- Nicholas Ree, M.D.
USC

Resident & Fellow Poster Presentations:

-- Wafaa Elatre, M.D.
-- Virginia Knez, M.D.
-- Aihong Liu, M.D.
-- Sanam Loghavi, M.D.
-- Shalini Verma, M.D.
-- Shengmei Zhou, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Salivary Gland Pathology"

-- Lester D. R. Thompson, M.D.
SCMPG, Woodland Hills

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Slide Seminar:  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

-- Mahul Amin, M.D.
-- David Frishberg, M.D.
-- Stephen Geller, M.D.    
-- Alberto Marchevsky, M.D.    
-- Elvio Silva, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

"Advancing Breast Cancer Pathology: Large Format Visualization of Intact Tumor Fields with Imaging Correlation"

-- Julio A. Ibarra, M.D.
Orange Coast Memorial Pathology Medical Group
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

12th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Gynecologic and Breast

"Benign Breast Changes and Clinical Significance" 
-- James L. Connolly, M.D.

"Borderline Tumors of the Ovary"   
-- Steven G. Silverberg, M.D., FRCPath

"Borderline Tumors of the Ovary, Additional Thoughts"
-- Steven G. Silverberg, M.D., FRCPath

"In Situ Breast Carcinoma" 
-- James L. Connolly, M.D.

"Metastatic Carcinoma of the Ovary"
-- Steven G. Silverberg, M.D., FRCPath

"Breast MRI for Pathologists 2009: Principles, indications and radiologicpathologic correlations including large section format"
-- Richard Reitherman, M.D., Ph.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Spleen: Case Studies"

-- Jerome Burke, M.D.
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Slide Seminar:  UCLA Medical Center

"Utility of Urine Cytology in Conjunction with Immunocyt Testing for Urothelial Carcinoma"
-- Teresa LaCaria, M.D.

"Subtle cause of bile duct obstruction"
-- Steven Ohsie, M.D.

"Well Differentiated Pancreatic Endocrine Neoplasm with Entrapped Ductules"
-- Seong Ra, M.D.

"Soft Tissue Neoplasm"
-- Sachiv Sheth, M.D.

"Carcinosarcoma Arising in an Adenosarcoma"
-- Peggy Sullivan, MD

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Pathology of Interstitial Lung Disease"

-- Dean Wallace, M.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA and
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Soft Tissue Tumors of the Female Genital Tract"

-- Marisa Rose Nucci, M.D.
Harvard Medical School and
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Slide Seminar:  City of Hope National Medical Center

-- Karen L. Chang, M.D.
-- Massimo D'Apuzzo, M.D., Ph.D.
-- Karl Gaal, M.D.
-- Sean K. Lau, M.D.
-- Sharon Wilczynski, M.D., Ph.D.

35th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

-- Renuka Agrawal, M.D.
-- Bob N. Bernaba, M.D.
-- Gretchen Galliano, M.D.
-- Rodelio C. Guintu, M.D.    First Place
-- Jeff McDavit, M.D.    Second Place
-- Yvonne Noronha, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Inflammatory Skin Panel"

"Interface Dermatitis" 
-- David Frishberg, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Psoriasiform Dermatitis" 
-- David Cassarino, M.D., Ph.D.,
UCLA

"Spongiotic Dermatitis"
-- G. Peter Sarantopoulos, M.D.
UCLA

"Granulomatous Dermatitis"
-- Joseph Hillman, M.D.
UCLA

"Panniculitis"
-- Bonnie Balzer, M.D., Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Slide Seminar:  Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

-- Sajjad P. Syed, M.D.
-- Stephen F. Kirschbaum, M.D.
-- Aviv Hever, M.D.
-- Sally T. Turla, M.D.
-- Henry Tsai, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Microscopic Patterns helpful in the Classification of Placental Lesions,
with Emphasis on Clinical Correlations and Medical-Legal Implications"

