The PathPod Podcast

Test your pathology knowledge with our next Quiz Show! Join hosts Dr. Sara Jiang ( @Sara_Jiang ) and Dr. Christina Arnold ( @CArnold_GI ) with co-host Dr. Michael Arnold ( @MArnold_PedPath ) as guests Dr. Anne Herdman, Dr. Sarah Glogowski ( @sarah_glogowski ), and medical student Adil Menon ( @menona1994 ) play our games and attempt to win an exclusive PathPod clear ruler!  Featured public domain...

This week, Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @merepitt ) speaks with Dr. Kevin Simon ( @DrKMSimon ), a psychiatrist at Boston Children's Hospital, about the role that structural racism plays in everyday encounters between physicians and patients, trainees and educators, and physician colleagues. They discuss the way that COVID-19 has highlighted race-based disparity, and Dr. Simon gives advice for dealing wi...

Test your pathology knowledge with our next Quiz Show! Join hosts Dr. Sara Jiang ( @Sara_Jiang ) and Dr. Christina Arnold ( @CArnold_GI ) with co-host Dr. Michael Arnold ( @MArnold_PedPath ) as guests Dr. Suzy Dintzis ( @SuzyDintzis ), Dr. Lisa Zhang ( @MLisaZhang ), and future pathologist Dr. Philip Hurst ( @pathophil ) play our games and attempt to win an exclusive PathPod clear ruler! Featured...

On this week's episode, Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @merepitt ) talks with Dr. Nicole Jackson ( @NicoleJacksonMD ) of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office in Illinois and Dr. Rebecca Asch-Kendrick of the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Minnesota about what they do day-to-day and how COVID-19 and the opioid epidemic have impacted their practices. They also discuss terminology that has been in...

Test your pathology knowledge with our next Quiz Show! Join hosts Dr. Sara Jiang ( @Sara_Jiang ) and Dr. Christina Arnold ( @CArnold_GI ) with co-host Dr. Michael Arnold ( @MArnold_PedPath ) as guests Dr. Kamran Mirza ( @Kmirza ), Dr. Michael Williams ( @bluehatcomics85 ), and Cullen Lilley ( @cullen_lilley ), incoming M2 and co-founder of PathElective.com , play our games and attempt to win a lim...

In this episode of Path Pod News Edition, Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @merepitt ) talks with Dr. Carla Ellis ( @theglasspusher ) of Northwestern Medical Group about her role as the Director of Wellness, Diversity, and Inclusion as we live through a time of societal unrest. Dr. Ellis shares some of her tips for dealing with mental stressors, and we discuss the implications of racial inequities in medici...

In this episode of Beyond the Scope, Dr. Kamran Mirza ( @KMirza ) talks to Cory Nash ( @iplaywithorgans ), a Pathologists' Assistant at University of Chicago Medicine and the famous handle behind #GPOW (gross photo of the week) about how social media is changing the face of our field, his experience with training residents, how COVID19 has impacted the autopsy protocol and whether TikTok is the ne...

In this episode, we celebrate Father’s Day with stories from pathologists and their Fathers. Dr. Kalisha Hill ( @kalishahillmd ), Chief Medical Officer at AMITA Health St. Mary's Hospital in Illinois, shares a conversation with her father Dr. Kim Williams, Chair of Cardiology at Rush University in Chicago. Dr. Celestine Trinidad ( @celestrinmd ), a pathologist in Metro Manila, Philippines shares h...

Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @merepitt ) talks with Miranda Schreiber ( @mir3019 ), a researcher in the department of Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Toronto, about the fraught history between Medicine and the LGBTQ2 community. We discuss the patient-centered LGBTQ2 curriculum for University of Toronto residents that has been introduced by Miranda and her colleagues, as well as the n...

The chromogen siblings talk with Dr. Kevin Zeng, Senior Molecular Scientist at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), about his recent publication in JCI Insight describing IHC and in situ hybridization methods for detecting SARS-CoV-2. Featured public domain music: Alpha Hydrae, Won't see it comin' .

In this episode, Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @merepitt ) talks with Dr. Jan Heng of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr. Vanda Torous ( @VandaTorousMD ) of Massachusetts General Hospital about breast pathology and pathophysiology in the setting of gender-affirming hormonal therapy for our transgender patients. Featured public domain music:  Loyalty Freak Music, I'M ON FIRE

This week on PathPod News Edition we acknowledge the pain and injustice of racism.

