Duke Pathology had a strong presence at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) 114th Annual Meeting, “See the Light,” from March 22-27 in Boston, Mass. Faculty members and residents gave talks, presented posters, and received awards, showcasing the latest research and clinical advancements in pathology. Plus, the department hosted a reception on Sunday evening at Omni Boston at the Seaport.
Talks
Thomas J. Cummings, MD, professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology and Residency Program director, was chair of the American Association of Ophthalmic Oncologists and Pathologists session. He moderated “Orbiting Around the Eye: Approaches to Orbital Lesions.”
Carolyn Glass, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Division Chief of Duke Cardiovascular Pathology Service gave a talk titled “Frontiers in Cardiovascular Pathology: New Approaches to Diagnostic Problems” as part of the Cardiovascular Pathology Evening Specialty Conference.
Awards
Carolyn Glass, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology, was the recipient of the 2025 Margaret Billingham Award for the most important original paper published in the Society of Cardiovascular Pathology’s journal. The award is given in memory of the cardiac transplant pioneer Dr. Billingham from Stanford, best remembered for developing the Billingham Criteria for the grading of heart transplant rejection.
Grace Kwon, MD, PhD, PGY3, received a Pathologist-in-Training Travel Award from USCAP as well as a Trainee Abstract Award from the Korean Pathologists Association of North America (KOPANA).
Posters with Duke Authors and Collaborators
Hematopathology
“Erythroblastic Sarcoma in Adult and Pediatric Populations: Different Pathways to the Same Destination”
Duke Pathology Authors: Wen Shuai, MD, Ken Young, MD, PhD
Other Authors: Megan Fitzpatrick, MD, Ji (Jane) Yuan, MD, PhD, Jacob Bledsoe, MD, Ioana Capa, MD,Yi Ding, MD, PhD, Mary M. Haag, PhD, Robert Hasserjian, MD, Zhihong Hu, MD, PhD, Liuyan (Jennifer) Jiang, MD, Clay E. Kibler, MD MMSc, Nana P. Matsumoto, DO, L. Jeffery Medeiros, MD, Sanjana Mehrotra, MD, Antonio R. Perez-Atayde, MD, PhD, Sam Sadigh, MD, Bradford J. Siegele, MD, JD, Xuejun, Tian, MD, PhD, Catherine Alexander, MD, Girish Venkataraman, MD, MBBS, Endi Wang, MD, PhD, Huan-You Wang, MD, PhD, Wei Wang, MD, PhD, Ziaojun Wu, MD, PhD, Qian-Yun Zhang, MD, PhD, Weiwei Zhang, PhD, Gord Guo Zhu, MD, PhD, Zenggang Pan, MD, PhD
“Clinicopathological Overlap Between Primary and Secondary Plasma Cell Leukemia: Implications for Lowering the Diagnostic Threshold for Circulating Plasma Cells”
Duke Pathology Author: Wen Shuai, MD
Other Authors: Pei Lin, MD, C. Cameron Yin, MD, PhD, Lei Chen, MD, Wei Wang, MD, PhD, Shaoying Li, MD, Jie Xu, MD, PhD, Nourhan Ibrahim, MD, Zenggang Pan MD, PhD, M. James You, MD, PhD, Keyur P. Patel, MD, PhD, Francisco Vega, MD, PhD, L. Jeffrey Medeiros, MD, Zhihong Hu, MD, PhD
“Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Image Analysis of Peripheral Blood Smears to Aid in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia”
Duke Pathology Author: Wen Shuai, MD
Other Authors: Zhihong Hu, MD, PhD, Amaris Shi, Bsc, Jingchun Matthew Liu N/A, Jeffrey Liu N/A, Xin Han, MD, Wei Wang, MD, PhD, Shimin Hu, MD, PhD, Sa A. Wang, MD, M. James You, MD, PhD, Xiaoping Sun, MD, PhD, Donna E. Hansel, MD, PhD, Cheryl Hirsch-Ginsberg, MD, Lei Chen, MD, Wei Xie, MD, PhD
“TP53 Deletion in Systemic ALK-Negative Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma is Associated with Leukemic Disease and Cytoplasmic CD3 Expression and has Prognostic Significance in a Subset of Patients”
Duke Pathology Author: Wen Shuai, MD
Other Authors: Wei J. Wang, MD, Guilin Tang, MD, PhD, L. Jeffrey Medeiros, MD, Shaoying Li, MD, Pei Lin, MD, Sa A. Wang, MD, Wei Wang, MD, PhD, Joseph D. Khoury, MD, Luis Malpica-Castillo, MD, Sanam Loghavi, MD, Lianqun Qui, MD, PhD, Hong Fang, MD, Qing Wei, MD, PhD, Fancisco Vega, MD, PhD, Jie Xu, MD, PhD
Gastrointestinal Pathology
“Computer Vision-Based Quality Assurance in Gastric Biopsies Finds Missed Intestinal Metaplasia”
Duke Pathology Authors: William Jeck, MD, PhD, Wei Chen, MD, Fengming Chen, MD, PhD, Avani Pendse, MD, PhD, John Alan Willis, Jr. MD, MSc
Other Author: Katherine S. Garman, MD
“Utility of Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Barrett’s Esophagus in a Large Retrospective Series”
Duke Pathology Authors: William Jeck, MD, PhD, Chanjuan Shi, MD, PhD
Other Author: Douglas McKinney (Campbell medical student)
“Anal Adenocarcinomas: Pathologic Evaluation of 91 Cases Demonstrates Few Clinically Relevant Differences Among Subtypes”
