Dennis Strenk is the host of the People of Pathology Podcast and Pathologists’ Assistant at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories.

Dennis has created a unique podcast to get to know the people in pathology , to understand their motivations, and to hear their stories and learn from their insights.

We talk with him about the origins of the People of Pathology Podcast, lessons learned and the surprises along the way.

In addition, we talk about digital pathology, gross specimen handling and imaging and how new technologies such as digital pathology can enhance workflows.

This episode we speak with Dr. Michael Johnson of Visikol. We will discuss 3D imaging in digital pathology. We will look at the current and future uses of 3D imaging. What is the current state of the art in multiplexing - particularly for clinical use. We will find out more about organoids, what they are and what role they play in research and finally, what Visikol has in store for the future.

One of the many features of digital pathology is the capacity for increased connectivity among and between pathologists and the ability to share and collaborate on images and cases. This lends itself very nicely to the use of social media. We will examine the way pathologists use YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other platforms including pathology specific ones such as PathPresenter and KIKO.

We will look at how, in the past 10 years, social media has evolved and helped shape the practice, discuss how social media will continue to enhance the field of pathology as well as the careers of individual pathologists.

We're speaking with Felix Faber of MindPeak and Lisa-Jean Clifford of Gestalt Diagnostics.

With the recently announced partnership between Gestalt, MindPeak, and Leica for the implementation of digital pathology for Bio-Reference Laboratories, we will talk about this real world use of artificial intelligence and algorithms. We discuss how this collaboration will increase workflow efficiency and accuracy for pathologists. We will examine their AI integration for remote breast cancer diagnostics and the algorithms they will be utilizing.

Our guest is Chaim Linhart of IBEX Medical Analytics. We will discuss the unique challenges and opportunities for unlocking the tools of digital pathology. We examine the differences between a strong AI and narrow AI and how strong AI can assist pathologists.

Why is AI the "killer app" in digital pathology and how did Ibex develop Galen, one of the first AI based solutions to be deployed in actual clinical practice.

With so many use cases and applications in digital pathology, how do we connect the dots and make it all work?

Dr. Anil Parwani is Professor of Pathology at The Ohio State University, Vice chair of Pathology and Head of Anatomic Pathology. He is the newly elected president of the Digital Pathology Association (DPA).

We will talk about some of the ways to increase adoption and possible use cases for digital pathology. We will examine how algorithms and AI tools might help and what will be the role of pathologists if these algorithms work as promised. We will also look at some of the barriers to adoption including interoperability and storage.

We are talking with Patrick Myles, the CEO of Huron Digital Pathology. In this episode, we will discuss searching images within digital pathology. We will talk about slide indexing in handling large image databases and how these new searches will open the door to democratizing digital pathology. We will examine image search for new drug discovery, clinical use, and research applications.

We will also look at the new project to digitize the Joint Pathology Center's archive of glass slides.

Tom Barr is an industry veteran. He was an early adopter of digital pathology - utilizing various hardware platforms as well as commercial and custom software.

We will look at some of the early challenges to whole slide imaging (WSI), software solutions, networking, storage and interoperability

Tom was instrumental in developing VIPER (Virtual Imaging for Pathology Education and Research) at Nationwide Children's Hospital and developing the digital pathology network used in clinical trials for many of the large cooperative groups as well as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)program.

He is currently a founder at HyperPath Solutions.

We are talking with David West, CEO of Proscia and Joseph Mossel, CEO of IBEX Medical Analytics.

Recently, Proscia, a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, and IBEX Medical Analytics, a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI)-based cancer diagnostics, announced a strategic partnership to support pathologists in detecting prostate cancer.

In this episode, we will learn about the history of these two companies, examine how this partnership will work to help pathologists and patients and where this will lead digital pathology in the future.

Our guest is Professor Hamid Tizhoosh, the director of the KIMIA Lab (Laboratory for Knowledge Inference in Medical Image Analysis) at the University of Waterloo.

We've all heard the hype about Artificial Intelligence (AI), but what exactly is AI?

In this episode, we will examine some examples of AI in everyday life. We will discuss the current and future applications of artificial intelligence in digital pathology and image analysis, the "ethics" of artificial intelligence, and why the pathologist will not be replaced anytime soon.