J. Mark Tuthill, MD, completed pathology residency and informatics fellowship training at the University of Vermont College of Medicine-Fletcher Allen Health Care, and created the department’s division of pathology informatics. Dr. Tuthill is Division Head of Pathology Informatics at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. Areas of interest include digital pathology implementation, Internet applications for laboratory services, laboratory information systems, business analytics, electronic health records and informatics training and education. Active in organized medicine, he is Delegate, Wayne Medical Society; Co-director for the API’s Pathology Informatics Summit; and Delegate for CDC’s CLIAC committee. As a charter member of the Association for Pathology Informatics, Dr. Tuthill has worked for the API from its inception serving as president, chair of the membership committee, education committee, and the organization’s original planning group. Dr. Tuthill is the recent recipient of the API’s distinguished service award. Married over 35 years, a father of five, Mark is passionate about many things including music, nature, golf, yoga and travel. He loves to share these adventures with his family. CLOSE

Ulysses G. J. Balis, MD, Fellow AIMBE, is the A. James French Professor of Pathology Informatics at the University of Michigan, with additional roles as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer and Informatics Fellowship Program Director at Michigan Medicine. He serves as this year’s Pathology Informatics Summit conference director. Dr. Balis has longstanding interests in data analytics, natural language processing, digital image analysis, computational pathology, and AI-driven workflow. During his career, he has carried foundational roles in the creation of subspecialty boards for Clinical Informatics, circulating tumor cell microfluidics technology, and in the development of the original DICOM Visible Light (VL) Image Object Definition. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2015 for his engineering contributions to laboratory instrumentation, pathology bioinformatics, and computational imaging in histology image search and analysis algorithms. His division is currently deploying all-digital primary diagnostic workflow in support of anatomic pathology, with the development of an associated computational pathology laboratory section. CLOSE

For more than 2 decades, Lisa-Jean Clifford has been a noteworthy leader in the high-tech healthcare solutions space. Lisa-Jean’s passion for making a positive impact on the lives of patients through technology can be traced back to her tenure at McKesson and IDX, now GE Healthcare, where she served in vital business development and marketing roles, and to Psyche Systems, an LIS solution provider, where she was the CEO for eleven years. Now, recognized as an industry expert, she actively participates in numerous boards including as the President of the Association of Pathology Informatics, Diagnostic Medicine Consortium and MLO’s Editorial Advisory Board. She is widely published in many top laboratory publications and noteworthy news sources, such as Forbes, CAPToday, Medical Laboratory Observer, and Health Data Management. Also, she is a frequent speaker and focuses on delivering valuable content in critical areas such as lab automation including software and interoperability, digital pathology, AI in pathology, lab informatics, oncology, and women’s health. Lisa-Jean’s success can be attributed to her perseverance, integrity, her high-regard for ethics, and her desire to continue to learn, grow, and move technology solutions in a forward direction for healthcare. Her collaboration with industry partners, customers, colleagues, and competitors combined with her commitment to exceptional customer relationships is what distinguishes her drive to foster a win-win for the healthcare industry as a whole. CLOSE

Ronald Jackups, MD, PhD, is the Program Director for the Clinical Informatics fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine and the Chief Medical Information Officer for Laboratories at BJC Healthcare in St. Louis, MO. His clinical and research interests include the use of clinical decision support to improve the utilization of laboratory testing and blood transfusion in healthcare systems.CLOSE

Yonah Ziemba, MD, is a pathologist and clinical informaticist with subspeciality interest in analysis of real-world data (RWD). At his position in Northwell Health, he has responsibilities in the downstream propagation of Laboratory-generated data into clinical applications, and he is also responsible to design data models in EMR databases to identify patients with specified scientific or medical criteria to support research and business intelligence projects. Dr Ziemba is passionate about education in pathology informatics. He has served on the national PIER leadership committee, leads the Pathology Informatics Didactic Sessions for the residents at his institution, and is committed to inspire and mentor trainees who are interested in this discipline as a career choice.CLOSE

Dr. Srikar Chamala is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California (USC), Director of the Center for Pathology Informatics and Data Science at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), and Associate Program Director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship program at CHLA. He oversees the development, implementation, and maintenance of advanced Pathology Informatics solutions across major pathology divisions including clinical, anatomic, molecular pathology, transfusion medicine, and biorepository. Dr. Chamala's integration of sophisticated informatics practices enhance diagnostic and research methodologies, elevating healthcare delivery and scientific discovery standards. Dr. Chamala is passionate about leading institutional, national, and international initiatives, training pathologists, healthcare professionals, and researchers in pathology/clinical informatics and precision genomic medicine. His leadership has resulted in significant funding acquisition and the development of translational biomedical informatics research in AI, genomics, and clinical data interoperability standards.CLOSE