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For information about our Pathology Grand Rounds contact Deidra Trabosh at Deidra.Trabosh@vcuhealth.org
Grand Rounds Spring 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - Azad Bakht, MD
Cytopathology Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: WHO Reporting System for Pancreaticobiliary Cytopathology
PDF: Dr. Bakht flyer
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - Ramsey Al Hosri, MD
PGY 4
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - Kohl Strauss, MD
Cytopathology Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Hematopathology for the General Surgical Pathologist and Cytopathologist
PDF: Dr. Strauss flyer | Zoom: https://vcuhealth.zoom.us/j/94241725788
Recent Grand Rounds 2025
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - Mehrnoosh Ghandili, MD
Forensic Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Broken Hearts - Pathologic Findings in Fatal Cardiovascular Events in a Forensic Setting
PDF: Dr. Ghandili flyer | Video Presentation
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - Michael Castro, MD
Hematopathology Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Myeloid Neoplasms: What’s New with the WHO?
PDF: Dr. Castro flyer | Video Presentation
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - Yazan Juma, MD
Surgical Path Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: STK11/TP53 Co-mutations in Lung Adenocarcinoma
PDF: Dr. Juma flyer | Video Presentation
May 12, 2025 - Eric Walk, MD, FCAP
Chief Medical Officer
PathAI & Member
CAP Digital & Computational
Pathology Committee
Topic: AI Fluency in the Era of Digital & AI Pathology: Matching Machine Learning Methods to Clinical and Precision Medicine Applications
PDF: Dr. Walk flyer (This is an unaccredited presentation) | Video Presentation
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - Michele Anderson, DO
Molecular Genetics Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: T-Cell Gene Rearrangements: Assay Validation to Clinical Utility
PDF: Dr. Anderson flyer | Video Presentation
Monday, May 5, 2025 - Robert D. Nerenz, PhD, DABCC, FAACC
Clinical Chemistry, Associate Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Topic: Preeclampsia: Will New FDA-Approved Biomarkers Change Patient Care?
PDF: Dr. Nerenz flyer | Video Presentation
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - Jonathan Kanakaraj, MD
Neuropath Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Forensic Neuropathology: A survey and primer for the uninitiated
PDF: Dr. Kanakaraj flyer | Presentation unavailable
Monday April 7, 2025 - Matthew Oberley, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer
Pathologist-in-Chief
Caris Life Sciences
Topic: Unlocking the Future of Precision Oncology: Integrating Digital Pathology and Molecular Profiling to Improve Patient Outcomes and Drive Research Advancement
PDF: Dr. Oberley flyer | Video Presentation
Friday, March 28, 2025 - Feng Yue, PhD
Duane and Susan Burnham Professor of Molecular Medicine
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Professor, Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Topic: Epigenomic and 3D genome alteration in human cancer
PDF: Dr. Yue flyer | Presentation unavailable
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 - Justin Chang, MD
PGY 4
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Evaluating Realism of AI Generated Cytology Images
PDF: Dr. Justin Chang flyer | Presentation unavailable
Fall 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 2pm
on Zoom and in person at the Egyptian Building auditorium
Topic: From Slides to Bytes: New Imaging Techniques for Tumor Research
October 16, 2024 - Michele Anderson, DO
12:15pm to 1:15pm
Molecular Genetics Fellow
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Eosinophils on the Rise: Navigating Hypereosinophilia
October 2, 2024 - Sami Talibi, MD
Hematopathology Fellow
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Lymphocytes with Villous Projections: A Case examination
Video Presentation
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 - Margaret Elizabeth Moore, MD
Assistant Professor
Surgical Pathology and Hematopathology
University of Virginia
September 16, 2024 - Lorraine Colón-Cartagena, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Professor
Yale School of Medicine
Topic: Uncommon Breast Lesions Explained: From Histology and Molecular Characteristics to Clinical Outcomes
PDF: Dr. Colon-Cartagena flyer | Video Presentation
Summer 2024
August 26, 2024 - Marie Do, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Transfusion Medicine
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Why practice doesn't always make perfect
PDF: Dr. Do flyer | Video Presentation
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - Michael Castro, MD, PGY 4
Department of Pathology
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Medicine
Topic: Thyroid: New 2023 Bethesda Updates for Atypia of Undetermined Significance
PDF: Dr. Castro flyer | Video Presentation
June 24, 2024 - Amit Patel, MD, PGY 4
Department of Pathology
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Medicine
Topic: Paradigm shifts in newest Heme WHO classification concerning Castleman Disease
