The IU School of Medicine Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine was well represented at the recent 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Cytopathology held in Orlando, FL on Nov. 6-10, 2024.
2013 cytotechnology graduate Emily Wheeler was selected to present a platform presentation “Assessing an Interdisciplinary Clinically Relevant and Reproducible Reporting System for Oil Red O Staining in Bronchioalveolar Lavages."
Poster presentations included:
- 2023 graduate Jessica Rech and co-authors, Spontaneous Clots in Body Fluids: Can They Cell Block?
(Jessica is pictured below with Education Coordinator and co-author of abstract/poster Josh Howell)
- 2023 graduate Emily Van Tassel and co-authors: Outcome of AUC in Patients with No Prior History of Urothelial Carcinoma
- 2005 graduate Jennifer Kernodle-Zimmer and co-authors: A Novel Technique for the Preparation of Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded Surgical and Cell Block Specimens is Proven to be Effective for HPV testing
- 2023-2024 cytopathology fellow Bianca Yocum and co-authors: Grading Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma by Ki67 Proliferation Index on Cell Block Material
- Current immunohematology fellow and recent pathology resident Jessica Muldoon and co-authors: Expression of Steroidogenic Factor (SF1) and Application in Cytopathologic Identification of Intrahepatic Ectopic Splenic Tissue
(abstracts may be found in Journal of American Society of Cytopathology Volume 13 Issue 5 Sept/Oct 2024)
Presentations:
IU graduate and current program director Josh Howell was invited to share IU’s experience with “Mastering” Recruitment and Retention during the Strategies in Cytology Education session.
Cytopathology medical director Harvey Cramer and assistant professor and former cytopathology fellow and resident Omer Saeed presented a well attended (and well received) Video Microscopy Tutorial titled Challenges in Pancreatic Cytology: Navigating Common, Rare, and Unexpected Cases.
Photos of various IU School of Medicine Pathology attendees at event
