24 September 2021: Weekly Roundup #65

This is what’s new on PathologyOutlines.com:

1. CAP 2021

Visit us at CAP ’21 this Sunday to Tuesday, Booth #214.

2. New Editorial Board Member for Pancreas Pathology

Dr. Wei Chen was appointed to our Editorial Board for Pancreas Pathology. Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Director of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Pathology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. She obtained her M.D. at Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing, China. After earning a Ph.D. at Oregon State University in Corvallis, she completed a Pathology residency and a GI/Liver Pathology fellowship at The Ohio State University. Dr. Chen’s research focuses on pancreaticobiliary / liver pathology, Lynch syndrome and computer aided diagnostics.

3. Focus Groups

Are you interested in participating in industry focus groups, typically with an honorarium? Sign up for our Directory at https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/directorysignup.html and answer “Y” for the focus group question. Also, all who register for the Directory by October 31, 2021 are entered into our drawing for $50 and $100 gift cards.

4. What’s New in Pathology Newsletter

Our next What’s New in Pathology newsletter is on Molecular Pathology. Sign up to receive it at https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/subscribe.html.

5. Case of the Month #507

Case #507 was posted on September 16. You can sign up for our monthly case newsletters and more at https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/subscribe.html.

20 August 2021: Weekly Roundup #60

This is what’s new on PathologyOutlines.com:

1. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists Contest

To celebrate PathologyOutlines.com’s 20th anniversary and as an additional service to the pathology community, we created a Worldwide Directory of Pathologists. We have reached 500 entries and would like to invite every pathologist to sign up and tell us (and fellow colleagues) their favorite image, words of wisdom, fun facts and other interesting information about themselves.

To make this even more exciting, we are announcing a drawing with one $100 prize and five $50 prizes (Amazon or Starbucks gift cards) for joining by October 31, 2021. You can enter by signing up via our survey. Winners will be chosen at random.

2. New Directory Sorting Option

We have a new Directory sorting option: Favorite Images By Subspecialty

3. Case of the Month #506

Case #506 was posted on August 19. You can sign up for our monthly case newsletters and more here.

4. Detroit College Promise

Dr. Pernick and PathologyOutlines.com are proud to have started the Detroit College Promise scholarship program for Detroit Public Schools’ students, which is now managed by the DPS Foundation.

Earlier this month, the DPS Foundation awarded scholarships to 52 hardworking, deserving DPS graduates. A special thanks to donors for their unwavering support, making possible awards of $1,000 – $2,500. The ceremony was hosted at Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior High School. Family members attended in person and virtually. Ms. India Flournoy, a 2019 Detroit College Promise recipient currently at Oakland University, brought words of encouragement.

Students are attending Michigan colleges, universities and community colleges, as well as Historically Black Colleges and Universities.  We are extremely proud of these young people who persevered during a year of uncertainty and disruption.

To support next year’s graduates, please donate at https://www.classy.org/campaign/detroit-college-promise/c256730.

Click here for the Scholarship Awards Program and Pledge.

5. Link Checking

PathologyOutlines.com is starting another round of link checking all of our textbook chapters. If you find a broken link that we missed, please email us at CommentsPathout@gmail.com.

16 April 2021: Weekly Roundup #45

This is what’s new on PathologyOutlines.com:

1. New Editorial Board Member for Breast Pathology

Dr. Kristen E. Muller was appointed to our Editorial Board for Breast Pathology. Dr. Muller is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where she is the Director of the Breast Pathology Service and specializes in breast and gynecologic pathology.  She obtained her D.O. at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She completed a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  She subsequently did a fellowship in breast pathology at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

2. New Editorial Board Member for Hematopathology

Dr. Roberto N. Miranda was appointed to our Editorial Board for Hematopathology. Dr. Miranda is a Professor in the Department of Hematopathology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He obtained his M.D. at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, then completed a pathology residency at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and a Hematopathology fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He worked as a General Pathologist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City before moving to MD Anderson, where he deals with neoplastic bone marrow and lymph node pathology and has a particular interest in T cell lymphomas. Dr. Miranda has expertise in the diagnosis and research on breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma.

