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2025 Becich-Friedman Distinguished Oral Presentations

The Association for Pathology Informatics established the Becich-Friedman Distinguished Oral Presentations at the Pathology Informatics Summit Meetings to honor two founding pillars of both the meeting and the association: Dr. Michael Becich and Dr. Bruce Friedman. Through their tireless efforts over the past three decades, the discipline of Pathology Informatics has evolved and grown in sophistication, garnering the attention it rightly deserves. Presentations for this prestigious award are chosen based on their merit for advancing important and timely topics in Pathology Informatics.  


Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Talks begin at 1:00 pm in the Elizabeth Ann Room

Lee Schroeder, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Chemical Pathology
Section Head and Medical Director for Point-of-Care Testing and Offsite Phlebotomy
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
Measuring the Impact of a Celiac Disease Testing Algorithm: Demonstrating the Value of the Clinical Laboratory

Ibrahim Yilmaz, PhD
Senior Data Science Analyst
Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville, FL
SegRenal: AI-Driven Segmentation of Frozen Sections in Transplant Kidney Biopsies - A Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Models

Christopher Zarbock, MD
Clinical Informatics and Molecular Diagnostics Fellow
University of Washington School of Medicine at St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Identification of Inappropriate 1,25-Dihydroxy Vitamin D Ordering Within a Large, Tertiary Healthcare System