Dr. Aller has over 50 years of experience in information technology, the past 43 years focusing on applications to healthcare. For the past 37 years, he has practiced clinical pathology, clinical informatics, and transfusion medicine. He has selected, designed, and implemented a variety of information systems. In addition, he has been active in national medical and healthcare informatics organizations, serving on numerous committees, being a frequent guest speaker at national meetings, and publishing many articles and several books on clinical information systems. Dr. Aller has also provided consulting services to a number of clinical and laboratory information system and instrument vendors and to various well known healthcare institutions. Dr. Aller has led clinical informatics, clinical pathology, and public health teams at USC, LA County Public Health, Nashville and Atlanta, the University of Utah, Long Beach Memorial Hospital, and Santa Barbara. Dr. Aller received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1976 and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from UCLA in 1972. He is licensed in California and is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Transfusion Medicine, Chemical Pathology, and Clinical Informatics. His publications include over 100 invited articles; 22 books, monographs, and chapters; and 24 peer reviewed papers, all focused in the domain of clinical informatics. For the past 37 years, he has edited and co-edited a monthly column on information management and technology for CAP Today, a national medical publication with a circulation of over 50,000. Dr. Aller has presented well over 100 seminars, workshops, and plenary lectures at national informatics, clinical pathology, and transfusion medicine conferences. Dr. Aller's professional affiliations and awards include: Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics; Fellow, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS); Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) International Editorial Board; Informatics Test Committee, American Board of Pathology; Herbert Lansky Memorial Award, College of American Pathologists Foundation; Outcomes Committee, College of American Pathologists; Chairman, Cerner Pathnet Users Group, 1993-1994; and Chairman, Sunquest Users Group, 1984-1988. He is Co-Editor with Mr. Dennis Winsten of CAP Today’s NewsBytes and the annual CAP Today Systems surveys. CLOSE

Dr Spyridon Bakas is an Endowed Chair Associate Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, the Director of the Computational Pathology Division, & the Director of the Center for Federated Learning in Medicine, with his primary appointment in the Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, as well as in the Depts of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Biostatistics & Health Data Science, Neurological Surgery, & Computer Science. His group focuses on developing, applying, & benchmarking computational algorithms in medical imaging, towards improving disease assessment and diagnosis in the current clinical practice. He has been leading projects on image quantification, radiogenomics, and federated learning (FL), towards enabling treatment selection models customized on an individual patient basis, while addressing health disparities and inequities. His collaborative group has spearheaded the introduction of FL in healthcare in 2018 and driven the largest to-date real-world FL studies including data from 71 sites across 6 continents. He has co-authored >120 peer-reviewed manuscripts and >80 abstracts, with collaborators across academic ranks and disciplines. He is a member of the MICCAI Society Board of Directors, the Vice Chair for Benchmarking & Clinical Translation in the MLCommons’ Medical group, the co-lead of the AI-RANO working group, and has served as the organizer and chair of numerous challenges, workshops, and tutorials at both technical and clinical scientific meetings. CLOSE

Ulysses G. J. Balis, MD, Fellow AIMBE, is the A. James French Professor of Pathology Informatics at the University of Michigan, with additional roles as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer and Informatics Fellowship Program Director at Michigan Medicine. He serves as this year’s Pathology Informatics Summit conference director. Dr. Balis has longstanding interests in data analytics, natural language processing, digital image analysis, computational pathology, and AI-driven workflow. During his career, he has carried foundational roles in the creation of subspecialty boards for Clinical Informatics, circulating tumor cell microfluidics technology, and in the development of the original DICOM Visible Light (VL) Image Object Definition. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2015 for his engineering contributions to laboratory instrumentation, pathology bioinformatics, and computational imaging in histology image search and analysis algorithms. His division is currently deploying an all-digital primary diagnostic workflow in support of anatomic pathology, with the development of an associated computational pathology laboratory section. CLOSE

Dr. Chen is board-certified in pathology (anatomic and clinical pathology) with a subspecialty in hematology. His clinical interests include hematopathology, immunology, and molecular pathology for the diagnosis of lymphoma, leukemia, flow cytometry, bone marrow transplant pathology, diagnostic molecular pathology by next-generation sequencing (NGS) mutational analysis, and cancer immunotherapy. He has served as medical director of the CLIA labs at Shriner Hospital of Northern California and Moncrief Cancer Institute of UTSW and Richardson clinics. He is actively involved in the institutional performance improvement committee meetings. He has extensive experience in supervising the clinical diagnostic laboratory and overviewing quality assurance, quality control, proficiency surveys, and patient data. Dr. Chen provides educational direction for medical students, residents, fellows, and medical laboratory staff. His research interests include atherosclerosis, thrombosis, vascular biology, lipid metabolism, graft-vs-host disease (GVHD), molecular pathogenesis of lymphoma and leukemia, NK cells in tumor immunology, viral infections, and cancer stem cells. His current research focuses on the genetic and epigenetic alterations of hematopoietic cells. The projects with advancements in his laboratory include malignant lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma, as well as other oncological and immunological problems. Dr. Chen’s recent research expanded to digital pathology and ML approach in the diagnostic hematopathology. Through cutting-edge technologies and broadly collaborative approaches, he is also committed to building a strong, unique, and competitive research program that will ultimately benefit patients. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 11 book chapters, 120 abstracts, and delivered many speeches and education courses in major scientific meetings in ASH, USCAP, CSP, ASCP, ISH, etc. CLOSE

Dr. Cheng is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology in the Division of Pathology Informatics at the University of Michigan. He is board-certified in AP/CP and Clinical Informatics. His areas of expertise include application development, data transformation, image analysis, natural language processing, and machine learning.CLOSE

For more than 2 decades, Lisa-Jean Clifford has been a noteworthy leader in the high-tech healthcare solutions space. Lisa-Jean’s passion for making a positive impact on the lives of patients through technology can be traced back to her tenure at McKesson and IDX, now GE Healthcare, where she served in vital business development and marketing roles and to Psyche Systems, an LIS solution provider, where she was the CEO for eleven years. Now, recognized as an industry expert, she actively participates in numerous boards including the Association of Pathology Informatics and MLO’s Editorial Advisory Board. She is widely published in many top laboratory publications and noteworthy news sources, such as Forbes, CAP Today, Medical Laboratory Observer, and Health Data Management. Also, she is a highly sought-after speaker and focuses on delivering valuable content in critical areas such as lab automation including software and interoperability, digital pathology, AI in pathology, lab informatics, oncology, and women’s health. Lisa-Jean’s success can be attributed to her perseverance, integrity, high regard for ethics, and desire to continue to learn, grow, and move technology solutions in a forward direction for healthcare. Her collaboration with industry partners, customers, colleagues, and competitors, combined with her commitment to exceptional customer relationships, is what distinguishes her drive to foster a win-win for the healthcare industry as a whole.CLOSE

Dr. James Crawford served as chair of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and Senior Vice President for Laboratory Services at Northwell Health 2009-2023), stepping down in December 2023. He is now an active Professor and Chair Emeritus, continuing his clinical service work as liver pathologist, pursuing research and having more time to give to his national commitments. Dr. Crawford received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University School of Medicine, and his post-graduate training in anatomic pathology and gastrointestinal pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by a fellowship in hepatic pathology at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Dr. Crawford formerly served as faculty and staff pathologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and at the Yale University School of Medicine. He then served as professor and chair of the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Florida, College of Medicine in Gainesville (1999-2008). Over the 24 years of being department chair at two institutions, he has been a strong national advocate for the importance of in-system clinical laboratories for integrated health systems, and is a leading proponent of the role of pathology and the clinical laboratory in patient-centered care and value-based care. As a founding member of the Project Santa Fe Foundation and Chair of the Board of Directors, he is a leader in the effort to develop the value statements for pathology and laboratory diagnostic services in the next era of health care. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Academic Pathology, the official journal of the Association of Academic Pathology (AAPath). CLOSE

Brody H Foy is an assistant professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology at the University of Washington (UW DLMP). A mathematician by training, Brody did his doctoral studies in computer science at the University of Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. After this, Brody undertook postdoctoral training in systems biology and pathology, at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. At UW, Brody runs a research lab focused on developing computational methods for improving how we collect, analyze, and interpret clinical bloodwork. His lab aims to shift current paradigms of lab test interpretation, to move towards adaptive, context- and patient-specific approaches to defining health and normality. Brody also leads diverse informatics and operational projects to support the UW Medical Center’s laboratory test services. CLOSE

For nearly two decades, Dr. Gershkovich has dedicated his career to transforming diagnostic and laboratory processes in Pathology at Yale. His journey began in the early 2000s with a National Library of Medicine–funded Medical Informatics fellowship, where he first recognized the power of merging engineering principles with clinical demands. Over the years, he has driven the evolution of pathology systems toward agile, modular designs—borrowing from modern software development to boost safety, diagnostic quality, and operational efficiency. This vision materialized in the creation of REALM (Rapidly Evolving Agile Laboratory Modules), a suite of integrated tools that modernize functionality, address critical gaps in laboratory information systems, and establish new standards for diagnostic accuracy and research potential. His current work remains at the intersection of digital pathology and artificial intelligence, where he strives to improve clinical operations, push the boundaries of innovation, and, ultimately, enhance patient outcomes. CLOSE

Dr. Gondim serves as an Associate Professor of Pathology and the Director of Pathology Informatics at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. He holds board certifications in Anatomic Pathology, Neuropathology, and Clinical Informatics from the American Board of Pathology. Dr. Gondim's expertise in pathology, combined with his proficiency in computer programming and data analysis, has been pivotal in advancing digital pathology and artificial intelligence at the University of Louisville. Under his leadership, the University of Louisville Health has become an early adopter in the United States, implementing full prospective digitization of glass slides with integrated AI solutions. His leadership in pathology informatics has led to the development of several web-based systems designed to enhance the clinical, educational, and research endeavors of the department. CLOSE

Dr. Metin Gurcan is the founding Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Professor of Internal Medicine, Pathology, and Biomedical Engineering at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Director of the Clinical Image Analysis Lab (http://tsi.wakehealth.edu/CIALab/). Previously, he was the founding director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Gurcan is an internationally recognized researcher and educator in the fields of medical image analysis, artificial intelligence, and biomedical informatics. His research has been supported by NIH NCATS, NCI, NIDCD, NHLBI, NBIB, NIAID, NLM, and DOD, as well as awards from several nonprofit organizations. He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and was awarded eight patents for his inventions in medical artificial intelligence. Dr. Gurcan received his BSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey, and his MSc. Degree in Digital Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England. Dr. Gurcan is the recipient of several awards, including the British Foreign and Commonwealth Organization Award, NCI caBIG Embodying the Vision Award, NIH Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) Award, Children’s Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award, The OSU Cancer Center REAP Award, and Pelotonia Idea Award. He is a Fellow of SPIE and a senior member of IEEE and AMIA. In addition to his organizational leadership, he provides professional leadership within multiple organizations. He co-chaired the SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium between 2019-2022. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Pathology Informatics, BJR | Artificial Intelligence, and SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging. He has been organizing the Pathology Informatics Histopathological Image Analysis (HIMA) workshop since 2013. CLOSE

James Harrison, MD, PhD, is Professor of Pathology, Director of Clinical Laboratory Informatics, Associate Director of Clinical Chemistry, and the Quality and Patient Safety Officer for the Department of Pathology at the University of Virginia. His work in informatics has included formal roles in the installation and management of clinical laboratory information systems, biorepository information systems, electronic health records, clinical decision support, institutional clinical trials management systems, institutional clinical data repositories, and the Virginia Commonwealth all-payor health claims data repository, and he is active in resident/fellow training, clinical analytics including machine learning, and software development. He has received funding as PI for informatics-focused R-01 and T-15 grants from the NCI and NLM. He is vice-chair of the CAP Artificial Intelligence Committee and is the immediate past chair of the CAP Informatics Committee. He has also served as CAP liaison to the Pathology Informatics Essentials for Residents (PIER) workgroup of the Association of Pathology Chairs. At the CAP 2024 Annual Meeting, he received the Frank W. Hartman Outstanding Service Award for his contributions to the field of pathology informatics and the CAP. CLOSE

