Past Meetings

We do not conduct meetings in July or August.

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

Download a 2-page collage of photos of the event (2 MB PDF)

“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, MD

“Update on Thyroid FNA – the Bethesda Classification System” (download 3 MB PDF)
-- Shika Bose, MD

“Thyroid Follicular Epithelial Cell Lesions” (download 5 MB PDF) and
“Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma: Fallacies and Realities of Diagnosis” (download 10 MB PDF)
-- Bruce Wenig, MD, PhD

Annual Memorial Buffet Dinner and
George Kypridakis Lecture

"Immunohistochemical Approaches To The Diagnosis Of Undifferentiated Malignant Tumors"
Mark Wick, MD  (download pdf handout)
University of Virginia Health System

Fall Slide Seminar: LAC+USC/University of Southern California

Michael Welker, MD ▫ Surgical Pathology
Jacqueline Benjamin, MD ▫ Neuropathology
Zhe Piao, MD, PhD ▫ Surgical Pathology
Sara Acree, MD ▫ Hematopathology (download)
Marina Sandoval, MD ▫ Surgical Pathology

Diffuse Aggressive B-cell Lymphomas (download 9MB PDF)

Jonathan Said, MD
Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
UCLA

Origins of Prostate Cancer

David G. Bostwick, MD, MBA
Bostwick Laboratories, President and Medical Director

Summer Slide Seminar - Loma Linda University Medical Center

Angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphoma - Marnelli Bautista, MD (2 MB .pdf)

Desmoplastic Fibroblastoma - Brandon Ellsworth, MD (2 MB .pdf)

Intraductal Prostate Carcinoma - Jin Guo, MD (3 MB .pdf)

EH vs FDCT - Justin Kersteter, MD (7 MB .pdf)

Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor - Miriam Peckham, MD (2 MB .pdf)

PTLD Classic HD Type - Hannah Wong, MD (7 MB .pdf)

Resident & Fellow Platform Presentations:

List ordered by placement of presenter in photograph below:

Salivary Gland Pathology

Lester D. R. Thompson, MD
SCMPG, Woodland Hills
handout (2 MB .pdf)

Spring Slide Seminar - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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

Julio A. Ibarra, MD
Orange Coast Memorial Pathology Medical Group
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

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

Benign Breast Changes and Clinical Significance  - James L. Connolly, MD  (6 MB .pdf)

Borderline Tumors of the Ovary - Steven G. Silverberg, MD, FRCPath  (12 MB .pdf)

Borderline Tumors of the Ovary, Additional Thoughts
 - Steven G. Silverberg, MD, FRCPath  (4 MB .pdf)

In Situ Breast Carcinoma  - James L. Connolly, MD (4 MB .pdf)

Metastatic Carcinoma of the Ovary
 - Steven G. Silverberg, MD, FRCPath  (6 MB .pdf)

Breast MRI for Pathologists 2009:
Principles, indications and radiologicpathologic
correlations including large section format - Richard Reitherman, MD, PhD

Annual Memorial Dinner and George Kypridakis Lecture

Jerome Burke, MD
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley, California
Download his case studies handout (.pdf, 6 pages)

Fall Slide Seminar - UCLA Medical Center

Teresa LaCaria, MD - "Utility of Urine Cytology in Conjunction with Immunocyt Testing for Urothelial Carcinoma"
Steven Ohsie, MD - "Subtle cause of bile duct obstruction"
Seong Ra, MD - "Well Differentiated Pancreatic Endocrine Neoplasm with Entrapped Ductules"
Sachiv Sheth, MD - "Soft Tissue Neoplasm"
Peggy Sullivan, MD - "Carcinosarcoma Arising in an Adenosarcoma"
Download all presentations as one PDF file HERE (77 pages, 10 MB)

Pathology of Interstitial Lung Disease

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

Soft Tissue Tumors of the Female Genital Tract

Marisa Rose Nucci, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School and
Associate Pathologist, Division of Women’s and Perinatal Pathology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Summer 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.

