Schedule at a Glance

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Sunday, November 3

8:00 AM–4:00 PM

   

 

Exhibitor Registration + Installation (Regency Foyer)  

 

10:00 AM–7:00 PM

 

   

Attendee Registration (Regency Foyer)  

 

11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

 

   

Preconference Workshops + Companion Meetings

5:00–7:00 PM

   

Opening Reception (Expo Hall)  

 

Monday, November 4

 

7:00 AM–7:00 PM

 

 

 

 

Conference Registration (Regency Foyer)  

 

7:30–8:30 AM

 

 

 

Breakfast Workshop: Sponsored by Epredia

 

8:30–9:00 AM

 

 

 

Refreshment Break & Visit with Exhibitors (Expo Hall)  

 

9:00–9:30 AM

 

 

 

Welcome + Opening Remarks | Michael Quick, DPA President 

 

9:30–10:00 AM

 

 

 

DPA 2030: Looking Ahead

 

10:00–11:00AM

 

 

 

 

 

AI in digital pathology: Closing the gap between the research lab and the clinic
Anne L. Martel, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute; Tory Family Chair in Oncology

 

11:00–11:45 AM

 

 

 

Global Allied Society Panel

 

11:45 AM–12:45 PM

 

 

 

Lunch & Visit with Exhibitors (Expo Hall)  

 

 

 

 

TRACK 1 TRACK 2

 

12:45 – 1:05 PM

 

   
Going Digital - Roadmap for Implementation | Bryan Dangott, MD, Mayo Clinic   Moving beyond data bias: Integrating AI ethics in computational pathology for improved patient care | Chhavi Chauhan, PhD, ASIP; Chris Garcia, MD, MS, Mayo Clinic

 

1:10 – 1:30 PM

   
Digital Pathology Implementation in A multi-site Academic Hospital Reflections and Lessons Learned | George M. Yousef, MD PhD FRCPC MSc, University Health Network   Foundation Models: A Deep Dive into Their Applications in Pathology | Kingsley Ebare, Mayo Clinic

1:35 – 1:55 PM

   
Quality Processes in Clinical Digital Pathology Operations at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Orly Ardon, PhD, MBA, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center   Generative AI in Anatomical Pathology: Today’s Innovations and Tomorrow’s Possibilities | Ehsan Ullah, MBBS, MPhil, PhD, Health New Zealand, Auckland

2:00–2:20 PM

 

 

   
Infrastructure for Real-Time Integration of Digital Tools into the Clinical Ecosystem | Luke Geneslaw, MBA, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center   Adversary-Robust Graph-Based Learning of WSIs | Nasim Yahyasoltani, Marquette University

 

2:25 – 2:45 PM

   
Ergonomics for Pathologists in the Digital Age: What Can We Learn from Radiologists? | Les R. Folio, DO, MPH, ACHIP, CIIP, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine   A comprehensive AI education framework based on experiential learning | Mark D. Zarella, PhD, Mayo Clinic

2:45–3:30 PM

 

   

Refreshment Break + Visit with Exhibitors (Expo Hall)  

 

 

 

   
TRACK 1 TRACK 2

 

3:30 – 3:50 PM

 

   

Informatics and Pathology Innovation Highlights of the College of American Pathologists | Marilyn M. Bui, MD, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center; Monica E. de Baca, MD, Pacific Pathology Partners; Joe Saad, MD, Methodist Health System/UT Southwestern Medical Center

 

  Opportunities and challenges in refining grading of neuroendocrine tumors using digital pathology | Monika Vyas, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
3:55 – 4:15 PM    
End-to-end AI-enabled automation of pathology accessioning | Eish Maheshwari, MS, Stanford University; Alexander S. Kwon, MS, Stanford University   FROG: an unsupervised deep learning framework for scalable and robust end-to-end IHC quantification | Wenchao Han, Mayo Clinic
4:20 – 4:40 PM    
Digital and Computational Cytology: Applications, Guidelines and Future Directions | Zaibo Li, MD, PhD, MBA, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center   Extraction of Discrete Information from Pathology Reports Using Local and Private LLMs | Ghulam Rasool, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center; Ehsan Ullah, MBBS, MPhil, PhD, Health New Zealand, Auckland
4:45 – 5:05 PM    
DICOM and pathology: it’s a hit, not a myth | Ally D. Brown, MS, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine; Thomas J. Crawford, DHA, CIIP, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine   Multi-expert workflow for image patch labeling: an example in megakaryocyte detection | Ethan N. Okoshi, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
5:10 – 5:30 PM    

Digital Pathology Implementation: Addressing Impact on Culture, Teamwork, and Communication | Orly Ardon, PhD, MBA, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Suzanne Dintzis, MD, PhD, University of Washington Medical Center

 

  Predicting responses to NAC(ypT0) from initial TURBT specimen using Artificial Intelligence | Haoyue Zhang, PhD, National Cancer Institute

5:30–7:00 PM

 

 

 

Networking Reception (Expo Hall)  

 

7:00–8:00 PM

 

 

Evening Social: Sponsored by Iron Mountain 

 

Tuesday, November 5

 

7:00 AM–3:30 PM

 

   

 

Conference Registration (Regency Foyer)  

 

7:30–8:30 AM

 

   

Breakfast Workshop: Sponsored by Roche

 

8:30–9:00 AM

 

   

Refreshment Break & Visit with Exhibitors (Expo Hall)  

 

9:00–9:45 AM

 

 

   

Opportunities for AI in the academic medical environment
Lee Cooper, PhD, Northwestern University

 

9:45–10:45 AM

 

   

Regulatory & Standards TF Update

 

10:45–11:30 AM

 

   

Reimbursement TF Update: Setting the Stage for DP and AI Reimbursement

 

11:30–12:30 PM

 

 

 

Lunch & Visit with Exhibitors (Expo Hall)  

 

 

 

 

 

TRACK 1 TRACK 2

 

12:30 – 12:50 PM

 

 

 

Deep Zoom Images to Visualize Unsupervised Clustering of Slide Tiles | Dibson Dibe Gondim, MD, University of Louisville   PathAssist: Accelerating Dermatopathology Diagnosis with integrated Knowledge Graphs and LLMs | Rajendra Singh, MD, Summit Health; Aneesh Sathe, PhD, Aneesh Sathe Consulting; Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, Ohio State University

12:55 – 1:15 PM

 

 

Lessons from integrating digital pathology into clinical enterprise imaging at Michigan medicine | Mustafa Yousif, MD, University of Michigan   Optimizing and evaluating pathology foundation models for both low and high resolution tasks | David Steiner, Google; Saloni Agarwal, Google; Kenneth Philbrik, PhD, Google; Supriya Vijay, Google

 

1:20 – 1:40 PM

 

 

 

Histology hide-and-seek: visually navigating latent space clustering for pathology exploration | Phoenix Y. Wilkie, University of Toronto   Mutation detection in lung cancer using heterogeneity derived from quantitative pathology features | Yao Nie, Roche Diagnostic Solution
1:45 – 2:05 PM

 

 

 

Intra-patient Co-registration of Prostate Whole-Mount Histopathology to Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Fatemeh Zabihollahy, PhD, University of Toronto   AI-Driven Comparative Study of High-Grade Cell Features in Urine Cytology with Biopsy Correlation | Barbara Crothers, DO, AIxMED
2:10 – 2:30 PM

 

 

 

Advancing precision pathology: Deep CNN model for forecasting of liver cancer recurrence on WSI | Mohammad K. Alexanderani, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine   Advancing Regulatory Science in Digital and Computational Pathology: A Collaborative Dialogue | Jochen Lennerz, BostonGene; Jithesh Veetil, MD, PhD, MDIC; Keith Wharton, MD, PhD, Roche; Brandon Gallas, PhD, FDA

2:30–3:15 PM

 

 

 

Refreshment Break & Visit with Exhibitors (Expo Hall)  

 

3:15–3:30 PM

 

 

 

Poster Awards   

 

3:30–4:00 PM

 

 

 

DICOM Connectathon Update

 

4:00–4:45 PM

 

 

 

Charting the Path: Navigating Patient Journeys through Digital Transformation

 

4:45 PM

 

 

Closing Session | Michael Quick, 2024 DPA President
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