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2016 ASCP AWARDS ASCP President's Award Established in 2009, the President's Award honors outstanding ASCP members who have gone above and beyond their duties and performed exceptional service for the profession. Robert McKenna, MD, MASCP Dr. McKenna
ASCP Masterships This designation serves to honor those distinguished ASCP members who have made significant contributions to the field of pathology and laboratory medicine and to ASCP. Eligibility is based on years of ASCP membership, significant career accomplishments, and contributions to the Society and to the profession. Rebecca Johnson, MD, MASCP Steven Kroft, MD, MASCP Walter Oliveira, MASCP, MLS(ASCP)CM,SI
Donna Castellone, MS, MASCP, MT(ASCP) SH Bruce Smoller, MD, MASCP Perthena Latchaw, MS, MASCP, MLS(ASCP)CM
Dr. Johnson
Dr. Kroft
Dr. Smoller
Ms. Castellone
Ms. Latchaw
Mr. Oliveira
H.P. Smith Award for Distinguished Pathology Educator
This prestigious award is given to an ASCP Fellow member who has had an exemplary career in pathology and laboratory medicine, embracing education, research, and administration, as well as service to organized
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2016 Award Winners pathology. Robert Hartsock, MD, FASCP
Israel Davidsohn Award for Distinguished Service
This award recognizes an ASCP Fellow who has made significant contributions to the Society by participating in several leadership roles throughout his or her career. Robert Goulart, MD, FASCP
Philip Levine Award for Outstanding Research
This award honors ASCP members who have made a significant contribution to molecular pathology, immunohematology, and/or immunopathology research. Carlo Brugnara, MD, FASCP
Ward Burdick Award for Distinguished Service to Pathology
This award honors an ASCP member who has made a significant contribution to pathology through sustained service to the profession and the Society. LoAnn Peterson, MD, MASCP
ASCP Member Excellence in Education Award
This award honors recipients for their achievements in education. JoAnn Fenn, MS, MASCP, MT(ASCP)
ASCP Member Excellence in Management Award
This award honors recipients for their active engagement in laboratory management and demonstrated skills and management strategies. Barbara Caldwell, MS, MLS(ASCP)CMSHCM
ASCP Member Lifetime Achievement Award
This award recognizes recipients for their accomplishments, spirit, and Society activities throughout their careers, as well as for their commitment to the laboratory medicine profession. Linda Fell, MS, MASCP, MT(ASCP)SH
Mentorship Award Established in 2014, this award honors ASCP members who have demonstrated excellence in mentoring by providing support, encouragement and promoting the field of pathology to students/residents. Kathleen BecanMcBride, EdD, MASCP, MT(ASCP)CMSHCM
Academic Excellence and Achievement Resident Representative Leadership in Pathology "Gold" Award Award Emily Rachelle McMullen, MD University of Michigan https://www.ascp.org/content/2016/2016awardwinners
Emilio Madrigal, DO Mount Sinai Health System
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2016 Award Winners University of Michigan
Mount Sinai Health System Stephanie Skala, MD University of Michigan
Regional Member Awards
40 Under Forty Top 5
Midwest: Sarlanda Calip, HTL(ASCP)CM
Christina Arnold, MD, FASCP
North Central: Michelle Campbell, MLS(ASCP)CM Dana Bostic, MBA, MLS(ASCP)CM Northeast: Michael Sovocool, PA(ASCP)CM
Michelle Campbell, MLS(ASCP)CM
Northwest: Robin Bell, MLT(ASCP)CM
Roseann Wu, MD, MPH, FASCP
