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Monday, May 18
Tuesday, May 19
Wednesday, May 20
Thursday, May 21

Sunday, May 17, 2026, "Trainee Welcome"

The ’Trainee Welcome’ is a pre-API Summit Conference event that welcomes trainees and early-career professionals to learn more about pathology informatics and career pathways. Dr. Michelle Stoffel will present an introduction and overview of the subspecialty, followed by brief fellowship program introductions and informal networking. Trainees will have the opportunity to meet other trainees and early-career individuals, as well as fellowship program directors with deep experience in the field. 
Light refreshments will be provided.
Register for free on the API Summit Registration Form 

Room: Southern Pacific

4:30 - 5:30 PM             Navigating Pathology Informatics from Training to Early Career - Dr. Michelle Stoffel, MD, PhD
Audience: Trainees and early career professionals interested in learning about pathology informatics and career development
5:30 - 6:30 PM             Fellowship Program Introductions and Networking  
(non-alcoholic refreshments and bites)
Audience: Trainees, early career professionals, fellowship directors, and mentors

 

Monday, May 18, 2026, Pre-Conference Workshops

8:00 - 5:00 PM Registration - Pavilion Foyer
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast - Exhibitor Ballroom (Depot Pavilion)

 
PI Bootcamp Workshop
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Room: Great Northern

From AI Curiosity to Clinical Deployment: A Practical Bootcamp for Pathologists
Bootcamp for Pathology Trainees, Practitioners, and Researchers

This full-day, hands-on bootcamp guides pathologists from initial interest in artificial intelligence to practical clinical deployment. Participants will build a clear foundation in AI concepts, data types, models, and large language models, then explore real-world implementation issues, including governance, validation, return on investment, and communication with institutional stakeholders. Through multiple pathology-specific use cases, attendees will see how AI can be applied to clinical notes, workflows, and diagnostic practice, gaining concrete examples they can adapt to their own institutions. Designed for trainees, practicing pathologists, and researchers alike, the program emphasizes practical decision-making, common pitfalls, and actionable next steps so participants leave prepared to evaluate, implement, and responsibly scale AI solutions in pathology. 

9:00 - 9:10 AM Welcome & Bootcamp Overview 
Yonah Ziemba, MD & Srikar Chamala, MD
9:10 - 9:55 AM AI Fundamentals in Healthcare & Pathology (Part 1): Core Concepts & Terminology - Speaker TBD
9:55 - 10:45 AM AI Fundamentals in Healthcare & Pathology (Part 2): Models, Data, and LLMs - Speaker TBD
10:45 - 11:00 AM Refreshment Break
11:00 - 11:50 AM AI Implementation in Pathology: Strategy, Governance & ROI Communication - Speaker TBD
11:50 - 12:40 PM AI Validation Frameworks: Internal Development vs. Commercial Off-the-Shelf Solutions - Speaker TBD
12:40 - 1:15 PM Lunch
1:15 - 2:05 PM Pathology AI Use Case 1 - Speaker TBD
2:05 - 2:55 PM Pathology AI Use Case 2 - Speaker TBD
2:55 - 3:15 PM Refreshment Break
3:15 - 4:05 PM Pathology AI Use Case 3 - Speaker TBD
4:05 - 4:50 PM Pathology AI Use Case 4  - Speaker TBD
4:50 - 5:00 PM        Key Takeaways & Closing Remarks - 
Yonah Ziemba, MD & Srikar Chamala, MD



HIMA Imaging Science
Room: Southern Pacific
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Metin Gurcan, PhD


9:00 - 9:05 AM           Introduction - Metin Gurcan, PhD
9:05 - 9:55 AM From Promise to Practice: Preparing Histopathology for the Foundation-Model Era 
Heather D. Couture, PhD
9:55 - 10:45 AM LymphoVision, BloodBytes and Beyond: Foundation Models for Precision Medicine in Blood Cancers
Jansen Seheult, MD
10:45 - 11:00 AM Refreshment Break
11:00 - 11:50 AM Agentic AI Framework for Comprehensive Medical Imaging Interpretation Enabling Laboratory Intelligence
Zhi Huang, PhD
11:50 - 12:40 PM Reconstruct, Generate, Understand: Role of Generative and Interpretable AI in Computational Pathology
Prateek Prasanna, PhD
12:40 - 1:15 PM Lunch
1:15 - 2:05 PM HIMA/API Best Dissertation Award Winner: Knowledge-infused Efficient Learning for Computational Pathology
Ruining Deng, PhD
2:05 - 2:55 PM Developing End-to-End AI Systems for Diagnostic Hematology and Pathology
Gregory M. Goldgof, MD, PhD
2:55 - 3:15 PM Refreshment Break - Conservatory
3:15 - 4:05 PM Multimodal Large Language Models and AI Agents for Pathology
Drew Williamson, MD
4:05 - 5:00 PM  Panel Discussion

 

Vendor Showcase Sessions
Room: Zephyr

1:00 - 1:50 PM Mopec
2:00 - 2:50 PM Vendor 2
2:50 - 3:15 PM Refreshment Break
3:15 - 4:05 PM Vendor 3
7:30 - 8:30 PM  Vendor 4


Monday Evening, May 18, 2026
Companion Society Sessions
Great Northern

5:10 - 6:10 PM Digital Pathology Association (DPA)
6:10 - 6:20 PM Stand-up Break
6:20 - 7:20 PM College of American Pathologists (CAP)
7:20 - 7:30 PM Stand-up Break
7:30 - 8:30 PM  TBD

  

 

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 

8:00 - 5:00 PM Registration - Pavilion Foyer
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast - Exhibitor Ballroom (Depot Pavilion)

 
Breakfast Exhibitor Talk

8:00 - 8:20 AM AstraZeneca - Details TBD - Zephyr                                                                

 

Morning Track Lectures

  Track 1 
Digital Pathology Platforms and IMS Selection
Room: Great Northern
Moderator: TBD

Track 2 
Molecular Diagnostics and Precision Medicine Informatics
Room: Zephyr
Moderator: TBD

Track 3
AI Model Development, Training, and Monitoring
Room: Southern Pacific
Moderator: TBD
9:10 - 9:45 AM

Laboratory Information Systems: Are They Commodities? -What's Important in Selection Now?

Dennis Winsten

 Integrating Molecular Diagnostic Testing in Support of Precision Medicine: Pipeline Automation

J. Mark Tuthill, MD

AI Label Feedback Loops in Clinical Practice: How AI Influences Labels Complicate Model Retraining

Patrick Day
9:45 - 9:55 AM Ten-minute break to switch lectures
9:55- 10:30 AM

Choosing the Right IMS: Comparing Solutions, Powering AI, Collaboration, and the Future of Pathology
 
Lisa-Jean Clifford

A Survey and Assessment of Databases for Usage in Writing Clinical Reports for Next Generation Sequencing Assays

Jacob Abel, MD

Verification And Monitoring of Machine Learning Models in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

James Harrison, MD, PhD
10:30 - 11:25 AM Break, Browse Exhibits, and Poster Session
  
11:25 - 12:00 PM From “Image Management” to Workflow Orchestration: the WSI Stack as a State Machine

Peter Gershkovich, MD, MHA 		An Approach to Interoperability Across Pathology Reporting from Multiple Institutions
Mary Edgerton, MD

 Agentic AI Coding to Bridge the Pathology Informatics Expertise Gap

Dibson Dibe Gondim, MD
12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch - Exhibitor Ballroom (Depot Pavilion)  
12:00 - 12:55 PM MENTORING ROUND TABLE SESSION
Room: Conservatory


Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Afternoon Session

Plenary Sessions
Moderator: J. Mark Tuthill

Room: Great Northern

1:00 - 1:05 PM Opening Welcome to PI Summit 2026
J. Mark Tuthill & Ul Balis
1:05 - 1:40 PM John Campbell - title TBA
1:40 - 2:15 PM Michael Laposata, MD - title TBA
2:15 - 2:50 PM Speaker TBD
2:50 - 3:30 PM Break/Browse Exhibits and Poster Sessions
3:30 - 4:05 PM Diamond Exhibitor Presentation - Roche
4:05 - 4:10 PM 5-Minute Stand-Up Break
4:10 - 4:40 PM

Diamond Exhibitor Presentation
4:40 - 4:45 PM 5-Minute Stand-Up Break
4:45 - 5:15 PM

 Diamond Exhibitor Presentation
5:15 - 6:45 PM President’s Welcome Reception, full dinner and cocktails – Exhibitor Ballroom (Depot Pavilion) 
6:45 - 7:30 PM Trivia with API Past President Ronald Jackups - Exhibitor Ballroom (Depot Pavilion)
7:30 - 8:15 PM Live Music - Exhibitor Ballroom (Depot Pavilion) 
8:15 - 9:30 PM Women’s Networking Event – Luceline Empire Builder 


Wednesday, May 20, 2026

7:00 - 5:00 PM Registration - Pavilion Foyer
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast - Exhibitor Ballroom (Depot Pavilion)

 

Short Abstract Presentations

*Running concurrently
8:00 - 9:00 AM Moderator: TBD
Rooms: Great Northern		 Moderator: TBD
Room: Zephyr		 Moderator: TBD
Rooms: Southern Pacific


Morning Track Lectures

  Track 1:
AI in Digital Pathology: From Concept to Clinical Use
Rooms: Great Northern
Moderator: TBD

Track 2:
LIS, Standards, and Enterprise Informatics 
Room: Zephyr
Moderator: TBD

Track 3:
Applied AI and Advanced Analytics in Diagnostics
Rooms: Southern Pacific
Moderator: TDB
9:10 - 9:45 AM AI-Enabled Digital Pathology for Primary Diagnosis: A Practical Roadmap from Selection to ROI

Renuka Kulkarni, MD
 Enhancing Laboratory Informatics: Result Naming Standards and Flagging in LIS Conversion

Darci Block, MD, PhD		 Automated Machine Learning Facilitates Accurate Stratification of Lymph Node Metastasis in Prostate Cancer

Mohammad Alexanderani, MD
9:45 - 9:55 AM Ten-minute break to switch lectures
9:55 - 10:30 AM Integration of Digital Pathology and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics: Emerging Applications and Challenges

Anil Parwani, MD, Phd, MBA
 The Critical Role of an Internal Concept Library for Scalable Pathology Data Management

Rajendra Singh, MD		 FLOWDx: An Interpretable Machine Learning Framework for Automated Hematologic Cancer Classification

Jinchun Zhang
10:30 - 11:25 AM Break, Browse Exhibits, and Poster Session
  
11:25 - 12:00 PM From Concept to Clinical Impact: Creating Real-World Software That Advances Pathology Practice

Emily Smith
 So you have a job in Clinical Informatics - What now? Working with hospital and Lab Information Technology

Samuel Barasch, MD
 Digital Pathology Based on a Natively Deidentified Data Strategy to Simultaneously Support Clinical Signout and Research

Mark Zarella, PhD
12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch Exhibitor Hall
12:00 - 1:00 PM Travel Awardee Luncheon Conservatory

 

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Afternoon Track Lectures

  Track 1 
Quality, Validation, and Operational Excellence
Rooms: Great Northern
Moderator:  TBD

Track 2
Informatics Strategy, Value, and Decision Support
Room: Zephyr
Moderator: TBD

Track 3:
BECICH-FRIEDMAN DISTINGUISHED PRESENTATIONS
Room: Southern Pacific
Moderator: TBD
1:00 - 1:35 PM Total Quality Management in Digital Pathology: A Six‑Level Workflow for Reproducibility, Validation, and Continuous Improvement
Omar Baba, MD		 Clinical Decision Support for Stewardship of Daily Orders: Why Do Some Strategies Work and Others Fail?
Ronald Jackups, MD, PhD

Leveraging Large Language Models for Structured Lesion-Level Integration of Breast Imaging and Pathology Reports
Eric Steimetz, MD
1:35 - 1:45 PM Ten-minute break to switch lectures
1:45 - 2:20 PM Optimization of Large-Scale Digital Scanning Operations
Orly Ardon, PhD

 From Data to Decisions: Demonstrating Departmental Impact with Pathology Informatics
Yonah Ziemba, MD		 AI-Based Tumor Microenvironment Profiling from H&E Whole-Slide Images Reveals Cancer-Type–Specific Prognostic Patterns in Prostate and Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer
Meghdad Sabouri Rad
2:20 - 2:30 PM Ten-minute break to switch lectures
2:30 - 3:05 PM Digital Pathology Architectures in the Age of Cloud Computing

Ryan Landvater, MD
 15 Years in Retrospect: Deploying and Operating a Computational Pathology Lab Section and Associated Analytics Tools at the University of Michigan

Ulysses Balis, MD

Looking Forward from the Archive: Using Genosure Archive Results to Validate a Large Language Model Feature Extraction Pipeline for Processing Pdf Lab Reports

Kate Crawford, MD, PhD
3:05 - 3:45 PM Break, Browse Exhibits, and Poster Session 
3:45 - 4:15 PM TOWN HALL
Great Northern

4:15 - 5:30 PM

 API President's Address, Awards, and Sponsor Talks 
Great Northern
   


Thursday, May 21, 2026

Integrating Genomics into Clinical Care: Health Systems and Industry Perspectives 
Room: Great Northern
Moderator: J. Mark Tuthill  

8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast in the Conservatory
9:00 - 9:05 AM

Introduction
J. Mark Tuthill, MD
 

From Vision to Value: Evolving Hospital-Based NGS at Henry Ford Health
Dhananjay Chitale, MD
 

Integrating Molecular Testing into Electronic Medical Record Systems - (formal title TBD)
Alexis Carter, MD
10:20 - 10:30 AM STANDING BREAK
 

Automating the NGS Analysis Pipeline for Orders, Data Analysis, and Structured Results
Sophia Genetics
 

Panel Discussion
11:50 - 12:00 PM Closing remarks and adjournment
J. Mark Tuthill & Ulysses Balis