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Path Grand Rounds
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
ASGE 2015 guidelines on the use of GI endoscopy in evaluation and surveillance of GI lesions
Camtu Truong, MD, Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Washington
Location: UWMC, NE110 Conference Room
Summary: The Standards of Practice Committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has released 2015 guidelines on the use of GI endoscopy in common clinical situations. It is important that pathologists be familiar with the current practice standards/recommendations on evaluation and surveillance of GI lesions.
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Pathology Presents
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Stressing the Liver
Nick Crispe, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Washington
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room T-739
Summary: Liver inflammation is a complicated event in which an initiating cause, such as autoimmunity or a virus infection, causes cellular injury, and the injury itself may be amplified by innate immune responses to endogenous DAMPS (Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns).
Valerie Tryon and Matthew Campbell, PhD, Multiple Departments, University of Washington
Location: Foege N-130
Forrest Kievit, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room T-739
Summary: Nanotechnology provides a flexible platform for the development of effective therapeutic nanomaterials that can interact specifically with a target in a biological system and provoke a desired biological response.