24^th European Pathology Congress

Gabriela Oprea-Ilies has completed her residency and fellowship in Pathology at the University of Minnesota and continued with a Cytopathology fellowship at Emory University Hospital, after which she remained on staff. She is the director of the Immunohistochemistry Laboratory at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and the Medical director of an independent Molecular Lab in Atlanta, Georgia. She has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and serves as in editorial board member and as reviewer of medical journals of repute.

Breast Cancer

C Cameron Yin has received her MD from Beijing Medical University and her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Hematopathology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She is board certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Hematology and Molecular Genetic Pathology. In addition to clinical responsibilities on the Leukemia, Lymphoma and Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory services, Dr. Yin has been actively participating in multiple research projects in leukemia and lymphoma, which has led to over 100 research papers and over 20 book chapters. She serves as members of editorial boards for over 20 journals and ad hoc reviewers for over 30 journals. Her major research interests include molecular genetic aberrations in leukemia and lymphoma, development of molecular methodologies for the diagnosis, prognosis and minimal residual disease monitoring of hematopoietic neoplasms, mechanisms of resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia, as well as the role of immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in acute myeloid leukemia.

Hematopathology

Dr. Shaoying Li has received her MD from Beijing Medical University (Current name: Peking University Health Science Center). She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Hematopathology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is board certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Hematology. In addition to clinical responsibilities on Lymphoma, leukemia, and flow cytometry services, Dr. Li has been actively participating in multiple research projects in lymphoma and leukemia, which has led to over 30 research papers and multiple book chapters. She also serves as members of editorial boards and ad hoc reviewers for multiple journals. Her major research interests include molecular cytogenetic risk stratification of DLBCL with a focus on “double hit” lymphoma and MYC/BCL2 double expresser lymphoma, clinicopathologic and molecular study of mantle cell lymphoma, and molecular genetic aberrations in lymphoma and leukemia.

Clinical Pathology