PROFFERED PAPERS Tuesday, March 27   —  1:00 PM   —  CC 1 A/B Click on the blue numbers in parentheses to display abstracts. Click the button next to any title to add to Itinerary Planner... ...then notice the 'Event Added' prompt in the toolbar above as feedback:   Section C - GASTROINTESTINAL PATHOLOGY Chaired by: Laura Lamps and Amy Noffsinger Time Title and Authors Itinerary Planner 1:00 Immunostains for CDX-2 and Monoclonal CEA Can Distinguish Crushed Benign Gastric Cells and Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma (522) SK Halat, W Xin, WW Liu Case Western University, Cleveland, OH Add 1:15 High Fidelity Image Cytometry in Neoplastic Lesions in Barrett“s Esophagus, Including Basal Crypt Dysplasia-Like Atypia with Surface Maturation (597) X Zhang, Q Huang, R Goyal, RD Odze VA Boston Health Care System, Boston, MA; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Add 1:30 “Advanced” Adenomas: Pathologists Don’t Agree (514) CP Golembeski, BJ McKenna, HD Appelman University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Add 1:45 Patterns of Immunohistochemical Expression of Folate Receptor alpha in Colorectal Epithelium and Its Neoplasms (557) JR Nitzkorski, PB Paty, DS Klimstra, PS Low, LH Tang, WA Franklin, FG Prendergast, L Murphy, RG Landmann, MR Weiser, WD Wong, J Shia Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY Add 2:00 Growth Pattern-Based Method of Colon Cancer Grading: A Novel Alternative To Estimating Tumor “Differentiation” (482) MW Bennett, M Redston, RD Odze Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Add 2:15 Increased Expression of g -H2AX in the Proliferative Stem Cell Compartment of the Colon in Ulcerative Colitis: A Marker of DNA Damage (516) J Grau, KS Gustafson, T Pasha, EE Furth University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Add 2:30 Assessment of Mucin Pools in Rectal Carcinoma Post Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy (548) M McManus, D Klimstra, J Guillem, T Leibold, Q Zhou, L Tang, E Riedel, W Wong, J Shia Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY Add 2:45 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION IV Coffee Break sponsored by PathSync   4:00 BUSINESS MEETING - Convention Center 6 A/B/C/F Add 4:40 AWARD PRESENTATIONS Stowell-Orbison, Autopsy, Surgical Pathology, Castleman and Vogel Awards Distinguished Pathologist Award - Peter Burger F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award - Victor Reuter President's Award - James P. Crimmins Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award - Arul M. Chinnaiyan Add 5:10 MAUDE ABBOTT LECTURE - Virginia A. LiVolsi C Cell Lesions of the Thyroid: From Discovery to Molecular Biology Add 6:00 WINE and CHEESE RECEPTION - Randle Ballroom/Foyer Terrace Sponsored by Quest Diagnostics Add