Date: Thursday, June 28, 2018
Time: 2 PM to 3 PM ET (11 AM to Noon PT)
Objectives
- Discuss the usage and interpretation of MMR and MSI testing for colon carcinoma and endometrial carcinoma for Lynch syndrome.
- Discuss the usage and interpretation of MMR and MSI testing as a predictive marker for solid tumors.
- Discuss advantages and disadvantages of MMR vs. MSI as testing modalities.
About Our Speakers
Dr. Neal S. Goldstein
Senior Pathologist
Dr. Neal S. Goldstein completed his residency at UCLA and surgical pathology fellowship at Barnes Hospital/Washington University. He was a staff anatomic pathologist and director of immunohistochemistry laboratory at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI for 14 years and director of the anatomic molecular laboratory for seven years. He has published 130 peer-reviewed articles and five book chapters. He has taught numerous courses at the ASCP, USCAP, and CAP and served on numerous consensus conferences over his 21 years of practice. He was part of the Gynecology Oncology Group Pathology committee for 10 years and USCAP education committee for four years. He has given talks throughout the United States at many state and city pathology societies and throughout the world. Dr. Goldstein’s primary diagnostic interests lie in the areas of breast, gastrointestinal, gynecologic, liver, and molecular pathology and immunohistochemistry.
Dr. Lawrence M. Weiss
Medical Director (Aliso Viejo, California) and Director of Pathology Services
Dr. Lawrence M. Weiss received his BS summa cum laude and M.D. summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He completed a residency in Anatomic Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a fellowship in surgical pathology at Stanford University Medical Center. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Stanford, President of the Medical Staff, and Chairman of Pathology at the City of Hope. He is the author of over 500 papers and book chapters, as well as over a dozen books, including an AFIP Lymph Node Fascicle, Applied Immunohistochemistry, Lymph Nodes, and Knowles’ Hematopathology. His laboratory discovered the first molecular evidence linking the Epstein-Barr virus with Hodgkin Lymphoma. He has won numerous awards, including the Benjamin Castleman, Arthur Purdy Stout, and the United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology Young Investigator Award, and has delivered more than 250 national and international talks in pathology, including several named lectureships. He is on the editorial board of ten scientific journals, and is a past President of the Los Angeles Society of Pathologists. He has been listed in the book The Best Doctors in America since 1994. Dr. Weiss’s diagnostic interests lie in lymph node pathology, adrenal pathology, solid tumor pathology, and immunohistochemistry.
