This Pathology on the Coast webpage provides the workshop participant with online access to course materials and program information. Please plan to bring your Wi-Fi enabled laptop or tablet to the workshop to access the materials during the event. You may also download or print a PDF version of the course materials and bring them to the workshop.

The 2025 Pathology on the Coast program will focus on breast, gynecologic and lung/mediastinal pathology, providing insight on topics that are commonly encountered in everyday practice.

After completing this program, you should be able to:

  1. Identify, assess, and diagnose neoplastic and non-neoplastic entities and their mimickers in breast, gynecologic, and lung/mediastinal pathology.
  2. Synthesize subspecialty-specific, clinically relevant molecular data, and present it in a concise, easily understandable format.
  3. Recognize diagnostic pitfalls encountered by expert faculty and peers in everyday practice.
  4. Manage common diagnostic challenges, enhance surgical pathologists' diagnostic skills and decision-making processes.
  5. Apply recent evidence-based guidelines and developments in ancillary testing to their day-to-day work.
  6. Demonstrate their own knowledge and comprehension via activities and audience participation.
 

Session Materials

 
Monday, June 9, 2025
High risk lesions of the breast
Popi Siziopikou, MD, PhD, FCAP		1:15 - 2:15 PMSlides
Papillary lesions of the breast
Olga Ioffe, MD		2:15 - 3:15 PMSlides
Thoracic frozen sections: how to stay out of trouble
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD, FCAP		3:45 - 4:45 PMSlides
Mistakes, pitfalls as demonstrated in a virtual slide session
Brooke Howitt, MD		4:45 - 5:45 PMNo slides

 

Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The new, the exciting (and the annoying): how I handle resections for lung cancer
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD, FCAP		7:30 - 8:30 AMSlides
DCIS
Popi Siziopikou, MD, PhD, FCAP		8:30 - 9:30 AMSlides
Mesenchymal non-smooth muscle tumors: updates in classification
Brooke Howitt, MD		10:00 - 11:00 AMSlides
Mesenchymal smooth muscle tumors
Brooke Howitt, MD		11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSlides

 

Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Evaluation of breast specimens post neoadjuvant chemo
Popi Siziopikou, MD, PhD, FCAP		7:30 - 8:30 AMSlides
Mistakes in thoracic pathology and what I learned from them
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD, FCAP		8:30 - 9:30 AMSlides
Benign endometrial biopsies: algorithmic approach
Olga Ioffe, MD		10:00 - 11:00 AMSlides
Molecular/integrated/staging of endometrial carcinoma
Brooke Howitt, MD		11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSlides

 

Thursday, June 12, 2025
Non-neoplastic lung pathology: do you have to send everything out to an expert?
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD, FCAP		7:30 - 8:30 AMSlides
Glandular lesions of the cervix
Olga Ioffe, MD		8:30 - 9:30 AMSlides
Breast pathology pitfalls as demonstrated in a virtual slide session
Olga Ioffe, MD		10:00 - 11:00 AMNo slides
Pregnancy associated breast cancer
Popi Siziopikou, MD, PhD, FCAP		11:00 AM - 11:30 AMSlides

How to put together an impactful breast pathology report
Popi Siziopikou, MD, PhD, FCAP

11:30 AM - 12:00 PMSlides

 

Meet the Faculty

Faculty Biographies »

Brooke Howitt, MD
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Olga Ioffe, MD
University of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD, FCAP
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Popi Siziopikou, MD, PhD, FCAP
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

Meet the Program Director

Kisha Mitchell Richards, MD, FCAP
Greenwich Hospital
Greenwich, Connecticut