Duke Pathology Author: Wei Chen, MD
Other Authors: Raul S. Gonzalez, MD, Paula Toro, MD, Maribel D. Lacambra, MD, Ibrahim Abukhiran, MBBS, Daniel Christensen, DO, Hamdi Surakji, MD, Aaron R. Huber, DO, Alexandros D. Polydorides, MD, PhD, Xinyang Xu, DO, Nicol C. Panarelli, MD, Rifat Mannan, MD, MBBS, Wenyi Luo, MD, PhD, Xuchen Zhang, MD, PhD, Pablo A. Bejarano, MD, Mikhail Lisovsky, MD, PhD, Kelsey E. McHugh, MD, Jennifer Vazzano, DO, Maurice B. Loughrey, MD, FRCPath, Maria Westerhoff, MD, Oyedele Adeyi, MBBS, Bashar Kamaleldin Ahmad Aldaraiseh, MBBS, Osman Yilmaz, MD, Lindsay Alpert, MD, M. Lisa Zhang, MD, Kristen M. Stashek, MD, David Ilan Suster, MD, Camila C. Simoes, MD, Won-Tak Choi, MD, PhD, Xuefeng Zhang, MD
Stowell-Orbison - Liver Pathology
“Clinicopathological Correlation in Patients with Increased Liver Enzymes After Duodenal Switch Surgery”
Duke Pathology Authors: Grace Kwon, MD, PhD, PGY-3, Fengming Chen, MD, PhD
Other Authors: Reeti Gulati, MD, Amreen Dinani, MD
“Prognostic Indicators of Histologic Variations in Signet Ring Cell Colorectal Carcinoma”
Duke Pathology Author: Wei Chen, MD
Other Authors: Yeon-Whan Choe, DO, Eunice Chou, MD, PhD, Tanya Sajan Ponnatt, MBBS, Raul S. Gonzalez, MD
Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology
“Use of p53 Immunohistochemistry Can Improve Diagnostic Agreement for Differentiated Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia (dVIN): An International Reproducibility Study”
Duke Pathology Author: Maria Angelica Selim, MD
Cytopathology
"Spindle Cell Lesions in Cytology: Risks of Malignancy and Application of the Upcoming World Health Organization Reporting System for Soft Tissue Cytopathology”
Duke Pathology Authors: Wen-Chi Foo, MD, Natalie Ellis, MD, PGY-3
Other Authors: Shatavisha Dasgupta, MD, PhD, Anne-Sophie Van Rompuy, MD, PhD, Debra S. Heller, MD, Demaretta Rush, MD, James Scurry, FRCPA, Jennifer M. Roberts, MBBS, Joost Bart, MD, PhD, Koen Van de Vijver, MD, PhD, Lex Makkus, MD, Loew, Kooreman, MD, Mahfooz Basha Mohamed, MD, FRCPath, Mieke R. Van Bockstal, MD, MD, Radhika Srinvasan, MD, PhD, Russell A. Ball, MD, Suzanne Wilhelmus, MD, PhD,Senada Koljenovic, MD, PhD, Patricia C. Ewing-Graham, MD, FRCPath, Folkert J. van Kemenade, MD, PhD, Maaike Bleeker, MD, PhD, Christine Bergeron, MD, Maria Carmen Rodriguez Alvarez, MD, Rupali Arora MD, FRCPath
Pulmonary, Mediastinal, Pleural, and Peritoneal Pathology
“Histopathologic Comparison Between Post-COVID-19 Pulmonary Fibrosis and Connective Tissue Disease-related Interstitial Lung Disease (CTD-ILD)”
Duke Pathology Author: Huihua Li, MD, PhD
Other Authors: Emily Symes, MD, Aliya N. Husain, MBBS, Jeffrey S. Mueller, DO
Cardiovascular Pathology
Duke Pathology Authors: Huihua Li, MD, PhD, Jadee Neff, MD, PhD, Carolyn Glass, MD, PhD
Other Authors: Christopher Lee Holley, MD, PhD
Pathobiology and Emerging Techniques
“Prevalence of CD274 Amplification by PGDx elio Solid Tumor NGS and Concordance with PD-L1 IHC Testing”
Duke Pathology Authors: Grace Kwon, MD, PhD, Kristen Deak, PhD, Stefan Rentas, PhD, Jadee Neff, MD PhD
Liver Pathology
“When to Consider AIH-PBC Overlap Syndrome in the Pathology Report”
Duke Pathology Authors: Wei Chen, MD, Fengming Chen, MD, PhD
Head and Neck Pathology
“Computational Characterization of Immune Dysregulation in Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma”
Duke Pathology Author: Kyle Lafata, PhD
Other Authors: Breylon Riley, MSc, Xiang Li, MS, Casey Claire Heirman, MS Bsc, Jack Stevens, MSc, MS, Tammara Watts, MD, PhD
Pathology of the Pancreas, Gallbladder, Ampulla, and Extra-Hepatic Biliary Tree
“Diffuse Expression of p16 in the Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors and the Association of Morphology Variants”
Duke Pathology Authors: John Yablonski, MD, Chanjuan Shi, MD, PhD, Wei Chen, MD
“Machine Learning-Based Detection of Intestinal Metaplasia Identifies Clinically Missed Cases”
Duke Pathology Authors: John A. Willis, MD, MSc, PGY-4, Avani A. Pendse, MD, PhD, William R. Jeck, MD
Other Authors: Gengming Chen, MD, Katherine S. Garman, MD
Other Participation
Benjamin Chu, MD, PGY-1, attended the CAP Residents Forum as Duke’s resident forum representative on Sat., March 22nd.
Some department members gathered for dinner in the Oceanaire Seafood Room: former Duke resident Bangchen Wang, MD, PhD, who is a current fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Dr. Eunhyang Park, a Duke visiting scholar for the Division of AI and Computational Pathology from Yonsei Medical Center (Republic of Korea), Jadee Neff, MD, Duke Faculty).