Resident/Fellow Case Presentations

(Replaced previous research format)

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

April
2008

Inflammatory Skin Panel

Introduction  and Interface Dermatitis
David Frishberg, MD, Surgical Pathology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Psoriasiform Dermatitis 
David Cassarino, MD, PhD, UCLA Departments of Pathology & Dermatology

Spongiotic Dermatitis 
G. Peter Sarantopoulos, MD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA

Granulomatous Dermatitis 
Joseph Hillman, MD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA

Panniculitis
Bonnie Balzer, MD, PhD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

March
 2008

Spring Slide Seminar - Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

Sajjad P. Syed, MD
Stephen F. Kirschbaum, MD
Aviv Hever, MD
Sally T. Turla, MD
Henry Tsai, MD
Download all presentations as one PDF file HERE (157 pages, 20 MB)

February
 2008

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
Clinical Professor, Pathology, University of California, Irvine

January
 2008

11th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology:  Liver

Chronic Hepatitis, Diagnosis, Grading and Staging  and
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

See photos of the event here   See a recap of the day here

December
2007

Annual Memorial Dinner and George Kypridakis Lecture

"It Is Easy To Talk About Dysplasia In The Gut, But It Is Impossible To Diagnose It!"
Henry Appelman, MD
MR Abell Professor & Professor of Pathology
University of Michigan

November
2007

Fall Slide Seminar - LAC+USC

October
2007

Current Challenges and Opportunities in Molecular Pathology

Wayne Grody, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles

September
 2007

Update in Breast Carcinoma:  1) Multigene Expression Profiling
2) E-cadherin – Is It Necessary?

Noel Weidner, MD
University of California, San Diego

June
2007

Summer Slide Seminar - Loma Linda University Medical Center

Dr. Wafaa Elatre                       Download case (3 MB   .pdf)
Dr. Michelle Fajardo                  Download case (2.5 MB   .pdf)
Dr. Angie Pham                        Download case (<1 MB   .pdf)
Dr. Shobha Castelino-Prabhu     Download case (3 MB   .pdf)

May
2007

34th Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

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

“The Spleen In Patients with HIV and Castleman’s Disease” by 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” by Stephen Koh, M.D. , UCLA Medical Center - Best Paper Award!

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

Click to see all abstracts submitted

April
2007

Current Pharmacogenomic Testing for Oncology and Related Disciplines

Michael Dugan, MD
Specialty Laboratories

March
2007

Spring Slide Seminar  - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Deepti Dhall, MD                      Download case (2 MB   .pdf)
Bonnie L. Balzer, MD, PhD        Download case (3 MB    .pdf)
Randa Alsabeh, MD                  Download case (1.2 MB .pdf)
Elvio G. Silva, MD                    Download case (1 MB    .pdf)
Serguei I. Bannykh, MD, PhD   Download case (<1 MB .pdf)

February
 2007

Benign Lymph Nodes: Tricks, Traps, Tried and True

Dennis P. O’Malley, MD
Medical Director, U.S. Labs

January
2007

10th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

The Who’s WHO in Adult Renal Epithelial Tumors      and

Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer – The ISUP Modifications

Mahul Amin, MD
Sinai Medical Center

Bladder Cancer Today: WHO Would Have Thought?

Victor Reuter, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Surgical Management of Localized Bladder Cancer

Timothy Wilson, MD
City of Hope National Medical Center

Download the agenda here    Read the recap here

December
2006

Annual Memorial Dinner and George Kypridakis Lecture

“Pathology and Neuroimaging of Gliomas”
Bernd Scheithauer, MD
Consultant – Division of Anatomic Pathology, Department of Laboratory
Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Professor of Pathology – Mayo Clinic, College

November
2006

Fall Slide Seminar - UCLA

Franklin Sedarat, MD, MSc
William Watts, MD
Pouneh Beizai, MD
Bita Behjatnia, MD
Negar Khanlou, MD
Sebastian Sasu, MD
Download all 6 cases and their diagnoses here (4 MB PDF)

October
2006

Expectations Of The Community Hospital Workplace

Richard E. Horowitz, MD
Clinical Professor at USC and UCLA Schools of Medicine

September
2006

Recent Advances in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Daniel A. Arber, MD
Professor and Associate Chair of Pathology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Handout

June
2006

Summer Slide Seminar - City of Hope National Medical Center

Case1 - Karl Gaal, MD
Case2 - Sean Lau, MD
Case3 - Sharon P. Wilczynski MD, PhD
Case4 - Peiguo Chu, MD, PhD
Case5 - Karen L. Chang, MD

May
2006

33rd Annual Resident/Fellow Symposium

"Detection of Methicillin Resistant Stapylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Directly From Positive Culture Bottles Using MRSA Evigene" by Rodelio Guintu, MD
"A Flow Cytometry Panel Useful To Exclude Myelodysplastic Syndrome" by Ling Zhang, MD
"Histologic Changes In Breast Carcinoma Status Post Neo-Adjuvant Chemotherapy Correlate With Pathologic Response" by Peggy Soung Sullivan, MD