-- Stephen Romansky, M.D.
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center/Miller Childrens Hospital
University of California, Irvine

11th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology: 
Liver

"Chronic Hepatitis, Diagnosis, Grading and Staging"
"Steatohepatitis Update"
-- Charles Lassman, M.D.
UCLA

"Clinical Update in the Management of Viral Hepatitis"
-- Francisco Durazo, M.D.
UCLA

"Pathology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Precursor Lesions and Differential Diagnosis"    and
"The Pathologist and the Metastasis: Distinguishing Hepatocellular Carcinoma from Other Hepatic Primary Tumors and Metastases"
-- M. Kay Washington, M.D.
Vanderbilt University

"HCC – Imaging and Image-Guided Ablated Therapy
-- David Lu, M.D.
UCLA

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"It Is Easy To Talk About Dysplasia In The Gut, But It Is Impossible To Diagnose It!"

-- Henry Appelman, M.D.
University of Michigan

Slide Seminar:  LAC+USC / University of Southern California

-- Stephen Oh, M.D.
-- Mayuko Imai, M.D. 
-- Sarka Cernosek, M.D.
-Nathash Kallichanda, M.D.
-- Indu Sehgal, M.D.
-- Jenny Kuo, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Current Challenges and Opportunities in Molecular Pathology"

-- Wayne Grody, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles

"Update in Breast Carcinoma"

"Multigene Expression Profiling"
"E-cadherin – Is It Necessary?"

-- Noel Weidner, M.D.
University of California, San Diego

Slide Seminar:  Loma Linda University Medical Center

-- Wafaa Elatre, M.D.   
-- Michelle Fajardo, M.D. 
-- Angie Pham, M.D.   
-- Shobha Castelino-Prabhu, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

34th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Does Size Matter? Comparison Study Between MRI, Gross and Microscopic Tumor Sizes in Breast Cancer in Lumpectomy Specimen"
-- Bita Behjatnia, M.D.
UCLA Medical Center

"The Spleen In Patients with HIV and Castleman’s Disease"
-- Gretchen Galliano, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Gene Expression Microarray System Used as a Molecular Diagnostic Tool to Distinguish Malignant Melanoma vs. Nevus from FFPE Tissue"
-- Stephen Koh, M.D.
UCLA Medical Center - Best Paper

"Placental Mesenchymal Dysplasia Is Associated With High Rates of Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Fetal Demise"
-- Truc Pham, M.D.
City of Hope National Medical Center

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Current Pharmacogenomic Testing for Oncology and Related Disciplines"

-- Michael Dugan, M.D.
Specialty Laboratories

Slide Seminar:  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

-- Deepti Dhall, M.D.
-- Bonnie L. Balzer, M.D., Ph.D.
-- Randa Alsabeh, M.D. 
-- Elvio G. Silva, M.D. 
-- Serguei I. Bannykh, M.D., Ph.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Benign Lymph Nodes: Tricks, Traps, Tried and True"

-- Dennis P. O’Malley, M.D.
U.S. Labs

10th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Renal Pathology

"The Who’s WHO in Adult Renal Epithelial Tumors"    
"Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer – The ISUP Modifications"
-- Mahul Amin, M.D.
Cedar Sinai Medical Center

"Bladder Cancer Today: WHO Would Have Thought?"
-- Victor Reuter, M.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

"Surgical Management of Localized Bladder Cancer"
-- Timothy Wilson, M.D.
City of Hope National Medical Center

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

Annual George Kypridakis Lecture:
"Pathology and Neuroimaging of Gliomas"

-- Bernd Scheithauer, M.D.
Mayo Clinic, College

Slide Seminar:  UCLA Medical Center

-- Franklin Sedarat, M.D., MSc
-- William Watts, M.D.
-- Pouneh Beizai, M.D.
-- Bita Behjatnia, M.D.
-- Negar Khanlou, M.D.
-- Sebastian Sasu, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Expectations Of The Community Hospital Workplace"

-- Richard E. Horowitz, M.D.
USC and UCLA Schools of Medicine

"Recent Advances in Acute Myeloid Leukemia"

-- Daniel A. Arber, M.D.    
Stanford University School of Medicine

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

Slide Seminar:  City of Hope National Medical Center

-- Karl Gaal, M.D.
-- Sean Lau, M.D.
-- Sharon P. Wilczynski M.D., Ph.D.
-- Peiguo Chu, M.D., Ph.D.
-- Karen L. Chang, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

33rd Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Detection of Methicillin Resistant Stapylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Directly From Positive Culture Bottles Using MRSA Evigene"
-- Rodelio Guintu, M.D.

"A Flow Cytometry Panel Useful To Exclude Myelodysplastic Syndrome"
-- Ling Zhang, M.D.

"Histologic Changes In Breast Carcinoma Status Post Neo-Adjuvant Chemotherapy Correlate With Pathologic Response"
-- Peggy Soung Sullivan, M.D.

"Enteroendocrine Cell Dysgenesis, A New Cliniopathologic Entity"  Best Paper
-- Chandra Burge, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"Practical Immunohistochemistry in Dermatopathology:
CCutaneous Metastasis vs. Adnexal Primary"

-- Scott Binder, M.D.,
UCLA Medical Center

Slide Seminar:  Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

-- John Ohara, M.D.
-- Sathima Natarajan, M.D.
-- Gregory Pinsky, M.D.
-- Najeeb Alshak, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handouts.

"These Lesions Can Cause 'Fits' – In Both Patients and Pathologists"

-- Harry Vinters, M.D.
UCLA Medical Center

9th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

"Atypical Glandular Cells – A Fur Ball Interpretation That Pretty Much Stinks: Folicular Lesions of the Thyroid"
-- Richard DeMay, M.D.
University of Chicago

"FNA of Salivary Glands: Cytomorphologic Features and Traps To Watch For"
"Soft Tissue Masses: A Challenging Morphologic Spectrum and a Controversial Role for FNA"
-- Ibrahim Ramzy, M.D.
UCI Medical Center

"Breast Cytopathology: Past, Present – Is There A Future? Should We Bother?"
-- Anwar S. Raza, M.D.
LAC+USC Medical Center

"Pitfalls in FNA Cytology: What I Have Learned from My Mistakes"
-- Camilla Cobb, M.D.
LAC+USC Medical Center

"Premalignant Breast Disease, The Role of the Atypical Hyperplasias and Carcinomas In Situ"

-- David L. Page, M.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Slide Seminar:  LAC+USC / University of Southern California

-- Sajjad Syed, M.D.
-- Win Naing, M.D.
-- Sally Turla, M.D.
-- Wenxue Xing, M.D.
-- Melanie Osby, M.D.

"Targeted Therapies & The Pathologist: Our Time In The Sun"

-- George Thomas, M.D.
UCLA School of Medicine

"Immunohistochemistry of the Undifferentiated Malignant Neoplasm"

-- Lawrence Weiss, M.D.
City of Hope National Medical Center

Slide Seminar:  Loma Linda University Medical Center and the California Tumor Tissue Registry

32nd Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Do the Histologic Features and Results of Breast Cancer Biomarker Studies Differ Between Core Biopsy and Surgical Excision Specimens?"   Best Paper
-- Chandra Burge, M.D.

"Genomic Tools for the Diagnosis of Cancer"

-- Timothy Triche, M.D., Ph.D.
Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles

Slide Seminar:  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

-- Jianming Yin, M.D.
-- Shehla Arain, M.D.
-- Cristina Ramirez, M.D.
-- Melissa Kahn, M.D.
-- Aviv Hever, M.D.

