POSTER SESSION II Monday, March 24, 2003   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Exhibit Hall A - C QUALITY ASSURANCE 197 The End of Pathology Research? The Potential Impact of Proposed Consent Requirements on Pathology Research (1451) DS O'Briain, EW Kay St James's Hospital and Trinity College Medical School, Dublin, Ireland; Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland 198 Evaluation of Surgical Pathology Competency in Pathology Residents: A Case-Based Approach (1448) BS Ducatman West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 199 Assessment of Diagnostic Discrepancies Identified by Pathologic Review of Gynecologic Oncology Patients (1452) RT Ogilvie, PS Craighead, P Ghatage, AM Magliocco, MA Duggan, JG Nation University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada 200 The Impact of a Rapid Tissue Processing Method on the Turn-around-Time of Surgical Pathology Reports: A Six-Month Experience at the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics (1449) M Jorda, C Gomez-Fernandez, R Romaguera, A Poniecka, P Ganjei-Azar University of Miami, Miami, FL 201 Feasibility Study of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Robotic Telepathology for Quality Control and Quality Assurance Programs (1446) AK Bhattacharyya, RA Klein, L Richter, KM Scott, J Fleishman, EA Krupinski, RS Weinstein University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ 202 Cost Effective Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry: A Three-Year Experience with 12,605 Cases (1450) M Nadji, B Werner, P Ganjei-Azar, AR Morales University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Medical Center, Miami, FL 203 Should the Status of Her-2 neu, Estrogen and Progesterone Receptor Be Reexamined in Excised Invasive Breast Carcinoma after Core Needle Biopsy? (1455) JF Silverman, CC Esber, P Cho, G Nathan, TB Julian, N Wolmark, YL Liu Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 204 Interobserver Variability of Immunohistochemistry Ordering in Cytology and the Need for Practice Guidelines (1454) RS Saad, KM Clary, YL Liu, CM Noga, DR Johnson, SS Raab Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 205 Validating HER-2 Assessment by Immunohistochemistry with the Use of Image Analysis (1447) KJ Bloom, L Assad US Labs, Irvine, CA; Rush Medical School, Chicago, IL 206 Digital Imaging Guidelines: A Proposal for General and Academic Use (1453) BS Pritt, PC Gibson, K Cooper Fletcher Allen Health Care; University of Vermont, College of Medicine, Burlington, VT