ANNOUNCING THE 2008 PATHOLOGISTS-IN-TRAINING AWARDS



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- Poster as Presented at the USCAP 2008 Annual Meeting

STOWELL-ORBISON AWARDS:
Measuring Extent of DCIS in Breast Excision Specimens: A Comparison of Four Methods
AN Grin, G Horne, M Ennis, FP O'Malley
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Applied Statistician, Markham, ON, Canada
Utility of C4D Immunohistochemistry in Acute Myocardial Infarction
C Jenkins, D Cardona, S Normann
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
EGFR Gene Amplification Is Invariably Associated with Exon 19 Deletion in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
LM Sholl, AJ Iafrate, B Yeap, A Holmes, YP Chou, MT Wu, YG Goan, L Su, PA Jänne, DC Christiani, LR Chirieac
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Kaohsiung Veteran General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Clinical Significance of Morphometric Measurements of Melanoma Metastatic to Single Sentinel Lymph Nodes
R Yaar, A Page, A Hestley, K Delman, GW Carlson, C Cohen
Emory University, Atlanta, GA




STOWELL-ORBISON CERTIFICATES OF MERIT:
Impact of the New American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists Guidelines on the Determination of Breast Cancer HER2 Status
HL Gilmore, LC Collins, JL Connolly, SJ Schnitt
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
TMPRSS2: ETS Gene Fusions in Androgen Independent Metastatic Prostate Cancers: An Association of TMPRSS2: ERG Fusions through Intronic Deletions and Molecular Evidence of Clonal Expansion
R Mehra, SA Tomlins, L Wang, A Menon, KJ Pienta, AM Chinnaiyan, RB Shah
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Characterization of TMPRSS2-ERG Fusion High-Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Potential Clinical Implications
JM Mosquera, S Perner, EM Genega, M Sanda, MD Hofer, KD Mertz, PL Paris, J Simko, TA Bismar, G Ayala, RB Shah, M Loda, MA Rubin
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Med School, Boston, MA; Beth Israel Deaconess Med Centrr, Boston, MA; Univ of California, San Francisco, CA; McGill Univ, Montreal, QC, Canada; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI




AUTOPSY PATHOLOGY AWARD:
Sudden Cardiac Death in Non-Cardiac Primary Hematolymphoid Malignancy
KM Jones, EN Pavlikso, LR DiBernardo
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC




SURGICAL PATHOLOGY AWARD:
Lessons Learnt from Mistakes and Deferrals in Frozen Section Diagnosis of Pulmonary Lesions: An Evidence Based Pathology Approach
R Gupta, AS Khuranna, RJ McKenna, AM Marchevsky
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, LA, CA



COMPANION SOCIETY AWARDS


HANS POPPER HEPATOPATHOLOGY SOCIETY
Validation of a Feature Recording System for Hepatic Graft-Versus-Host Disease
H Mani, DE Kleiner
NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD




RENAL PATHOLOGY SOCIETY
Synergistic Effects of AcSDKP and Angiotensin Receptor Blocker on Repressing Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) Expression in Early Renal Interstitial Fibrosis
Yiqin Zuo, SA Potthoff, PR Tennant, H-C Yang, L-J Ma, AB Fogo
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN




SOCIETY FOR HEMATOPATHOLOGY
Analysis of DNA Methylation and Histone H3 Trimethylation at Lysine 27 (H3K27me3) in Myelodysplastic Syndrome with a Novel Sequential Methylated DNA Immunoprecipitation and Sequential Chromatin-Immunoprecipitation Technology: A Pilot Study of Refractory Cytopenia with Multilineage Dysplasia
JX Cheng, J Anastasi, JW Vardiman
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL