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Yale Pathology to have Strong Presence at 113th Annual USCAP Meeting

February 23, 2024

Yale Pathology will have a robust presence at the 113th Annual United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting in Baltimore March 23 – 28 as more than two dozen faculty members, residents, and fellows have presentations planned.

Members of the department will help moderate sessions, and will present in platform, poster, and evening conferences throughout the five-day event.

Among the highlights are Dhanpat Jain, MD, Professor of Pathology and of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) moderating a session on Liver Pathology Updates sponsored by the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society, of which he is president; Joanna Gibson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Department of Pathology, moderating a Quality and Patient Safety Platform Session; Mina L. Xu, MD, Professor of Pathology Laboratory Medicine, discussing “Diagnostic Challenges in Hematopathology” in a Special Evening Conference; and Sanja Dacic, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Vice Chair, and Director of Anatomic Pathology, presenting in a Hot Topic Session on, “Thoracic Biopsies: Doing More with Less: How Do You Do It?”

Please support your colleagues at the meeting by attending their presentations. If you have additional activities to share, please reach out to Terry Corcoran with updates.

Sunday, March 24

8:00 AM – 10:00AM

BCC Room 316, Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society

“Liver Pathology Updates: All You Need to Know”
Moderators include Dhanpat Jain, MD, Professor of Pathology and Society President.

“Liver Disease of Unclear Etiology: A Clinicopathologic Approach”
Presented by Silvia Vilarinho, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Pathology

BCC Ballroom, Arthur Purdy South Society of Surgical Pathologists

“Lessons from Dermatopathology”
Presented by Jennifer McNiff, MD, Professor of Dermatopathology

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

BCC Room 318, Pakistani American Pathologists’ Society

“Superficial Soft-Tissue and Cutaneous Adnexal Tumors with Gene Fusions”
Presented by Gauri Panse, MD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pathology

Monday, March 25

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM

BCC Room 307, Platform Session

“Clinicopathologic Significance of Acellular Mucin Polls in Lymph Nodes from Intreated Colorectal Cancer”
Wenyi Luo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology

8:45 AM – 9:30 AM

BCC Room 337, Cardiovascular Pathology

“Short Course: Diagnostic Standardization of Endomyocardial Biopsy: Heart Transplant and Beyond”
He Wang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology

9:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Exhibition Hall, Poster Sessions

“Pathologic Progression of Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis (AIAG): Retrospective of 180 Cases in 32 Patients”
Xi Wang, MD, PhD, Pathology Resident

“To B or Not to B: Utility of PAX5 in Lineage Assignment of Acute Leukemia”
Ernest F. Hidalgo Cedeno, MD, Pathology Resident

“Comprehensive Genomic Profiling of Endometrioid Carcinoma with Squamous Differentiation”
Na Niu, MD, PhD, Pathology Resident

“Exploring Unexpected Clinically Significant Autopsy Findings in a Multi-Center Study: Implications for Hospital Quality Improvement and Public Health Surveillance”
Felipe Jacinto Carrasco-Tenezaca, MD, Pathology Resident

“Molecular Profiling of Mucinous Adenocarcinomas: An Addition to the Diagnostic Armamentarium for Identification of Primary Site”
Vijay Anthony, MD, MBBS, Pathology Resident

“Frequent Discordant HER2 Status Between Primary and Metastatic Endometrial Serous Carcinomas in the Setting of Targeted Therapy”
Vijaya Kadam Maruthi, MD, Clinical Fellow, Pathology

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Ballroom, Platform Session

“PTEN Loss/Mutation is Associated with Hormone Receptor Loss During Breast Cancer Recurrence”
Haiying Zhang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Exhibition Hall, Poster Session

“TRPS1 is More Sensitive than GATA3 in Adenosquamous Carcinoma of the Breast and in Triple Negative Breast Cancer”
Ruhani Sardana, MD, Pathology Resident

“Evaluation of TRPS1 and GATA3 Expression inf Decalcified Bone Biopsies with Metastatic Breast Carcinoma”
Anuj Verma, MD, MBBS, Pathology Resident

“Glucose Level Assessment in Pancreatic Cyst Fluid: Correlation with Cytological Diagnosis, CEA Level and KRAS Mutation Status”
Sanhong Yu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology

“Metastatic Malignment Melanoma with Neuroendocrine Differentiation: A Potential Diagnostic Pitfall”
Tong Sun, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology

“Correlative Assessment of Predictive Biomarkers (FOLR1, HER2 and TROP2) in Endometrial Carcinoma”
Andrew Bernhisel, MD, Pathology Resident

“Clinical Performance of STR Genotyping Diagnosis of Hydatidiform Moles: An Assessment of of 2871 Products of Conceptions”
Razie Amraei, MD, PhD, MSc, Pathology Resident

“Steatohepatitic Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Insights into Background Liver Disease, Histological Characteristics and Survival”
Tao Zhang, MD, MSc, Clinical Fellow, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

“Histologic Features of Newly Diagnosed Autoimmune Hepatitis ion Patients on Steroid Treatment for Co-Existing Diseases”
Ujunwa Korie, MD, MS, Pathology Resident

“Atypical Cytologic Diagnostic Category in Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration of Solid Pancreatic Lesions: Associated Risk of Malignancy and Values of Repeat Biopsy and KRAS Mutation Analysis”
Catherine Gereg, MD, Pathology Resident

Tuesday, March 26

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

BCC Room 318, Quality and Patient Safety Platform Session

Co-Moderator, Joanna Gibson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Department of Pathology

9:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Exhibition Hall, Poster Session

“Unusual Manifestations of Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia: A Case Report of a Classic Pathology with Rare Findings”
Moinul Haque, MBBCh, MSc, Pathology Resident

“Interinstitutional Differences in Processing and Reporting Liver Explant Specimens: Preliminary Results of a Nationwide Survey”
Ernest F. Hidalgo Cedeno, MD, Pathology Resident

10:40 AM – 11:20 AM

BCC Room 328, Molecular Pathology

“High-Plex to the Clinic: Discovery and Translation of Protein Biomarkers”
David Rimm, MD, PhD, Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology and Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Exhibition Hall, Poster Session

“Estrogen Receptor Conversion in Bone, Liver, Lung Metastases from Breast Cancer”
Peter Podany, MD, Clinical Fellow, Pathology

710 PM – 7:30 PM

BCC Room 316, Evening Specialty Conference

“Diagnostic Challenges in Hematopathology”
Mina L. Xu, MD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Wednesday, March 27

9:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Exhibition Hall, Poster Session

“Performance of a Modified Thyroid Genomic Classification: A Single Institution Experience”
Roxanne J. Wadia, MD, Clinical Fellow, Pathology

“How Much Can We Overcome Uncertainty: A Clinicopathologic Study of Uterine Smooth Muscle Tumor of Uncertain Malignant Potential from a Single Institution”
Vijaya Kadam Maruthi, MD, Clinical Fellow, Pathology

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Exhibition Hall, Poster Session

“The Molecular, Histologic and Immunohistochemical Features of Colorectal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Series”
Xi Wang, MD, PhD, Pathology Resident

“Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Clusters are Associated with Poor Prognosis in Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia”
Deepika Kumar, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

BCC Room 314, Short Course

“Incorporating WHO and ICC Genomic Classifications in the Diagnosis of Challenging Myeloid Neoplasms: A Case-Based Course”
Alexa Siddon, MD, Associate Professor Term

Thursday, March 28

BCC Room 336, Hot Topic

“Thoracic Biopsies: Doing More with Less: How Do You Do It?”
Sanja Dacic, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology; Vice Chair and Director of Anatomic Pathology

Submitted by Terence P. Corcoran on February 23, 2024