Episodes
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Ian Hagemann
What we discuss with Dr Hagemann:
- His early interest in engineering, and eventually medicine, and some similarities between the two
- How he discovered pathology, and his subspecialties
- His role as Program Director of the Gynecologic and Breast Pathology Fellowship
- How he became involved in the workgroup to update the Selective Pathology Milestones
- The paper Advancing Fellowship Training in Selective Pathology: Design and Implementation of the Milestones 2.0 and some of the changes to the Milestones
- The Milestone Supplemental Guide
Links for this episode:
Bridging The Gap Between Pathology And Computer Science
Dr Ian Hagemann on Twitter
Dr Hagemann on Wash U Ob/Gyn Rocks Podcast
Washington University Department of Pathology and Immunology
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Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Today my guest is Pathology Fellow Dr Abdul Abid
What we discuss with Dr Abid:
- His path to medical school in Pakistan, and the specialties that were of interest
- What an observership is, and what it took to obtain them
- Why he chose to come to the US for pathology residency
- How and why he got involved in the Texas Society of Pathologists
- The CAP Residents Forum and how he became involved
- The subspecialties of pathology that he finds interesting
- How he uses Twitter and other formats as teaching tools
- The Follow Your Path podcast and how this idea developed
Links for this episode:
Dr Abdul Abid on Twitter
Follow Your Path on Twitter
From Hospital Halls to Popular Culture, Pathology in the Spotlight
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Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Today my guest is Dr Brittany Barreto
What we discuss with Dr Barreto:
- How she became interested in biology and genetics
- Her internship at Luminostics during her PhD program, and what she learned from that experience
- Her path as an entrepreneur, including founding Pheramor
- FemTech and what this means
- Women's health and diagnostics as it relates to cervical cancer screening, breast cancer screening, and endometriosis
- Medical gaslighting, and how to differentiate that from unnecessary testing
- The FemTech Focus Podcast, it's purpose, and target audience
Links for this episode:
Dr Brittany Barreto Website
Dr Barreto on Twitter
Femtech Focus on Twitter
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Monday Oct 03, 2022
Episode 130: David West - Proscia, Digital and Computational Pathology
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Today my guest is David West, CEO and Cofounder of Proscia
What we discuss with David:
- How he became interested in biomedical engineering and how he discovered pathology
- Starting Pathology Cloud and how that led to the founding of Proscia
- The mission of Proscia
- The Concentriq platform and some of its features
- How Concentriq can be used in both research and clinical settings
- The importance of interoperability in digital pathology
- Some of the partnerships between Proscia and other companies
- The automated QC feature and how this can save time and money
- His thoughts on the future of digital pathology
Links for this episode:
Proscia on Twitter
Proscia Website
David West of Proscia: Five Things You Need To Create A Highly Successful Startup
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Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Today my guest is David Tulman, Cofounder of Instapath
What we discuss with David:
- His background in clinical trials and bio innovation
- The beginnings of Instapath and the original goal
- The origin of the name of the Luci system, and what the system can do
- The innovative D&E virtual staining method
- Some of the clinical and research applications of the Instapath system
- Why it is important that this system doesn't destroy or alter the tissue
- His involvement with the Beyond the Scope podcast from the Digital Pathology Association
- His thoughts on the current state of digital pathology
Links for this episode:
Instapath on Twitter
Instapath Website
Tulane team wins International Business Model Competition
Beyond The Scope Podcast on Spotify
Targeting: College Football Podcast on Spotify
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Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Today my guest is Professor of Laboratory Medicine Dr Alan HB Wu
What we discuss with Dr Wu:
- How he became interested in clinical chemistry and analytical chemistry
- His post doctoral work and mentors
- How he became interested in toxicology and teaching
- How he got started in writing and his writing process
- His six books of short stories about laboratory medicine
- The plan to create a movie based on his book Mind Portal
- His further plan to create a television show focused on laboratorians
Links for this episode:
Dr Alan Wu website
Dr Wu's books on Amazon
Dr Wu on the Off The Bench podcast
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Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Today my guest is Medical Student Grace Li
What we discuss with Grace:
- How she became interested in forensic pathology and how she decided to go to medical school
- Why she decided to move to the US
- How she heard about the Angevine Fellowship
- An overview of the Fellowship
- Her experience in each of the rotations during the fellowship
Links for this episode:
Grace Li on Twitter
Enhancing preclinical year pathology exposure: the Angevine approach
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Monday Sep 05, 2022
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Roy Jensen
What we discuss with Dr Jensen:
- How he decided to go to medical school and how he chose a specialty
- Two of his mentors early in his career, and how he was influenced by them
- His research work in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes
- How he established a Cancer Center at the University of Kansas, and some of the work that goes into that
- Why he thinks being a pathologist helps him in this role
- The NCI designations for cancer centers and achieving his goal of Comprehensive Designation
- His thoughts on the future of cancer incidence
Links for this episode:
To NCI designation through difficulty: How KU’s Roy Jensen made it happen
Dr. Roy Jensen of The University of Kansas Cancer Center: Innovating to Break Cancer’s Grip
University of Kansas Cancer Center
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Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Today my guest is Genomic Medicine Researcher Dr Heidi Rehm
What we discuss with Dr Rehm:
- How she became interested in biology and genomics
- Studying the genetic basis of hearing loss, and why she thinks the cochlea is a thing of beauty
- How she got involved with the Broad Institute, and her work there
- Some of the barriers to the use of genetics in medicine
- Her thoughts on free data exchange among genomics researchers
- Matchmaker Exchange, and how it is important for genomics research
- The role of genomics in pathology, both now and in the future
- The Precision Health Meeting, and how she became involved
- How meetings such as this help promote technological advances in genomics
Links for this episode:
Laboratory Transformation Seasonal School
Dr Heidi Rehm on Twitter
Program for Medical and Population Genetics
“Matching” consent to purpose: The example of the Matchmaker Exchange
Matchmaker Exchange in Human Genetics
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Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Today my guest is Medical Laboratory Scientist Luis Plaza
What we discuss with Luis:
- How he discovered the medical laboratory field while in the Navy and training to be an MLT
- How he discovered his passion for microbiology and earning his MLS degree
- How he became interested in teaching
- How and why he started the Let's Talk Micro podcast
- The different types of episode formats he uses and how he prepares for these
- His favorite organism and why it is his favorite
- Future goals for Let's Talk Micro
Links for this episode:
Laboratory Transformation Seasonal School
Let's Talk Micro on Twitter
Let's Talk Micro on Instagram
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