World Digital Pathology & Pathologists Congress December 05-06, 2016 Madrid, Spain

Laurence Berg is passionate about the use of information technology to create efficiencies, improve patient safety and deliver higher quality services both in pathology and in medicine in general. He is assistant director of surgical pathology and later director of surgical pathology. He is a general surgical pathologists with special interests and expertise in neuropathology and pulmonary pathology. He is also director of the Histology Lab here at Gundersen. Medical Director of Functional Biosciences, Inc. January 2015 – Present (1 year 6 months).

Medical information technology, the uses of molecular biology in medicine, reducing medical care costs through technologic and process innovations

Paul J van Diest studied Medicine, did his PhD and pathology residency at the VU University medical center (VUMC) in Amsterdam. After obtaining his Board certification in Pathology in 1996, he became Consultant Pathologist at the Department of Pathology of the VUMC. In 1999 he was appointed Associate Professor and in 2001 to full Professor. In 2003 he moved to Utrecht to become Head of the Department of Pathology at the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) where he is currently still working. He is Adjunct Professor of Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Oncology Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA. He serves on the editorial board of 23 international journals. He has been active in the board as secretary and president of several international societies. He has published >600 papers in peer reviewed journals, personally supervised 57 PhD theses, and has an H-index of 65.

Digital Pathology

Jared N. Schwartz work has included many years in CMO roles for global leaders in Pathology, transforming the cultures to a solution based environment that drove enterprises into new markets and to the #1 position in market share against competitors. Through his services with the College of American Pathologists (CAP), as President and dedication to the governing board for 13 years, he developed strong understanding of best practices. Proud to be sought after for advice, he has given 1000+ lectures and media interviews on Live National Cable, National Network interviews, and CNN, on Infectious Disease issues including Influenza, SARS, Monkey pox outbreak. He have also testified before Congress on SARS, the White House on laboratory quality issues, and was appointed by the secretary of HHS to the clinical lab improvement advisory committee (CLIAC), an esteemed group who serve as advisors to the FDA, CMS, and CDC in setting national laboratory testing and quality standards.

Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology

Chrystal Adams studied Business Management & Experimental Psychology at San Diego State University-California State University(1997–2002);AVP, Product Line Management XIFIN, Inc.(a GTCR company) 2014 – Present (2 years)Del Mar, CA;Partner & Head of Marketing, eyesFinder Visual Search Technology, 2013 – Present (3 years)West Lake;Director of Healthcare Marketing, Pathology Imaging, Leica Biosystems (a Danaher Company), April 2006 – January 2014 (7 years 10 months)Vista, CA;Director of Healthcare Marketing, Aperio (acquired by Leica, a Danaher Company), April 2006 – October 2012 (6 years 7 months)Greater San Diego Area; Sr. Product Manager, Aperio, April 2006 – September 2007 (1 year 6 months)Greater San Diego Area

Pathology Imaging

Founder and CEO of Visiopharm. Recieved my PhD in image analysis and spatial statistics from the Technical University of Denmark in 1993. My post-doctoral work was carried out on Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School, where I combined a theoretical and practical background in image analysis with applications from the life-sciences. From 1996, I was the technical founder of two Danish companies developing advanced image analysis technology for diagnosing osteoporosis and various diseases manifesting themselves on the human retina respectively. In 2001, I founded Visiopharm, which is focused on the development of general as well as application-specific image analysis solutions for the life-sciences, with a special focus on quantitative microscopy.

Developing advanced image analysis technology for diagnosing osteoporosis

Dr. Kaplan is a native of Chicago and a graduate of Michigan State University and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC. While at Walter Reed, Dr. Kaplan was named Resident of the Year, and in conjunction with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Dr. Kaplan founded and directed the Army Telepathology Program. This Program connected 25 hospitals internationally for consultation via telepathology. Dr. Kaplan was also with Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota as an Associate Professor of Pathology of Mayo Medical School. Since then he has served as CMO for Corista and is an active member of the College of American Pathologists and executive board member of the American Pathology Foundation. Since 2007, Dr. Kaplan has been publisher of The Digital Pathology Blog at tissuepathology.com, the industry’s leading pathology blog.

Digital Pathology

Dr Betmouni is a Consultant Neuropathologist with diagnostic and research experience at a number of NHS Trusts and Higher Education Institutions in the UK. She is currently Director of Clinical Pathology in the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford. She was appointed to this post in 2012 and leads on a Faculty of Life Sciences initiative to establish a working (accredited) histopathology facility within the university – Bradford Pathology. Bradford Pathology provides education and training in the design and delivery of diagnostic histopathology services, and will investigate factors that can promote the uptake of digital technologies into the laboratory setting. We are working in partnership with Philips (Digital Pathology Solution) and have a state of the art digital scanning and image management system to support our work in digital pathology. This system has huge potential in terms of facilitating remote expert opinion input and multi-disciplinary team meetings, with scope for improving the service we can provide to patients awaiting biopsy results. In March 2015, Dr Betmouni was appointed Deputy Director (Academic) to the Digital Health Enterprise Zone Health & Wellbeing Centre at the University of Bradford. She is the “Digital Diagnostics” theme lead for this project which will incorporate technology enabled detection, diagnosis and monitoring of biological and/or behavioural parameters in the healthy, those at known risk and those with specific medical conditions e.g. cancer. It is envisaged that research and development work will focus on development of remote and/or automated diagnostics.

Digital Pathology

Consultant Histopathologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), Harlow, Essex, UK Member of UK National Breast Cancer Screening Programme Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons, England Pathology Directorate Audit Lead, PAH Member of UK NEQAS Member of research and Development committee, PAH Member of innovation committee, PAH Royal College of Pathologist representative, CAC Author and Chief Editor of Atlas of Pseudomalignancy, Benign lesions mimicking malignancy Author of chapter on invasive breast cancer – Early breast cancer text book Awarded a number of innovation awards by Health Enterprise East UK Including original work on Voice dictation systems More than 22 further publications More than 250 international, national and local presentations on various pathology and IT topics including digital pathology

Digital Pathology

Dr. Susan Anderson is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has completed the PGCHE at the University of Nottingham. She is a fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and the current Honorary Secretary for Education and Outreach (2009-2018). For information on the professional qualification (DipRMS) or the primary school outreach programme visit www.rms.org.uk/outreach. She works with a not-for-profit organisation: Ignite! to promote independent learning and creativity in science education. She also work with the Primary Science Teaching Trust

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Ewert Bengtsson received his MSc and PhD in engineering physics from Uppsala University in 1974 and 1977 respectively. He continued the work on cell image analysis from his thesis first as a researcher at Uppsala University and then in spin off companies from 1983 through 1988. Then he returned to Uppsala University as an adjunct professor and took the initiative of establishing the Centre for image analysis where he 1995-2015 was active as a full chaired professor. He is currently formally retired but still active in research. His research interests include all kinds of biomedical image analysis but his main focus is on cancer detection and grading. He has published about 200 papers in the field and supervised more than 30 PhD students. He has served as Dean of mathematics and computer science, as Vice-rektor for information technology for Uppsala University and as Head of research at the IT-department. He is member of two academies, the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala and the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences in Sweden and he is a Fellow of IEEE

Digital Pathology

Dr. Tan received medical training in China (Tongji Medical University 1978-1987) and Germany (Essen University 1987-1990). He did postdoctorship at Columbia University Medical Center, in New York (1990-1994). After pathology residency at Yale University Medical Center (1994 to 1998), he completed an oncologic surgical pathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He joined Roswell Park Cancer Institute as an assistant professor of pathology in 1999, was promoted to an associate professor of pathology at The University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Tan joined the faculty of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2006, and currently as a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and medical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Tan holds joint Professorship in more than 20 universities in the world. He is a consultant at Kingmed Diagnostics.

Pathology and Oncology