Grand rounds and symposia
Metabolic Dysregulation and Breast Carcinogenesis
Speaker
Ann Thor, M.D.
(Chair Candidate)
Edith B. Todd & James C. Todd, M.D. Chair of Pathology
University of Colorado Denver / School of Medicine
Date
Monday, November 23, 2009
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
UC Davis Medical Center
PATH Building, Room 1002
4400 V St.
Sacramento, CA 95817
This presentation will also be available via Adobe Connect. Please follow this link if you would like to view the seminar using Connect: http://breeze.ucdavis.edu/pathologygrandrounds
Upcoming events
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| November 23, 2009 | Metabolic Dysregulation and Breast Carcinogenesis | Ann Thor, M.D. (Chair Candidate) Edith B. Todd & James C. Todd, M.D. Chair of Pathology University of Colorado Denver / School of Medicine |
| December 9, 2009 | Cervical Cancer Screening in the Medically Underserved: Lessons from California's Every Woman Counts Program | Lydia P. Howell, M.D. |
| December 14, 2009 | Mouse Models for Breast Cancer | Alexander Borowsky, M.D. Associate Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| January 4, 2010 | Lung Pathology - Mayo Clinc rotation | Cindy Yu, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
Past events
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| November 9, 2009 | The role & regulation of MGST1: A primordial & essential gene | Michael J. Kelner, M.D., M.S. (Chair Candidate) Professor of Pathology UC San Diego |
| October 26, 2010 | Breast Cancer Disparities in Approaches to Breast Disease | Lisa Benton, M.D., M.P.H. Breast Surgeon Health Policy Researcher and Consultant |
| October 19, 2009 | EMT and Breast Cancer: Reverse Modeling | Robert Cardiff, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| October 5, 2009 | Optical Technologies for Pathology | Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| September 21, 2009 | Pediatric Apheresis: Little People with Big Problems | Carol Marshall, M.D. Heath Sciences Clinical Professor Associate Medical Director of Blood Bank Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| September 14, 2009 | CRP and Atherothrombosis - Innocent Bystander or Culprit? | Ishwarlal Jialal, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Robert E. Stowell Endowed Chair in Experimental Pathology Director of Laboratory for Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Research Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| August 31, 2009 | Mechanisms for the Thrombocytopenia of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (WAS) | Ted Strom, M.D., Ph.D. (Candidate for Hematopathology position) Director, Blood Bank and Hematology Section Dept. of Pathology & Lab Medicine, Memphis VA Medical Center Assistant Professor - University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| August 24, 2009 | Novel Inflammatory Pathways in Diabetes | Ravi Dasu, Ph.D. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| August 10, 2009 | Lessons from the Study of the Fragile X Gene: A Triplet Repeat Dysfunction That Causes Both Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Disorders | Claudia Greco, M.D. MSP Staff Physician Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| August 3, 2009 | The Top 10 Publications Impacting Clinical Practice of Transfusion Medicine in the Last 10 Years | Paul Holland, M.D. Clinical Professor of Medicine Clinical Professor of Pathology UC Davis Scientific Director of Delta Blook Bank — Stockton |
| July 20, 2009 | CD44v6: Could It Be the Answer for Breast Cancer? | Alaa Afify, M.D. Associate Professor Director of Cytopathology Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| July 6, 2009 | Rapid Multiplex Pathogen Detection of Bacteremia Using Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification | Nicole Gentile Graduate Student in Comparative Pathology Dr. Gerald Kost's Lab (supported by NIH Point-of-Care Technologies Center) UC Davis |
| June 29, 2009 | Pathology of the Spleen: Case Studies | Jerome Burke, M.D. Pathologist Alta Bates Summit Medical Center |
| June 15, 2009 | Moles & Melanoma: Diagnostic Update 2009 | Maxwell A. Fung, M.D. Associate Professor of Clinical Dermatology and Pathology Director, UC Davis Dermatopathology Service Department of Dermatology |
| June 1, 2009 | On the Other Side of the Stethoscope: Mental Health on the Physician Developmental Continuum | Andreea Seritan, M.D. Health Sciences Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| May 18, 2009 | Pathology: Costs, outcomes, and comparative effectiveness research | Joy Melnikow, M.D., M.P.H. Associate Director - UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research Professor - Family and Community Medicine UC Davis |