2006 Best Paper Award Winner:
"Enteroendocrine Cell Dysgenesis, A New Cliniopathologic Entity"
by Chandra Burge, MD

See all the abstract titles and authors submitted

April
2006

Practical Immunohistochemistry in Dermatopathology:
Cutaneous Metastasis vs. Adnexal Primary

Scott Binder, MD
Professor of Pathology and Dermatology
Chief of Dermatopathology
UCLA Medical Center

March
2006

Spring Slide Seminar - Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

Case1 - John Ohara, MD
Case2 - Sathima Natarajan, MD
Case3 - Gregory Pinsky, MD
Case4 - Najeeb Alshak, MD

Some CDs covering the correct diagnoses are available by faxing request to
323 881-8601.

February
2006

These Lesions Can Cause “Fits” – In Both Patients and Pathologists

Harry Vinters, MD
Chief, Division of Neuropathology
UCLA Medical Center

January
2006

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, MD
Professor, Pathology & Director, Cytopathology Section
University of Chicago

FNA of Salivary Glands: Cytomorphologic Geatures and Traps To Watch For
Soft Tissue Masses: A Challenging Morphologic Spectrum and a Controversial Role for FNA

Ibrahim Ramzy, MD
Professor, Clinical Pathology
UCI Medical Center

Breast Cytopathology: Past, Present – Is There A Future? Should We Bother?

Anwar S. Raza, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Pathology
LAC+USC Medical Center

Pitfalls in FNA Cytology: What I Have Learned from My Mistakes

Camilla Cobb, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Pathology
LAC+USC Medical Center

MODERATED BY Sue Ellen Martin, MD

December
2005

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

David L. Page, MD
Professor of Pathology & Epidemiology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee

November
2005

Fall Slide Seminar - LAC+USC

Sajjad Syed, MD
Win Naing, MD
Sally Turla, MD
Wenxue Xing, MD
Melanie Osby, MD

October
2005

Targeted Therapies & The Pathologist: Our Time In The Sun

George Thomas, MD
Assist. Professor, Division of Pathology
UCLA School of Medicine

September
2005

Immunohistochemistry of the Undifferentiated Malignant Neoplasm

Lawrence Weiss, MD
Chairman, Division of Pathology
City of Hope National Medical Center

June
2005

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

May
2005

32nd Annual Resident Symposium

Do the Histologic Features and Results of Breast Cancer Biomarker Studies Differ Between Core Biopsy and Surgical Excision Specimens?

Chandra Burge, MD

April
2005

Genomic Tools for the Diagnosis of Cancer

Timothy Triche, MD, PhD
Chief, Department of Pathology
Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles

March
2005

Spring Slide Seminar - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Jianming Yin, MD
Shehla Arain, MD
Cristina Ramirez, MD
Melissa Kahn, MD
Aviv Hever, MD

February
2005

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

Bharat Nathwani, MD
Professor of Pathology and Chief of Hematopathology
University of Southern California, School of Medicine

January
2005

8th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

Pseudosarcomatous Myofibroblastic Tumors

Andrew Folpe, MD

Hemangiopericytoma, Solitary Fibrous Tumors and Perivascular Myoid Tumors

Michael Klein, MD

Radiographic Correlation In Orthopedic Pathology
Sorting Out Everyday Problems in Orthopedic Pathology

Donald Chase, MD

Epithelioid Soft Tissue Tumors and Their Mimics
Radiology of Bone Tumors: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Scott Kingston, MD

December
2004

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

Robert Kurman, MD

September
2004

Surface Epithelial Neoplasms of the Ovary:Diagnostic Challenges and Controversies

Ibrahim Ramzy, MD     Download Presentation

May
2004

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

Hongying Tina Tan, MD

January
2004

7th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

The Lung and Collagen Vascular Diseases
Histologic Differential Diagnosis of Mesothelioma

Thomas Colby, MD

What Is Farmer’s Lung
Brochoalveolar Carcinoma

Samuel Yousem, MD

Pulmonary Vasculitis

Michael Koss, MD

Clinical Aspects of Diffuse Interstitial Lung Disease

Albert Niden, MD

December
2003

New Solutions To Old Problems In Surgical Pathology

John KC Chan, MD

September
2003

Epithelial Tumors of the Ovary

Charles Zaloudek, MD

May
2003

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

Othon Mena, MD

January
2003

6th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

Update in Thyroid Pathology
Hyperparathyroidism: The Surgical Pathologist and the Modern Era

Virginia LiVolsi, MD

Salivary Gland Tumors: A Selected Review
Selected Topics in Pathology of the Nasopharynx & Sinonasal Tract

Leon Barnes, MD

Microarray/Chip Technology – What and Why?

