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Pathology Informatics Summit 2019
May 5-9, 2019: Wyndham Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
Sunday, May 5, 2019
| 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Joint meeting of API, CAP and the American College of Radiology View Agenda | Presenters from API/CAP/ACR Ballroom 3 |
Monday, May 6, 2019
Foundational Topics in Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Informatics
Workshop Coordinators: Kinjal Shah and Toby Cornish
Kings Garden 1
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | BREAKFAST | BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 8:00 am - 8:10 am | Introduction to Morning Sessions | Toby Cornish, MD, PhD |
| 8:10 am - 9:00 am | Buy, Build or Borrow? Filling Functional Gaps in your LIS | Toby Cornish, MD, PhD |
| 9:00 am - 9:50 am | "No, we can't do that": How to Navigate Informatics Hurdles from a Private Practice Perspective | Chandra Krishnan, MD |
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | REFRESHMENT BREAK | BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 10:10 am - 11:00 am | CDS Applications Leveraging Machine Learning and Other Emerging Techniques | Jason Baron, MD |
| 11:00 am - 11:50 am | Regulatory Considerations for Algorithmic Clinical Decision Support Tools | Thomas Gniadek, MD, PhD |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Q&A | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | LUNCH | BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 1:00 pm - 1:10 pm | Introduction to the Afternoon Sessions | Kinjal Shah, MD |
| 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm | Leveraging the EHR for Clinical Outcomes Management | Kinjal Shah, MD |
| 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm | Reverse Federation: Boldly Going Where No Interface Has Gone Before | Keluo Yao, MD |
| 2:50 pm - 3:10 pm | REFRESHMENT BREAK | BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 3:10 pm - 4:00 pm | Data Lakes, Warehouses and Marts, Oh My! | Chris Williams, MD |
| 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm | Laboratory Analytics: Build vs Buy | Bryan Dangott, MD |
| 4:50 pm - 5:00 pm | Q&A |
HIMA Imaging Science
Monday, May 6 All Day
Workshop Coordinator: Metin Gurcan
Kings Garden 2
The HIMA Imaging Science program is independent and not part of the official Pathology Informatics Summit 2019 accredited continuing medical education (CME) program. This program does not qualify for CME credits.
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | BREAKFAST | BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 8:00 am - 8:05 am | Introduction to HIMA | Metin Gurcan, PhD - Moderator |
| 8:05 am - 8:55 am | Exploring the Future of Digital Pathology in Immuno-Oncology and Companion Diagnostics | George Lee, PhD |
| 8:55 am - 9:50 am | Opportunities for Standardization and Collaboration in Developing Histopathology Image Analysis Algorithms | Steven Hart, PhD |
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | REFRESHMENT BREAK | Ballroom Lobby - 2nd floor |
| 10:10 am - 11:05 am | Breaking the Barriers of Conventional Optics: Computational Photography in the Clinical Workflow | Itai Hayut, PhD |
| 11:05 am - 12:00 pm | AI and Pathology in Training: Building and Explaining Algorithms to Medical Students | Scott Doyle, PhD |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | LUNCH | Ballroom Lobby - 2nd floor |
| 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm | Digital Pathology & Artificial Intelligence, the Third Revolution in Pathology | Manuel Salto-Tellez, MD |
| 1:55 pm - 2:50 pm | KiNet: Single-stage Nuclear Recognition and Classification for Measuring Ki-67 Proliferation Index (PI) in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors | Toby Cornish, MD, PhD |
| 2:50 pm - 3:10 pm | REFRESHMENT BREAK | Ballroom Lobby - 2nd floor |
| 3:10 pm - 4:05 pm | Models for Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Pathology Practice | Douglas Hartman, MD |
| 4:05 pm - 5:00 pm | Panel Discussion |
R Language Primer and Programming Symposium on Data Sciences*
*Pre-registration REQUIRED and limited to 30 people.