Daniel Herman is a physician-scientist working at the intersection of data science, laboratory medicine, and clinical information systems. He completed his MD and PhD degrees at Harvard Medical School and trained in Clinical Pathology at the University of Washington. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a practicing clinical pathologist and biomedical informatics researcher. Dr. Herman directs one of clinical chemistry laboratories at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His research group focuses on leveraging electronic health record data to improve screening for underdiagnosed diseases like primary aldosteronism. This includes training clinical prediction models; upstream computational method development to learn more interpretable, fair, and transferable models; and downstream evaluation of model-triggered decision support in observational and pragmatic trials. CLOSE

Noah Hoffman, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington and Head of the Informatics Division in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. He also serves as the Specialty CMIO for Laboratory and Pathology services for UW Medicine. Dr. Hoffman has interests in software development to meet the operational and analytical needs of the clinical laboratory, laboratory data analytics, bioinformatics, and clinical and operational applications of AI. As the Co-director of the NGS Analytics Laboratory, Dr. Hoffman helps to supervise the development of analytical pipelines and scientific computing infrastructure supporting clinical assays. His research interests include the development and application of bioinformatic tools to perform nucleic acid sequence-based identification of microbiota in both basic research and clinical settings, including studies of the human microbiome.CLOSE

Kareem Hosny, MD, MPH is an assistant professor and director of the Anatomical Pathology Informatics Division in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. He also serves as the head of Digital Pathology for the Department. Dr. Hosny’s clinical and research interests include the clinical applications of machine learning, digital pathology, whole-slide-imaging technology, clinical decision support, and enterprise workflow optimization. As the head of Digital Pathology for the Department, Dr. Hosny is engaged in the supervision and implementation of the digital pathology initiative aimed to digitalizing the anatomical pathology service for the clinical, educational, and research purposes. The applications of Dr. Hosny’s clinical and research interests involve the whole spectrum of bioinformatics, pathology informatics, clinical informatics, and public health informatics. In addition, he was appointed as the chairman of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the Association of Pathology Informatics (API) and member of various academic DEI committees nationally and internationally. Through these roles, he obtains a very peculiar research interest in unraveling DEI gaps and Health Disparities in Artificial Intelligence Models Dr. Hosny received his MD degree from Cairo University, Egypt. He earned his MPH degree from Emory University in Atlanta/Georgia, where he studied public health informatics. He finished his residency in both Anatomical Pathology and Clinical Pathology(AP/CP) at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania (HUP). CLOSE

Dr. Yuankai Huo serves as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as the Director of the Biomedical Data Representation and Learning Lab (HRLB Lab) at Vanderbilt University. Additionally, he is an Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Huo's current research specializes in high-dimensional multi-modal data analysis, computational pathology and radiology, and medical computer vision. Dr. Huo has received prestigious awards, including the Charles E. Ives Journal Award from the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, the Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, and the NAIRR Pilot award from NSF. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a lifetime member of SPIE, contributing as an organization committee member and area chair for leading medical image analysis conferences such as MICCAI, MIDL, and ISBI. Dr. Huo's ongoing efforts are dedicated to advancing next-generation AI algorithms for ultra-high-resolution imaging and non-imaging data analysis. CLOSE

Khalda A. Ibrahim, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, with subspecialty training in Clinical Informatics and Transfusion Medicine. Dr. Ibrahim is a laboratory medicine informaticist and also serves as a physician informaticist for UCLA Health Information Technology. Her clinical and research interests include operational uses of machine learning models and leveraging informatics in service of historically underserved patient populations.CLOSE

Dr. Klatt is a Professor of Pathology at Mercer University School of Medicine. He has been involved in aspects of health care delivery for over 62 years and involved with health science education for over 51 years. He maintains one of the oldest World Wide Web internet sites, WebPath, in pathology education going on 30 years. He is the author for 4 of the 7 reference works in the Robbins & Cotran series of pathology texts used worldwide for pathology education in the health sciences. He is currently involved in curriculum design, development, and deployment, including computer-aided methodologies, for undergraduate medical education. He sponsors informatics educational projects for students. He facilitated development of Mercer’s new Patient Based Curriculum with a wellness program as well as emphasis on integration of clinical and basic science content in an active learning environment with information management and critical thinking through a team-based approach for students to develop skills in delivery of quality health care. Dr. Klatt has been involved with the PathInfo Summit and its precursors for the past 30 years. CLOSE