3. Case #502

Case #502 was posted on April 15. You can also sign up for our monthly case newsletters and more here.

4. Medical News Page

Our Medical News page has been updated with a new item from ELITechGroup – Standardizing the Hematology Stain Workflow – White Paper.

5. American Code Against Cancer

Dr. Pernick welcomes your comments on the American Code Against Cancer he has developed. Contact him at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com with any suggestions.

19 March 2021: Weekly Roundup #41

This is what’s new on PathologyOutlines.com:

1. New Deputy Editor for GI Pathology

Dr. Catherine Hagen has been appointed Deputy Editor for GI Pathology. She is originally from Minnesota and received an undergraduate degree at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph. She earned her medical degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, followed by an AP/CP pathology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire and a gastrointestinal pathology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Hagen then worked for several years as a gastrointestinal pathologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee before moving home to Minnesota and joining the faculty at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Her research interests include gastrointestinal GVHD, colorectal cancer and Barrett esophagus.

2. New Deputy Editor for Neuropathology

Congratulations to Dr. Chunyu “Hunter” Cai, our new Deputy Editor for Neuropathology.

3. Residency Director Spreadsheet

We have updated our residency director spreadsheet on the Jobs page.

4. Case #501

Case #501 was posted on March 18th. You can also sign up for our monthly case newsletters and more here.

5. “How Cancer Kills” Essay

Dr. Pernick is seeking comments on his latest essay, “How Cancer Kills”. Please email him at NatPernick@gmail.com.

You can also follow his Curing Cancer blog here or join his Curing Cancer Network here.

6. COVID-19 Library

We have posted 2 new articles in our COVID-19 library:

• British COVID-19 variant to become dominant U.S. strain within weeks: CDC, posted 16 March 2021
  
• Covid-19: The U.S. Has Its Own New Worrisome Variants, posted 16 March 2021

7. Social Media Icons

We have put our Social media icons in the footer on every page, as well as in the header.

17 February 2021: Case of the Month #500

Thanks to Dr. Sakinah A. Thiryayi and Dr. Gulisa Turashvili, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto (Canada) for contributing this case and writing the discussion and to Dr. Ricardo R. Lastra, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 52 year old woman was found to have an ovarian mass on computed tomography imaging and an elevated CA-125 of 234 U/mL (reference range: less than 46 U/mL). The mass was excised.

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All cases are archived on our website. To view them sorted by case number, diagnosis or category, visit our main Case of the Month page.

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15 January 2021: Weekly Roundup #32

This is what’s new on PathologyOutlines.com:

1. Dr. Pernick’s Curing Cancer Blog

Dr. Pernick has written his fourth essay about curing cancer based on complexity theory. Click here for a PDF download or read the essay here. You can also follow his blog for regular updates directly to your inbox. In part 3, he summarized recommendations on curative treatment for advanced adult cancers with a poor prognosis, such as lung and pancreatic cancer. In this essay, he discusses these principles of curative treatment in greater depth: network medicine, blocking multiple pathways, combinations of combinations of treatment, monitoring key networks, clinical trials and strong public health programs. He is happy to respond to comments or questions at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com.

See also Curing cancer, Part 1 – Reductionism vs. Complexity, Curing Cancer, Part 2 – Adult vs. Childhood Cancer and Curing Cancer – Part 3 – Curative cancer treatment based on complexity theory.

2. What’s New This Week Video

We have a new short video, This Week At PathologyOutlines.com, posted on our homepage and on our YouTube channel. We also have a text summary in the description box of the YouTube video if you are in a hurry.

3. New COVID-19 Article

Our COVID-19 library (click on “Libraries” in our site navigation, then select COVID-19 Library) has a new article, FDA Issues Alert Regarding SARS-CoV-2 Viral Mutation, posted 8 January 2021.

