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Our Faculty

The faculty members for Scientific Symposiums courses are selected for their expertise in the subject areas to be covered, and for their proven ability as effective speakers and educators.

Click on the entries below for more biographical information about a particular faculty member:


Advances in Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, Toxicology and Microbiology
October 20 - October 23, 2008 (course details)
 
Valerie Ng, M.D., PH.D., Course Director more info
Alameda County Medical Center/Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA
 
Edward R. Ashwood, M.D. more info
Director of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center
 
Kimberle C. Chapin, M.D. (ABMM, FCAP) more info
Lifespan Academic Medical Centers and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
 
Alan Wu, Ph.D. more info
University of California Medical Center and San Francisco General, San Francisco, CA.
 

Practical Solutions to Challenging Problems in Dermatopathology
October 20 - October 23, 2008 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Eduardo Calonje, M.D. more info
St. John's Institute of Dermatopathology, St. Thomas Hospital, London
 
James E. Fitzpatrick, M.D. more info
Dermatopathology Service, Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado
 
Luis Requena, M.D. more info
Medical School of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
 

Surgical Pathology, Cytology and IHC of GYN, Soft Tissue, Head, Neck and Mediastinal Tumors
October 6 - October 9, 2008 (course details)
 
Stacey E. Mills, M.D., Course Director more info
Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center Charlottesville, VA
 
John S.J. Brooks, M.D. more info
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
 
Mark H. Stoler, M.D. more info
University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
 
Mark R. Wick, M.D. more info
Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health System
 

Critical Issues in GYN and Non-GYN Cytopathology
September 29 - October 2, 2008 (course details)
 
Kristin A. Atkins, M.D. FACP more info
University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
 
Christina Kong, M.D. more info
Assistant Professor, Stanford University Medical Center
 
Martha Bishop Pitman, M.D. more info
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
 
David C. Wilbur, M.D. more info
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
 

Critical Issues in Cutaneous Pathology: What You Don't Know Can Hurt
June 23 - June 26, 2008 (course details)
 
Dirk M. Elston, M.D., Course Director more info
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
 
Helmut Kerl, M.D. more info
Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
 
James W. Patterson, M.D. more info
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA
 
Ronald P. Rapini, M.D. more info
Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, University Of Texas Health Center at Houston, TX
 

Diagnostic Challenges in Male Genital and Urinary Tract, CNS Tumors and Non-GYN Cytology
June 16 - June 19, 2008 (course details)
 
Peter A. Humphrey, M.D., PH.D., Course Director more info
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
 
Gregory N. Fuller, M.D., Ph.D. more info
Professor of Pathology and Chief of the Section of Neuropathology, M. D. Anderson
 
David J. Grignon, M.D. more info
 
Christina Kong, M.D. more info
Assistant Professor, Stanford University Medical Center
 

Gastrointestinal, Liver and Pancreatic Pathology: Histologic, Immunohistochemical and Molecular Diagnosis
February 17 - February 21, 2008 (course details)
 
Henry D. Appelman, M.D., Course Director more info
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 
N. Volkan Adsay, M.D. more info
Wayne State University, Harper Hospital, Detroit, MI
 
Kenneth P. Batts, M.D. more info
Abbott N. Western Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
 
Linda D. Ferrell, M.D. more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Allen M. Gown, M.D. more info
PhenoPath Laboratories, Seattle, WA
 

Critical Clinical Pathology Issues: Hematopathology, Coagulation, Transfusion Medicine & Lab Management
October 22 - October 25, 2007 (course details)
 
Valerie Ng, M.D., PH.D., Course Director more info
Alameda County Medical Center/Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA
 
Kathy Foucar, M.D. more info
Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
 
Barbara M. Goldsmith, Ph.D., MBA more info
Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology. Tufts University School of Medicine
 
Steve Spitalnik, M.D. more info
Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
 

Critical Issues in Surgical Pathology: Hematopathology, Head and Neck, Soft Tissue and GI Lesions
October 15 - October 18, 2007 (course details)
 
John R. Goldblum, M.D., Course Director more info
 
Jennifer Leigh Hunt, M.D. more info
Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
 
Laura Webb Lamps, M.D. more info
Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of Arkansas Med Science Center
 
Jeffrey Medeiros, M.D. more info
Department of Hematopathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
 

The Diagnostic Interface of Dermatopathology and Clinical Dermatology
October 8 - October 11, 2007 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Lorenzo Cerroni, M.D. more info
Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Graz
 
Jacqueline M. Junkins-Hopkins, M.D. more info
Department of Pathology, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
 
Ronald P. Rapini, M.D. more info
Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, University Of Texas Health Center at Houston, TX
 