Southeast: Michael Mazzotta, PA(ASCP)CM
HoiYing (Elsie) Yu, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Southwest: Mokpokpo Adzitso, MLS(ASCP)CM
Choosing Wisely Champions This award recognizes clinicians as well as teams of clinicians and their commitment to the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation's Choosing Wisely Campaign. The campaign's ideals are intended to reduce test overuse and to encourage clinicians and patients to question which tests are really necessary to reduce test overuse and improve the nation's healthcare system. Henry Ford Health System, Detroit
CedarsSinai Health System, Los Angeles Scott Weingarten, MD
Ilan Rubinfeld, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer
Associate Chief Medical Officer Advocate BroMenn and Eureka Hospitals, Normal, IL
Ellen Klapper, MD, FASCP Medical Director, Division on Transfusion
Dana Altenburger, MD, FASCP Medical Director of the Laboratory
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston Jason Baron, MD, FASCP Anand Dighe, MD, PhD John Branda, MD
Geisinger Medical Laboratories Test Utilization Committee, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa. Conrad Schuerch, MD Chairman, Department of Laboratory
Jordan Olson, MD
Medicine
Director of Laboratory Preanalytics
Kelly Baldwin, MD Neurology
Dean Parry, RPh
Brandi Bradrick
Bonnie Salbert, DO
Laboratory Financial Manager
Pediatric Genetics
Jeanene Contreras
Wayne Short, SCPM Laboratory IT Program Director
Core Laboratory Manager
AVP Pharmacy Clinical Informatics
Harold Harrison, MD, PhD Clinical Pathology Director
Patricia Tsang, MD
N. Sertac Kip, MD, PhD
Marc Williams, MD
Molecular Pathology
Director Genomics Medicine Institute
Troy Klinger
Mike Weaver, MT(ASCP)
Program Director IT
Analytical Specialist, Referred Testing
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Laboratory Medical Director
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2016 Award Winners Bret Yarczower, MD Sr. Medical Director, Geisinger Health Plan
Philip Krebs Director Medical Policy and Appeals, Geisinger Health Plan Diana Kremitske, MS, MHA, MT (ASCP) VP Laboratory Operations
Oral Abstract Winners and Finalists The following individuals are finalists in the Oral Abstract award competition taking place during ASCP 2016. Oral Abstract finalists are identified by blue ribbons on their posters. Winning Abstract:
MOOC for PAPS: An Electronic Educational
Using a Laboratory Developed Algorithm for the Diagnostic Optimization of Anemia
Module Building Exercise to Train Cytoscreeners, Making Pap Smears Available
Peter Munk, BS
in Resource Limited Settings Rajan Dewar, MD, PhD Are AntiNMDAR Encephalitis Related Ovarian Teratomas Distinct? Possible Role of Immunopathological Pathway
Identification of Clinically Relevant
Mycobacterial Species after Extended Smita Patel, MD Incubation Times in the BACTECTM MGITTM System
Mayo Clinic Pathways: A Collaborative
Bryan Rea, MD
Platform for Global Pathology Education Andrew Norgan, MD, PhD
Free Prostatic Specific Antigen Utilization Practices Ron B. Schifman, MD
Pap Test Result Trends in an Inner City Setting, A Longitudinal Study Amir Momeni Boroujeni, MD
Use of ProstateSpecific Antigen Test in a 98 Million National Sample of Privately Insured and Medicare Supplemental Patients, 2009 2014 Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Poster Presentation Winners and Finalists The following individuals are finalists in the "Best Poster" award competition taking place during ASCP 2016. Best Poster finalists are identified by blue ribbons on their posters.
