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2009 ASCP GIPS
Companion meeting: A Gholish Goulash of Gastrointestinal Pathology:
Wednesday Oct. 28, 7:00 pm - 10 pm. Chicago, IL
2009 Dues statements have been sent.
Please contact Hala El-Zimaity
if you have not received one.
GIPS Abstract Award Winners:
Rish Pai, MD, University of Chicago
Identification of
Histologically Unique Adenomas That Arise Predominately in Patients
with CIMP-Associated Polyps
Pai RK, Noffsinger A, Hart J
Camtu Truong, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Assessing HER-2/neu Protein Expression and Gene
Alteration in Gastric Cancer: Comparing
Arrayed Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH) Technique
with Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and Fluorescent In-Situ
Hybridization (FISH).
Truong CD, Feng W, Li W, Khoury T, Yao J, Xie K,
Tan D.
Runner up:
Maria Westerhoff, MD, University of Chicago
CD61, CD31 and CD34 Improve Diagnostic Accuracy in Gastric Antral
Vascular Ectasia and Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy
Westerhoff M, Noffsinger A, Miller J, Hart J
All pathology residents/fellows who are
presenting an abstract at the annual USCAP meeting in Boston in March 2009 were eligible to apply.
The award comprises of a certificate from GIPS and a sum of $500.
GIPS Travel Award Winners:
Soumya Pandey, MD, University of Tennessee Health
Sciences Center, Memphis, TN
Tanya Varma, MD, Louisiana State
University at Shreveport, LA
Xiaoping Zhou, MD, PhD,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Christina Arnold, MD, UT
Southwestern, Dallas, TX
The award comprises
of free registration to selected GI courses and a sum of $500 to
cover travel-related expenses. The courses currently offered are:
1)
Harvard
Medical School:
Gastrointestinal, Liver and Pancreatic Pathology, Boston, MA
(May 4-7, 2009)
http://www.cme.hms.harvard.edu/index.asp?SECTION=CLASSES&ID=00292624&SO=N
2) Johns
Hopkins: Current Topics in Gastrointestinal Pathology, Baltimore, MD
(Nov 7-8, 2009)
http://www.hopkinscme.edu/CourseDetail.aspx/80020846
3) American Society
for Clinical Pathology: Surgical Pathology of the GI tract, Annapolis, MD
(June 1-5, 2009)
http://www.ascp.org/ASCPStore/Store/MeetingsConferences/Pathologist/E091806.aspx
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