Dr. Bin Li is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, specializing in AI-driven digital pathology. With a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Li has developed innovative deep-learning methodologies for precision pathology, earning recognition for contributions to histopathology and bioimage analysis. His work focuses on machine learning in pathology informatics and computational tools for tissue imaging and analytics. A recipient of the HIMA Best Dissertation Award and a DAAD AInet Fellowship, Dr. Li currently leads interdisciplinary projects supported by NIHR and CRUK, using AI to optimize therapies for inflammatory bowel disease and advance personalized medicine. CLOSE

Jana is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, with joint appointments in the Department of Pathology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in AI for Pathology lab, under the guidance of Professor Faisal Mahmood at Harvard Medical School. Her lab, Octopath, focuses on developing AI methods to address crucial needs in oncology, organ transplant, immunology, and other disease areas, leveraging multimodal data from histology, radiology, genomics, and beyond. For more information, please visit https://octopath.org/..CLOSE

Dr. Samuel (Sam) I. McCash is the Director of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Informatics in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. Board-certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology with subspecialty certification in Clinical Informatics by the American Board of Pathology, Dr. McCash focuses on leveraging laboratory data and information systems to improve operational efficiency and optimize patient care and safety. CLOSE

Charles A. Parkos, MD, PhD is the Carl V. Weller Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School. He received his MD/PhD degree from the University of California at San Diego and Scripps Research Institute in 1987 and then began residency and fellowship training in Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with sub specialization in diagnostic gastrointestinal surgical pathology. He was recruited to Emory University School of Medicine in 1997 where he directed the clinical GI Pathology service as well as lead a highly successful research program centered on mucosal inflammation and epithelial pathobiology. In 2001 he was appointed Co-Director of the Emory MSTP and assumed the Directorship in 2006. Subsequently, Parkos was appointed as Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology and Director of Experimental Pathology at Emory University School of Medicine. In 2014, he was recruited to the University of Michigan Medical School as the Carl V. Weller Chair of Pathology. Since Parkos’ arrival at the University of Michigan, the Department of Pathology has flourished in research, education, and clinical service. The Pathology residency training program has consistently ranked in the top five nationally and boasts a successful physician scientist training program that was formally launched in 2019. The departmental research portfolio has superb basic and translational programs in multiple areas including cancer biology, neurodegeneration, aging, immunobiology as well as bioinformatics. He has demonstrated a strong commitment to training and mentoring the next generation of physician scientists and academic pathologists. Dr Parkos has enjoyed helping to translate the many meanings of scholarship, teaching, and service to a diverse faculty at all levels. Some of his most rewarding experiences have come from successes of graduate students and research fellows by helping them successfully transition to independent junior faculty. Despite having heavy administrative commitments, Parkos has managed to lead an extraordinarily successful research program in mucosal pathobiology. For over 30 years, he has been a major contributor in modeling the process of leukocyte transepithelial migration and effects on epithelial homeostasis and barrier function as it relates to mucosal inflammation, injury, and repair in the gut. His lab has applied state of the art molecular and protein approaches to complex cell biological systems and defined the roles of multiple receptors that play critical roles in mucosal inflammation/injury including CD11b/CD18, CD47, SIRP alpha, certain members of the JAM family of proteins, ICAM-1, and highly specific glycan-dependent interactions. Recent exciting studies from his group have revealed that epithelial cell tight junction associated receptors (JAM-related) as well as inducible GPCRs play novel and critical roles in epithelial cell migration and wound repair. His lab has shown that chemoattractants such as LTB4, thought to only be critical for guiding leukocytes during the injury/inflammatory response play critical roles in the mucosal repair response. Parkos’ work has been highly collaborative and has been facilitated by long standing interactions with a team of several established investigators that have shared interconnected lab space with complementary interests on mucosal pathobiology and inflammation. His stature in the field of experimental pathology and inflammation is evident by numerous senior editorial positions on prestigious journals, service on many study sections, advisory roles promoting basic and clinical research and national leadership roles in Federation of the American Societies of Experimental Biology and the American Society of Investigative Pathology. CLOSE