| May 4, 2009 | Vascular Endothelial Permeability in Inflammation | Sarah Yuan, M.D., Ph.D. Pearl Stamps Stewart Professor Director - Division of Research, Department of Surgery UC Davis |
| April 20, 2009 | Cartilaginous Tumors | Scott Nelson, M.D. |
| April 6, 2009 | Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Liver manifestations of the obesity epidemic | Linda Ferrell, M.D. |
| March 23, 2009 | Molecular testing applications in Anatomic Pathology - Bridging AP and CP: A Molecular Diagnostics Prescription for Our Future | Drs. John Bishop and Jeff Gregg |
| March 2, 2009 | The Application of Photon-Based Technology to Bioscience and Medicine - Biophonics | Dennis Matthews, Ph.D. Professor, SOM and College of Engineering Director - Center for Biophotonics Associate Director - UC Davis Cancer Center Director - Center for Biotechnology Biophysical Sciences and Bioengineering |
| February 2, 2009 | “Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis”: Rethinking the lesions | Michael C. Fishbein, M.D. Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine UCLA |
| January 22, 2009 | From Innovation to Clinical Excellence: Transforming Academic Pathology for a Changing Healthcare Environment | Ronald W. McLawhon, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Division of Laboratory Medicine Director of Clinical Laboratories UC San Diego |
| January 7, 2009 | Herpesviruses, Tumors, and the Immune Response | S. David Hudnall, M.D. Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Division Chief of Hematopathology University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX |
| December 15, 2008 | Computational Biology Tools for Genomics and Proteomics Applications in Clinical Translational Research | Viswanathan (Krish) Krishnan, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry - CSU, Fresno Associate Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Applied Science - UC Davis |
| December 8, 2008 | caELMIR and future with WSI and caTISSUE | Jose Galvez, Ph.D. Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| December 1, 2008 | Neuropathology of Rett syndrome | Lee-Way Jin, Ph.D. Associate Professor In-Residence Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| November 24, 2008 | Cerebrovascular Pointillism: An Extreme Form of Cerebral Ischemia |
William G. Ellis, M.D. Professor Director of Neuropathology Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| November 20, 2008 | CMV Viral Load Testing: “Bridging the Gap Between the Laboratory and Clinical Care" |
Angela Caliendo, M.D., Ph.D. Director and Vice Chair of Clinical Pathology Associate Professor, Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine Professor (Tenure), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine |
| November 17, 2008 | Cellular Inflammation in Diabetes: Implications for Vascular Complications | Ishwarlal Jialal, M.D., Ph.D. |
| November 13, 2008 | New WHO 2008 Classification of Leukemia and Lymphomas: The Past, Present and Future | Prashanti Reddy, M.D. |
| November 3, 2008 | Cancer Center Specimen Repository: Challenges and Opportunities |
Regina F. Gandour-Edwards, M.D. Professor Vice Chair of Education Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| October 29, 2008 | Iron Restriction of Erythropoiesis Involves Convergent Signaling Through Developmental and Metabolic Pathways | Grant Bullock, M.D. Hematophatology Basic Science Research Fellow University of Virginia Health System |
| October 23, 2008 | Correlation of morphology, immunophenotype, and genetic abnormalities in CLL/SLL |
Christine Garcia, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology University of Pittsburgh |
| October 20, 2008 | Combining Evidence, Education and Computerized Decision Support to Direct Ova & Parasite Testing: A Model for T2 Process Improvement |
Christopher R. Polage, M.D. |
| October 6, 2008 | Robert Tamurian, M.D. Assistant Professor Chief of Musculoskeletal Oncology Department of Orthopaedic Surgery |
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| September 29, 2008 | Lydia P. Howell, M.D. |
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| September 2, 2008 | Post-Transplant Liver Disease |
Rajen Ramsamooj, M.D. Associate Professor Residency Program Director Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| August 27, 2008 | Eosinophilic Esophagitis |
Ramez Saroufeem, M.D. |
| August 25, 2008 | Clinical Trials in the Age of Personalized Medicine |
Michael Hogarth, M.D. Associate Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| August 18, 2008 | Bioscience Research Activities at NASA Ames Research Center |
Russell L. Kerschmann, M.D. Chief, Division of Space Biosciences NASA Ames Research Center |
