Final Program (subject to change)
145th Meeting of the Association of Clinical Scientists, Jacksonville, FL
Meeting Theme: Tomorrow’s Diagnostics and Therapeutics Today
All sessions are in the Casa Marina Hotel, unless otherwise noted
| Monday, April 1 | |
| 2:30-5:00 | Registration, Margaritaville Hotel main lobby |
| 3:00-6:00 | Executive Committee meeting, Seagrass Meeting room, Margaritaville Hotel |
Tuesday, April 2 | |
| Session A. Theme: Pathobiology of Neurological Disorders | |
| 7:00 | Registration open Continental Breakfast |
| 8:15 | Welcome Remarks: Yusheng Zhu, PhD, ACS President, and Jonathan B. Hoyne, PhD, Program Chair |
| 8:30-9:15 | Abraham J. Gitlitz Memorial Lecture: Dennis W. Dickson, MD, Mayo Clinic, Brain banking and its contribution to research on a range of brain disorders. |
| 9:15-10:00 | Tania Gendron, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Biomarkers of neurodegeneration |
| 10:00 | Refreshment break |
| 10:30-11:00 | Amitava Dasgupta, PhD, University of Kansas Medical School, Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in CSF and plasma |
| 11:00-11:30 | Melissa E. Murray, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Pathobiology of Alzheimer’s disease |
| 11:30 | Adjourn for luncheon with speaker |
| Session B | |
| 12:00-12:45 | Jorge M. Mallea, MD, Mayo Clinic, Machine perfusion: A platform for organ repair and regeneration |
| Session C Theme: Transforming Transplant | |
| 1:00-1:30 | C. Burcin Taner, MD, Mayo Clinic, Transforming transplant |
| 1:30-2:00 | Linnea M. Baudhuin, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Leveraging genomics for transplant monitoring |
| 2:00-2:30 | Rohan M. Goswami, MD, Mayo Clinic, Artificial intelligence in heart transplant |
| 2:30-3:00 | Fadi E. Salem, MD, Mayo Clinic, Transforming the future of pre-implantation kidney biopsy |
| 3:00 | Refreshment break |
| Session D Theme: Tomorrow’s Therapy Today | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Janet Denbeigh, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Carbon ion therapy |
| 4:00-4:30 | Shane A. Shapiro, MD, Mayo Clinic, Use of bone marrow aspirate concentrate in orthopedic surgeries |
| 4:30-5:00 | John Copland, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Fatty acid inhibition in cancer models and companion diagnostics |
| 5:00 | Adjournment |
| 6:00 | Welcome reception |
| 7:30 | Young Fellows Event (open to all participants, age ≤ 45, and accompanying persons). Hosted by Jessica Claus, MD, Chair Young Fellows Section, and Yusheng Zhu, PhD, ACS President |
Wednesday, April 3 | |
| Session E Theme: Research in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | |
| 8:00 | Welcome and introduction |
| 8:15-8:35 | Ravinder Singh, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone, cortisol and ACTH monitoring for various endocrine surgeries |
| 8:35-8:55 | Jane J. Hata PhD, Mayo Clinic, Artificial Intelligence in gram positive identification |
| 8:55-9:15 | Bryan Dangott, MD, Mayo Clinic, Bone marrow cellularity estimation using low code / no code AI tools |
| 9:15-9:35 | Jonathan B. Hoyne, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Nimodipine quantitation by LC-MS/MS: application to treatment after subarachnoid hemorrhage |
| 9:35-9:55 | Zeynettin Akkus, PhD, Mayo Clinic, AI-Powered digital pathology workflow |
| 9:55-10:15 | Nilufer Ertekin-Taner, MD, PhD, Genetics of Alzheimer’s disease |
| 10:15-10:35 | Sikander Ailawadhi, M.D., Mayo Clinic, Chimeric antigen receptor T-Cell therapy. |
| 10:35 | Adjourn – load bus |
| 10:55 | Bus departs for lab tours |
| 11:20-1:30 | Lab tours |
| 1:40 | Load bus for afternoon cultural tour: Castillo de San Marcos (St. Augustine) ticket required |
| 2:35 | Arrive at Castillo de San Marcos |
| 2:45-3:45 | External tour of fort (with guide) |
| 3:45-4:45 | Internal tour of fort (self-guided) |
| 5:00 | Load bus for return to hotels |
| 5:45 | Bus arrives hotels |
| 6:45 | Annual Awards Reception |
| 7:30 | Annual Awards Banquet and Presentations |