Dr. Anil Parwani is a Professor of Pathology at The Ohio State University. He serves as the Vice Chair and Director of Anatomical Pathology. Dr. Parwani is also the Director of Pathology Informatics and Director of Digital Pathology. His research is focused on diagnostic and prognostic markers in bladder, prostate, and renal cell carcinoma. Dr. Parwani has expertise in the area of surgical pathology, viral vaccines and pathology informatics including biobanking, whole slide imaging, digital imaging, telepathology, image analysis, artificial intelligence and lab automation. Dr. Parwani has authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles in major scientific journals and several books and book chapters. Dr. Parwani is the Editor-in-chief of Diagnostic Pathology and Journal of Pathology Informatics. CLOSE

Hoifung Poon is the General Manager at Health Futures in Microsoft Research and an affiliated faculty at the University of Washington Medical School. He leads biomedical AI research and incubation, with the overarching goal of structuring medical data to optimize delivery and accelerate discovery for precision health. His team and collaborators are among the first to explore large language models (LLMs) and multimodal generative AI in health applications, producing popular open-source foundation models such as PubMedBERT, BioGPT, BiomedCLIP, LLaVA-Med, BiomedParse. His latest publication in Nature features GigaPath, the first whole-slide digital pathology foundation model pretrained on over 1 billion pathology image tiles. He has led successful research partnerships with large health providers and life science companies, creating AI systems in daily use for applications such as molecular tumor board and clinical trial matching. He has given tutorials on these topics at top AI conferences such as ACL, AAAI, and KDD, and his prior work has been recognized with Best Paper Awards from premier AI venues such as NAACL, EMNLP, and UAI. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington, specializing in machine learning and NLP. CLOSE

Dr. John Rogers is currently finishing his integrated Pathology Informatics and Hematopathology Fellowship at Houston Methodist Hospital. Prior to that, he completed AP/CP residency at Houston Methodist Hospital and has his undergraduate training in chemical engineering at Texas A&M University. His informatics interests include process and workflow optimization, integration and management of digital pathology, and integrating new technologies in the laboratory space. He hopes to continue his work in these areas in an academic institution with a focus in anatomic pathology and medical hematology CLOSE

Dr. Singh is the Director of Digital Pathology and Dermatopathology at Summit Health in New Jersey. He is the founder of PathPresenter, an online digital platform that has 50,000+ users in 170+ countries and is used by multiple academic departments, private pathology groups, and organizations in the US and all over the world (pathpresenter.com/). He was previously Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at Northwell and Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. Dr. Singh is the recipient of the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) for creating PathPresenter, and the “Teacher of the Year Award” at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine for 5 consecutive years. He served as the Chair of the American Society of Dermatopathology Informatics Committee, Board Member of DPA, Editorial Board of the WHO for Classification of tumors, 5th Edition. Dr. Singh currently serves on the Sulzberger Grant Committee of the AAD, Digital and Computational Pathology Committee of the CAP, Education Committee of DPA, Computational Pathology Subcommittee of the WHO. He has been nominated on the Pathologist “Power List 100” put out by the Pathologist for 2020, 2021 and 2022. Dr. Singh is also the creator and Chief Editor of the app-mydermpath, an online education resource for dermatopathology residents. He also is the Chief Editor of the print book “Surgical Pathology Reimagined”, available on Amazon. CLOSE

Michelle Stoffel, MD, PhD, is the Associate CMIO for Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the M Health Fairview health system and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota. Her academic and operational focus is on bridging the practice of informatics from the lab to clinicians and patients via the electronic medical record, with additional interests in clinical and pathology informatics education. CLOSE

Dr. Pallavi Tiwari is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Associate Professor in the Departments of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Medical Physics; and serves as the Co-Director of Imaging and Radiation Sciences at the Carbone Cancer Center. Dr. Tiwari’s research interests lie in AI, machine learning, and image analysis for automated computerized diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment evaluation solutions in oncology and neurological disorders. Her research has so far evolved into over 70 peer-reviewed publications, 60 peer-reviewed abstracts, and 14 patents (8 issued, 6 pending). Dr. Tiwari has been a recipient of several scientific awards, most notably being named as one of 100 women achievers by Government of India for making a positive impact in the field of Science and Innovation. In 2018, she was selected as one of Crain’s Business Cleveland Forty under 40. She has also been awarded the J&J Women in STEM (WiSTEM2D) scholar award in Technology, and the Honorary Early Career Achievement Award and Image Innovator Award through the Society for Imaging informatics in Medicine. Dr. Tiwari was inducted as a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2023, and in 2024 was inducted in the Council of Distinguished Investigators by The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research. Dr. Tiwari’s research is funded through the National Cancer Institute, Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and various foundation and state grants. CLOSE

J. Mark Tuthill, MD, completed pathology residency and informatics fellowship training at the University of Vermont College of Medicine-Fletcher Allen Health Care and created the department’s division of pathology informatics. Dr. Tuthill is the Division Head of Pathology Informatics at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. Areas of interest include digital pathology implementation, Internet applications for laboratory services, laboratory information systems, business analytics, electronic health records and informatics training and education. Active in organized medicine, he is a Delegate, Wayne Medical Society; Co-director for the API’s Pathology Informatics Summit; and Delegate for CDC’s CLIAC committee. As a charter member of the Association for Pathology Informatics, Dr. Tuthill has worked for the API from its inception serving as president, chair of the membership committee, education committee, and the organization’s original planning group. Dr. Tuthill is the recent recipient of the API’s distinguished service award. Married over 35 years, a father of five, Mark is passionate about many things including music, nature, golf, yoga and travel. He loves to share these adventures with his family. CLOSE

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Dr Williams is the lead for Knowledge and Skills at the National Pathology Imaging Co-Operative (NPIC), based in Leeds, the United Kingdom. She has published extensively in the fields of clinical digital pathology deployment, the evidence base for digital diagnosis, and clinical validation and training for digital pathologists, and holds a PhD in patient safety in digital pathology. She leads an extensive Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement programme for digital and computational pathology at NPIC and heads up their multi-professional educational and training endeavours. CLOSE

Mr. Winsten's background encompasses over 45 years with computers, including more than 40 years in the application of computer systems to healthcare. His professional activities reflect the breadth and depth of his forty-five years of experience. He has served as a healthcare system analyst, designer and developer, product and strategic planner, marketing director, and consultant for both users and vendors of laboratory, radiology, physician networks, data repositories, and other clinical information systems. Published papers have included topics on clinical system evaluation, selection, and installation, multi-site outreach networks, system contract criteria and negotiations, HIS interfacing, and other subjects related to clinical pathology information systems. He has been a speaker at numerous seminars and professional meetings. Mr. Winsten's professional affiliations include: Fellow, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Association for Pathology Informatics (API), Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) - Area Committee on Automation and Informatics, Fellow, Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA), CLMA Board of Directors, 1990-1993 and 2011-2013. He is Co-Editor with Ray Aller, MD, of CAP Today NewsBytes and the annual CAP Today Systems surveys. CLOSE

Dr. Mustafa Yousif is an Assistant Professor and the Director of digital Pathology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. He received his medical degree from the University of Al-Mustansiriyah in Baghdad, Iraq. He completed his anatomical and clinical pathology residency training at Wake Forest University. He subsequently completed a Gynecologic and Breast Pathology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a Pathology Informatics fellowship at the Department of Pathology Informatics, University of Michigan. Mustafa is interested and has deep knowledge in pathology informatics and digital pathology. His research interests include digital pathology and artificial intelligence, as well as gynecologic and breast pathology. CLOSE

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Yonah Ziemba, MD, is a pathologist and clinical informaticist with subspeciality interest in analysis of real-world data (RWD). At his position in Northwell Health, he has responsibilities in the downstream propagation of Laboratory-generated data into clinical applications, and he is also responsible to design data models in EMR databases to identify patients with specified scientific or medical criteria to support research and business intelligence projects. Dr Ziemba is passionate about education in pathology informatics. He has served on the national PIER leadership committee, leads the Pathology Informatics Didactic Sessions for the residents at his institution, and is committed to inspire and mentor trainees who are interested in this discipline as a career choice. CLOSE