August 3-5, 2012
Glen Arbor, MI

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A. James French Lecturer
John Hart, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago. His clinical interests include gastrointestinal and liver pathology, including liver transplant pathology. His research is focused in the area of colonic and hepatic carcinogenesis and has been funded by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Hart has been invited to speak at more than 65 national and international conferences. He currently serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.
Conference Organizers
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.
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
Plenary Lecturers
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.
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.