by Anne Tate
For the Executive War College
Christina Olesnycky
Senior Administrative Director
of Laboratory Services,
NYU Langone Health
Syed T. Hoda, MD,
Director of Digital Pathology,
Director of Bone & Soft Tissue Pathology, Clinical Professor,
NYU Langone Health
Session:
Transforming Pathology at Scale: NYU Langone’s Achievement of a Fully Digital Workflow in One Year to Accelerate Diagnosis, Collaboration, and AI-Enabled Innovation
The digitization of anatomic pathology from glass slides to whole slide digital imaging has accelerated dramatically in recent years, driven by advances in high-throughput scanning, enterprise IT infrastructure, and AI-ready platforms. What was once viewed as a long-term aspiration is now a practical, near-term strategy for laboratories seeking to improve efficiency, collaboration, and diagnostic performance.
“Digital pathology has experienced rapid growth and is no longer constrained by laboratory size or complexity. All laboratories should move forward with digital scanning at any workload level to expand image access, strengthen collaboration, and accelerate time to diagnosis while improving patient care,” said Syed T. Hoda, MD, Director of Digital Pathology and Clinical Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology at NYU Langone Health.
At Executive War College 2026, Dr. Hoda and Christina Olesnycky, Senior Administrative Director of Laboratory Services, NYU Langone Health, will take attendees inside NYU Langone’s real-world journey to deploying a fully scaled digital pathology workflow in just one year, including the conversion of millions of glass slides across a large, complex health system. Drawing from this experience, they will outline the strategic, operational, and technical decisions required to successfully execute digital pathology at scale.
This session will explore both the opportunities and challenges of large-scale digitization, including workflow redesign, IT integration, change management, and coordination across multiple vendors, departments, and clinical sites. Attendees will gain insight into how aligned institutional leadership, a clear technology roadmap, disciplined operational execution, and strong vendor partnerships enabled rapid transformation without disrupting patient care.
You can expect to learn how to:
- Recognize why now is the right time for any laboratory to move to digital pathology.
- Demonstrate to stakeholders that digitized slide workflows can be simpler, faster, and more efficient than traditional glass-based processes.
- Lead a large-scale digital pathology implementation across multiple sites and departments.
Whether your laboratory is beginning to explore digital pathology or actively planning a transition to whole slide imaging, this session will deliver practical lessons and proven strategies to guide your next phase of transformation.
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Executive War College is the world’s largest event focused exclusively on the management of medical laboratories. In 2025, more than 1,100 lab executives and pathologists attended this high-energy event to learn, connect, and collaborate. The Executive War College (EWC) is the greatest goldmine of easy to implement, practical solutions for the modern clinical laboratory.
The healthcare landscape is always changing so it’s critical to stay informed. If you’ve attended Executive War College in the past, you know how valuable the experience is to your business, and if you haven’t attended, we welcome you to join hundreds of your peers at the best and the largest Clinical Lab management event of the year!
