PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 25   —  1:00 PM   —  Cotillion South


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Section E - GASTROINTESTINAL PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Audrey Lazenby and Robert Riddell



1:00 Histological Grading of Disease Activity in Chronic IBD: Inter- and Intra-Observer Variation among Pathologists with Different Levels of Experience (533)
MI Fiel, L Qin, A Suriawinata, R Xu, L Qui, M Bitar, L Lee, N Harpaz
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
1:15 CMV Infection: A Significant Cause of Steroid-Refractory Ulcerative Colitis (558)
N Kambham, R Vij, C Cartwright, T Longacre
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1:30 The Clinical Significance of Focal Active Colitis in Pediatric Patients (619)
W Xin, PI Brown, JK Greenson
University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
1:45 Recurrent Crohn's Disease in Allogeneic Small Intestinal Transplant Grafts (547)
N Harpaz, Y Tao, T Fishbein
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2:00 Pitfalls in Diagnosing Gastrointestinal Graft Versus Host Disease: A Clinicopathologic Analysis of 188 Biopsies (607)
JR Steinhauer, BR Thompson, NC Jhala, DE Salzman, CM Wilcox, AJ Lazenby
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
2:15 KIT Negative Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (579)
F Medeiros, A Duensing, JL Hornick, AM Oliveira, JA Fletcher, CDM Fletcher
Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2:30 Intestinal Neuronodysplasia and Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor (GANT) in Neurofibromatosis and Other Neoplastic Syndromes (580)
K-W Min, IS Seo
Deaconess Hospital, Oklahoma City, OK; Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2:45 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION IV - Exhibit Hall A - C
4:00 BUSINESS MEETING - MARRIOTT BALLROOM
4:35 AWARD PRESENTATIONS
Stowell-Orbison, Autopsy, Castleman and Vogel Awards
Distinguished Pathologist Award - Richard Kempson
F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award - Elaine S. Jaffe
President's Award - Kamal Ishak
Young Investigator Award - Julia A. Bridge
5:00 MAUDE ABBOTT LECTURE - James R. Downing
Oncogenic Transcription Factors in Acute Leukemia
5:50 WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION - MARRIOTT BALLROOM FOYER