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Live from Pathology Visions 2024 in Orlando, FL, the Beyond the Scope team interviews past Presidents of the DPA who were in attendance. Guests include:

• Eric Glassy (2017)
• Marilyn Bui (2019)
• Michael Rivers (2020)
• Anil Parwani (2021)
• Ester Abels (2022)
• Liron Pantanowitz (2023)
• Junya Fukuoka (Current - 2025)

Each President answers questions about the current state of Digital Pathology, what DP/AI looks like in 10 years, how DP/AI can impact healthcare, and how to implement in the community setting. Stay tuned at the end to find out which Presidents are cat or dog lovers and their ice cream preference! It is recommended to watch the video version of this episode on the DPA website

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Live from PV24 in Orlando, FL, Alae Kawam interviews Dr. Aleks Zuraw. Aleks is a veterinary pathologist and founder of Digital Pathology Place, a website and podcast dedicated to all of the hot topics in digital pathology. Topics of discussion include reflections on PV24, practical applications of digital pathology, and the correlation between radiology and pathology transformation to digital. This episode is produced by David Remedios.

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Live from Pathology Visions 2024 in Orlando, FL, Alae Kawam interviews Dr. Bilal Ahmad. Dr. Ahmad is a Pathologist at Spectrum Healthcare Partners in Maine. He joins Beyond The Scope to discuss challenges of running a physician owned practice and how digital pathology helps with workflow and employee retention. This episode is produced by Quincy Gu.

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We kick off season 5 of Beyond the Scope with a special series of episodes featuring interviews from Pathology Visions 2024, live from Orlando. FL. Giovanni interviews Dr. Don Karcher, a hematopathologist at George Washington University. Dr. Karcher is the CAP President and gives his perspective on integration of digital pathology and artificial intelligence, governance, and the future of pathology.

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Michael Quick is a cytologost currently serving as the VP of R&D and Innovation for Cytology and Oncology at Hologic and the 2024 DPA President. Mike shares his background as a cytologist and how it led to a career focused on innovation in the digital pathology industry. Hologic has grown into the digital pathology and laboratory industry, and we discuss motivations for expansion of a large company into new areas of medicine. Finally, we feature an interview from Pathology Visions 2024 where Mike reflects on the conference and accomplishments as DPA President.

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Andy Beck MD PhD is the CEO of PathAI. He joins Beyond The Scope to discuss his background as a pathologist and biomedical informaticist while sharing his journey through the rapidly changing digital pathology landscape. Key topics include motivations for starting a company, real-world feedback from DP/AI users, and challenges for developing AI-powered technology. Finally, Dr. Beck shares the story behind PathAI partnering with Quest and Roche diagnostics.

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Dr. Chris Garcia is a pathologist and serves as the Medical Director in the division of computational pathology and artificial intelligence at the Mayo Clinic. He joins the show for a broad reaching conversation about the current state of digital pathology and what the future holds for the industry. Dr. Garcia shares his journey from academia and industry and how his experience led to a career focused on pathology informatics. We touch on the challenges for a large organization like Mayo to recruit individuals with diverse skill sets seeking to advance the industry. Additional topics include projects related to pathology data and LLM development and a discussion on how to engage new users with novel pathology technology.

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Catarina Eloy MD, PhD is a pathologist and Director of The Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP). She joins BTS to discuss the transformation of IPATIMUP to a fully integrated digital pathology laboratory and how new technology is improving diagnostic efficiency and patient treatment outcomes in Portugal. Additional topics include AI initiatives for pathology and advice on how to get started going digital.

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Staci Kearney PhD is the founder and CEO of Elevation Strategic Consulting, a firm that provides regulatory assistance to digital pathology companies. In May 2024, The FDA ruled that Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) will be regulated as medical devices with FDA oversight in the coming years. Staci joins for a special episode to break down the timeline for vendors to be compliant with the new rule and implications for digital pathology companies and laboratories.

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Dr. Muhammad Aslam is a consultant pathologist and Clinical Director for North Wales Diagnostic and Specialist Clinical Services. He joins Beyond the Scope to discuss the success of pathology digitization in his region of Wales and the current state of affairs of digital pathology adoption in the UK as a whole. The primary discussion revolves around all of the advantages digital pathology technologies are actively providing to pathologists and other specialties in Wales. Finally, Dr. Aslam discusses his initiatives to use artificial intelligence as an aid to diagnosis of prostate, breast, and lung disease. The validation study of the program in Wales can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34012708/

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