Monday, May 18, 2026, Pre-Conference Workshops
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| 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
Great Northern
| 1:00 - 1:50 PM | Vendor 1 |
| 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
| 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 |
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Track 3 |
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| 9:10 - 9:45 AM |
Laboratory Information Systems: Are They Commodities? -What's Important in Selection Now? |
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 |
| 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 |
A Survey and Assessment of Databases for Usage in Writing Clinical Reports for Next Generation Sequencing Assays |
Verification And Monitoring of Machine Learning Models in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| 10:30 - 11:25 AM | Break, Browse Exhibits, and Poster Session |
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| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | TBD | |
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Afternoon Track Lectures
| Track 1 Quality, Validation, and Operational Excellence Rooms: Great Northern Moderator: TBD |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 3:05 - 3:45 PM | Break, Browse Exhibits, and Poster Session | ||
| 3:45 - 4:15 PM | TOWN HALL Great Northern |
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4:15 - 5:30 PM |
API President's Address, Awards, and Sponsor Talks Great Northern |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 AM | Breakfast in the Conservatory |
| 9:00 - 10:20 AM |
TBD |
| 10:20 - 10:30 AM | STANDING BREAK |
| 10:30 - 11:50 AM |
TBD |
| 11:50 - 12:00 PM | Closing remarks and adjournment J. Mark Tuthill & Ulysses Balis |