Residency and Fellowship Programs

Pathology Residency Program

Grand Rounds 2024

 

"Reach Out Before You Burnout"-Scott Embley, LCSW, EAP, and Aleyda Diaz, LMSW

 

"Navigating DEI in 2024"-Alicia Edwards, Vice Chancellor, Department of DEI

 

"Examining Health Disparities among Incarcerated Populations through a Pathology and Laboratory Medicine lens"-Alumni,  Nicole Jackson, MD, MPH

 

"November 2023, College of American Pathologists UMC Clinical Laboratory Inspection Deficiencies - Medical Director Response and Resolution"-Gordon Love, MD

 

"CAP/AABB Inspection Deficiencies and Responses”-Shaun Lawicki, MBBS

 

"High-Grade Follicular Cell-Derived Non-Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinomas”-Tracy Dewenter, MD

 

“Hemostasis and Transfusion Considerations in the Peripartum Period”-Angelle Jolly, MD (PGY1 Resident)

 

“Low-grade Serous Carcinoma: Understanding a Rare Ovarian Cancer”-Haibo Wang, MD, PhD (PGY2 Resident)

 

"Xylazine Abuse in the Deep South"-Michael Webber, DO (Chief Resident)

 

"Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Phenotypes of IgG4-Related Disease"-Jihuan Chen, MD, PhD (Chief Resident)

 

"Case-based presentation: Lessons Learned From Tricky Cases in GI pathology"-Zhiyan Fu, MD

 

"Ex Vivo Digital Microscopy: Current Tools and Future Research"-Sharon Fox, MD, PhD

 

“​Overview of the International Consensus Classification of Myeloid Neoplasms,
Acute Leukemias, and Mature Lymphoid Neoplasms”-Bushra Nazir, MD

 

"Providing Effective Feedback to Students, Residents, and Fellows"-Randy Sorge, MD

 

"FIGO 2023 Endometrial Cancer Staging: Highlights, Initial Impressions and Implications for the Future"-Ridin Balakrishnan, MD

 

"New Roles for the 'Useless' Appendix", Grace Athas, PhD

 

"Multiple Sclerosis: Laboratory Perspective"-Roy Rhodes, MD, PhD

 

"STK11 Adnexal Tumor: Recognition and Clinical Implications"-Asra Feroze, MBBS (PGY3)

 

"Diagnostic Methods for Blood Parasites”-Julia Rivera, MD (PGY3)

 

“Systemic Diseases Affecting the GI Tract: A Review of Clinical and Histopathologic Manifestations”-Liz Yang, MD (PGY4)

 

"Morphologic Variants of Endometrial Endometrioid Carcinoma of the Uterus and Their Mimickers"-Yu Liu, MD, PhD (PGY2)

“Pathology Medical Education: Theories and Methods”-Ellen Connor, MD, PhD

 

“A Year in the Life of the Immunohematology Reference Lab: A Review of Our Best Cases”-Shaun Lawicki, MBBS

 

"Sustainable Wellness", Michelle Moore, PsyD, ABPP

 

“Concealed Hematological Disorders”-Ayesha Younus, MBBS (PGY2)

 

Grand Rounds 2023

 

"Prioritzing Mental Health and Well Being for Healthcare Professionals"-Scott Embley, LCSW, CEAP

 

"RISE: A Pathology Residency Proram Self-Assesment"-Ellen Connor, MD, PhD

 

"Resident Learning Styles and Opinions"-Shaun Lawicki, MBBS

 

"Autoimmune disorders of the liver and bile ducts", Zaid Khreefa, MD, PGY3 Resident

 

"AI tools in pathology" , Julia Rivera, MD, PGY1 Resident

 

"Origins of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System", Michael Webber, DO, Captain, USAF, MC, PGY2 Resident

 

 "Controversies in appendiceal pathology: mucinous and goblet cell neoplasms", Wenjing Qiu, MD, PhD, Chief Resident

 

“Reviewing Histopathologic Features of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Evaluating Frozen Sections of Whipple Specimens”, Zhiyan Fu, MD

 

“Graft Versus Host Disease in Solid Organ Transplant”, Carolone Alquist, MD, PhD, F(ACHI), 2015 Alumni

 

“Novel Emerging Subtypes of Renal Cell Carcinoma”, Ritu Bhalla, MD

 

"Monoclonal Immunoglobulin-Related Renal Diseases", Alejandro Best, MD, Arkana Labs

 

“Germ Cell Tumors of the Testis-Related to Germ Cell Neoplasia In Situ”, Haibo Wang, BMBS, PhD, PGY2 Resident

 

“Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Dysplasia”, Liz Yang, MD, PGY3 Resident

 

“Epithelioid Mesenchymal Tumors of Gastrointestinal System”
Jihuan Chen, MB, PHD, PGY3 Resident

 

“Alpha-Gal Syndrome: An Overview”, Grace Athas, PhD

 

“Things Are Not Always What They Seem" - Deceptive Clinical Presentations Of Unusual Lymphomas. Some Examples With Discussion, Rachna Jetly, MD, MPH

 

"Challenging Cases in Coagulation", Emma Moss Lecture Series, Dr. William A. Rock, Jr., MD, Professor Emeritus University of Mississippi Medical Center 

 

"Human Polyomavirus JCPyV and its role in Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy and Oncogenesis", Luis Del Valle, MD

 

"Emergent and Massive Transfusion", Shaun Lawicki, MBBS

 

"Vexas Syndrome", Maryam Sadough, MD, Chief Resident

 

"Lobular Carcinoma in Situ of Breast-Variants and Management", Asra Feroze, MBBS, PGY2 Resident

 

"Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Lab Perspective ", Roy Rhodes, MD, PhD