Critical Issues in Cutaneous Pathology: When You Can’t Afford to Be Wrong
July 2 - July 5, 2007 (course details)
 
Dirk M. Elston, M.D., Course Director more info
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
 
Rosalie Elenitsas, M.D. more info
Director of Dermatopathology, Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania Health System
 
James E. Fitzpatrick, M.D. more info
Dermatopathology Service, Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado
 
Karen E. Warschaw, M.D. more info
Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona
 

Women’s Cancers: Surgical Pathology, Cytology and Immunohistochemistry of Breast and Genital Tumors
June 25 - June 28, 2007 (course details)
 
Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D., Course Director more info
Harvard Medical School/ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
 
Laura Collins, M.D. more info
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
 
Teri A. Longacre, M.D. more info
Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center
 
Jaime D. Prat, M.D., PH.D. more info
Chairman, Department of Pathology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, and Professor of Pathology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
 

Advances in Surgical Pathology: Prostate, Bladder, Endocrine, Thorax and Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry
June 18 - June 21, 2007 (course details)
 
Saul M. Suster, M.D., Course Director more info
Professor, Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH
 
Peter A. Humphrey, M.D., PH.D. more info
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
 
Cesar A. Moran, M.D. more info
Professor, Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
 
Mark R. Wick, M.D. more info
Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health System
 

Critical Issues in Hematopathology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Management, Reimbursement & Pathologist Compensation
October 23 - October 26, 2006 (course details)
 
Valerie Ng, M.D., PH.D., Course Director more info
Alameda County Medical Center/Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA
 
Kathy Foucar, M.D. more info
Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
 
Barbara Robinson-Dunn, Ph.D., DABMM more info
Technical Director of Microbiology at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, Michigan State University
 
Ron L. Weiss, M.D., M.B.A. more info
President and Chief Operating Officer, ARUP Laboratories, University of Utah
 

Surgical Pathology of Problem Breast, Endocrine, Female Genital and Central Nervous System Lesions
October 16 - October 19, 2006 (course details)
 
Gregory N. Fuller, M.D., Ph.D., Course Director more info
Professor of Pathology and Chief of the Section of Neuropathology, M. D. Anderson
 
Sylvia L. Asa, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP(C), FCAP more info
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
Daniel Visscher, M.D. more info
Professor, Department of Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
 
Richard J. Zaino, M.D. more info
Professor, Department of Pathology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
 

Learning How to Make Those Gut-Wrenching Dermatopathology Diagnoses
October 9 - October 12, 2006 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Dirk M. Elston, M.D. more info
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
 
Jane M. Grant-Kels, M.D. more info
Chairperson and clinical Chief, Department of Dermatology and Director, of the Dermatopathology Laboratory, University of Connecticut Health Center
 
Jennifer M. McNiff, M.D. more info
Yale University Medical School
 

Surgical Pathology of Soft Tissue, Head and Neck, Gynecologic and Lymph Node Tumors
July 10 - July 13, 2006 (course details)
 
Andrew L. Folpe, M.D., Course Director more info
Associate Pathology Professor and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
 
Esther Oliva, M.D. more info
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
 
Steven H. Swerdlow, M.D. more info
University of Pittsburgh Health System
 
Bruce M. Wenig, M.D. more info
Clinical Professor of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Luke’s - Roosevelt Hospitals
 

Interpretation of Benign and Malignant Gastrointestinal, Liver, Biliary and Pancreatic Biopsies
July 3 - July 6, 2006 (course details)
 
Henry D. Appelman, M.D., Course Director more info
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 
N. Volkan Adsay, M.D. more info
Wayne State University, Harper Hospital, Detroit, MI
 
Kenneth P. Batts, M.D. more info
Abbott N. Western Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
 
Linda D. Ferrell, M.D. more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 

Critical Issues in Dermatopathology and Clinical Dermatology: Everything you Wanted to Know and More
June 26 - June 29, 2006 (course details)
 
Earl J. Glusac, M.D., Course Director more info
Professor of Pathology and Dermatology, Yale University School Of Medicine
 
Dirk M. Elston, M.D. more info
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
 
Joan Guitart, M.D. more info
Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and Director of both the Dermatopathology Unit and the multi-disciplinary Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic
 
Thomas Dag Horn, M.D., M.B.A. more info
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock
 

Diagnosis of Lesions of the Lung, Bone & Soft Tissues and Urinary Tract
October 17 - October 20, 2005 (course details)
 
Stacey E. Mills, M.D., Course Director more info
Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center Charlottesville, VA
 
