2025 DAPA Grand Rounds

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Non-Member Rate: $100 (Individual membership is $100 & FREE for trainees!)

Join Dr. Jaffer as she presents the upcoming DAPA Grand Rounds entitled "The destiny of HER2Neu ("Low") in the age of digital pathology". 

In this session, we will discuss how to define the new entity of HER2 low in breast cancers, its clinical relevance in the present and future and review ASCO/CAP 2023 guidelines for HER2 interpretation and best practice update.

Presenter:

Shabnam Jaffer, M.D.

Chair, Department of Pathology,

Professor, Hofstra Zucker School of Medicine 

Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital

Dr. Shabnam Jaffer is an anatomic pathologist who subspecializes in breast pathology in New York, NY and has over 31 years of experience in the medical field.   

Dr. Jaffer is the chair of pathology and laboratory medicine at Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital.                                      

Dr. Jaffer came to Lenox Hill Hospital after more than two decades at Mount Sinai Medical Center where her clinical and educational focuses were breast pathology and cytopathology.  She has numerous publications and few textbooks in these fields, has served on various abstract review committees and taught courses in breast pathology at USCAP. She is currently Breast Section Editor for the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Her titles have included director of autopsy, director of intraoperative consultation and more recently director of breast pathology.

In addition, she was the director of pathology education at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedicine at the City University of New York from 2000 to 2013. 

Dr. Jaffer has served as a consultant pathologist at several prominent establishments, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Astra-Zeneca Daiichi Sankyo, Komen Foundation for the Cure and the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.

She has been on the education committee of numerous illustrious societies, such as:

The New York Pathology Society, American Society of Breast Diseases and National Consortium of Breast Centers

She was also elected officer-at-large by the International Society of Breast Pathology and is currently the Treasurer.

Dr. Jaffer received her medical degree from the Sophie Davis Biomedicine Program at City University of New York School of Medicine in 1992.

Moderator:

Rajendra Singh, MD

Summit Health

ABOUT DAPA GRAND ROUNDS

This year, the Digital Pathology Association (DPA) will host DAPA Grand Rounds every month where expert pathologists from around the world will showcase a virtual multihead scope teaching session. DAPA, which stands for Digital Anatomic Pathology Academy, is the brainchild of Dr. Bui and Dr. Singh purpose-built to democratize access to the high quality real world pathology cases and make them easily accessible to everyone around the globe. DPA has proudly sponsored the platform and any member of the DPA has free access to DAPA resources. The cherry on top is membership to DPA is free for any trainee anywhere in the world. Once they become members of the DPA, they have access to all the wonderful resources provided by the DPA, which include the DAPA platform. 

So what are you waiting for? If you are a trainee, resident, fellow, or medical student then you can become a member of the DPA for free. Learn from the world’s best pathologists from the comfort of your own homes and departments!