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A. James French Lecturer |
Elaine S. Jaffe, MD. is the Head of the Hematopathology Section, Laboratory of Pathology at the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH focusing on the classification and definition of lymphoid neoplasms. She has been president of both the Society for Hematopathology as well as the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, and was elected to the advisory board of the American Society of Hematology. In 1993, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2005 was Chair of the Medical Sciences Section of AAAS. In 2008 she was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
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Conference Organizers |
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Jeffrey L. Myers, M.D., A. James French Professor and Director, Anatomic Pathology is an expert in
diagnostic pathology and pulmonary pathology with specialized interest in the area of patient safety and practice innovation.
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Joel K Greenson, M.D., Professor of Pathology and the University of Michigan health System, is an alumni of the University of Michigan Medical School, with residency and fellowship training at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His clinical and research interests are in gastrointestinal and liver pathology, infections and neoplasms of the liver and GI tract, inflammatory bowel disease and AIDS in the GI tract. He is past-President of the Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. His devotion to the field of GI Pathology may be viewed at: http://www.pathology.med.umich.edu/greensonlab/bluegenes/badliverredo.mov
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Plenary Lecturers |
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Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, is an Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, S.P. Hicks Endowed Professor, Professor of Pathology and Urology and Director of Cancer Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan Health System. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Amgen Outstanding Investigator Award, the Pew Biomedical Scholar Award, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Award in Clinical Translational Research, the 2006 Benjamin Castleman Award, the 2007 Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award, his research focuses on using functional genomic, proteomic, metabolic and bioinformatic approaches to dissect and understand cancer biology. He is particularly interested in prostate and beast cancers, and cancer profiling. The Chinnaiyan laboratory website, www.oncomine.org is a very popular cancer profiling bioinformatics resource.
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Philip Cagle, MD, is the Director of Pulmonary Pathology at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX, and Professor of Pathology, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, NY, NY. In addition, his leadership roles include: Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (the largest circulation pathology journal worldwide), editorial board of CAP Today, and the only pathologist serving on the editorial board of JAMA. He served on the WHO Consensus Conference for Tumors of the Lung and Pleura and has authored over 100 papers and over 100 chapters on lung pathology. His interests focus on biomarkers of prognosis and potential targets of molecular therapy in lung cancer and diffuse malignant mesothelioma; pathogenesis of pulmonary adenocarcinoma and lung transplantation.
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