| July 23, 2008 | Evolution of Strategies for Survival and Growth of Departments of Pathology |
Robert J. Boorstein, M.D., Ph.D |
| July 21, 2008 | Slouching Towards Bethlehem: The Microbiome in Mucosal and Systemic Disease |
Jonathan Braun, M.D. |
| July 7, 2008 | The Forensic Pathology of Chronic Encephalopathy in Professional American Athletes |
Bennet Omalu, M.D., MBA, MPH Forensic Pathologist/ Neuropathologist/Epidemiologist San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department |
| June 16, 2008 | On a Decade of Folic Acid Fortification |
Joshua Miller, Ph.D. |
| June 2, 2008 | Human stem cells for the repair of disease and tissue injury |
Jan Nolta, Ph.D. Professor, Director of Stem Cell Program UC Davis Health System |
| May 19, 2008 | Blood Banking in Beijing and Mongolia |
Leonor Fernando, M.D. |
| May 7, 2008 | Deleterious clinical effects of allogenic blood transfusion-related immunomodulation: Fact or fiction? |
Eleftherios C. Vamvakas, M.D., Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Pathology Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine Ottawa, Canada |
| April 28, 2008 | A Genetic Screen in the Mouse Reveals Novel Developmental Mutants |
Konstantinos Zarbalis, Ph.D. |
| April 21, 2008 | Breast Cancer Diagnostic Reporting: Updates and What's on the Horizon |
Alexander Borowsky, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| March 3, 2008 | Genomic Pathology: One Gene, One Disease, One Medicine? |
Robert D. Cardiff, M.D., Ph.D. |
| February 26, 2008 | From Myocardial Ischemia to Stem Cell Homing: The Central Role of Phospholipase A2 Signaling |
Michael Creer, M.D. Professor Department of Pathology Saint Louis University School of Medicine |
| February 20, 2008 | Inflammatory Gene Regulation, Chromatin Events and Epigenomics in Diabetes |
Rama Natarajan, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist Department of Diabetes City of Hope Medical Center |
| February 4, 2008 | Single Cell Kinase Signaling & Drug Screening: Applications in Autoimmunity and Studies of the Tumor Microenvironment |
Garry Nolan, Ph.D. |
| January 28, 2008 | Pathologic Evaluation of Axillary Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer |
Savitri Krishnamurthy, M.D. Associate Professor Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
| December 3, 2007 | Proteomic Characterization of Host-Pathogen Interactions: Views from the Host and the Pathogen |
Brett Chromy, Ph.D. Biosciences & Biotechnology Division Chemistry, Materials, Earth and Life Sciences Lawrence Livermore National Lab |
| November 28, 2007 | Selected Topics in Non-neoplastic Lung Disease |
Allen Burke, M.D. Deputy Director CVPath Institute |
| November 14, 2007 | Prognostic and Diagnostic Molecular Markers in Synovial Sarcoma |
Dariusz Borys, M.D. Fellow New York University - Hospital for Joint Diseases |
| November 5, 2007 | The Future of Pathology |
Stephen N. Bauer, M.D. Mercy San Juan Medical Center |
| October 8, 2007 | Testicular Germ Cell Neoplasms: Genetics, Novel Markers and Diagnostically Problematic Issues |
Fabio Tavora, M.D. Genitourinary Pathology Fellow Department of Pathology Johns Hopkins Hospital |
| October 1, 2007 | Wiring of the Brain: How Axon Repulsion and Axon Pruning Shape Our Nervous System |
Hwai-Jong Cheng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| September 17, 2007 | Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Brain Repair |
Su-Chan Zhang, M.D. Associate Professor Departments of Anatomy and Neurology School of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin |
| August 30, 2007 | The Role of the Crossmatch in Renal Transplantation |
Alan Luger, M.D. Associate Professor Department of Pathology University of Missouri-Columbia |
| August 29, 2007 | Bad to the Bone: Are Cancer Stem Cells Made or Born? |
Alexander "Sandy" Borowsky, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| August 27, 2007 | Monocytes and Viral Neuroinvasion in the Primate Animal Model for AIDS |
Ursula Esser, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| August 20, 2007 | Global Epigenetic Events in Stem Cells in Development and Disease |
Paul Knoepfler, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy Assistant Investigator and Member Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine |
| Augsust 15, 2007 | Diagnostic Utility of α4β1-Integrin Expression in Human Lymphoid Malignancies |
Kim Janatpour, M.D. Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor Director of Immunology Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| July 31, 2007 | Update in Breast Carcinoma — Multigene Profiling and E-Cadherin. Are They Useful? |
Noel Weidner, M.D. Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology UC San Diego |
| July 16, 2007 | Alaska, Salmon and a Blood Banker |
Paul Holland, M.D. Clinical Professor of Medicine Clinical Professor of Pathology UC Davis Scientific Director of Delta Blook Bank — Stockton |
| July 2, 2007 | Thorny, but Practical, Issues in Pediatric Transfusion Practices |
Ronald G Strauss, MD Professor of Pathology & Pediatrics University of Iowa College of Medicine |
| June 18, 2007 | Pet Imaging of Alzheimer's Amyloid: The Strange Bedfellow of Neuropathology |
Lee-Way Jin, Ph.D. Associate Professor In-Residence M.I.N.D. Institute Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| June 4, 2007 | The New Era of HPV Testing and Vaccines: A Strategic Inflection Point for Cytopathology | Lydia P. Howell, M.D. Vice Chair and Director, Anatomic Pathology Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| May 21, 2007 | Pitfalls in Cytopathology Practice | Amanda Ashton-Sager, M.D. Fellow, Cytopathology Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| May 7, 2007 | Regenerative Medicine and the Promise of Stem Cells | Susan V. Bryant, Ph.D. Professor School of Biological Sciences Vice Chancellor for Research UC Irvine |
| April 16, 2007 | Long-Term Preservation of Living Cells: Lessons from Nature | John H. Crowe, Ph.D. Professor Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| April 4, 2007 | Molecular Diagnosis of Human Brucellosis | Mireille M. Kattar, M.D. |
| March 22, 2007 | The Use of Light in Biomedicine: From Cellular to Small Animal Whole Body Imaging | Assistant Professor Minimally Invasive Surgical Technologies Institute Director, Advanced Optical Imaging Laboratory Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| March 19, 2007 | Multiplexed PCR-Based Enhancement of Pathogen Detection in Bacteremia | Dr. Gerald Kost Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Richard Louie Ph.D. candidate |
| March 15, 2007 | Identification of a Novel Transcription Factor Implicated in the Maintenance and Differentiation of Pluripotent Embryonic Stem Cells | Kenneth R. Boheler, Ph.D. Head, Molecular Cardiology Unit Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science National Institute on Aging |
| March 8, 2007 | Characterization of Bacteria by Mass Spectrometry: Going Beyond Identification & Susceptibility | Christopher R. Polage, M.D. Candidate: Pathologist with Microbiology Subspecialty Fellow, Medical Microbiology University of Utah Health Sciences Center ARUP Laboratories, Inc. |
| March 5, 2007 | Evolutions Witness | Ivan Schwab, M.D. Professor Department of Ophthalmology |
| February 5, 2007 | Homocysteine, Cardiovascular Disease and B Vitamins – New Developments | Ralph Green, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| January 29, 2007 | Differentiation of Neuralized Embryonic Stem Cells by Sonic Hedgehog | Henk Roelink, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Biological Structure |
| December 4, 2006 | Novel Imaging Techniques for Solid Organ Tumors | Rajendra Ramsamooj, M.D. Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| November 20, 2006 | Small Molecules Targeting the Toxic Oligomers of Alzheimer's Amyloid-Beta Protein | Lee-Way Jin, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor M.I.N.D. Institute Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| November 6, 2006 | What's New in Prion Diseases: Lessons from Translational Research | Michael D. Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology UC San Francisco Memory and Aging Center |
| October 23, 2006 | Lupus-Like Glomerulonephritis in HIV Infected Patients: A Clinicopathologic Study of 14 Cases | Sadhana Kaul, M.D. Fellow, Oncologic Surgical Pathology Roswell Park Cancer Institute |
| October 16, 2006 | Jekyll and Hyde: Role of Monocytes in the Innate Immune Response and Pathogen Dissemination into the Brain | Ursala Esser, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| October 2, 2006 | Dermatopathology: Something Old, Something New | Maxwell A. Fung, M.D. |
| September 18, 2006 | Vaccine Strategies Against Cytomegalovirus: Attempts to Change the Natural History of an Ancient Virus | Peter Barry, Ph.D. Associate Professor Deparment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| September 11, 2006 | Breast Cancer 911: Targeting the Terrorist 'Cells' | Alexander D. Borowsky, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| August 21, 2006 | Transfusion and Transplantation: O Brother Where Art Thou? | Carol Marshall, M.D. Associate Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| July 17, 2006 | Gene and Cell-Based Therapies: Translational Studies | Alice Tarantal, Ph.D. Department of Pediatrics and Cell Biology and Human Anatomy School of Medicine |