"Marginal Zone B-Cell Lymphoma of MALT Type: An Overview"

-- Bharat Nathwani, M.D.
University of Southern California, School of Medicine

8th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

"Pseudosarcomatous Myofibroblastic Tumors"    
"Hemangiopericytoma, Solitary Fibrous Tumors and Perivascular Myoid Tumors"
-- Andrew Folpe, M.D.

"Radiographic Correlation In Orthopedic Pathology"     and
"Sorting Out Everyday Problems in Orthopedic Pathology"
-- Michael Klein, M.D.

"Epithelioid Soft Tissue Tumors and Their Mimics"
-- Donald Chase, M.D.

"Radiology of Bone Tumors: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"
-- Scott Kingston, M.D.

"Borderline Tumors of the Ovary: Beyond The Border of Borderline (A Dualistic Model of Ovarian)"

-- Robert Kurman, M.D.

"Surface Epithelial Neoplasms of the Ovary:Diagnostic Challenges and Controversies"

-- Ibrahim Ramzy, M.D.

Participants may contact Shirley Jacke for handout.

"Related Expression of Activated Notch 1 During Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation Preserves Multipotential Progenitors and Promotes Erythroid Cell Fate"

-- Hongying Tina Tan, M.D.

7th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Lung

"The Lung and Collagen Vascular Diseases"  
"Histologic Differential Diagnosis of Mesothelioma"
-- Thomas Colby, M.D.

"What Is Farmer’s Lung"   
"Brochoalveolar Carcinoma"
-- Samuel Yousem, M.D.

"Pulmonary Vasculitis"
-- Michael Koss, M.D.

"Clinical Aspects of Diffuse Interstitial Lung Disease"
-- Albert Niden, M.D.

"New Solutions To Old Problems In Surgical Pathology"

-- John KC Chan, M.D.

"Epithelial Tumors of the Ovary"

-- Charles Zaloudek, M.D.

"Immunologic Mechanisms Involved in the Graft-Vs-Tumor Effects in Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Following Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation"

-- Othon Mena, M.D.

6th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Thyroid

"Hyperparathyroidism: The Surgical Pathologist and the Modern Era"
-- Virginia LiVolsi, M.D.

"Salivary Gland Tumors: A Selected Review"   
"Selected Topics in Pathology of the Nasopharynx & Sinonasal Tract"
-- Leon Barnes, M.D.

"Microarray/Chip Technology – What and Why?"
-- Deb Schofield, M.D.

"Masses of the Head & Neck: To Aspirate or Not To Aspirate?"
-- Sue Ellen Martin, M.D.

"Experiences of a Soft Tissue Consultant"

-- Sharon Weiss, M.D.

"Update and Review of Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias"

-- Thomas Colby, M.D.

"Pseudomyxoma Peritonei is a Disease of Muc-2 Overexpressing Goblet Cells"

-- Alice Roberts, M.D.

5th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

"Colonic Mucosal Biopsy: Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disease"    and
"Colonic Mucosal Biopsy: Other Inflammatory and Neoplastic Disorders"
-- Harvey Goldman, M.D.

"Pathology of Gastroesophaegeal Reflux Disease"
-- Para Chandrasoma, M.D.

"Hereditary Cancers: Identification and Assessment of High Risk Families"
-- Jeff Weitzel, M.D.

"Hepatic Stem Cells: The Blood of Prometheus"
-- Neil Theise, M.D.

"Role of the Medical Examiner in Bioterrorist Attack – What the Pathologist Needs To Know"
-- L. Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.

"Glandular Lesions of the Cervix: Still Tricky After All These Years"

-- Robert Young, M.D.

"Non-Lymphoid Lesions of Lymph Node"

-- Lawrence Weiss, M.D.

"RANTES Production During Development of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy"

-- James Yun, M.D.

4th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:
Gynecologic & Breast

"Pathology of DCIS, Microinvasive CA of the Breast & Examination of Biopsy Margins"  
"Core Needle Biopsies of the Breast: Advantages and Pitfalls"
-- James Connolly, M.D.

