Author Awards at PathologyOutlines.com
Revised: 15 August 2024
Copyright: 2023-2024, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
PathologyOutlines.com recognizes author excellence with our annual Best Author Awards. Exceptional submissions have detailed but concise content and include numerous high quality images or other medium created by the author in at least 4 categories that are not required for publication (radiology, clinical, gross, frozen section, cytology, electron microscopy, diagrams, tables, videos, image annotations) in addition to at least 6 microscopic images. Rewritten topics are eligible if no award was previously given for authorship of the submission. Winners receive a certificate, gift card and announcements via E-blast and social media. They may be invited, as appropriate, to join the Resident / Fellow Advisory Board, Board of Reviewers or Editorial Board and to submit their topics for invited reviews to the Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine or International Journal of Surgical Pathology; see example at CNS & pituitary tumors - Hemangioblastoma and J Pathol Transl Med 2022;56:115.
Author Awards
Best Author Awards for 2023
Award Winners
• Grace Kwon, M.D., Ph.D., Resident, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
• Avani Pendse, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Program Director, Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
•Topic: Esophagus carcinoma - Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and GE junction
• Rachel A. Multz, M.D., Resident, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Jared T. Ahrendsen, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
•Topic: CNS nontumor - CNS myelin disorders - Multiple sclerosis
• Sofia Lérias, M.D., Anatomical Pathologist, Department of Pathology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário Lisboa Norte, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-035, Lisbon, Portugal
• Melinda Lerwill, M.D., Director, Breast Pathology Service, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
•Topic: Breast - Sarcoma - Angiosarcoma
Best Author Awards for 2022
Award Winners
• Anja C. Roden, M.D., Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Director of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory, Director of Pulmonary Pathology Fellowship, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
•Topic: Mediastinum - Thymoma
• Laura Warmke, M.D., Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
• Jeanne Meis, M.D., Full Professor, Section Chief of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
•Topic: Soft tissue - Alveolar soft part sarcoma
• Bharat Ramlal, M.D., Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Meaghan Morris, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
•Topic: CNS & pituitary tumors - Glioblastoma, IDH wild type
• Jared T. Ahrendsen, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
•Topic: CNS & pituitary tumors - Gangliocytoma & ganglioglioma
Best Author Awards for 2021
Award Winners
• Katherine Hulme, M.B.Ch.B., Department of Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology NSW Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Ruta Gupta, M.D., Senior Surgical Pathologist, Department of Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, NSW Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
•Topic: Oropharynx - squamous cell carcinoma HPV negative
• Elizabeth Kertowidjojo, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Lora Hedrick Ellenson, M.D., Attending Pathologist, Director of Gynecologic Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
•Topic: Uterus - Low grade endometrial stromal sarcoma
• Sofia Lérias, M.D., Anatomical Pathologist, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal
• Melinda Lerwill, M.D., Director, Breast Pathology Service, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
•Topic: Breast - Solid papillary carcinoma
• Rebecca Yoda, M.D., Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
• P.J. Cimino, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
•Topic: CNS tumor - Hemangioblastoma
• Rui Caetano Oliveira, M.D., Senior Pathologist, Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
• Maria Augusta Cipriano, M.D., Senior Pathologist, Head of the Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
•Topic: Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts - Hepatoblastoma
Best Author Awards for 2020
Award Winners
• Anja C. Roden, M.D., Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester
•Topic: Pleura - Diffuse malignant mesothelioma
• Brian D. Stewart, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida
• Alessandra F. Nascimento, M.D., Associate Professor, CWRU School of Medicine; University Hospitals, Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology
•Topic: Soft tissue - Fibromatosis-palmar / plantar
• Elham Nasri, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Florida
• John D. Reith, M.D. (Senior Author), Staff Pathologist, Orthopaedic and Gastrointetinal Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
•Topic: Bone & joints - Anuerysmal bone cyst
• Mahsa Khanlari, M.D., Hematopathology Fellow, Department of Hematopathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Jennifer Chapman, M.D., Director of Hematopathology Division, Hematopathology Fellowship Program and Anatomic Pathology Operations, University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital
•Topic: Lymphoma - Follicular lymphoma
Best Author Awards for 2019
Award Winners
• Jayalakshmi Balakrishna, M.D., Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University / Wexner Medical Center / James Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Elaine S. Jaffe, M.D. (Senior Author), Head, Hematopathology Section, Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research / National Cancer Institute / National Institutes of Health
•Topic: Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma
• Jesse Hart, D.O., Assistant Professor, Rhode Island Hospital (Lifespan) / Brown University
•Topic: Osteosarcoma
• Farres Obeidin, M.D., Resident, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center and Feinberg School of Medicine
• Borislav Alexiev, M.D. (Senior Author), Associate Professor, Northwestern University
•Topic: Granular cell tumor
• Andréanne Gagné, M.D. M.Sc., Anatomic Pathology Resident, Laval University
• Philippe Joubert, M.D., Ph.D. (Senior Author), Quebec Heart & Lung Institute
•Topic: Typical carcinoid tumor
• Fenghua Peng, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Chief Physician of Organ Transplant Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital (Changsha, China)
• Jonathan E. Zuckerman, M.D., Ph.D. (Senior Author), Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
•Topic: IgG4 related disease
Best Author Awards for 2018
Award Winners
• Jalal B. Jalaly, MBBS, M.S., Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
• Katrina Krogh, M.D., Resident and Guang-Yu Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Chair, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Lisa Rooper, M.D., Assistant Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Bin Xu, M.D.,Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Honorable mention
• Jessica L. Davis, M.D., Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University
• Jesse Hart, D.O., Assistant Professor, Rhode Island Hospital (Lifespan) / Brown University
• Robert E. LeBlanc, M.D., Assistant Professor, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Omid Savari, M.D., Resident and Joseph F. Tomashefski, Jr., M.D., Chairman, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
• Kyle C. Strickland, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Duke University Medical Center
• Simone B.S.P. Terra, M.D., Resident and Jennifer M. Boland, M.D., Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic
• Brandon Umphress, M.D., Resident and Kruti P. Maniar, M.D., Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Best Author Awards for 2017
Top faculty author:
Revised: 15 August 2024
Copyright: 2023-2024, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
PathologyOutlines.com recognizes author excellence with our annual Best Author Awards. Exceptional submissions have detailed but concise content and include numerous high quality images or other medium created by the author in at least 4 categories that are not required for publication (radiology, clinical, gross, frozen section, cytology, electron microscopy, diagrams, tables, videos, image annotations) in addition to at least 6 microscopic images. Rewritten topics are eligible if no award was previously given for authorship of the submission. Winners receive a certificate, gift card and announcements via E-blast and social media. They may be invited, as appropriate, to join the Resident / Fellow Advisory Board, Board of Reviewers or Editorial Board and to submit their topics for invited reviews to the Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine or International Journal of Surgical Pathology; see example at CNS & pituitary tumors - Hemangioblastoma and J Pathol Transl Med 2022;56:115.
Author Awards
Best Author Awards for 2023
Award Winners
• Grace Kwon, M.D., Ph.D., Resident, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
• Avani Pendse, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Program Director, Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
•Topic: Esophagus carcinoma - Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and GE junction
• Rachel A. Multz, M.D., Resident, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Jared T. Ahrendsen, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
•Topic: CNS nontumor - CNS myelin disorders - Multiple sclerosis
• Sofia Lérias, M.D., Anatomical Pathologist, Department of Pathology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário Lisboa Norte, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-035, Lisbon, Portugal
• Melinda Lerwill, M.D., Director, Breast Pathology Service, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
•Topic: Breast - Sarcoma - Angiosarcoma
Best Author Awards for 2022
Award Winners
• Anja C. Roden, M.D., Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Director of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory, Director of Pulmonary Pathology Fellowship, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
•Topic: Mediastinum - Thymoma
• Laura Warmke, M.D., Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
• Jeanne Meis, M.D., Full Professor, Section Chief of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
•Topic: Soft tissue - Alveolar soft part sarcoma
• Bharat Ramlal, M.D., Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Meaghan Morris, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
•Topic: CNS & pituitary tumors - Glioblastoma, IDH wild type
• Jared T. Ahrendsen, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
