Saturday Master Class – Salivary Gland Pathology
Joaquín J. García, MD
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Chair of Anatomic Pathology,
Mayo Clinic Rochester,
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Dr. Joaquín J. García pursued undergraduate studies in Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley and attended medical school at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. García trained in Anatomic Pathology at University of California San Francisco, Oncologic and Molecular Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Head & Neck Pathology at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. García is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and has a joint appointment in the Department of Clinical Anatomy at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.
Dr. García has over 10 years of experience as Medical Director of the Histology Laboratory, Histology Technician Program, and School of Medicine Histology Course. Dr. García possesses expertise in head and neck, frozen section, and molecular pathology; he has published over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts and authored several book chapters and books. Dr. García is currently the Chair of Anatomic Pathology and the Digital Pathology Program at Mayo Clinic Rochester.
Sunday Master Class – Lung Pathology
Professor Wendy Cooper
Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology,
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,
Sydney, Australia
Professor Wendy Cooper is a senior staff specialist pathologist in Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and Anatomical Pathology Clinical Stream Lead for NSW Health Pathology. She has extensive experience in diagnostic and molecular pathology with special interest in thoracic pathology.
She is a member of the Pathology Committee of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, a standing editor of the 6th edition of the WHO classification of Tumours, a member of the Expert Panel for the international CAP/IASLC/AMP Lung Cancer Molecular Testing Guidelines and a member of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society task force developing the current Update of the International Multidisciplinary Classification of the Interstitial Pneumonias. She is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pathology and has over 170 journal and book chapter publications.