Program

Theme: Advances in Understanding of Brain Disorders I: Neoplasia

Claude P. Brown Memorial Lecture
Daniel J. Brat
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
A Contemporary View of Diffuse Gliomas: Two Decades of Data-Driven Evolution

Craig M. Horbinski
Mayo Clinic
Localized Chemotherapy Against Aggressive Meningiomas

Miriam A. Bornhorst
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Beyond Point Mutations: Harnessing Structural Variant Detection for Improved Pediatric Brain Tumor Characterization

Lawrence J. Jennings & Lucas Santana dos Santos
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
The Next Generation of DNA Methylation Classification

Nitin R. Wadhwani
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Managing Newly Diagnosed CNS Tumors When Systems Go Offline

Luncheon Seminar
Adam Goodman
Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering
Adaptive Leadership

Theme: Advances in Digital Pathology & Clinical Laboratory Informatics

Jeffery A. Goldstein
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Implementation of Digital Pathology in the Clinical Lab: Experiences of an Academic Health System

Lee A. Cooper
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
The current state of artificial intelligence in pathology

Shannon Haymond
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Practical applications of AI in pediatric lab medicine

Steven M. LoBue
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Informatics Perspectives on Interfacing Clinical Laboratory and Ambulatory Medicine

Theme: Advances in Understanding of Brain Disorders II: Neurodegeneration

Program hosted by Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Robert J. Vassar
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern’s Mesulam Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease

Tamar D. Gefen
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
An Introduction of Clinicopathologic Heterogeneity in Neurodegenerative Dementias

Rudolph J. Castellani
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Neuropathological phenotyping of major neurocognitive disorders and the aging process

David M. Gate
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Mechanisms of amyloid clearance in immunized Alzheimer’s disease patients

Stephanie Cologna
University of Illinois Chicago College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
From discovery to translation: mass spectrometry-based proteomics in Niemann-Pick type C

Laboratory Tour of Northwestern Memorial Hospital Clinical Laboratories

Cultural Tour in Chicago, IL