Integrated diagnosis of primary CNS tumors
As part of our Monday seminar series, we are delighted to welcome our speaker:
Talk title: Integrated diagnosis of primary CNS tumors.
Dr. Caterina Giannini, MD, PhD
Professor, Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Rochester NY
Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
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How to join
The event will be in person only, no need to register.
MSB 2172
Medical Sciences Building
University of Toronto
1 King’s College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 1A8
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Debb Yorke at lmp.chairadmin@utoronto.ca.
Speaker: Dr. Caterina Giannini
Dr. Caterina Giannini is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and a Professor of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic and Professor of Pathology at the University of Bologna, Italy, with a clinical and research focus in brain tumor pathology. She has participated in over 300 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to editions 3rd through 5th of the WHO classification of tumors of the Nervous System (IARC, Lyon France).
She has been the director of the Pathology and Tissue Procurement Core of the Mayo SPORE in Brain Cancer and of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Neuro-Oncology biobank. She has been a co-investigator and central reviewer neuropathologist for multiple clinical trial protocols since 2000. She is highly active in the Neuro-Oncology program of the ALLIANCE cooperative group, for which she is the Cadre leader for Neuro-Oncology for the Pathology Committee and the Neuropathology liaison of the Neuro-Oncology Committee.
She holds multiple memberships in pathology and oncology societies, and for the past 11 years, she has been the moderator of the Diagnostic Slide Session, one of the most popular sessions of the Annual AANP Society meeting. She is a member of the editorial board of Acta Neuropathologica and the case editor of the Under Your Microscope section of Brain Pathology, the official journal of the ISN.
