Emirates Surgical Pathology Conference

Professor
The University of Texas M.D Anderson Cancer Center
USA

Dr. Preetha Ramalingam received her medical degree from Rajah Muthiah Medical College (India). She completed her AP/CP training at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI and at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH. She then did a Selective Pathology Fellowship at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX and a Hematopathology Fellowship at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Hematology by the American Board of Pathology. Dr Preetha worked at the Medical College of Georgia (2003-2010) prior to joining UT MD Anderson Cancer Center as Associate Professor of Pathology in the Section of Gynecologic Pathology in 2011 and is currently Professor of Pathology and have over 10 years of experience in subspecialized gynecologic oncology practice and have authored several papers in this field. She has presented at several national and international conferences on gynecologic pathology. Her research interests are focused on ovarian cancer and undifferentiated endometrial carcinoma. In addition to clinical service and research she is also the Director of the Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship Program.

President of Emirates Pathology Society
President of Emirates Medical Association
Head of Pathology, Dubai Hospital
UAE

General Secretary of Emirates Pathology Society
Consultant Anatomic Pathologist
Head of Histology, Dubai Hospital
UAE

Cultural Committee Chairperson of Emirates Pathology Society
Consultant Anatomic Pathologist, H.H. Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital
UAE

MD, PhD, FCAP
Vice-President of Emirates Pathology Society
Consultant Anatomic Pathologist,
King's College Hospital Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Deputy International Commissioner for UAE, College of American Pathologists
Visiting Professor, Mohammed bin Rashid University School of Medicine UAE

MPhil, MD, FCAP
Scientific Committee Chairperson of Emirates Pathology Society,
Group Head of Pathology and Laboratory Services,
VPS Healthcare,
UAE

Scientific Committee Member
Consultant Pathologist and Cytopathologist
Director of Cytology
Department of Pathology
American Hospital Dubai
UAE

Scientific Committee Member
Consultant Anatomic Pathologist, Division Head of Image and Laboratory
H.H. Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital
UAE

MD, FRCPath, CCT (UK)
Scientific Committee Member,
Consultant Anatomic Pathologist,
Anatomic Pathology and Cytopatholo,
Medical Affairs, Tawam Hospital
UAE

Scientific Committee Member
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Consultant Histopathologist, Department of Pathology
Mohamed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences
UAE

Scientific Committee Member
Consultant Anatomic Pathologist, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Mediclinic
UAE

M.D., FCAP, DipABLM
Scientific Committee Member
Consultant, Anatomic Pathologist & Cytopathologist
Medical Director, e-Pathology Program
Clinical Professor of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
UAE

Consultant, Division of Anatomic Pathology
Professor of Pathology
Mayo Clinic

Dr. Torbenson is a Professor of Pathology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, where he specializes in GI and liver Pathology. He has authored over 250 papers. In these papers, he has described several new pathology entities as well as several new tumor subtypes. Dr. Torbenson has authored numerous book chapters, and five books on liver pathology, including a book on liver biopsy interpretation, a book on tumors of the liver, and a comprehensive liver pathology textbook. He is an author on the AFIP liver tumor Fascicle and author on the HCC chapters for the past two editions of the WHO blue books on GI and liver tumors.

Dr. Torbenson has been president of the Hans Popper Hepatobiliary Pathology Society and is current president of the Roger C Haggitt Society for GI pathology (GIPS).

Dr. Torbenson grew up in Minnesota, but trained at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for both residency and for a fellowship in liver and transplant pathology, followed by a GI pathology fellowship at Johns Hopkins. He stayed on as faculty at Johns Hopkins until 2013, when he returned to Minnesota and joined Mayo Clinic Rochester.

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Saudi Arabia

Professor & Chair
University of Louisville Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
USA

Eyas M. Hattab, MD, MBA, FCAP, is the AJ Miller endowed Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Louisville. Dr. Hattab obtained his medical education from Jordan University of Science and Technology before embarking on a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of Florida, Jacksonville where he also served as Chief Resident. He then completed Neuropathology Fellowship training at Stanford University followed by an Oncological Surgical Pathology Fellowship at the Ackerman Laboratory of Surgical Pathology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University. Dr. Hattab is an internationally recognized surgical neuropathologist and a frequent invited speaker with expertise in the study of brain cancer and the characterization of its morphologic, immunohistological, and molecular features. His clinical practice also includes ophthalmic pathology, transplant pathology and immunohistochemistry. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters to his credit and serves on several national committees governing the field of Neuropathology, including the College of American Pathologists Neuropathology and Diffuse Glioma Committees, the CAP Cancer Biomarker Reporting Committee (CBRC) CNS panel, International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR), and the Lower Grade Gliomas Disease Working Group of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, the National Cancer Institute. In addition, Dr. Hattab holds a Business of Medicine Master of Business Administration degree from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Professor of Pathology and Chief of Breast Pathology
New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
USA

