Digital-Pathology-Today

Tom Barr is an industry veteran. He was an early adopter of digital pathology - utilizing various hardware platforms as well as commercial and custom software. We will look at some of the early challenges to whole slide imaging (WSI), software solutions, networking, storage and interoperability Tom was instrumental in developing VIPER (Virtual Imaging for Pathology Education and Research) at Natio...

We are talking with David West, CEO of Proscia and Joseph Mossel, CEO of IBEX Medical Analytics. Recently, Proscia, a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, and IBEX Medical Analytics, a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI)-based cancer diagnostics, announced a strategic partnership to support pathologists in detecting prostate cancer. In this episode, we will learn...

Our guest is Professor Hamid Tizhoosh, the director of the KIMIA Lab (Laboratory for Knowledge Inference in Medical Image Analysis) at the University of Waterloo. We've all heard the hype about Artificial Intelligence (AI), but what exactly is AI? In this episode, we will examine some examples of AI in everyday life. We will discuss the current and future applications of artificial intelligence in...

Our guest is Ahmed Hosny, a machine learning research scientist, author and blogger from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, who has a developed a framework for evaluating AI startups. This episode, we are talking about artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning. We will touch on the history of AI and how it has been used to train neural networks. Pathology seems to be be...

Our guest is Dr. Steven Hinrichs, Professor and Chair in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska. This episode, we focus on creating an effective team to transition to digital pathology. We will learn what types of teams are needed and the challenges in building those groups. We also look at the psychology of pathology. We will examine how the brain processes bla...

Our guest is Sam Terese, president and CEO of Alverno Laboratories, an integrated laboratory delivery network serving multiple healthcare systems and hospitals in the Chicagoland and Indiana area. Sam Terese has more than 30 years of experience in the laboratory environment, including settings as varied as community hospitals, academic medical centers, as well as research based organizations. Alve...

Our guest is Mariano de Socarraz, president of CorePlus Servicos Clinicos y Patologicos. With over 25 years experience in anatomic pathology, CorePlus is an international specialty laboratory serving clients in the US and the Caribbean. This episode, we are talking about the digital journey that CorePlus underwent. We will discover what were the steps involved, once the decision was made to go dig...

Our guest is Dr. Cory Roberts, CEO, Chairman and President of ProPath. He is a pathologist with over 20 years of experience in healthcare ranging from academic medicine to specialty private practice and currently leading ProPath, the largest 100% physician owned pathology and laboratory medicine diagnostic practice in the country. This episode, we are talking about what it takes to go digital in a...

Our guest is Dr. Marilyn Bui from Moffitt Cancer Center a pathologist with expertise in sarcoma, pathology, cytopathology, breast cancer biomarker testing as well as digital pathology. In this episode, we are going to talk about the holistic approach to digital pathology. We will find out if digital pathology is more than the sum of its parts. We will discuss the benefits derived from being highly...

Roberto Salgado, MD, PhD is a pathologist based in Belgium with expertise in breast pathology and immuno-oncology. He is Co-chair of the International Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working Group. Over the past several years we have seen large advances and dedication of resources to immuno-oncology. We’ve also seen that information extracted by quantifying Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) on routi...

The global COVID-19 public health emergency brought about many changes including a relaxation of FDA regulation of slide scanners and displays in digital pathology. A notice was recently placed in the Federal Register by the FDA through Health and Human services soliciting a 90-day comment period to discuss permanently waving FDA regulation over certain medical devices. We will be discussing the s...

Dr. Singh is a Professor in Dermatology and Pathology at Northwell Health, New York. He directs the Dermatopathology Section and is the Associate Chair of Digital Pathology. He is board certified in pathology and dermatopathology and board eligible for Clinical Informatics. He is the Founder of PathPresenter, an online digital platform that has 125,000+ users in 170+ countries and is used by multi...

We're talking with Dr. Markus Herrmann, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and director of computational pathology at Mass General Hospital. At the heart of digital pathology is the transformation of images into data. And in so doing, we've unlocked the exciting field of computational pathology.