•Topic: CNS & pituitary tumors - Gangliocytoma & ganglioglioma
Best Author Awards for 2021
Award Winners
• Katherine Hulme, M.B.Ch.B., Department of Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology NSW Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Ruta Gupta, M.D., Senior Surgical Pathologist, Department of Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, NSW Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
•Topic: Oropharynx - squamous cell carcinoma HPV negative
• Elizabeth Kertowidjojo, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Lora Hedrick Ellenson, M.D., Attending Pathologist, Director of Gynecologic Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
•Topic: Uterus - Low grade endometrial stromal sarcoma
• Sofia Lérias, M.D., Anatomical Pathologist, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal
• Melinda Lerwill, M.D., Director, Breast Pathology Service, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
•Topic: Breast - Solid papillary carcinoma
• Rebecca Yoda, M.D., Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
• P.J. Cimino, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
•Topic: CNS tumor - Hemangioblastoma
• Rui Caetano Oliveira, M.D., Senior Pathologist, Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
• Maria Augusta Cipriano, M.D., Senior Pathologist, Head of the Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
•Topic: Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts - Hepatoblastoma
Best Author Awards for 2020
Award Winners
• Anja C. Roden, M.D., Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester
•Topic: Pleura - Diffuse malignant mesothelioma
• Brian D. Stewart, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida
• Alessandra F. Nascimento, M.D., Associate Professor, CWRU School of Medicine; University Hospitals, Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology
•Topic: Soft tissue - Fibromatosis-palmar / plantar
• Elham Nasri, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Florida
• John D. Reith, M.D. (Senior Author), Staff Pathologist, Orthopaedic and Gastrointetinal Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
•Topic: Bone & joints - Anuerysmal bone cyst
• Mahsa Khanlari, M.D., Hematopathology Fellow, Department of Hematopathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Jennifer Chapman, M.D., Director of Hematopathology Division, Hematopathology Fellowship Program and Anatomic Pathology Operations, University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital
•Topic: Lymphoma - Follicular lymphoma
Best Author Awards for 2019
Award Winners
• Jayalakshmi Balakrishna, M.D., Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University / Wexner Medical Center / James Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Elaine S. Jaffe, M.D. (Senior Author), Head, Hematopathology Section, Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research / National Cancer Institute / National Institutes of Health
•Topic: Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma
• Jesse Hart, D.O., Assistant Professor, Rhode Island Hospital (Lifespan) / Brown University
•Topic: Osteosarcoma
• Farres Obeidin, M.D., Resident, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center and Feinberg School of Medicine
• Borislav Alexiev, M.D. (Senior Author), Associate Professor, Northwestern University
•Topic: Granular cell tumor
• Andréanne Gagné, M.D. M.Sc., Anatomic Pathology Resident, Laval University
• Philippe Joubert, M.D., Ph.D. (Senior Author), Quebec Heart & Lung Institute
•Topic: Typical carcinoid tumor
• Fenghua Peng, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Chief Physician of Organ Transplant Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital (Changsha, China)
• Jonathan E. Zuckerman, M.D., Ph.D. (Senior Author), Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
•Topic: IgG4 related disease
Best Author Awards for 2018
Award Winners
• Jalal B. Jalaly, MBBS, M.S., Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
• Katrina Krogh, M.D., Resident and Guang-Yu Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Chair, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Lisa Rooper, M.D., Assistant Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Bin Xu, M.D.,Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Honorable mention
• Jessica L. Davis, M.D., Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University
• Jesse Hart, D.O., Assistant Professor, Rhode Island Hospital (Lifespan) / Brown University
• Robert E. LeBlanc, M.D., Assistant Professor, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Omid Savari, M.D., Resident and Joseph F. Tomashefski, Jr., M.D., Chairman, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
• Kyle C. Strickland, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Duke University Medical Center
• Simone B.S.P. Terra, M.D., Resident and Jennifer M. Boland, M.D., Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic
• Brandon Umphress, M.D., Resident and Kruti P. Maniar, M.D., Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Best Author Awards for 2017
Top faculty author:
- Nicole K. Andeen, M.D., Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
- Daniel Anderson, M.D., MBA, Resident, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Akira Yoshikawa, M.D., Kameda Medical Center, Chiba, Japan
- Anthony Martinez, M.D., Fellow, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
