Clinical Conferences

Pathology Clinical Conferences

 Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. Room 749, Level 2, University Hospital
All seminars are currently being held virtually via MS Teams.

May 8, 2024 
Samuel Roush, MD, PhD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine 
Tick Born Illness in the NE 

May 1, 2024 
Isaak Heon, DO
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine 
The use of FISH in Breast Cancer  

April 24, 2024
David Barrera, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine 
Intestinal Parasites 

April 17, 2024
Maoxin Wu, MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine 
Correlation Study of Lymph Node Pathology between US-FNA, US-Scoring System and Quantitative-US Prediction 

April 3, 2024
Alexander Truskinovsky, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine                                                                                                                                                           Glandular Lesions of the Cervix                                                            

February 21, 2024
Brynn Levy, MSc, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology, Columbia University 
Optical Genome Mapping for Assessment of Genomic Aberrations in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A National Multicenter Evalutation 

February 7, 2024
Roberta Seidman, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Neurosurgical Frozen-Section-a Practical Approach 

January 31, 2024
Rekha Reddy, DMD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Odontogenic Keratocysts-Past, Present, and Future 

January 17, 2024
Emily Huang, MD, MPH 
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Testicular Tumors

January 10, 2024
Veronica Gross
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Clinical Informatics 

December 20, 2023
Pons Materum, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Clinical Informatics 

December 13, 2023
Sunjida Ahmed, MBBS
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Treatment Gastrointestinal tumor: Pathologic Assessment and Pitfalls 

November 29, 2023
Sashank Cherukiri, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
MGRS-monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance 

November 13, 2023
Prerna Khetan, MBBS, MPH
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Inflammatory Dermatopathies 

November 1, 2023
Tahmeena Ahmed, MBBS
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
T and NK Cell Neoplasma 

October 25, 2023
Sruthi Babu, MD, PhD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Myelodysplastic Syndrome MDS Updates

October 18, 2023
Lisa Senzel, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Somatic Mutations in Benign Designs 

October 11, 2023
Alex Hastie, PhD
Bionano Genomics, Inc 
Optical Genome Mapping 

October 4, 2023
Randolph Hennigar, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Thrombotic Microangiopathy

September 27, 2023
Carlos Tirado, PhD
Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine                                                                                                      Pediatric B ALL- a Cytogenomic Update

September 20, 2023
Steven Adams, MD 
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine                                                                                                                                Monoclonal gammopathies of Cutaneous Significance

September 6, 2023
Jaymie Oentoro, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine                                                                                                                                                 Updates on the WHO Classification of Urothelial Tumors

June 7, 2023
Robert Arena, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Thrombotic Microangiopathy

May 17, 2023
Alexander Truskinovsky, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Patterns or Neoplasia of FGT

May 10, 2023
Artemio Zavala, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Pediatric Soft Tissue Neoplasms 

May 3, 2023
Sara Avalos Hernandez, MD 
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Discussion of Two Selected Performance Improvement in Surgical Pathology (PIP-A-2023) Renal Cases

April 26, 2023 
Gong Feng, MD, PhD 
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Cytology and Histology of Spindle Cell Lesion/ Neoplasm-Often Diagnosis Challenge on FNA and Core Biopsy

April 19, 2023
Maoxin Wu, MD, PhD 
Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Correlation Study between Thyroid Imaging Report and Data System (TI-RADS) and The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytology (TBSRTC) with ThyroSeq Test and Surgical Follow-Up- An Interventional Cytopathologist's Experience

April 12, 2023 
Kevin Wang, DO
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Steroidgenesis: Physiology and Disease Stats 

April 5, 2023
Veronica Gross, MD, PhD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
RAS and BRAF in the Diagnosis, Treatment and Diagnosis of Cancer 

January 25, 2023 
Emily Huang, MD, MPH 
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Pediatric Renal Tumors 

January 11, 2023
Steven Adams, MD 
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Case Series from RISE Exam Highlights 

January 4, 2023 
Hong Lin Smith Jones, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
MRD Testing in B ALL

December 12, 2022
Sashank Cherukuri, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Renal Lymphoma 

November 30, 2022
Jela Bandovic, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Microsatellite Instability and Mismatch Protein Repair Testing in Colorectal Carcinoma 

November 16, 2022
Eric Spitzer, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Laboratory Diagnosis of Endocarditits 

November 2, 2022
Riddhish Sheth, MD
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Large B Cell Lymphoma 

October 12, 2022
Bo Young Lee, DO
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Effects of Fluoride 

October 5th, 2022
Randolph Hennigar, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Systemic Vasculitis and the Kidney 

September 28, 2022
Tahmeena Ahmed, MBBS
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
MDS-Myelodysplastic Neoplasm Updates

September 14, 2022
Lisa Senzel, MD, PhD 
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Don't Underestimate Platelets! 

