Resident Research Day 2013
Resident's Research Day was held April 11, 2013 in the Griffis Faculty Club. There were 8 oral presentations with 3 winners. The winners were Dr. Rachel Kaplan, Dr. Kevin Turner and Dr. Kyung Park, who were presented with gift certificates. Congratulations on your excellent presentations!
Introductory remarks were made by Dr. Daniel M. Knowles Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
and Dr. Sandra J. Shin Director, Pathology Residency Training Program.

"Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy is a Reliable Method for Lymph Node Evaluation in Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Treated Breast Cancer Patients"
Rachel Kaplan, MD

"An ERG/SPINK1 Double Stain for Prostate Needle Core Biopsies with High Grade PIN"
Kevin Turner, MD, PhD

"ERG Gene Translocation Predicts Progression of High Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia to Prostate Cancer"
Kyung Park, MD

Dr. Francesca Khani - Winner of the Digital Photo Contest "Polydactyly"
Photographs from Resident Research Day
Resident Research Day 2012
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, is the major clinical affiliate and teaching hospital of Weill Cornell Medical College. It's New York Weill Cornell Center, is an 824-bed facility centrally located in a highly sophisticated medical community surrounded by the Hospital for Special Surgery, the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Rockefeller University. The number of specimens are as follows: autopsies, 131; surgical pathology specimens, 86,433; frozen sections, 4,289; cytopathology specimens, 56,740; laboratory procedures, 4,834,571.
Resident’s Research Day was held April 19th, 2012 in the Griffis Faculty Club. The 3 winners were Drs. Khani, Scherl and Yan who were presented with gift certificates. Congratulations for a job well done!
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Differences in TMPRSS2-ERG Gene Fusion, PTEN Deletion, and SPINK1 Overexpression in Prostate Cancer in African-American and Caucasian Men”
Francesca Khani, MD
Francesca Khani receiving prize from Dr. Daniel M. Knowles, Chairman
"The Hepatic Organotypic Slice: A Novel ex-vivo Metastasis Assay"
Alexis Scherl, MD, PhD
Dr. Scherl receiving the prize from Dr. Daniel M. Knowles, MD Chairman
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Deregulation of BANK1, a novel IGH translocation partner, indicates a potential pathogenic role in B cell lymphomas”
Jiong Yan, MD, PhD
Dr. Yan receiving the prize from Dr. Daniel M. Knowles, MD Chairman