Best Scientific Poster Winner and Finalists Winning Poster:
Preneoplastic and Neoplastic Endometrial
Functional Genomics Approaches to
Lesions are Associated with Loss Of BAP1
Elucidate the Role of Breast Cancer Specific
Expression by Immunohistochemistry
Mutations in GATA3 Paraic A. Kenny, PhD
M. Andrew Toussaint Variable Alpha Thalassemia/Mental Retardation Syndrome XLinked (ATRX) Immunohistochemical Expression Among
High Prevalence of Monoclonal Gammopathy Among Patients with Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Aishwarya Ravindran, MBB Differentiating Intrarenal Ectopic Adrenal Tissue from Renal ClearCell Carcinoma Mustafa Yousif
Gliomas By Histologic Type: An Institution's Experience Kim Mayhall, MD Importance of ParaAortic Lymph Node Biopsy in Type II Endometrial Carcinomas with Negative Sentinel Lymph Nodes Kristin Sticco
Assessment of the Immune The 4Kscore Test® without Digital Rectal Microenvironment in Estrogen Receptor Examination Information Accurately Identifies Positive Invasive Breast Cancers and its Men with Aggressive Prostate Cancer Correlation to Clinicopathologic Parameters Mohit Mathur, MD, PhD Laura Favazza https://www.ascp.org/content/2016/2016awardwinners
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2016 Award Winners Laura Favazza Improving Workflow Efficiency in Anatomic
Rapid and Significant Reduction in Liver Steatosis After Transplant
Pathology Laboratories Through Information Extraction and Analytics
Richard S. Mangus, MD
Shohei Ikoma, MD
Characterization of Human Adenovirus
Cytomegalovirus is Associated with Decrease
Serotypes Infection in Clinical Specimens
Survival of Patients with Colon Cancer
from Immunodeficient Patients at NYPH Patrick McIntire, MD
Piotr Religa, MD, PhD
Whole Slide Imaging For HER2/Neu HSP27 Expression Associated with Luminal Immunohistochemistry: Reproducibility Study Subtypes of Breast Ductal Carcinomas in for Digital and Paired Glass Slide African American Women Interpretation Farhan A. Khan Amir Momeni Boroujeni, MD
Best Resident Poster Winner and Finalists Winning Poster:
Renal Tumors in Allograft Kidneys and
Predictive Value of Hypogammaglobulinemia Association with BK Polyomavirus Infection in Monoclonal Gammopathies Detected by Reflex Immunofixation of Serum Protein
Hussein Alnajar Chromosome 17 Aneuploidy Does Not Confer a Worse Prognosis in Breast Cancer Patients
Electrophoresis Samples David M. Manthei
Less Than Forty Years Old Alexis Bousamra
How Do Point of Care Testing (POCT) Histopathologic Parameters Predict Clinical Programs Handle Request for New Services? Outcome in DownStaged Pancreatic Cancer Andy Mazzara, MS Patients With Previously Unresectable Hyaline Globules Within Kupffer Cells in Tumors Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Viral
Allison Goldberg
Infection CD30 Staining in Pediatric Neoplasms, Study Nahir CortesSantiago of 586 Cases HSP90 Expression Associated With HER2 Jinjun Cheng, MD Overexpressing Breast Ductal Carcinomas in Clinicopathologic Correlation of 60 Cases of African American Women Lupus Nephritis with TubuloReticular
Farhan A. Khan
Inclusions Ghassan Tranesh, MD TCTE3 is a Novel Marker for Pancreatobiliary Tumors Chaohui L. Zhao, MD, PhD
Best Lab Practice Poster Winner and Finalists Winning Poster:
An EvidenceBased Study to Improve
One Pathologist, a Senior Clinical Analyst and Utilization of CReactive Protein and Communication: Successful Pathologist
Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Testing and
Driven Laboratory Clinical Utilization in a Community Hospital
Reduce Unnecessary Concurrent Orders Ayaz Ghani, MD
Dana Altenburger, MD, FASCP
Team Zika: How Northwell Health Laboratories Expedited the Collection, Handling and Transportation for Testing of
Driving Improvement in Outpatient Phlebotomy Wait Times Through Data,
Zika Virus Specimens Edmund R. Giugliano, PhD
Systems and Behaviors
MYC and BCL2 Gene Rearrangements in
Anthony Simonetti, MD, MBA
Comparison to MYC and BCL2 Protein
