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Pathology Day, May 24, 2019

The success of the 2018 Pathology Day and the feedback from attendees has allowed us to provide a programme which will ensure an exciting, stimulating and educational development opportunity.

PATHOLOGY DAY HIGHLIGHTS:

Pathology Day 2019 was another terrific success this year, bringing more than 200 department members together to experience the caliber and diversity of research taking place throughout our department, both at the junior and established research levels. Dr. Don Brooks started the day with opening remarks at the Paetzold Auditorium at Vancouver General Hospital followed by the graduate student and resident presentations that took place concurrently. Over 85 trainees and staff submitted abstracts abstract book 2019, highlighting the broad spectrum of research topics throughout the department. Over the day there were 10 graduate students and more than 19 residents giving oral platforms, in addition to lectures by faculty and a post-doctoral fellow, as well as a lively midday poster session.

THIS YEAR'S JAMES HOGG LECTURER WAS DR. BLAKE GILKS

Dr. Blake Gilks is Professor in the Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver Canada, and does clinical service work in the Division of Anatomic Pathology at Vancouver General Hospital, the site of the largest gynecological oncology program in the province of British Columbia, where he is Regional Medical Director of Laboratories and Head of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He graduated from Dalhousie University medical school in 1982 and completed a residency in anatomical pathology at the University of British Columbia, followed by fellowships in gynecological pathology and molecular pathology at Massachusett's General Hospital and Fox Chase Cancer Center, respectively. Dr. Gilks leads a research program focused on gynecological cancers and is co-founder of the Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre, a laboratory that uses tissue microarrays of human tumor samples for cancer research, and OvCaRe, a multidisciplinary team studying ovarian cancer. He is also co-founder and co-director of the Canadian Immunohistochemistry Quality Control program, which provides proficiency testing for Canadian diagnostic immunohistochemistry laboratories. Dr. Gilks’ lecture was entitled “Being wrong: lessons learned from research, teaching, clinical service and administration.”

PATHOLOGY DAY 2019 HIGHLIGHTED THE RESEARCH PROGRAMS OF TWO FACULTY:

Dr. Peter Watson shared his work on "Solutions to improve the research biobanking pipeline”

and Dr. Marianne Sadar's topic of discussion was “From the bench to the bedside: the journey to developing a new therapy”.

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW WITH THE TOP RANKED ABSTRACT

This year Dr. Sho Hiroyasu, the Postdoctoral Fellow with the top ranked abstract, discussed his work on "Granzyme B: a Novel Target for Pemphigoid Diseases”.

POSTER SESSION AND LUNCH AT ICORD

The poster session, which coincided with lunch, took place at ICORD, facility at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre and offered an opportunity for networking, catching up, and showcasing the science of our department. We had 66 poster presentations and this event was very well attended, including the army of 24 volunteer poster judges who determined prize winners for best posters in a variety of categories.

KEYNOTE LECTURE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The keynote’s address “Artificial Intelligence for Pathology: from Discovery to AI-Powered Companion Diagnostics” was given by Dr. Andrew H. Beck. In 2016, Dr Beck co-founded PathAI, a company that develops artificial intelligence technology for pathology, where he serves as President and CEO.

RECEPTION AT ICORD

Pathology Day concluded with a well-attended reception back at ICORD, where faculty, students and staff were recognized with awards for their respective contributions to our department. This year, the BMLSc program joined the Pathogy Day reception for their program awards, adding to the celebrations of the evening.

We look forward to including more department members in the future, as a means to present junior faculty and re-introduce our more established researchers and their achievements.

TOP Oral Presentations
Resident 1st Place
Julia Naso
Supervisor: Dr. Diana N. Ionescu

"Intratumoral heterogeneity in PD-L1 immunoreactivity is associated with variation in non-small cell lung carcinoma histotype"

Resident 1st Place
Adrian Levine
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Yip

Intratumoral heterogeneity in PD-L1 immunoreactivity is associated with variation in non-small cell lung carcinoma histotype

Resdident 2nd Place
Basile Tessier-Cloutier
Supervisor: Dr. David Huntsman

"Proteomic analysis of transitional-like carcinoma variant of tubo-ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma"

Resident 2nd Place
Muntadhar Al Moosawi
Supervisor: Dr. Andre Mattman

"Implementation and clinical implication of hepcidin assay in British Columbia"

Graduate 1st Place
Emily Kamma
Supervisor: Dr. Jacquie Quandt

"Characterizing the clinical and immunopathological alterations in a novel mouse model of progressive multiple sclerosis"

Graduate 2nd Place
Yasir Mohamud
Supervisor: Dr. Honglin Luo

Enterovirus infection initiates non-canonical autophagy to bypass lysosomal clearance and facilitate viral pathogenesis.

Graduate 3rd Place
Rachel Cederberg
Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Bennewith

"Interleukin-5 drives the expansion of lung B-1 B cells and restricts pulmonary metastasis"

Graduate
Wayne Zhao
Supervisor: Dr. Dana Devine

Pritchard Award for the best Graduate Student Seminar in PATH 535/635

Graduate
Simon Teskey
Supervisor: Dr. Marianne Sadar

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine PATH 502 MVP Award

Graduate
Jasmine Gill
Supervisor: Dr. Cheryl Wellington

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Gross to Nano Histopathology Award for Pathology 501

TOP Poster Awards
Power Pitch Award
Matthew Masoudi
Supervisor: Dr. Mari DeMarco

"Translating research into practice: investigating the impact of Alzheimer’s diagnostics in Canada (IMPACT-AD)"

Graduate
Natalie Firmino
Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Bennewith

Germinal center hypoxia develops during exposure to tumor antigens and modulates anti-tumor immune responses

Graduate
Emel Islamzada
Supervisor: Dr. Hongshen Ma

"Deformability as a biomarker for the quality of fresh and stored red blood cells"

Graduate
Kevin Kuchinski
Supervisor: Dr. Natalie Prystajecky

"Recovering influenza virus genomes from wild bird habitats for better avian flu surveillance"

Graduate
Sarah Morris
Supervisor: Dr. Cornelia Laule

"Investigating quantitative biomarkers in post-mortem human spinal cord injury tissue using advanced magnetic resonance imaging and histopathological techniques"

Graduate
Samuel Weng
Supervisor: Dr. Philipp Lange

"Sensitive identification of proteolytic proteoforms in limited samples"

Graduate
Joyce Zhang
Supervisor: Dr. David Huntsman

Modelling initiation events of serous ovarian cancers with organoid cultures and single cell sequencing

Undergraduate
Zoe Gidden
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Quandt

"Dysregulation of gene expression and immunophenotype in a mouse model of progressive multiple sclerosis based on an NR1H3 mutation linked to disease in families"

Undergraduate
David Yang
Supervisor: Dr. Bojana Rakic

"Development of a tandem mass spectrometry assay for newborn screening for sickle cell diseases"

Postgraduate
Anuli Uzozie
Supervisor: Dr. Philipp Lange

"Integrated proteome, phospho-proteome and N terminome characterization of pediatric patient and matched engrafted leukemia"

Department Awards
Dr. Blake Gilks
Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Steve Kalloger
Excellence in Education Award
Dr. Linda Hoang
Excellence in Clinical Service Award
Dr. Mike Allard
Most Valuable Player Award
Dr. Mell Krajden
Research & Discovery Award
Dr. William Lockwood
Early Career Research & Discover Award
Dr. Lien Hoang
Mentoring Award
Jenny Tai
Staff Service (Tech) Award
Heather Cheadle
Staff Service (Admin) Award