Dr. Syed Hoda is a diagnostic surgical pathologist with a particular interest in breast pathology. Dr. Hoda graduated at the top of his class from Dow Medical College, Karachi. He trained in anatomical and clinical pathology at Tulane University Affiliated Hospitals in New Orleans, LA (1985-1990). Subsequently, he underwent subspecialty fellowship training in Cytopathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY (1990-91); and another year of subspecialty fellowship training in oncological surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with Drs. Juan Rosai and Paul Peter Rosen. Dr. Hoda has been associated with Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College since 1992. He is certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomical Pathology, Clinical Pathology and Cytopathology. He has co-authored four books: Rosen's Breast Pathology (latest edition in December 2020), Rosen's Breast Pathology: Diagnosis by Needle Core Biopsy (multiple editions), Liquid Based Cytology, and The Pap Test. He has contributed over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and is on the Editorial Board of Advances in Anatomic Pathology, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, American Journal of Surgical Pathology, International Journal of Surgical Pathology, and The Breast Journal. Dr. Hoda is active on the regional, national and international lecture circuit.

Staff Pathologist
CBLPATH Inc.
USA

Dr. Rana S. Hoda is board certified in Anatomic Pathology and Cytopathology by the American Board of Pathology. Her primary clinical focus is cytopathology with special expertise in fine needle aspiration, urinary and liquid based cytology. She trained in Anatomic Pathology at Cornell University Medical College-affiliated Hospitals. Subsequently, she underwent a fellowship in Oncologic Surgical Pathology at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY with several outstanding oncological pathologists including Drs. Juan Rosai and Paul Peter Rosen. The following year, she did a fellowship in Cytopathology at Montefiore Medical Center - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY under the guidance of Dr. Leopold G. Koss, one of the pioneers of cytopathology. She served as a Lecturer of Pathology at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Following this, she served as Assistant, Associate and Professor of Pathology, Director of Cytopathology and Director of Cytopathology Fellowship Training Program at three major academic centers including Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) at Charleston, University of Rochester and Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC)-New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Hoda has published more than 100 scientific papers, several chapters and three text books including books on urinary cytology and liquid-based preparations. She is on the editorial board of several cytopathology journals including Diagnostic Cytopathology, Journal of American Society of Cytopathology and Cytojournal. Dr. Hoda directed annual cytopathology educational conferences at MUSC and WCMC from 2000-2016. She is active on the regional, national and international lecture circuit. She continues to lecture at various pathology meetings; including American Society of Cytopathology (ASC), United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP), College of American Pathologists (CAP) and International Academy of Cytopathology; and has participated in educational conferences in several countries. Dr. Hoda is an active member of ASC, USCAP, ASCP, CAP and the New York Pathological Society.

Anil Parwani, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor of Pathology and Biomedical Informatics
Director, Digital Pathology Shared Resources
Principle Investigator, Cooperative Human Tissue Network (CHTN) Midwestern Division
Wexner Medical Center - Department of Pathology
USA

Dr. Anil Parwani is a Professor of Pathology at The Ohio State University. He serves as the Vice Chair and Director of Anatomical Pathology. Dr. Parwani is also the Director of Pathology Informatics and Director of the Digital Pathology Shared Resource at The James Cancer Hospital. His research is focused on diagnostic and prognostic markers in bladder and prostate cancer, and molecular classification of renal cell carcinoma. Dr. Parwani has expertise in the area of surgical pathology, viral vaccines and immunology, and pathology informatics including designing quality assurance tools, bio banking informatics, clinical and research data integration, applications of whole slide imaging, digital imaging, telepathology, image analysis and lab automation. Dr. Parwani has authored over 300 peer-reviewed articles in major scientific journals and several books and book chapters. Dr. Parwani is the Editor-in-chief of Diagnostic Pathology and one of the Editors of the Journal of Pathology Informatics.

Mayo Clinic
USA

Mayo Clinic
USA

Mayo Clinic
USA