Thomas V. Colby, M.D. more info
 
John R. Goldblum, M.D. more info
 
Peter A. Humphrey, M.D., PH.D. more info
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
 

Recent Advances in Laboratory Medicine
October 10 - October 13, 2005 (course details)
 
Valerie Ng, M.D., PH.D., Course Director more info
Alameda County Medical Center/Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA
 
Michael L. Astion, M.D.,Ph.D. more info
University of Washington School of Medicine
 
Douglas P. Blackall, M.D. more info
Director of the Clinical Laboratories at Arkansas Children’s Hospital
 
Jeffrey A. Kant, M.D., Ph.D. more info
Professor of Pathology & Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
 

Updates in Dermatopathology
October 3 - October 6, 2005 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Beth S. Ruben, M.D. more info
Assistant Clinical Professor, Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, University of California, San Francisco
 
Omar Sangueza, M.D. more info
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, and Director of Dermatopathology at Wake Forest University, School of Medicine in Winston-Salem
 
Noreen M. G. Walsh, MB, Bch, BAO more info
Head of Anatomical Pathology at the Capital District Health Authority and Dalhousie University in Halifax
 

Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal, Liver and Pancreatic Biopsies
June 27 - June 30, 2005 (course details)
 
Henry D. Appelman, M.D., Course Director more info
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 
N. Volkan Adsay, M.D. more info
Wayne State University, Harper Hospital, Detroit, MI
 
Kenneth P. Batts, M.D. more info
Abbott N. Western Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
 
Linda D. Ferrell, M.D. more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 

Updates in Laboratory Medicine
June 20 - June 23, 2005 (course details)
 
Michael Laposata, M.D., PH.D., Course Director more info
Director of Clinical Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
 
Kent B. Lewandrowski, M.D. more info
Associate Professor of Pathology Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of Laboratory Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital
 
Carol Rauch, M.D., Ph.D. more info
Medical Director of Microbiology at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts
 
Daniel E. Sabath, M.D., PH.D. more info
Head of Hematology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
 

Critical Issues in Cutaneous Pathology: Soft Tissue, Melanocytic Lymphoproliferative, and Inflammatory Lesions
June 20 - June 23, 2005 (course details)
 
Earl J. Glusac, M.D., Course Director more info
Professor of Pathology and Dermatology, Yale University School Of Medicine
 
Eduardo Calonje, M.D. more info
St. John's Institute of Dermatopathology, St. Thomas Hospital, London
 
Andrew L. Folpe, M.D. more info
Associate Pathology Professor and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
 
Jennifer M. McNiff, M.D. more info
Yale University Medical School
 

Dermatopathology Updates: Melanomas, Lymphoma and Inflammatory Skin Disease
November 1 - November 4, 2004 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Iftikhar Ahmed, M.D. more info
Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic
 
Lorenzo Cerroni, M.D. more info
Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Graz
 
Jacqueline M. Junkins-Hopkins, M.D. more info
Department of Pathology, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
 

Surgical Pathology of Breast and Thoracic Tumors and Infectious Diseases, and Non Gynecologic Cytology
October 25 - October 28, 2004 (course details)
 
Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D., Course Director more info
Harvard Medical School/ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
 
Britt-Marie Ljung, M.D. more info
Professor, Department of Clinical Pathology, University of California San Francisco
 
Ann M. Nelson, M.D. more info
Department of Infectious Diseases Pathology, Chief Section of AIDS, AFIP
 
Saul M. Suster, M.D. more info
Professor, Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH
 

Recent Advances in Laboratory Medicine
October 17 - October 20, 2004 (course details)
 
Valerie Ng, M.D., PH.D., Course Director more info
Alameda County Medical Center/Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA
 
Edward R. Ashwood, M.D. more info
Director of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center
 
Kathy Foucar, M.D. more info
Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
 
Jeffrey A. Kant, M.D., Ph.D. more info
Professor of Pathology & Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
 

Critical Histopathologic Issues in Cutaneous Neoplasia: Epithelial, Lymphoid, Melanocytic and Soft Tissue Tumors
July 12 - July 15, 2004 (course details)
 
Earl J. Glusac, M.D., Course Director more info
Professor of Pathology and Dermatology, Yale University School Of Medicine
 
Andrew L. Folpe, M.D. more info
Associate Pathology Professor and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
 
Timothy H. McCalmont, M.D. more info
University of California, San Francisco, CA
 
Bruce R. Smoller, M.D. more info
Director of Dermatopathology, University of Arkansas
 

Making the Right Dermatopathologic Diagnoses - Controversies and Conundrums
October 20 - October 23, 2003 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Zsolt B. Argenyi, M.D. more info
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
 
