The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) hosted its 111th annual meeting March 19-24, 2022 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, where members of UAB Pathology represented the Department in full force to present various topics of research. This year's meeting was held both in-person and online.
On Sunday, March 19, our team hosted a booth at the Fellowship Fair, featuring information about our program's opportunities. Faculty, staff and trainees were present to speak with interested applicants. On Monday, March 20, George Netto, M.D., Robert and Ruth Anderson Endowed Chair, presented, "A Primer Precision Pathology: Genomics, Al and Immuno-Oncology" as a Special Course Director. Monday throughout the day our faculty presented posters and talks, including a gastrointestinal pathology presentation, "Evaluation of the Gray-Zone in Staging Between T3 and T4 Colonic Adenocarcinomas" authored by Chirag Patel, Sameer Al Diffalha, Upender Manne, Deepti Dhall, Goo Lee, Venkata Dayana, Smitha Mruthyunjayappa, Michael Behring and Bassel Zein-Sabatto
The coursework and poster sessions continued throughout the week until the conference conclusion on Thursday, March 24. Poster sessions featured 19 posters in categories ranging from genitourinary pathology to pathobiology to communication efforts within the Department.
Tuesday featured platform presentations on genitourinary pathology (including renal tumors), "How closely related are juxtaglomerular cell tumors to other pericytic tumors, molecularly?" authored by Sofia Canete-Portillo, Brandon Wilk, Felipe Massicano, Manavalan Gajapathy, Donna Brown, Alexander Mackinnon, Shuko Harada, Elizabeth Worthey and Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, and liver pathology, "Unique Somatic Mutational Landscape in Cirrhotic-Like (Cirrhotomimetic) Hepatocellular Carcinoma" authored by Sameer Al Diffalha, Chirag Patel, George Netto, C. Ryan Miller, Elizabeth Worthey, Upender Manne, Prachi Bajpai, Amr Elkholy, Michael Behring, Brandon Wilk, Manvalan Gajapathy, Felipe Massicano, Tarun Karthik Kumar Mamidi, Donna Bron, Gurpeet Kaur, Abby Shelton and Erin Smithberger. Wednesday's highlights include short courses in autopsy and forensics, "Modern autopsy practice: academic, medicolegal and system-wide implications" authored by Daniel Atherton, Paul Benson and Virginia Duncan and genitourinary pathology, "Darn those pink cells! Evaluation of renal tumors with eosinophilic cells" authored by Cristina Magi-Galluzzi.
Click here for a comprehensive listing of UAB Pathology presentations at the USCAP 2022.
