Welcome to Pathology Day 2018

Pathology Day will take place on Friday, May 18, 2018. Oral presentations and guest speakers will be at the Paetzold Auditorium & Atrium, 1st Floor, Jim Pattison Pavilion, Vancouver General Hospital while the poster session and awards reception will be at ICORD, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, 818 West 10th Ave.

If you plan to attend, please register online so we can plan accordingly. Register Online - closed

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DEADLINE: 10am on March 26, 2018

Our Confirmed Speakers

  • 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm
  • Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Health Education Centre, 1st floor, JPN, VGH

Keynote Speaker: Mark A. Atkinson, PhD

TITLE: “Lessons from the Human Pancreas - Re–Writing the Textbooks on How and Why Type 1 Diabetes Develops”

 

  • 10:35 am - 11:35 pm
  • Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Health Education Centre, 1st floor, JPN, VGH

James Hogg Lecture: Morris Pudek, PhD, FACB

TITLE: "The Adventures of a Clinical Biochemist: My Education, Educating and Toxicology Stories"

 

  • 9:00 am - 9:20 pm
  • Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Health Education Centre, 1st floor, JPN, VGH

Guest Speaker: Serena Singh, PDF

TITLE: “Developing Sample Preparation Workflows and Multiple Reaction Monitoring Parameters in the Design of a Mass Spectrometry Method for Detection of Alpha-synuclein in Cerebrospinal Fluid”

 

  • 9:25 am - 9:45 pm
  • Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Health Education Centre, 1st floor, JPN, VGH

Guest Speaker: Suzanne Vercauteren, MSc, MD, PhD (University of Utrecht)

TITLE: “Fueling Research by Saving Body Bits: BC Children’s Hospital BioBank”

 

  • 2:45 pm - 3:05 pm
  • Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Health Education Centre, 1st floor, JPN, VGH

Guest Speaker: Andrew Minchinton, PhD

TITLE: "Radiation Oncology and Hypoxia - A Never Ending Story!"

 

Pathology Day Planning Committee 2018

Michael Allard

Professor and Head, Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC | Cardiovascular Pathologist and Research Scientist in the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation at St. Paul 's Hospital

Corree Laule

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC | MR Physicist, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre /ICORD and DMCBH

Tony Ng

Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC | Staff Pathologist, Vancouver General Hospital

Sophia Wong

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Medical Biochemist, VGH; Medical Lead, Medical Lead, Pre- and Post-Analysis (PPA), Vancouver Coastal Health Laboratories; Program Director, UBC Medical Biochemistry Residency Training Program

Lise Matzke

Leader, OBER; Project Manager – Biobank Resource Centre

Brennan Wadsworth

4th year PhD student, Dr Kevin Bennewith Lab, BC Cancer Research Centre (BCCRC)

Daniel Owen

Resident in the Anatomical Pathology Program, 4th year