Residents attend Anatomic Pathology didactic conferences Tuesday and Thursday morning. They cover the entire spectrum of Anatomic Pathology, both basic and applied. Most recently, the conferences have focused on a review of body systems and pathology disciplines, including:

There are a wide variety of teaching conferences, many multi-disciplinary in subspecialty areas, i.e. breast cancer, hematology, infectious disease, medical-pathology, surgical-pathology, tumor board, sarcomas, at both UWMC and in all of the affiliated hospitals. Numerous departmental seminars provide opportunities for residents to learn about the research activities being conducted by the faculty and by visiting scientists. Recent topics have included:

Motility & Invasion of Malignant Gliomas by Dr. Daniel Silbergeld - Arthur A. Ward Jr. Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine

Atherosclerotic Plaque - Tissue Characterization by Imaging and Clinical Implications by Dr. Valentin Fuster - Arthur M. & Hilda A. Master Professor of Medicine; Director, Cardiovascular Institute, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York

Inflammation as a Mediator of the Angiogenic Switch During Squamous Epithelial Carcinogenesis by Dr. Lisa Coussens - Assistant Research Biochemist, Hormone Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco

Exploring the Virtues of DNA Alkylation Repair in Mammalian Cells by Dr. Leona Samson - Professor of Toxicology, Dept. of Cancer Cell Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

Are Papillomaviruses Involved in the Pathogenesis of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer? by Dr. E-M de Villiers - Head of Division of Tumorvirus Characterization; Head of Reference Center at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentum, Heidelberg

Potential Mechanisms for Cardiac Repair by Dr. Loren Field - Professor, Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University

Molecular Mechanisms of Cell-Adhesion and Migration by Dr. Ed Plow - Chairman, Dept. of Molecular Cardiology; Head of Research, JJ Jacobs Center for Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio