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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


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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