4. Case #499

Case #499 was posted on January 14. You can also sign up for our monthly case newsletters and more here.

5. Author Payment

As of September 2020, we stopped paying authors with 3+ topics, although we will honor payment to authors who wrote 3+ topics before the end of 2020. Please give us time to contact you about payment or feel free to contact us by 31 January 2021 at Authors@PathologyOutlines.com if you believe you are owed money for author topics.

6. Website Traffic in 2020

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, our website traffic was still up 3.5% in 2020 compared to 2019. Average traffic in 2020 was 40,628 visits / day, with over 32 million pageviews sitewide. As always thank you for your support and please contact us at CommentsPathOut@gmail.com with any suggestions on how to improve the website.

11 December 2020: Weekly Roundup #29

This is what’s new on PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. View Prior Jobs, Fellowships, Conferences Pages

We’ve posted versions of the Jobs, Fellowships, and Conferences pages as of December 1, 2020. If you need to look up a previous ad, we maintain these files as of the first of each month (or close to it). See files below:

As of December 1, 2020: Jobs, Fellowships, Conferences 

The format is the name of the file, plus yyyymm, where yyyy is the year and mm is the month.  For example, jobs posted as of December 1, 2020 are at http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/jobs202012.html.

Please contact us with any questions at CommentsPathOut@gmail.com.

2. Topic Dates

All topics list 2 dates: topic completion date and minor changes.

Topic Completed is when the topic was last reviewed / revised / rewritten, from top to bottom. This helps us decide when a topic needs to be rewritten. 

Minor changes indicates when any change was made, however small. It might be punctuation or a typo. It is useful to PathologyOutlines.com staff to tell us that something that needed to be completed was actually done.

See an example of topic dates below.

3. Case #498

Case #498 was posted on December 10. To view it, click here. You can also sign up for our monthly case newsletters and more on this page.

27 November 2020: Weekly Roundup #27

This is what’s new on PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. What’s New This Week

We have a new video, What’s New at PathologyOutlines.com in 90 seconds, posted on our homepage and on our YouTube channel. We also have a text summary if you are in a hurry.

2. New COVID-19 Article

Read the new article in our COVID-19 library: COVID-19 Antibodies May Provide Long-term Immunity, posted 24 November 2020; see also Science 2020 Oct 28 [Online ahead of print].

3. COVID-19 Pathology Related Experiences

Share your unique, interesting pathology related experiences concerning COVID-19 with pathologists around the world through PathologyOutlines.com. Email Dr. Pernick with up to 500 words about your experience at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com.

4. Talk to Us

How has PathologyOutlines.com been useful to you? Send us a 30 second video for possible posting on our YouTube page. You may email your video to Nat@PathologyOutlines.com or mention us on Twitter or Instagram.

5. Case of the Month #497

Our 497th case was posted last Thursday, 19th November. To view case #497, click here. You can also sign up for our monthly case newsletters and more on this page.

14 October 2020: Case of the Month #496

Thanks to Dr. Cheng Wang, Dalhousie University and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS (Canada) and the Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS) for contributing this case and discussion.

Clinical history:

A woman in her early 50s presented with multiple broad based bladder mucosal lesions seen on cystoscopic examination.

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All cases are archived on our website. To view them sorted by case number, diagnosis or category, visit our main Case of the Month page.

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16 September 2020: Case of the Month #495

Thanks to Dr. Tanner Storozuk and Dr. Jennifer A. Bennett, University of Chicago, Illinois (USA), for contributing this case and writing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 34 year old woman was found to have atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance on Pap smear. She underwent a cervical biopsy and the results are depicted below. She had a hysterectomy afterwards that showed residual disease. Pap smears for the following 3 years were negative.

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All cases are archived on our website. To view them sorted by case number, diagnosis or category, visit our main Case of the Month page.

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