In this edition of PathPod News, our host Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @MerePitt ) speaks with Dr. Jeffery Goldstein ( @JefferyAGoldst1 ) and Dr. Elisheva Shanes ( @ElishevaShanes ) of Northwestern Hospital Perinatal Pathology, and Dr. Malavika Prabhu of Weill-Cornell Maternal-Fetal Medicine about how COVID-19 impacts pregnancy and perinatal health. Featured public domain music: Loyalty Freak Music, I'M...

In this segment, Beyond the Scope, we speak to pathologists about their pursuits and interests outside of pathology. Why is visual communication important in a pandemic? What does animation have to do with transfusion medicine? How is creativity like a cat? On this episode of Beyond the Scope, Dr. Sara Jiang ( @Sara_Jiang)  speaks with Dr. Evelyn Lockhart ( EvelynLockhart.com ), a transfusion medi...

In this edition of PathPod News, our host Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @MerePitt ) speaks with Dr. Emily Schindler of Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri ( @mercysaintlouis ) about how COVID-19 has changed life in the clinical laboratory. Featured public domain music: Loyalty Freak Music, I'M ON FIRE

IHC Talk returns with a special Hemepath edition! Our hosts Dr. Michael Arnold ( @MArnold_PedPath ), Dr. Andrew Bellizzi ( @IHC_guy ) and Dr. Sanam Loghavi ( @sanamloghavi ) welcome special guests Dr. Kamran Mirza ( @KMirza ) and Dr. Eve Crane ( @ evemariecrane ) with Ginger the cat. Hear all the secrets about how our guests and hosts got interested in hematopathology, learn how flow cytometry com...

In this episode of Beyond the Scope, Dr. Kamran Mirza ( @KMirza ) talks to the Editor of The Pathologist magazine Michael Schubert ( @MichaelPathMag ) about the magazine, his experience learning about pathology and laboratory medicine, how to become an editor, what the Power List is all about, what quarantine looks like across the pond, and lots of things in between! Featured public domain music: ...

In our first episode of PathPod Stories, we hear from Dr. Kamran Mirza ( @KMirza ), Dr. Esmeralda Gavarrete ( @e_gavarret ), and fourth year medical student Emily Gardner ( @Defer2Permanent ) about their career journeys to pathology. As a special bonus, Dr. Daniela Hermelin ( @HermelinMD ) and Dr. Christina Arnold ( @CArnold_GI ) share the conversations they had with their sons on Mother's Day abo...

In this edition of PathPod News, our host Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @MerePitt ) speaks with Dr. Vanderlene Kung of Cedars-Sinai ( @CedarsSinai ) and Dr. Evan Farkash of the University of Michigan ( @UMichPath ) about renal pathology associated with COVID-19. Featured public domain music: Loyalty Freak Music, I'M ON FIRE

In this segment, Beyond the Scope, we speak to pathologists about their pursuits and interests outside of pathology. How did flunking out of ortho lead to a successful career as a head and neck pathologist? What do stained glass and pathology have in common? What IS the definition of a country? On this episode of Beyond the Scope, Dr. Sara Jiang ( @Sara_Jiang ) speaks with Dr. Lester Thompson ( @H...

Hear what it took to start the first COVID-19 convalescent plasma collection in Colorado. Dr. Meredith Pittman ( @MerePitt ) gets the behind-the-scenes story from guest Dr. Kyle Annen of Children's Hospital Colorado ( Twitter at @ChildrensColo , Facebook at @ChildrensHospitalColorado ).  

Drs. Michael Arnold (@MArnold_PedPath), Andrew Bellizzi (@IHC_guy), Sanam Loghavi (@sanamloghavi) and Jerad Gardner (@JMGardnerMD) discuss immunohistochemistry applications in sarcoma diagnosis, and whatever else comes to mind.

Join hosts Dr. Sara Jiang (@Sara_Jiang) and Dr. Christina Arnold (@CArnold_GI) with co-host Dr. Michael Arnold (@MArnold_PedPath) as guests Dr. Frank Ingram (@Chucktowndoc), Dr. Jake Maule, and future pathologist Matt Luo (@Mattcrophage) play the first ever PathPod Quiz Show.

Dr. Meredith Pittman (@MerePitt) interviews Dr. Sanjay Mukhopadhyay (@smlungpathguy) about his recent American Journal of Clinical Pathology publication on COVID-19 autopsy lung pathology: COVID-19 Autopsies, Oklahoma, USA (https://academic.oup.com/ajcp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcp/aqaa062/5818922).