Deb Schofield, MD

Masses of the Head & Neck: To Aspirate or Not To Aspirate?

Sue Ellen Martin, MD

December
2002

Experiences of a Soft Tissue Consultant

Sharon Weiss, MD

September
2002

Update and Review of Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias

Thomas Colby, MD

May
2002

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

Alice Roberts, MD

January
2002

5th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

Colonic Mucosal Biopsy: Pt I Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Colonic Mucosal Biopsy: Pt II Other Inflammatory and Neoplastic Disorders

Harvey Goldman, MD

Pathology of Gastroesophaegeal Reflux Disease

Para Chandrasoma, MD

Hereditary Cancers: Identification and Assessment of High Risk Families

Jeff Weitzel, MD

Hepatic Stem Cells: The Blood of Prometheus

Neil Theise, MD

Role of the Medical Examiner in Bioterrorist Attack – What the Pathologist Needs To Know

L Sathyavagiswaran, MD

December
2001

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

Robert Young, MD

September
2001

Non Lymphoid Lesions of Lymph Node

Lawrence Weiss, MD

May
2001

RANTES Production During Development of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy

James Yun, MD

January
2001

4th Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

Pathology of DCIS, Microinvasive CA of the Breast & Examination of Biopsy Margins
Core Needle Biopsies of the Breast: Advantages and Pitfalls

James Connolly, MD

Clinical Issues Related to Treatment of DCIS and Microinvasive CA of the Breast

Melvin Silverstein, MD

Detection of Her-2/neu oncogens in  Breast Neoplams: Use of FISH and Immunocytechemistry

Michael Press, MD

Immunomarkers of the Study of Breast Tumors: Detection of Micrometastases in Axillary Lymph Nodes

Richard Cote, MD

Problems with the Interpretation of Endometrial Biopsies

Charles Zaloudek, MD

Integrating the Internet into Your Pathology Practice

Eric Glassy, MD

December
2000

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

Elaine Jaffe, MD

September
2000

Fine Needle Aspiration of the Head & Neck

Lester J. Layfield, MD

May
2000

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

James Tomlinson, MD

January
2000

3rd Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

New WHO/ISOP Classification
Morphologic Prognostic Markers of Clinical Relevance Other Than Stage and Grade

Victor Reuter, MD

Clinical Relevance of Pathological Diagnosis

Elia Skinner, MD

Molecular Biology of Bladder Cancer

Richard Cote, MD

Malpractice Issues In Surgical Pathology

David Troxel, MD

Dermatopathology – CPC

Marc Chalet, MD

Myolodysplasia and Acute Myoloid Leukemia

Daniel Arber, MD

December
1999

Differential Diagnosis of Myxoid Soft Tissue Tumors

Chris Fletcher, MD

September
1999

May
1999

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

Jian Yu Rao, MD

January
1999

2nd Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

Diagnostic Challenges with Ovarian Tumors

Joanne Rutgers, MD

Hot Topics in GI Pathology

Klaus Lewis, MD / Wilfred Weinstein, MD

Colitis-Differential Diagnosis of IBD

Roger Haggitt, MD / Wilfred Weinstein, MD

Diagnostic Errors in GI Pathology

Roger Haggitt, MD

Placental Pathology for the Practicing Pathologist

Steven Romansky, MD

CNS Pathology of Infections and Degenerative Diseases

Steven DeArmond, MD

Differential Diagnosis of Skin Tumors

Scott Binder, MD

Role of the Medical Examiner-Coroner in LA County

L. Sathyavaguswaran, MD

December
1998

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

Jonathan Epstein, MD

September
1998

May
1998

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

Yung-Kang Chow, MD

January
1998

1st Annual Current Trends in Practical Pathology

DCIS: Therapeutic Options and Outcombs
Problems and Pitfalls With Stereotatic Breast Biopsies

Michael Lagios, MD

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy forMelanoma and Breast Carcinoma Staging

Roderick Turner, MD

Dysplastic Nevus: Precusor or Mere Phenotype
Melanoma and Melanoma-In Situ: Build A Better Diangosis Through Architecture

Tim McCalmont, MD

H & E Section: Past, Present and Future

Nancy Warner, MD

New Concepts In Interstitial Disease and Bronchiolitis

Tom Colby, MD

Everything You Know About Forensic Pathology, You Learned From Television

Bob Ditraglia, MD

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