| 9:00 | Banquet address: Russell Brodie, Research Administrator I, Florida Fish & Wildlife Research Institute / Jacksonville University, How Fish are Managed in Florida – Overview of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission |
Thursday, April 4 | |
| Session F Theme: Molecular Genetics | |
| 8:15-9:00 | Young Investigator of the Year – Anthony D. Maus, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Thyroglobulin iodination mapping: a step towards the monitoring technique of the future? |
| 9:00-9:20 | Alexander C. Mackinnon, MD, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Controversies in surgical pathology: challenges correlating molecular and histological findings |
| 9:20-9:40 | Jessica Claus, MD, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Molecular profiling of ovarian high-grade serous carcinomas using protein-protein interaction networks |
| 9:40-10:00 | Shuko Harada, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Evaluation of failure rates of in-house and send-out solid tumors NGS testing |
| 10:00 | Refreshment break |
| Session G Theme: Clinical Chemistry | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Joshua Bornhorst, PhD, Mayo Clinic, The relationship between specific and component IgE antibody testing in the evaluation of allergy |
| 10:50-11:10 | Emily Ryan, PhD, Atrium Health Navicent, Macon, GA; Mercer School of Medicine, Macon, GA, Real-world assessment of mild traumatic brain injury markers |
| 11:10-11:30 | Liyun Cao, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Development of new valproic acid estimating equations for patients with hypoalbuminemia |
| 11:30-11:50 | Magali Fontaine, MD, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Transfusion related immunomodulation |
| 11:50 | Adjournment for lunch and ACS Business meeting (all participants invited, regardless of Association membership status) |
| 12:00 | Annual Business Meeting |
| 1:20 | Adjournment |
| Session H Theme: Anatomic Pathology | |
| 1:30-1:50 | Rita Hayes, MD, Rhode Island Office of State Medical Examiners, Fibrosis of the intestines in response to foreign objects |
| 1:50-2:10 | M John Hicks, MD, DDS, MS, PhD, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) transformation from giant cell fibroblastoma (GCF) |
| 2:10-2:30 | Falone Amoa MD, MS, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Case Report: Unusual manifestation of BAP1-tumor predisposition syndrome |
| 2:30-2:50 | George G Chen, MD, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Metformin promotes macrophage polarization towards M1 phenotype in anaplastic thyroid cancer cells |
| 2:50-3:10 | Miguel Carabano, MD, Brown University, An undescribed pathologic finding and immunohistochemical profile in the first-trimester twin placenta, excessive primitive erythroid cells cellular senescence as a mechanism of treatment resistance in prostate cancer |
| 3:10-3:30 | Bushra Al-Tarawneh, MD, Brown University, An undescribed pathologic finding and immunohistochemical profile in the first-trimester twin placenta, excessive primitive erythroid cells |
| 3:30 | Refreshment break |
| Session I Theme: Clinical Science in Practice | |
| 3:50-4:10 | Faisal Bukeirat, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, The safety and efficacy of endoscopic ultrasound-guided portal pressure gradient measurement: A systematic review and meta-analysis |
| 4:10-4:30 | Mustafa Barbhuiya, PhD, UMass Chan Medical Center- Baystate Medical Center, Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) testing, method selections and dilemma of confirmatory testing |
| 4:30-4:50 | Benjamin Andress, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Clinical utility of pancreatic cyst fluid glucose for identification of mucinous cysts |
| 4:50-5:10 | Hunter Miller, PhD, University of Louisville, Implementation of machine learning and artificial intelligence models in laboratory medicine |
| 5:10 | Session adjourns |
| 7:30 | Musicale and Art Show, with light hors d'oeuvres |