Department of Pathology

Dalhousie University

Grand Rounds

The Grand Rounds are a lecture series covering all aspects of research from the Department of Pathology. Each lecture presents the latest in discoveries by the Department's researchers, students, residents and faculty for credit.

It's an ongoing learning activity open to members of the Department of Pathology as well as invited guests.

The Grand Rounds are put on by the CPD committee the first Thursday of each month during the academic year.

2026-2027 Grand Rounds

The Grand Round schedule for 2025-2026 is subject to changes and modifications. To be added to the distribution list, which includes venues, please contact Pathology Graduate Studies.

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic
3rd Sep 2026	Ryan Fraser	An Overview of Newborn Screening in the Maritimes
1st Oct 2026	TBD
5th Nov 2026	TBD
3rd Dec 2026	Andrew Williams Forensic pathology, Toronto, ON
7th Jan 2027	TBD
4th Feb 2027	Dr. Rebekah Jacques Autopsy pathologist, London, ON.
4th Mar 2027	Rodney Ouellette, oncologist, NB
1st April 2027	TBD
6th May 2027	TBD
3rd June 2027	TBD
17th June 2027	TBD

Grand Rounds 2025-2026

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic
4th Sept 2025	Dr. Sean Rasmussen	Implementation of digital pathology in Halifax
2nd Oct 2025	Dr. Clinton Campbell	Artificial Intelligence in Hematopathology
6th Nov 2025	Colin Campbell	African Nova Scotians: Historical and Contemporary Realities and their impact on Social Determinants"
4th Dec 2025	Dr. Laura Torres Rodriguez and Dr. David Conrad	"Patient-Centered Pathology in Practice: Insights, Impact, and the CELLFiE Experience"
8th Jan 2026	Todd Hatchette	TBD
5th Feb 2026	TBD
5th Mar 2026	TBD
2nd April 2026	TBD
7th May 2026	Dr. Susan Crocker	TBD
4th June 2026	TBD
18th June 2026	TBD

Grand Rounds 2024-2025

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic
September 5, 2024	Randy Newman, Acadia University	EDIA - Women in science and medicine
October 3, 2024	Dr. Tony Subtil, Dermatopathologist	Challenges in Skin Lymphoma Diagnosis
November 7, 2024	Luke Chen	IgG4-related and Castleman Disease
December 5, 2024	TBD	Hematology
January 2, 2025	TBD	Microbiology
February 6, 2025	TBD	IWK Health Centre
March 6, 2025	OmiSoore Dryden	Blood donation, 2SLGBTQIA+ and Black (QT) lives
April 3, 2025	Samuel Cutler	Leveraging Proteomic Profiling to Identify Novel Biomarkers in Multiple Myeloma for Risk Stratification and Potential Targeted Therapies
May 8, 2025	TBD	New Brunswick
June 5, 2025	TBD	Student/Resident
June 19, 2025	TBD	Basic Science

Grand Rounds 2023-2024

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic
September 21st, 2023	Dr. Tim McCalmont	The N walsh Lecture in Dermatopathology
October 5th, 2023	Dr. Brent Young
November 2nd, 2023	Merrimen/Rendon/Gujar	Advances in Prostate cancer
December 7th, 2023	Dr. Rob Liwski
January 4th, 2024	Dr. Steven Drews
February 1st, 2024	Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed
March 7th, 2024	TBC
April 4th, 2024	Dr. Michael Volodarsky	Optical Genome Mapping
May 2nd, 2024	TBC
June 6th, 2024	TBC
June 20th, 2024	TBC

Grand Rounds 2022-2023

2022-2023 Grand Rounds

All 2022-2023 Grand Rounds were held virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic
8 September 2022	Dr. Doha Itani	Advances in Her2 Targeted Therapy: Breast and Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
6 October 2022	Dr. Dominique Trudel McGill University	Prostate Cancer & Raman Spectroscopy: Novel Optical Biomarkers
3 November 2022	Dr. Karen Bedard	TBD
1 December 2022	Dr. Sophie Gosselin McGill University	CSCC Traveling Lecturer: Emerg Med-Toxicology
5 January 2023	Dr. Alex Easton	TBD
2 February 2023	TBD	TBD
2 March 2023	TBD	TBD
6 April 2023	Dr. Gerard Gaspard	Cellular & Molecular Digital Imaging Facility at Dal
4 May 2023	Group [names TBD]	MoHACC Initiative
1 June 2023	Dr. Richard Xiang	Machine Learning or WHO Changes to HemePath

Grand Rounds 2020-2021

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic
17 September 2020	Dr Jake Yorke Lauren Westhaver, PhD candidate Edwin Leong, PhD candidate	Sudden natural death in Nova Scotia: a retrospective study from the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service 2009-2018 Natural killer cells and mitoDAMPs in IRI during liver transplantation Mast cells in Fibrosis - More than skin deep?
15 October 2020	Dr. David Kimmel	Results from the Canadian PNH Flow Cytometry Proficiency Testing Initiative.
19 November 2020	Dr. Heleen Arts	Molecular Genetics of Ciliopathies
10 December 2020	Dr. Jeanette Boudreau	Orchestration of inflammation and immunoregulation by natural killer cells.
21 January 2021	Daryl MacNeil & Liam Shannon	'LEAN'
18 February, 2021	Dr. Todd Hatchette	COVID-19 Vaccines
15 April, 2021	Drs. Andrea Thoni and Gillian Bethune	CBD-Competence by Design - The Dalhousie Residence Experience
20 May, 2021	Drs. Martin Bullock and Manal Elnenaei	Differentiated Thyroid Cancer from Diagnosis to Monitoring Across Pathology Disciplines
17 June, 2021	Dr. Laurette Geldenhuys	"Anatomical Pathology and COVID-19."