Timothy H. McCalmont, M.D. more info
University of California, San Francisco, CA
 
Jennifer M. McNiff, M.D. more info
Yale University Medical School
 

Advances in the Diagnosis of Lymphoid, GenitoUrinary and CNS Neoplasms
October 13 - October 16, 2003 (course details)
 
Jonathan Epstein, M.D., Course Director more info
John Hopkins University school of Medicine
 
Gregory N. Fuller, M.D., Ph.D. more info
Professor of Pathology and Chief of the Section of Neuropathology, M. D. Anderson
 
Robert J. Kurman, M.D. more info
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
 
Steven H. Swerdlow, M.D. more info
University of Pittsburgh Health System
 

Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal, Liver and Pancreatic Biopsies
June 23 - June 26, 2003 (course details)
 
Henry D. Appelman, M.D., Course Director more info
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 
N. Volkan Adsay, M.D. more info
Wayne State University, Harper Hospital, Detroit, MI
 
Kenneth P. Batts, M.D. more info
Abbott N. Western Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
 
Linda D. Ferrell, M.D. more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 

Advances in Surgical Pathology of Breast, Head & Neck and Immunochemistry
October 21 - October 24, 2002 (course details)
 
Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D., Course Director more info
Harvard Medical School/ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
 
Sylvia L. Asa, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP(C), FCAP more info
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
Allen M. Gown, M.D. more info
PhenoPath Laboratories, Seattle, WA
 
Stacey E. Mills, M.D. more info
Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center Charlottesville, VA
 

Making the Right Dermatopathologic Diagnoses - Problems and Solutions
October 14 - October 17, 2002 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Earl J. Glusac, M.D. more info
Professor of Pathology and Dermatology, Yale University School Of Medicine
 
Sabine Kohler, M.D. more info
Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
 
David Weedon, M.D. more info
Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of Queensland, Australia
 

Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal, Liver and Pancreatic Biopsies
October 15 - October 18, 2001 (course details)
 
Henry D. Appelman, M.D., Course Director more info
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 
N. Volkan Adsay, M.D. more info
Wayne State University, Harper Hospital, Detroit, MI
 
Kenneth P. Batts, M.D. more info
Abbott N. Western Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
 
Linda D. Ferrell, M.D. more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 

Diagnostic Decisions in Dermatopathology
October 8 - October 11, 2001 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Earl J. Glusac, M.D. more info
Professor of Pathology and Dermatology, Yale University School Of Medicine
 
Timothy H. McCalmont, M.D. more info
University of California, San Francisco, CA
 
Clifton R. White, M.D. more info
University of Oregon Health Services Center, Portland, OR
 

Biopsy Diagnosis of Lung and Prostate Lesions
October 16 - October 19, 2000 (course details)
 
Thomas V. Colby, M.D., Course Director more info
 
David G. Bostwick, M.D. more info
 
David J. Grignon, M.D. more info
 
William D. Travis, M.D. more info
 

Diagnosis of Tumors of the Skin and Soft Tissue Tumors
October 18 - October 21, 1999 (course details)
 
Richard L. Kempson, M.D., Course Director more info
 
Sabine Kohler, M.D. more info
Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D. more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Sharon W. Weiss, M.D. more info
 

Diagnostic Problems in Gastrointestinal Pathology
October 5 - October 8, 1998 (course details)
 
Rodger C. Haggitt, M.D., Course Director more info
 
Henry D. Appelman, M.D. more info
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 
Kenneth P. Batts, M.D. more info
Abbott N. Western Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
 
Robert E. Petras, M.D. more info
 

Diagnosis of Breast and Gynecologic Cancer – Current Concepts & Criteria
October 20 - October 23, 1997 (course details)
 
Richard L. Kempson, M.D., Course Director more info
 
Michael R. Hendrickson, M.D. more info
 
Robert J. Kurman, M.D. more info
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
 
Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D. more info
Harvard Medical School/ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
 

Inflammatory Skin Disease: From Latin to Plain English
May 19 - May 22, 1997 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Clay J. Cockerell, M.D. more info
 
Timothy H. McCalmont, M.D. more info
University of California, San Francisco, CA
 
Bruce R. Smoller, M.D. more info
Director of Dermatopathology, University of Arkansas
 

Melanocytic Neoplasms: Avoiding Misdiagnosis and Its Consequences
October 23 - October 26, 1995 (course details)
 
Philip E. LeBoit, M.D., Course Director more info
University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
 
Clay J. Cockerell, M.D. more info
 
Timothy H. McCalmont, M.D. more info
University of California, San Francisco, CA
 
Clifton R. White, M.D. more info
University of Oregon Health Services Center, Portland, OR
 

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