An Approach for Accurate Molecular Diagnosis of Highly Homologous SDHA Gene https://www.ascp.org/content/2016/2016awardwinners
Expression in AIDSrelated Diffuse Large B cell Lymphomas
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2016 Award Winners Diagnosis of Highly Homologous SDHA Gene Anna S. Nam, MD Vahid Bahrambeigi The Association of Sevelamer Crystals with
Compliance with LAST Recommendations for
Severe Gastrointestinal Tract Damage and
Adjunct p16 IHC Assessment in "High Risk"
Perforation
Cervical Biopsies
Yuanxin Liang
Emily B. Rostlund, MD
Using SignaltoCutoff Ratio to Improve 4th Generation Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Logistic Regression Modeling: Statistically Driven Stewardship of Anaplasma
Diagnostics
Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing by
Taylor Jenkins, MD
Complete Blood Count and Basic Metabolic Profile Thomas JS. Durant, MD
Best International Poster Winner and Finalists Winning Poster:
Assessment of ShortTerm Individual
Investigation of the Bioactive Properties and Variation of Osmolality Based on Serial Hypoglycemic Effects of Ethanol, Hexane and Patient Measurements Ethyl Ethanonate Extractsfrom Kondol Leaves Mireille Kattar, MD (Benincasa hispida Cogniaux)
Prognostic Value of Immunoscoring in
Elvie Arriola, MT
Primary Cutaneous Melanoma by Immunohistochemistric Evaluation of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes Samira Mortazavi, MD
The Epidemiology of Laboratory Confirmed Rubella cases in Oromia Region, Ethiopia,
Tissues From Hip And Knee Replacement
20102015: Data from the Measles Case
Surgery: Pathology Or Disposal?
Based Surveillance System. Dejenie Shiferaw Teklu
Karen Cormier, BSc, CT(ASCP)
Optimal Utilization of Cytotechnologists' Testing of Fungal Species Isolated in Anguilla Screening Skills and Time in Gynecologic and For Antimicrobial Effect of Their Secondary NonGynecologic Cytology Metabolites
Karen Cormier, BSc, CT(ASCP)
Adekunle Sanyaolu, PhD Diagnostic Characterization of Gliomas by Plasma Von Willebrand Factor Antigen And
Combined Expression of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase and Internexin Alpha in
Soluble Thrombomodulin Levels in Male Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome at Diagnosis
Gliomas M. I. Basheer, MBBS
Durjoy Kumar Shome, MD A Histologic Approach to Qualify Lung Tissue Damage in a Sheep Model of Transfusion Related Lung Injury: Role of Red Blood Cell Storage Duration and HeatTreatment Elise K. Roche, BS
Best Education Practice Poster Winner and Finalists Winning Poster: Rapid Implementation of an OpenSource Virtual Microscopy Application for Pathology
Talc Granulomatosis, Munchausen's Syndrome, and Post Autopsy Jurisdictional Transfer: The Crucial Necessity of Hospital
Resident Education Andrew Norgan, MD, PhD
Autopsy Death Investigation Jennifer L. Kasten, MD, MSc, MSc Improving Patient Care through Resident Readiness: Pre Anatomic Pathology Call
Simulation Workshop Histologic Features of Idiopathic Noncirrhotic Xinhai Zhang, MD Portal Hypertension in Incidental Liver Biopsies and Their Implication for Practicing Pathologists Chunlai Zuo, MD https://www.ascp.org/content/2016/2016awardwinners
Arsenic Trioxide in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia and Associated Bone Marrow
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2016 Award Winners Chunlai Zuo, MD Severe Persistent Marrow Aplasia In Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML): An Unusual Complication of Imatinib Mitul Modi, MBBS, DCP
Changes Asim Ahmad, MD Carbonic Anhydrase (CAIX) Expression as Diagnostic Aid in Epithelial Ovarian Cancers and Its Clinical Implication Taliya Farooq
Optimization of Pathology Residency Schedules in Accordance with the American A Lesson in Laboratory Test Utilization Board of Pathology Blueprints and College of Management: Reduction of Factor V Leiden American Pathologists Reports Genotype Orders Amir Ghorbani, MD Sarah Daccarett, MD Improving the Pathology Reports Dictation Ramin Zargham
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