PDF: Dr. Patel flyer | Video Presentation
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - Sami Talibi, MD, PGY4
Chief Resident
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Myeloid Proliferations Associated With Down Syndrome: A review, updates, and diagnosis
PDF: Dr. Talibi flyer | Video Presentation
June 17, 2024 - Richard R. Drake, PhD
Professor of Cell & Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Medical University of South Carolina
Topic: Multimodal mass spectrometry imaging approaches for profiling N-glycosylation of cancer and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment in clinical FFPE tissues
PDF: Dr. Drake flyer | Video Presentation
June 3, 2024 - Kamran M. Mirza, MBBS, PhD, FCAP, FASCP, MLS(ASCP)
Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology Education
Clinical Professor of Pathology, Hematopathology
University of Michigan
Topic: Screens, Scrolling, and Scholarship: Pioneering Pedagogies in the Web-Based World
PDF: Dr. Mirza flyer | Video Presentation
Spring 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024 - Anat Zeidel, MD
Cytopathology Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: From Fine Needle to Definitive diagnosis: The power of cytology-histology correlation in salivary gland tumors
PDF: Dr. Zeidel flyer | Video Presentation
May 28, 2024 - Samia Liaquat, MD
Hematopathology Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Assessment of the quality of the bone marrow clot sections and the method to improve it
PDF: Dr. Liaquat flyer | Video Presentation
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - Divya Vinjamur, MSc, PhD
Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: An update on carrier screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
PDF: Dr. Vinjamur flyer | Video Presentation
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - Hannah Wollenzien, PhD
Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Plasma Cell Enrichment Enhances Cytogenetic Analysis of Plasma Cell Neoplasms
PDF: Dr. Wollenzien flyer | Video Presentation
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - Fernanda Da Silva Lameira
, MD
Forensic Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: What's the cause and manner of death
PDF: Dr. Da Silva Lameira flyer | Video presentation unavailable
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - Jason Reardon, MD
Cytopathology Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Unveiling the spectrum: Non-neoplastic findings in core lung biopsies
PDF: Dr. Reardon flyer | Video Presentation
Thursday, May 9, 2024 - Kohl Strauss, MD, PGY 4
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma: An Underrecognized Manifestation of Lynch Syndrome
PDF: Dr. Strauss flyer | Video Presentation
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - Michele Anderson, DO
Hematopathology Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia: A review of updated diagnostic criteria and current molecular biology
PDF: Dr. Anderson flyer | Video Presentation
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - Felix Medrano Garcia, MD, PGY 3
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Evaluation of four Fentanyl Immunoassays for the detection of Fentanyl analogs in urine
PDF: Dr. Medrano Garcia flyer | Video Presentation
April 29, 2024 - Jeremiah X. Karrs, DO
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Topic: Advancing in Molecular Pathology
PDF: Dr. Karrs flyer | Video Presentation
April 23, 2024 - Elena Fenu, MD
Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellow
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: P53 immunohistochemistry in acute myeloid leukemia
PDF: Dr. Fenu flyer | Video Presentation
April 8, 2024 - Michael Joseph Borowitz, MD, PhD
Director, Division of Hematologic Pathology
Professor of Pathology
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Topic: A long way from E-rosettes: A 50-year journey through acute lymphoblastic leukemia
PDF: Dr. Borowitz flyer | Video Presentation
March 28, 2024 - Joseph Gillam, MD, PGY 4
Department of Pathology
VCU School of Medicine
Topic: Cutaneous Rosai-Dorfman disease with MAP2K1 mutation initially mimicking an infectious process with parasitized histiocytes
PDF: Dr. Gillam flyer | Video Presentation
February 5, 2024 - Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD
Maud T. Lane Professor of Surgical Immunology
Professor, Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery
Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
Topic: Oncogenic KRAS as a Regulator of the Pancreatic Cancer Microenvironment
PDF: Dr. Pasca Di Magliano flyer | Video presentation unavailable
January 29, 2024 - Mark A. Cervinsky, PhD, PGY 4
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Topic: Patient-Based Quality Control: Current Applications and Future Promise
PDF: Dr. Cervinski flyer | Video Presentation
January 10, 2024 - Mrinal S. Patnaik, MBBS
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic Enterprise Co-Leader
Cancer Individualized Medicine
Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center
Topic: The molecular biology and treatment advances in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
PDF: Dr. Patnaik flyer | Video Presentation