ABPath’s plans for transparency, competency pilot
June 2023—Three initiatives are underway at the American Board of Pathology, one of which its CEO Gary Procop, MD, MS, describes as “a new era of transparency and collaboration.”
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Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 1:00–2:00 PM ET
In this webinar, we will examine how immune recognition after allogeneic HCT can influence leukemia relapse and disease progression. The session will highlight the clinical relevance of HLA loss of heterozygosity (LOH), approaches used for its detection, and how LOH findings may support transplant strategies, including considerations for donor selection in subsequent transplantation.
Webinar presenter Alberto Cardoso Martins Lima, PhD, Clinical consulting scientist in histocompatibility,
specializing in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) at IGEN/AFIP São Paulo and CHC/UFPR in Curitiba, Brazil
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00–1:00 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the expanded clinical utility of HER2 IHC scoring in metastatic breast cancer and its impact on your practice
Webinar presenter Michelle Shiller, DO, AP, CP, MGP, FACP, Baylor University Medical Center.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss how to integrate Kappa and Lambda in situ hybridization testing into your standard hematopathology workflow to accurately assess B-cell and plasma cell clonality. You will also gain the skills to recognize testing pitfalls in challenging reactive versus neoplastic proliferations and apply ancillary tools to resolve complex cases.
Webinar presenter Xiaojun Wu, MD, PhD, Assistant professor, Director of Hematopathology Section at NCR of Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Pathology, SOM at Johns Hopkins University
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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Appendiceal lesions: features, subtypes, patterns
June 2023—Although goblet cell adenocarcinoma can label for neuroendocrine markers, it behaves as an adenocarcinoma and is staged as such. And it’s important to distinguish goblet cell adenocarcinoma from tubular neuroendocrine tumor, a rare subtype of neuroendocrine tumor.
Appendiceal lesion cases, clues, and cautions
May 2023—How to distinguish appendiceal diverticular disease and appendiceal polyps from mucinous neoplasms was just part of a CAP22 course on appendiceal lesions, led by Maryam Pezhouh, MD, MSc, of the University of California, San Diego, and Jacqueline Birkness-Gartman, MD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Ancillary tests in gynecologic pathology—what and why
April 2023—With serous ovarian carcinomas and other gynecologic tumors, it’s molecular testing that increasingly sets the treatment course. “As pathologists, it’s exciting to us,” said Sadia Sayeed, MD, speaking at CAP22. “We’re learning that the immunostains we’re interpreting have greater implications than we ever thought they could.”
In billing, No Surprises and other complexities
April 2023—Another administrative layer and “up in the air” is how lab billing experts describe what the No Surprises Act requires of laboratories and where things stand. When they met online March 3 with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle, they talked about this and digital pathology and the problems of no or slow payments. “Compared with five years ago, the number of denials has increased and turnaround time on full payment on a claim has lengthened significantly,” said Tom Scheanwald of APS Medical Billing.
Spotlight on ancillary tests in endometrial cancer
March 2023—With endometrial carcinomas and other gynecologic tumors, molecular testing matters, and not only at the diagnostic stage. “We’re rapidly evolving,” said Leslie M. Randall, MD, MAS, division director of gynecologic oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University Health, speaking at CAP22.
Close-up on AI-driven assistive tools in pathology
March 2023—Assessing cardiac allograft rejection from endomyocardial biopsy and assigning a differential diagnosis to cancers of unknown origin have been shown to get a boost from AI-driven computational pathology models. So too has identifying subregions of high diagnostic value on whole slide images.
Breast cancer biomarkers, classic and new
February 2023—Like a thriving expat, Deborah Dillon, MD, is comfortable moving within worlds both old and new. Specifically, as a breast and molecular pathologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she appreciates the biomarkers she and her colleagues grew up with, so to speak, as well as those that are part of a more recently arrived-at scenery. Not everyone finds both worlds equally riveting. “A lot of people are much more interested in, and excited by, new markers,” she says. “When I talk to people from pharma, this is what they want to hear about.” So do many pathologists, oncologists, and patients—new markers and new therapies have a way of updating hopes. Dr. Dillon understands the persistent thrill of the new, why people want her to talk the language of PIK3CA, PARP inhibitors, MMR, NTRK fusions, ESR1, and the like. But as an in-demand speaker as well as in a recent interview with CAP TODAY, she also advocates for making the old—the longstanding trinity of ER, PR, and HER2—seem new again.
In surgical services, stewardship steps reduce lab orders
February 2023—Consensus on the best ways to stem unnecessary laboratory testing, and spare health care systems and patients its negative effects, is still elusive.
‘Doing more for less and with less’: Turning to IT
February 2023—As this year’s guide to anatomic pathology computer systems was taking shape, CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle met online with representatives of five companies and with John Sinard, MD, PhD, of Yale University School of Medicine. They talked about the cloud, CPT codes, training of pathology informaticians, and artificial intelligence, for which the time frame in pathology is far longer than it’s been portrayed, in Dr. Sinard’s view. “It will start to impact the careers of some of our trainees, but it’s probably a 10- to 20-year time frame before it plays a major role,” he said. The view of Joe Nollar of Xifin: “Speculation that AI will someday replace pathologists is completely overblown,” though it will help to triage cases and mitigate risk. Their full conversation, which took place Dec. 20, 2022, follows.