CytopathPod

Join this amazing group as they dive into their journey of their first ASC Annual Meeting and hear about the upcoming 2023 ASC Annual Scientific Meeting in Austin, Texas. Zubair Baloch, MD, PhD, ASC Scientific Program Chair Momin Siddiqui, MD, ASC President-Elect Sinchita Roy Chowdhuri MD PhD Maheswari Mukherjee, PhD MSc BPT CT(ASCP)CM Amber Donnelly, PhD MPH SCT(ASCP) Oscar Lin, MD, PhD Swikrity...

Presented by the Research and Current Concepts Committee Uma Krishnamurti, MD, Ph. D., Chair Sinchita Roy-Chowdhuri, MD, Ph. D., Vice Chair Dr. Catherine Bammert interviews Dr. Xiaofeng Zhao, the winner of the IAC/ASC Quality Improvement in Cytology Abstract Award. This interview will take you on a journey with this award-winning poster. IAC/ASC Quality Improvement in Cytology Abstract Award PST00...

Dr.  Min Huang interviews Dr. Terrance Lynn, the winner of the IAC/ASC Warren R. Lang, MD Resident's Physicians Award. This interview will take you on a journey with this award-winning platform. IAC/ASC Warren R. Lang, MD Resident’s Physician Award PLATFORM 07 was presented live at the 2022 joint meeting in November A Rotation of ROSEs: Workload and Reimbursement Analysis of System-wide Telecytolo...

Presented by the Research and Current Concepts Committee Uma Krishnamurti, MD, Ph. D., Chair Sinchita Roy-Chowdhuri, MD, Ph. D., Vice Chair Dr. Amy Ly interviews Dr. Allison Goldberg, the winner of the IAC/ASC Innovative Cytotechnologist Practice Abstract Award. This interview will take you on a journey with this award-winning poster. IAC/ASC Innovative Cytotechnologist Practice Abstract Award PST...

Presented by the Research and Current Concepts Committee Uma Krishnamurti, MD, Ph. D., Chair Sinchita Roy-Chowdhuri, MD, Ph. D., Vice Chair Dr. Jonas John Heymann interviews the winner of the 2022 Dr. Bernard Naylor Excellence in Cytomorphology Award, Dr. Viswanathan. This interview takes you on a journey of this award-winning paper. The 2022 Dr. Bernard Naylor Excellence in Cytomorphology Award w...

Guliz Barkan, MD – ASC Past President & Social Media Editor of JASC Paul A. VanderLaan, MD, PhD – JASC Editor–in-Chief Dr. Guliz Barkan, Past President of the ASC and Social Media Editor of JASC, interviews Dr. Paul A. VanderLaan, the new Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology (JASC) Editor-in-Chief. You will learn about Dr. VanderLaan, the history of JASC, how publishing works, the futu...

Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit: Progressive Responsibility  Dr. Vanda Torous, Chair of the ASC Cytopathology Program Directors Committee, interviews Dr. Sara Monaco and Dr. Armando Filie on their experiences with instituting progressive responsibility in their training programs in this episode of our series Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit.   Dr. Monaco is a Professor of Pathology at...

Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit: Wellness  Dr. Vanda Torous, Chair of the ASC Cytopathology Program Directors Committee, interviews Dr. Kim Ely and Dr. Rema Rao on their experiences with promoting wellness in their training programs in this episode of our series Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit.   Dr. Ely is an Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbil...

Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit: Evaluations Dr. Vanda Torous, Chair of the ASC Cytopathology Program Directors Committee, interviews Dr. Diva R. Salomao on her experience with trainee evaluations including collecting and administering feedback. Dr. Salomao is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where she has served as the cytopatholog...

Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit: Rapid On-Site Evaluation  Dr. Vanda Torous, Chair of the ASC Cytopathology Program Directors Committee, interviews Dr. Kamal Khurana and Dr. Cecilia Gimenez on their experiences incorporating ROSE into their training programs including telecytology in this episode of our series Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit.   Dr. Gimenez is an anatomic and clinical...

Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit: Performance of Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsies Dr. Vanda Torous, Chair of the ASC Cytopathology Program Directors Committee, interviews Dr. Elham Khanafshar on her experience incorporating the performance of fine needle aspirational biopsies into cytopathology training. Dr. Khanafshar is currently a Professor of Pathology, Director of Cytopathology and Medic...

Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit: Board Review and Knowledge Assessment Dr. Vanda Torous, Chair of the ASC Cytopathology Program Directors Committee, interviews Dr. Israh Akhtar on her experience and recommendations on cytopathology board review and knowledge assessment in this episode of our series Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit. Dr. Akhtar is a professor of pathology and laboratory...

Dr. Vanda Torous, Chair of the ASC Cytopathology Program Directors Committee and Director of the Cytopathology Fellowship as well as Cytopathology Quality Assurance and Improvement at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Marilyn Bui, Director of the Cytopathology Fellowship at the University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine, discuss how they incorporate laboratory management i...

Kirk Facey, CT(ASCP), Chair of The ASC Bulletin and ASC Podcast Editorial Board, interviews Dr. Amy Ly on breast cancer awareness. Amy Ly, MD Massachusetts General Hospital

“American Society of Cytopathology/BIO Ventures for Global Health Collaboration and How to Apply to be a Global Health Ambassador"? Dr. Natalie Banet, a member of the ASC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, interviewed Ashly Senske, a Program Manager from BIO Ventures for Global Health, to discuss the ongoing efforts of BVGH, we are here to have a conversation about the upcoming collaborat...

JASC Article: Cytology and LGBT+ health: establishing inclusive cancer screening programs Volume 11, Issue 5 , September–October 2022, Pages 241-252 Margaret L. Compton, MD, Shayne S. Taylor, MD, Amy G. Weeks, MD, Vivian L. Weiss, MD, Melissa M. Hogan, MD, Huiying Wang, MD, &  Kim A. Ely, MD.   Dr. Guliz Barken, Past President of the ASC and Social Media Editor of JASC interviews Drs. Margaret L....

Kirk Facey, CT(ASCP), Chair of The ASC Bulletin and ASC Podcast Editorial Board, interviews members of the DEI committee on their part of the Science, Medicine, & Cytology Summer Certificate (SMC^2 ) 2022 and what is going on in today's world. DEI Members: Natalie Banet, MD Alarice Cheng-Yi Lowe, MD Cecilia E Gimenez, MD Evita Henderson-Jackson, MD Nora Morgenstern, MD Michelle Reid, MD

Dr. Banet had a wonderful conversation with Glorimar Rivera, MD, about her journey. Sponsored by The ASC DEI Committee

Welcome! The primary goal of the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) Foundation is to secure outright gifts and pledges from individuals, families, corporations and/or private foundations.  These gifts and pledges will support the educational and research objectives of the Society. In addition, the ASC Foundation seeks to secure deferred, or future gift, commitments.  While such future gifts,...

Liron Pantanowitz, MD - Interviewer Ewen McAlpine, FCPath(SA) Pamela Michelow, MSc, Eric Liebenberg, BSc, and Turgay Celik, PhD Dr. Liron Pantanowitz President-Elect of the ASC interviews Ewen, Pamela, Eric, and Turgay on their article in the Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology Volume 11, Issue 3, May - June, Pages 123-132. Is it real or not? Toward artificial intelligence-based reali...

Barbara McGahey Frain MS SCT(ASCP) - Interviewer Kelsey Hummel, DO - Presenter & Winner of the 2021 ASC Foundation Patient Advocacy Grant Mrs. McGahey-Frain Co-Chair of the ASC Foundation interviews Dr. Hummel on her winning project on the Mobile Cytopathology Clinic for Fine Needle Aspirates of Superficial Mass in Rural Southern Rwanda.   Click here to watch this YouTube presentation.

Güliz A. Barkan, MD - Interviewer Drs. Michiya Nishino and Paul VanderLaan   Dr. Güliz Barkan Past President of the ASC and Social Media Editor of JASC interviews Drs. Michiya Nishino and Paul VanderLaan on their article in the March 2022 Issue of JASC on "Molecular Testing as a Quality Metric for the AUS category".   JASC Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221329452100257...

Evita B. Henderson-Jackson, MD Natalie Banet, MD Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee

Edmund Cibas, MD & Kaitlin Sundling, MD, PhD Dr. Kaitlin Sundling JASC Social Media Editor spoke with Dr. Ed Cibas regarding his two great articles from the 2021 JASC issue.  Developing dashboards for performance improvement in cytopathology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213294521000703     We are minimally invasive diagnosis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/...

Reporting Pancreaticobiliary Cytology Presenters:  Patrick McIntire, MD                       Raza Hoda, MD Presented by the eJournal Committee   Click here to view the YouTube video.