Fees: $50 Medical Students, Residents, Fellows | $200 with PI Summit registration
$300 without PI Summit registration
$300 without PI Summit registration
API Workshop Sponsor: Mike Feldman, MD, PhD
Workshop Coordinator: Amrom Obstfeld, MD, PhD
Brigade Room
Course Instructors
Daniel Herman, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Stephan Kadauke, MD, PhD, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Patrick Matthias, MD, PhD, University of Washington
Amrom Obstfeld, MD, PhD, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Joseph Rudolf, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | BREAKFAST - BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 8:00 am - 8:10 am | Instructor Instructions |
| 8:10 am - 9:50 am | Introduction to R and RStudio for Reproducible Reporting |
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | REFRESHMENT BREAK - BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 10:10 am - 11:50 am | Data Wrangling |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | LUNCH - BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 1:00 pm - 2:50 pm | Data Understanding |
| 2:50 pm - 3:10 pm | REFRESHMENT BREAK - BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm | Exploratory Data Analysis |
Digital Pathology Association Companion Meeting
Hot Topics in Digital Pathology
Monday, May 6 Early Evening Session
Kings Garden 2/3
Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, MBA
| 5:00 pm - 5:10 pm | Introduction/Opening Remarks | Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, MBA |
| 5:10 pm - 5:30 pm | Primary Diagnosis using Digital Patholoy: Current and Future Directions | Douglas Hartman, MD |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Implementation of Digital Pathology (DP) Offers Clinical and Operational Increase in Efficiency and Cost Savings | Joseph Sirintrapun, MD |
| 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Beyond the H&E slide: The Power of Algorithms and Image Quantitation | Mike Feldman, MD |
| 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm | "Whose Tissue is it Anyways?": Using Digital Pathology Slides for AI Research: A Panel Disussion on the Regulatory and Ethical Issues | Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, MBA |
| 7:00 pm | Concluding Remarks/Wrap up | Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, MBA |
Monday Night Dinner on Your Own
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | BREAKFAST | EXHIBITOR BALLROOM |
Tuesday Morning Short Abstract Presentations
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Short Abstract Lectures Moderator: Monica de Baca | Short Abstract Lectures Moderator: Kinjal Shah | Short Abstract Lectures Moderator: Veronica Klepeis | Short Abstract Lectures Moderator: Chris Williams |
API Vendor Partnership Sessions
The API Vendor Partnership sessions are not part of the Pathology Informatics Summit 2019 accredited continuing medical education (CME) program. These sessions do not quality for CME credits
Applied Machine Learning Track 1 Kings Garden 2 Moderator: Thomas Gniadek | Applied Informatics Track 2 Grand Ballroom Moderator: Rajesh Dash | Selected Platform Lectures Track 3 Kings Garden 1 Moderator: Michael Feldman | |
9:00 am - 9:35 am | Machine Learning Fundamentals Dave McClintock, MD | Laboratory Medicine Clinical Consult Service and How it is Embedded in the EMR Jordan Olson, MD | An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Variant Calling of ALK Resistance Mutations in Clinical NGS Data Jochen Lennerz, MD, PhD |
| 9:35 am - 9:45 am | TEN MINUTE BREAK TO SWITCH LECTURES | ||
9:45 am - 10:20 am | General Approaches of Histopathological Image Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks Jerome Cheng, MD | Leveraging the EHR to Improve Transfusion Practice and Utilization Kinjal Shah, MD | Visual Risk Pattern Recognition Informatics Expedites Rapid Triage of High Risk Complex Patients Vulnerable to Diagnostic Adverse Events Eleanor Travers, MD, MHA, FASCP |
| 10:20 am - 11:20 am | REFRESHMENT BREAK, BROWSE EXHIBITS AND POSTER SESSIONS | ||
| 11:20 am - 12:00 pm | Using Lab Data to Predict Clinical Outcomes Phil Chen, MD | Diagnostic Errors, Health Information Technology, and Payment Reform: The Perfect Storm James Sorace, MD, MS | Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Remove Unwanted Pen Marks from Scanned Histology Slides Images Cleopatra Kozlowski |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | LUNCH BREAK - EXHIBITOR BALLROOM | ||
Tuesday Noon Round Table Career Mentoring Session
Kings Terrace Room
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Bring your lunch from the buffet | Pathology Informatics: The Journey "Master Class in Career Development for Aspiring Pathology Informaticists" Mentor Panelists: Drs. Bruce Friedman, J. Mark Tuthill, Ulysses Balis, Anil Parwani, Edward Klatt, Monica de Baca, Mary Edgerton, S. Joseph Sirintrapun |
Tuesday Afternoon Plenary Lectures
Timely Topics:
Update on Digital Pathology, Advanced Microscopic Imaging,
Machine Learning, & Interoperability
Grand Ballroom 1
| 1:00 pm - 1:05 pm | Opening Welcome to PI Summit 2019 | Ulysses G. J. Balis, MD and J. Mark Tuthill, MD |
| 1:05 pm - 1:35 pm | Day One Keynote Presentation Al and Computational Pathology: Opportunities and Challenges in Precision Medicine | Anant Madabhushi, PhD |
| 1:35 pm - 2:05 pm | Using Computational Methods to Improve Algorithms and Workflow in the Pathology Laboratory | Mary Edgerton, MD |
| 2:05 pm - 2:35 pm | Nondestructive Anatomic 3D Pathology with Open-Top Light-Sheet Microscopy for Precision Medicine | Jonathan T. C. Liu, PhD |
