Seminars and Events
The Department sponsors several regular conferences and seminars that are open to interested clinicians.
Clinical Pathology Seminar Series
Clinical Pathology Seminars are held in the Department conference room, 5486 A/B, Main Hospital at noon unless otherwise noted. For information, contact Alkayla Boyer at 215-590-2761 or boyera@email.chop.edu
Upcoming dates and speakers are:
- October 19, 2011 - Mark Brecher, MD, LabCorp, North Carolina
- November 16, 2011 - Veena Rajaram, MD, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- December 21, 2011, Rhonda Rhoby, PhD, University of North Texas, Health Science Center
- January 18, 2012 - Miguel Rivera, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
- February 15, 2012 - David McKenna, MD, University of Minnesota
- April 18, 2012 - Jessica Jocobson, MD, Bellevue Hospital, New York
- June 20, 2012 - Carrie Inwards, MD, Mayo Clinic
Cell Pathology Seminar Series
Cell Pathology Seminars are held in the Abramson Research Center on the Main Campus, Room 123-C at noon unless otherwise noted. For information, contact Chris Davis at 267-426-5346 or davisc2@email.chop.edu.
Upcoming dates and speakers are:
- October 12, 2011 - Mark Philips, MD, Department of Cell Biology and Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine
- November 9, 2011 - Brenda Schulman, PhD, Department of Structural and Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- December 14, 2011 - Carolyn Sevier, PhD, Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
- January 11, 2012 - Carl Blobel, MD, PhD, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Hospital for Special Surgery
- February 8, 2012 - Tali Gidalevitz, PhD, Department of Biology, Drexel University
- March 14, 2012 - Matthew Weitzman, PhD, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Noon, ARC 805)
- April 11, 2012 - Peter McPherson, PhD, Department of Neurology, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University
- May 9, 2012 - Chuanju Liu, PhD, Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine
- June 13, 2012 - Dave Katzmann, PhD, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic
Transplant Immunobiology Seminar Series
Transplant Immunobiology Seminars are held in the Abramson Research Center on the Main Campus, Room 123-A/B at noon unless otherwise noted. For information, contact Felicia Carter at 267-426-5677 or carterf@email.chop.edu
Upcoming dates and speakers are:
- October 5, 2011 - Tyler Curiel, MD, MPH, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Texas Health Science Center
- December 7, 2011 - Ciriaco A. Piccirillo, PhD, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Medicine; Director, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, McGill University
- February 2, 2012 - Timothy A. McKinsey, PhD, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus
- March 7, 2012 - Megan Levings, PhD, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Transplantation, Associate Member, Department of Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Scholar Child and Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- April 4, 2012 - John Iacomini, PhD, Professor, Immunology Program, Tufts University, Boston, MA
- April 30, 2012 - Richard I. Morimoto, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Developmental Biology Seminars are held in the Abramson Research Center on the Main Campus, Room 123-C at noon unless otherwise noted. For information contact Neya Fitzgerald at (267) 426-9319 or fitzgeraldn@email.chop.edu
Upcoming dates and speakers are:
- December 6, 2011 - Christopher Lengner, PhD, Assistant Professor of Animal Biology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine
- February 7, 2012 - Nadav Ahituv, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- March 6, 2012 - Samuel Pleasure, MD, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- May 1, 2012 - Daniel Drucker, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- June 5, 2012 - Wendy Macklin, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado