
Special Workshop 1
Digital Pathology and AI-Powered Image Analysis: Innovators, New Products, and More
Thursday, May 1, 2025 ● 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Reception and Exhibition
Thursday, May 1, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast and Exhibition
8:00 AM - 8:10 AM
Introduction to this Workshop

Ulysses Balis
MD, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer,
Director of Pathology Informatics
and A. James French Professor,
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI
8:10 AM - 8:50 AM
Overview of New Developments and Technologies in Anatomic Pathology Analytical Phase

Ulysses Balis
MD, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer,
Director of Pathology Informatics
and A. James French Professor,
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI
8:50 AM - 9:35 AM
Establishing a High-Volume Digital Scanning Laboratory: Lessons on the Journey from Concept to Today's Reality

Joseph Doppler
Manager,
Mayo Clinic-Rochester: Dept. Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
9:35 AM - 10:10 AM
Success with Histology and Scanning to Support Whole Slide Imaging and Digital Pathology

Sumie Edwards
Project Manager,
ARUP Laboratories,
Salt Lake City, UT
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Delivering Standardized, High-Quality Glass Slides to Scanners in Support of AI Analysis of WSIs

Vanessa Visinoni
Vice President,
Milestone SRL,
Sorisole, Italy
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch and Exhibition
12:30 PM - 1:10 PM
Adopting AI for Primary Diagnosis of Certain Cancers: Improving Diagnostic Accuracy, Shortening Time to Answer, and Improving Patient Outcomes

Renuka Kulkarni
MD,
Pathologist,
BioReference Laboratories, Inc., Elmwood Park, NJ
1:10 PM - 1:45 PM
Latest Developments in Coding, Billing, and Collecting on Claims involving Digital Pathology Services and More

Ann Lambrix
VP,
Payor and Revenue Management,
GoPath Diagnostics
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Lessons Learned and Open Discussion
PANEL
Chair: Ulysses Balis
Panelists: Joseph Doppler, Sumie Edwards, Vanessa Visinoni, Renuka Kulkarni, Ann Lambrix
2:30 PM
End of Program
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