| 2:35 pm - 3:05 pm | Predicting intraoperative diagnosis of brain tumors using AI and Stimulating Raman Histology (SRH) | Sandra Camelo-Piragua, MD |
| 3.05 pm - 3:35 pm | Leveraging SNOMED-CT for the Generation of Truly Interoperable & Machine Readable Laboratory Reporting | Scott Campbell, MD |
| 3:35 pm - 4:00 pm | REFRESHMENT BREAK, BROWSE EXHIBITS AND POSTER SESSIONS | EXHIBITOR BALLROOM |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Renaming Lab tests for Better Understanding and Utilization | Ila Singh, MD, PhD |
| 4:30 pm - 5:20 pm | The First Fifty Years of Pathology Informatics in Review | Michael Becich, MD, PhD Sidney Goldblatt, MD |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Opening Night Reception with food and drinks Live Music provided by the Pathologist-Based Band: Lost in Processing | EXHIBITOR BALLROOM |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Women in Pathology Informatics Networking Event | Skylounge (24th Floor), Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown |
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Wednesday Morning Short Abstract Presentations
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | BREAKFAST | EXHIBITOR BALLROOM |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Short Abstract Lectures Moderator: David McClintock | Short Abstract Lectures Moderator: John Blau | Short Abstract Lectures Moderator: S. Joseph Sirintrapun | Short Abstract Lectures Moderator: Toby Cornish |
Wednesday Morning Track Presentations
Applied Informatics - LIS Topics Track 1 Kings Garden 2/3 Moderator: David McClintock | Applied Informatics- New Technologies and Techniques Track 2 Grand Ballroom Moderator: Monica de Baca | Selected Platform Lectures Track 3 Kings Garden 1 Moderator: Bryan Dangott | |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Sustainable LIS Augmentation Strategies as Made Possible by Use of Microservices Architecture Chris Williams, MD | Tools for the Development of CAP Electronic Cancer Checklists Veronica Klepeis, MD, PhD Varsha Parekh, BSc, Engineering, PMP | A Modern Approach to Specimen Tracking in a Geographically Distributed Department Josh Jacques |
| 9:35 am - 9:45 am | BREAK TO SWITCH LECTURES | ||
| 9:45 am - 10:20 am | Surviving and Thriving after a Lab-Wide Epic Deployment John Blau, MD | 2019 CAP eCC Migration to SDC Ross Simpson, MD | A Collaborative Project to Produce Regulatory-Grade Pathologist Annotations to Validate Viewers and Algorithms Brandon Gallas, PhD |
| 10:20 am - 11:20 am | SNACK BREAK, BROWSE EXHIBITS AND POSTER SESSIONS | ||
| 11:20am 12:00pm | LIS Implications and Considerations in a Hospital to Hospital Integration J. Mark Tuthill, MD | AJCC Staging Calculator (working with AJCC, CDC) Mary Edgerton, MD, PhD Richard Moldwin, MD, PhD | Revisiting Whole-Slide Imaging in The Context of Big Data: Strategies for Data Archival and Retention Mark Zarella, PhD |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | LUNCH BREAK - FOOD SERVED IN EXHIBITOR BALLROOM | ||
Wednesday Afternoon Plenary Presentations
Pathology Informatics' Intersection with Precision Medicine:
Present and Future State
Moderators: Ulysses G. J. Balis, MD and J. Mark Tuthill, MD
Grand Ballroom 1
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Day Two Keynote Presentation Building the Pathology Informatics Workforce of the Future | Melissa Upton, MD ASCP President |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Pathology Imaging and Informatics as the Cornerstone of Precision Medicine: Two years of Experience with the NIDDK Kidney Precision Medicine Project | Jeff, Hodgin, MD, PhD |
| 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Town Hall Key topics: Ethics of Data Sharing, WSI Device Certification, Job Pool, Informatics Training in 2019, Migration of LIS Computational Solutions to Single Vendor Solutions and the Cloud | Bob McGonnagle - Publisher of CAP Today |
| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | BREAK, BROWSE EXHIBITS AND POSTER SESSIONS | |
| 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Association for Pathology Informatics Block Presidential Address - Current Topics in API Update and Discussion about Journal of Pathology Informatics and Clinical Informatics Fellowship Training | Monica de Baca, MD Liron Pantanowitz, MD Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, MBA |
Conference Adjournment for Wednesday
Dinner on Your Own
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday Plenary Lectures
Contemporary Regulatory, Ethical and Developmental Topics
in Pathology Informatics
Moderator: Ulysses G. J. Balis, MD
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | BREAKFAST | BALLROOM LOBBY - 2ND FLOOR |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Digital Pathology - Regulatory Considerations | Cheng Cui, PhD, RAC |
| 9:40 am - 11:00 am | The Ethics of Data Sharing, Academic-Commerical Partnerships and Patient Consent for the Performing of Advanced Computational Analyses | Moderator: David McClintock, MD Panelists: Thomas Fuchs, Mary Edgerton, Anil Parwani, Mark Lloyd, John Gilbertson, Enrique Terrazas |
| 11:00 am - 11:05 am | STAND UP BREAK | |
| 11:05 am -11:45 am | How Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) will Accelerate the Adoption of Machine Learning into Pathology Practice | Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD Jeffrey Fine, MD |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Wrap-up Discussion and Meeting Summary | Ulysses G. J. Balis, MD J. Mark Tuthill, MD |