Case of the Month July 2014
GIPS Case of the Month July 2014
The patient is a 24 year-old female who was found to have multiple mural nodules within the antrum.
Case of the Month June 2014
GIPS Case of the Month June 2014
A 50 year old female presented with mild alternating constipation and diarrhea.
Case of the Month May 2014
GIPS case of the month May 2014
67 year old man with an incidentally discovered 6 cm cystic lesion of the pancreatic tail.
Case of the Month April 2014
A 56 year-old woman with a history of irritable bowel syndrome presented to a walk-in care center with acute pelvic pain and pressure. Computed tomography (CT scan) then demonstrated a 3-cm-ovoid mass at the right retrorectal space. CT-guided core biopsy was performed, but the tissue obtained was non-diagnostic.
Case of the Month March 2014
The patient is a 40 year old man with a clinical history of occult blood in the stool. Colonoscopic examination demonstrated a thickened fold in the rectum. The remainder of the colon and terminal ileum were endoscopically normal.
2014 GIPS Abstract Award Winner
Winner:
Cheryl Ann Adackapara, Brigham and Women’s Hospital: Endoscopic Abnormalities of the Pre-Pouch Ileum Are Strongly Predictive of Subsequent Crohn’s Disease in Patients with an Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis
Runner Ups:
Ming Jin, Ohio State University: The Impact of Tumor Deposits on Colonic Adenocarcinoma AJCC TNM Staging
Juliana Kissiedu, Cleveland Clinic: Mesenteric Arterial and Venous Dysplasia/Vasculopathy (MAVD/V) Is Distinct from Fibromuscular Dysplasia
GIPS Reception: Sunday March 2, 2014
GIPS Reception
Sunday March 2, 2014 at 5:30pm
Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Indigo Room 204B
USCAP 2014 GIPS Companion meeting: Practical Applications of Immunohistochemistry in Gastrointestinal Pathology
March 2, 2014 1:30-5pm
Location: San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA; Room: CC Ballroom 20D
Moderator: Jeffrey Goldsmith, MD
1:30 – 1:35PM: Introduction. Jeffrey Goldsmith, MD
1:35 – 1:55PM: Ki-67 in Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors — Alyssa Krasinskas, MD
1:55 – 2:15PM: Her2 in Gastric / Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinomas: Efsevia Vakiani, MD PhD
2:15 – 2:40PM: Immunohistochemistry in the Evaluation of Colon Polyps: Kenneth Batts, MD
2:40 – 3:00PM: Immunohistochemical Approach to the Work-up of Metastatic Carcinoma to the Liver: Jason Hornick, MD PhD
3:00 – 3:30PM — BREAK
3:30 – 4:00PM: Biomarkers in the Classification of Dysplasia: Melissa Upton, MD
4:00 – 5:00PM: Keynote: The Future of Immunohistochemistry in the Era of Personalized Medicine: Alan Gown, MD
GIPS Forum 2014: Roundtable on Academic Publication: Training, Ethics, and the Future
Date and Time: March 1, 2014. 3:00 – 5:00PM
Location: Room 24 A-C, San Diego Convention Center
Moderator: Jeffrey D Goldsmith, MD
Participants:
Philip Cagle, MD
Editor, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The Methodist Hospital Research Insitute
Medical Director, Pulmonary Pathology
Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine
The Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX
John N. Eble, MD, MBA, FRCPA
Editor, Modern Pathology
Nordshow Professor of Laboratory Medicine
Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
Stacey E. Mills, MD
Editor, American Journal of Surgical Pathology
Professor and Director of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA
Agenda:
3 – 3:10PM: Welcome / Education Committee / Outline of Expectations
3:10 – 4:45PM: Roundtable Discussion:
I. Educational issues behind academic writing (Eble)
a. Training of young pathologists to promote good research.
b. Crafting good research questions that can be answered rigorously
c. Issues surrounding clear academic writing. How to train people to do so – comment on the current state of affairs.
d. Rejection rate ~80%: Good ideas, bad execution. More than just IHC to answer a biologic question.
e. Academic productivity versus quality.
II. Ethical considerations (Cagle)
a. Plagarism: The obvious and the subtle (referring to yourself and using your previously published material which belongs to the publisher)
b. References without reading the entire paper – abstracts versus reading paper
c. Guideline writing – how do journals deal with this potentially thorny area (i.e. who has the right to publish practice guidelines)
d. “Fake” journals and meetings: it seems we are getting a lot of e-mails asking for papers or reviews (usually online) or invitations to meetings which seem to be for the purpose of padding CV’s. Are these going to be taken seriously by PRT committes and the general community? How do young pathologists navigate this? See article for review.
Who’s Afraid of Peer Review
III. Pathology Publication: Then and Now (Mills)
a. Comments on progression of pathology (histology -> IHC -> Molecular) and how that has impacted journals and pathology papers.
b. Technical advances in publication. Electronic versions of journals.
c. Peer review issues. How the journals operate w/r to reviewers and final decision making.
4:45 – 5:00PM. Guidelines Update: Galen Cortina