"Clinical Issues Related to Treatment of DCIS" and "Microinvasive CA of the Breast"
-- Melvin Silverstein, M.D.

"Detection of Her-2/neu oncogens in  Breast Neoplams: Use of FISH and Immunocytechemistry"
-- Michael Press, M.D.

"Immunomarkers of the Study of Breast Tumors: Detection of Micrometastases in Axillary Lymph Nodes"
-- Richard Cote, M.D.

"Problems with the Interpretation of Endometrial Biopsies"
-- Charles Zaloudek, M.D.

"Integrating the Internet into Your Pathology Practice"
-- Eric Glassy, M.D.

"Facilitation of Lymphoma Diagnosis through Immunohistochemistry: Deciphering the Lymph Node Biopsy"

-- Elaine Jaffe, M.D.

"Fine Needle Aspiration of the Head & Neck"

-- Lester J. Layfield, M.D.

"An Amplified E-Cadherin/α,β-Catenin Axis Characterizes Lymphovascular Invasion and the Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma Phenotype"

-- James Tomlinson, M.D.

3rd Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

"New WHO/ISOP Classification: Morphologic Prognostic Markers of Clinical Relevance Other Than Stage and Grade Grade"
-- Victor Reuter, M.D.

"Clinical Relevance of Pathological Diagnosis"
-- Elia Skinner, M.D.

"Molecular Biology of Bladder Cancer"
-- Richard Cote, M.D.

"Malpractice Issues In Surgical Pathology"
-- David Troxel, M.D.

"Dermatopathology – CPC"
-- Marc Chalet, M.D.

"Myolodysplasia and Acute Myoloid Leukemia"
-- Daniel Arber, M.D.

"Differential Diagnosis of Myxoid Soft Tissue Tumors"

-- Chris Fletcher, M.D.

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"Comparative PCR Analysis of C-myo Amplification on Archival Breast Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Materials"

-- Jian Yu Rao, M.D.

2nd Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

"Diagnostic Challenges with Ovarian Tumors"
-- Joanne Rutgers, M.D.

"Hot Topics in GI Pathology"
-- Klaus Lewis, M.D. / Wilfred Weinstein, M.D.

"Colitis-Differential Diagnosis of IBD"
-- Roger Haggitt, M.D. / Wilfred Weinstein, M.D.

"Diagnostic Errors in GI Pathology"
-- Roger Haggitt, M.D.

"Placental Pathology for the Practicing Pathologist"
-- Steven Romansky, M.D.

"CNS Pathology of Infections and Degenerative Diseases"
-- Steven DeArmond, M.D.

"Differential Diagnosis of Skin Tumors"
-- Scott Binder, M.D.

"Role of the Medical Examiner-Coroner in LA County"
-- L. Sathyavaguswaran, M.D.

"The Diagnosis of Limited Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate on Needle Biopsy: False Negatives and False Positives"

-- Jonathan Epstein, M.D.

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"Risk Factors for the Development of Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Liver Transplantation Patients – Implications for Diagnosis, Prophylaxis and Therapy"

-- Yung-Kang Chow, M.D.

1st Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

"DCIS: Therapeutic Options and Outcomes"
"Problems and Pitfalls With Stereostatic Breast Biopsies"
-- Michael Lagios, M.D.

"Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Melanoma and Breast Carcinoma Staging"
-- Roderick Turner, M.D.

"Dysplastic Nevus: Precursor or Mere Phenotype"
"Melanoma and Melanoma-In Situ: Build A Better Diagnosis Through Architecture"
-- Tim McCalmont, M.D.

"H & E Section: Past, Present and Future"
-- Nancy Warner, M.D.

"New Concepts In Interstitial Disease and Bronchiolitis"
-- Tom Colby, M.D.

"Everything You Know About Forensic Pathology, You Learned From Television"
-- Bob Ditraglia, M.D.