The Pittsburgh Liver Research Center strives to provide its members with meaningful and relevant enrichment programs.
The Seminar series features established liver researchers and clinicians from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC as well as from other universities and hospitals. Seminars are held one Monday each month.
The Special Interest Group (SIG) Roundtables are designed to exhibit the connection between work within clinics and labs. Clinicians and basic scientists are paired by topic for these sessions, with both presenters having the opportunity to explicate the topic from the perspective of their own work. The goal is to foster translational science, dialogue, and collaboration among the members of the Center. Each SIG meets once every 6 weeks.
Maud Menten Lecture
Dr. Ulysses G. J. Balis, MD, FCAP, FASCP
Reflections of a Tinkerer:
Pathology and Lab Medicine as the Ideal Playground for Invention
April 30th at 12 pm – 1104 Scaife Conference Center
Dr. Balis is professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan and currently serves as the director of the Division of Pathology Informatics, in the Department of Pathology. He is a board-certified Pathology Informaticist, with longstanding interest in the intersection of computational approaches and the practice of medicine. This division he directs is noteworthy for being one of the few such academic information technology divisions operating in support of pathology while being housed wholly within the pathology department itself.
He has active, NIH R01-supported research initiatives in several areas of pathology and medical informatics, including machine learning and use of encoded data, image-based analytics, machine vision tools for histopathology, image-based search algorithms and federated enterprise data architectures, with all of these areas serving as rich training substrate for a growing and thriving pathology informatics fellowship at one of only five such programs in the U.S.
Dr. Balis has had a longstanding interest in pathology informatics education, and currently serves as a standing member on the Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Boards Exam Committee. Dr. Balis is the author of over 100 publications, multiple patents, numerous book chapters and is co-editor of a contemporary text on the topic of Pathology Informatics (along with Drs. Mark Tuthill and Liron Pantanowitz). He has delivered over 180 invited presentations, nationally and internationally, on various topics related to: pathology informatics, image analysis, data analytics and automation.
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Sarah Taylor, MD
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus – Children’s Hospital Colorado
Seminar Title: “Identifying immune-metabolic targets to modulate hepatic macrophage function and improve patient outcomes in biliary atresia”
Host: Dr. Simon Horslen, MD
Dr. Hao Zhu, MD
Department of Internal Medicine Children’s Medical Center Research Institute
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Seminar Title: Somatic mosaicism in regeneration, disease resilience, and cancer