September 7, 2022
Linda Mamone, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Blood Component Preparation, Storage and Expiration 

May 25, 2022
Prerna Khetan, MBBS, MPH
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
An Approach to Small Round Blue Cell Tumors

May 18, 2022
Jaymie Oentoro, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Placental Development and Related Pathology

May 4, 2022
Hong Lin, PhD
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
A Rare Case of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Review of the Literature

April 27, 2022
Hamama Bushra, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Transfusion Reactions

April 20, 2022
Emaan Alvi, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
E-Cigarette and Vaping-Associated Lung Injury

April 13, 2022
Steven Adams, MD 
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Clinicopathologic Diagnoses of Gastrointestinal Graft-Versus-Host Disease

March 30, 2022
Betty Mass, MD, PhD
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Morphologic and Molecular Landscape of Pancreatic Cancer Variants

March 16, 2022
Pons Materum, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
A Deep Dive Into A Lung Lesion

March 9, 2022
Sashank Cherukuri, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Renal Anomalies and Infections

March 2, 2022
Roberta Seidman, MD
Associate Professor, Neuropathology
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Introduction To Retina Development Anatomy and Vascular Disease

February 9, 2022
Karen Bai, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Molecular Testing and Targeted Therapies In Endometrial Cancer

January 26, 2022
Jela Bandovic, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Chief of Gross Anatomic Pathology and Histology Labs
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Endoscopic Resection, Current Guidelines

January 5, 2022
Nada Naiyer, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Blood Bank Basics

December 22, 2021
Tahmeena Ahmed, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
TTP and TTS

December 15, 2021
Felix Tavernier, MD
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Molnupirovir NHC A New Oral COVID Treatment 

December 8, 2021
Eric Spitzer, MD PhD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology
Director of Clinical Laboratories
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Laboratory Diagnosis of Clostridioides Difficile Infections: New Name, Same Challenge

December 1, 2021
Brendan Boyce, MD
Professor of Pathology
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Metabolic Bone Disease

November 17, 2021
Jun Fan, MD
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Salivary Gland Tumors

November 10, 2021
Roman Gonta, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
An Overview Of Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell Neoplasms

November 3, 2021
Lisa Senzel, MD PhD
Associate Professor, Chief Hematology Laboratories
Associate Chief Transfusion Services, 
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Cybersecurity in the Lab

October 27, 2021
Rekha Reddy, DMD
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Sjogrens Disease Diagnosis and Management

October 13, 2021
Randolph Hennigar, MD PhD
Associate Professor, Chief of Renal Pathology, Director of Autopsy Service
Medical Director, Biobank
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Renal Disease in Paraproteinemia

October 6, 2021
Ann Leslie Berger Zaslav, PhD
Clinical Professor, Cytogentics
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Ph Like B ALL

September 29, 2021
Linda Mamone, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Blood Management

September 22, 2021
Carmen Tornos, MD
Professor, Surgical Pathology, Gynecological Pathology, Breast Pathology
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Impact of COVID Pandemic on Patients With Breast and Gynecological Cancers

June 30, 2021
Hibbah Nabeel, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Molecular Testing in MPNs

June 23, 2021
Jaymie Oentoro, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Shining a Light On In Vivo and Ex Vivo Microscopy

May 18, 2021
Prerna Khetan, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
An Approach to Eosinophilic Kidney Tumors

May 12, 2021
Hong Lin, PhD
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Application of Flow Cytometry in Diagnosis and Monitoring 
of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

April 28, 2021
Sruthi Babu, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Mastocytosis (Quick review of 2016 WHO Classification)

April 7, 2021
Rachana Choksi, MD
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Oncotype DX

March 31, 2021
Silvia Spitzer, PhD
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Covid Testing at Stony Brook Hospital 

March 24, 2021
Emaan Alvi, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Renal Transportation

March 3, 2021
Roberta Seidman, MD
Associate Professor, Neuropathology
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Unknown Cases

February 24, 2021
Jingxuan Liu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Surgical Pathology Fellowship Program Director
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Adjuvant or Neoadjuvant Therapies and Receptor Status in Breast Cancer

February 17, 2021
James Davis, MD
Assistant Professor, Medical Director of BioBank, Neuropathology, 
Chief of Pediatric Pathology
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Current Issues in Diagnosis of Pulmonary Neoplasia

February 10, 2021
Samaneh Zarabi, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Point of Care In A Nutshell

January 27, 2021
Jela Bandovic, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Chief of Gross Anatomic Pathology and Histology Labs
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Autoimmune Gastritis

January 20, 2021
Roman Gunta, Md
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Perinatal Issues in Transfusion Medicine

January 13, 2021
Maoxin Wu, MD PhD.
Clinical Professor, Chief of Cytopathology, Director FNA and Core Biopsy
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Z- DNA and it's Biologic Significance

January 6, 2021
Nada Naiyer, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Transfusion transmitted infection

December 11, 2020
Joyce Ren, MD    
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine     
Hereditary renal cancer syndrome

December 9, 2020
Eric Spitzer, MD PhD.
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology, Director of Clinical Laboratories
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine      
Salmonella and Shigella intracellular professionals

December 12, 2020
Brendan Boyce, MD    
Professor of Pathology, Bone and soft tissue    
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine 
Metabolic bone disease

November 18, 2020
Jun Fan, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine 
Intraoperative consultation: Basic principle, Basic Techniques and common pitfalls

November 11, 2020
Felicia Allard, MD
Associate Professor, Cytopathology, Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine   
Cystic neoplasms of the pancreas

November 4, 2020
Lisa Senzel, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Chief Hematology Lab, Assoc Chief Transfusion services
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
COVID-19 and Thrombosis: Pathophysiology, Prediction, Prevention

October 28, 2020
Felix Tavenier, MD    
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Clinical utility of reflex testing using focused next generation sequencing for management of patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma

October 14, 2020
Eric Yee, MD 
Associate Professor, Director of surgical Pathology    
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Medical liver biopsy

October 7, 2020
Ann Leslie- Berger-Zaslav, MD
Clinical Professor, Cytogenetics    
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Ph like ALL

September 30, 2020
Linda Mammone, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Transfusions reactions

September 23, 2020
Karen Bai, MD   
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine    
Molecular testing in indeterminate thyroid nodules

September 9, 2020
Carmen Tornos, MD
Professor, Surgical Pathology, Gynecological Pathology, Breast Pathology
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine     
Are we doing unnecessary surgery for benign breast lesions; role of the pathologist

June 10, 2020
Hamamatul Bushra, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine 
Thyroid Fascinomas

May 27, 2020
Felix Tavenier, MD    
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine        
The application of Next Gen sequencing for solid tumors

May 20, 2020
Roberta Seidman, MD
Associate professor, Neuropathology    
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Skeletal muscle pathology

May 13, 2020
Sahar Jalali Farahani, MD   
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine     
Tumor microenvironment

May 6, 2020
Emaan Alvi, MD    
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine     
Pathology of heart transplant

April 29, 2020
Jun Fan, MD    
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine 
Squamous Cell Carcinoma of upper aerodigestive tract: Current understanding and guidelines

April 15, 2020
Shervinrad Mohammedraza, MD
Fellow, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine    
Thyroid FNA Reporting-Terminology-Specimen adequacy

April 1, 2020
Hibbah Nabeel, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine 
COVID-19 Review

March 4, 2020
Scott Allen, MD  
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine    
Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma

February 26, 2020
Linda Mammone, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Pathogen Reduces Platelets

February 19, 2020
James Davis, MD
Associate Professor, Medical Director Biobank, Neuropathology, Chief of Pediatric Pathology
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Neuropathology Frozen Section

February 12, 2020
Samaneh Zarabi, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Sex Chromosome Abnormalities

February 5, 2020
Lisa Senzel, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Chief Hematology Lab, Assoc Chief Transfusion services
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Anticoagulant Reversal: The $64,0000 Question 

January 22, 2020
Dennis Galanakis, MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Cryoprecipitate  Fibrinogen

January 15, 2020
Maoxin Wu, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Chief of Cytopathology, Director FNA and Core biopsy
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Medicine
Cells and Waves

January 8, 2020
Eric Spitzer, MD, PhD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology, Director of Clinical laboratories
Department of Pathology
Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis

June 12th, 2019
Wei Xue, MB, PhD
Surgical Pathology Fellow, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
GI Original Lymphoma

June 5th, 2019
Sofia Taboada, MD
Surgical Pathology Fellow, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Reactive Inflammatory Infiltrates: Not Always "Benign"

May 29th, 2019
Hibbah Nabel, MBBS
Resident, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Resident Physician

May 22nd, 2019
Jun Fan, MB, PhD
Resident, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Standardized Cytology Reporting From Pap Smear to Milan

May 8th, 2019
Nada Naiyer, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology
Parathyroid Diseases

May 1st, 2019
Lisa Senzel, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Chief, Hematology Laboratories
Associate Chief, Transfusion Services
Stony Brook Medicine, Department of Pathology
Medicolegal Issues in Pathology

April 24th, 2019
Kristin Sticco, DO
Resident, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook University
The Rise of the Miniscule Lymph Node Biopsy and some Diagnositc Curmudgeons

April 17th, 2019
Jingxuan Liu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Renal Cell Neoplasms with Eosinophilic Cytoplasm

April 10th, 2019
Roman Gonta, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Interface Dermatitis

March 27th, 2019
Jirong (Betty) Mass, MB, PhD
Resident, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Primary Nodal Peripheral T-Cell Lymphomas

March 13th, 2019
Joyce Ren, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Tumor Heterogeneity and Implications in Diagnostic Pathology

February 13th, 2019
Maoxin Wu, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology
Department of Pathology
Correlation Study Between Thyroid Imaging Report and Data System (TI-RADS) and the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytology (TBSRTC) with Thyroseq Test and Surgical Follow Up

February 6th, 2019
Xiaoyun Wen, MD, PhD
Resident, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas

January 30th, 2019
Eric Spitzer, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Laboratory Test for Hepatitis B Virus

January 23rd, 2019
Chiraag Patel, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
Personalized Medicine for Metastatic Lung Cancer-Current Diagnostics and Therapeutics

January 16th, 2019
Elizabeth Kertowidjojo, MD, PhD
Resident, Department of Pathology 
Stony Brook Medicine
EBV-Associated Lymphomas

January 9th, 2019
Keith Sweeney, MD
Resident, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Medicine
NCCN Guideline for Breast Cancer