As we move toward full scale adoption of digital pathology, it has been said that the computer monitor is going to replace the microscope. If true, that could make the display or monitor one of the most important pieces of equipment. This episode of Digital Pathology Today™ we will focus on monitors and displays, the different levels and grades (consumer vs. medical), how displays are evaluated, t...

This special year end addition will feature a look back add some of the hot topics and memorable guests we've had on the podcast. We'll go way back - over 100 years - to the foundations of pathology and look at what pathology as a discipline has done very well and what the future will hold. We'll look at comparisons of pathology to radiology in terms of barriers to adoption and timelines in conver...

One of the buzz words associated with digital pathology is, of course, "workflows." In this episode of Digital Pathology Today, we will examine the components and considerations of workflows that a pathology group has to consider before implementing a digital pathology system. We will discuss interoperability and how pathology groups and hospital systems can maximize their investment and future- p...

Our guest this episode is Dr. Elizabeth Neyens, a toxicological pathologist who focuses on pre-clinical research, histopathological evaluation, due diligence, digital pathology as well as quality assurance expertise. This episode we will look at toxicological pathology and the role of digital pathology in drug development. We will discuss the job of a toxicological pathologist and how it has shift...

This episode will be examining fully integrated digital pathology systems with Michael Isaacs. We discover what this system will look like and what it will mean compared to the analog model. We will discuss the business case and return on investment for full scale adoption for varying usage and size. Michael Isaacs is the Director of Clinical Informatics and Business Development from the Departmen...

Our guest this week is Dan Milner, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer of the ASCP. Dr. Milner has been heavily involved in pathology capacity building in many countries and, most notably, led the team that built anatomic pathology laboratories in Rwanda and Haiti for advanced cancer diagnostics. Before joining ASCP, Dr. Milner spent 10 years at Harvard where he was the primary lead for infectious dise...

Our guest this week is Dr. Mark Tuthill, head of Pathology informatics at Henry Ford Health System. Dr. Tuthill is member of the CAP-Education committee, the ASCP Informatics Council and the API leadership council. He has extensive experience in: anatomic and clinical pathology laboratory information systems, digital imaging systems for pathology practice, computer networking, mobile computing net...

Our guest this week is Dr. Joe Lennerz, Associate Chief of Pathology and the Medical Director of the Center for Integrated Diagnostics (CID) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He oversees all aspects of the clinical laboratory service that supports personalized medicine at MGH. He was the principal investigator of the first FDA instrument precision study for the first whole slide scanning sy...

Our guest this episode is Dr. Matthew Hanna, Director of Digital Pathology Informatics and breast pathologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Hanna serves as a member on the CAP Informatics Committee as well as an editor for the Journal of Pathology Informatics. We will be discussing his experience in the digital pathology program at Memorial Sloan Kettering as well as recent advanc...

In this special edition of Digital Pathology Today, we're recapping Pathology Visions 2020 - the premier meeting in digital pathology, which is, of course, put on by the Digital Pathology Association (DPA). We'll be talking with Abbey Norris, the executive director of the Digital Pathology Association and Michael Rivers of Roche Tissue Diagnostics and the current president of the DPA. Abbey and Mi...

Ajit Singh has had a vast variety of experiences in digital pathology as well as digital radiology - in both operations and venture capital. He was President and CEO at BioImagene, a digital pathology company acquired by Roche, and CEO of digital radiology and medical informatics at Siemens healthcare. He is a partner at Artiman Ventures, focusing on early stage Technology and life sciences invest...

Dr. Anthony Magliocco has had a career spanning over 30 years and is an internationally recognized expert in developing and deploying advanced diagnostics to help cancer patients. Prior to founding Protean Bio diagnostics, Dr. Magliocco was chair of Pathology and Executive Director of Esoteric Laboratory Services at Moffitt Cancer Center. In addition, he served as Scientific Director of Moffitt Ca...