The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) hosted its 108th annual meeting March 16-21, 2019, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, where many of our Department faculty, residents and fellows present recent work. It is the largest world meeting of pathologists.
On Sunday March, 17, Chairman and Professor George Netto, M.D., kicked things off with a talk on "Liquid Biopsy in Precision Oncology: Plasma and Beyond!" at the College of American Pathogists' companion meeting. That evening at 5:30-7:30pm, our team hosted a booth at the Fellowship Fair, featuring information about our fellowship opportunities, giveaways and more. The coursework and poster sessions continued throughout the week until the conference conclusion on Thursday, March 21.
Monday throughout the day our faculty presented posters and talks, including a Genitourinary Platform presentation, "Is MRI/US Fusion-Targeted Biopsy Alone Adequate for Detecting Prostate Cancer in Patients with a Prior Negative Prostate Biopsy?" featuring Maria del Carmen Rodriguez Pena, M.D., Marie-Lise Eich, M.D., and Jennifer Gordetsky, M.D. That evening the Department hosted a reception for all current and former faculty, staff and students, 5-7:30 p.m. in the National Harbor Room 8.
Poster sessions featured 10 posters in categories ranging from cytopathology to hematopathology to genitourinary pathology.
Tuesday morning's highlights included a lecture by Anna Yemelyanova, M.D., Professor, on "Molecular Testing of Solid Tumors: Anatomic Pathologist in Charge of Pre-Analytics," as part of the Molecular track, which Netto will introduced with a talk on "Molecular Diagnostic and Genomic Applications in Cancer: A Primer for the Pathologist." Poster sessions included five UAB faculty posters. In the afternoon, Deniz Peker, M.D., presented "Characterization of Cancer Immune Profiles in Patients with Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma," during the Neuropathology Platform, at 2:15 p.m.
On Wednesday Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director, Anatomic Pathology, presented in the Genitourinary Pathology Short Course, and gave a "Hot Topic" talk on "Prostate Cancer Pathology: Grading, Reporting, Diagnosis." Nine more posters by UAB Pathology took place throughout the day, in the genitourinary, breast cancer, quality assurance categories, leading up to the Evening Specialty Conference in Genitourinary Pathology, in which Jennifer Gordetsky, M.D., Associate Professor, presented, "Poor Prognostic Findings in Genitourinary Pathology, What Not to Miss," at 8:30 p.m.
Tiffany Graham, M.D., our fourth-year resident, was recognized by fellow Twitter account holders in Pathology with the #PathTweetAward for her original drawings and designs of study tools on her account @HeartPathology.
Click here for a comprehensive listing of UAB Pathology presentations at the USCAP Conference.
View a photo album of UAB Pathology happenings at this year's conference.