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USCAP 2020 Recap

Los Angeles, CA


SCVP and much of the world's pathologists enjoyed a few days of lovely weather in sunny Los Angeles, California. Despite concerns of coronavirus and the need to tap elbows to say hello, our members persevered and contributed to an excellent meeting. Events kicked off with our Young Investigator Talks and our fourth annual Mary Ann Sens Open Mic(roscope) Night. Unfortunately Dr. Sens got snowed out of the meeting due to bad weather in the midwest. The young investigator talks included ventricular tachicardia, sensitization and rejection, hypertensive heart disease, and myocarditis. There was a lot of intrigue around fascinating cases brought forward by trainees during the Open Mic part of the event. Sadly, no one brought a Fabry+sarcoid+amyloid case for 2020. We were also without our superstar cameraman Bahig Shehta.

 

The Sunday morning sessions were billed as "A Look at Sudden Cardiac Death with 2020 Vision" and it did not disappoint. The sessions were very well attended by our membership and many other pathologists including numerous autopsy pathologists. A variety of topics around the theme of sudden cardiac death were covered. The speakers were Cristina Basso, Karen Kelly (filling in for Peter Lin), Julie Huss-Bawab, and Fabio Tavora. The keynote lecture was given by our Distinguished Awardee, Allan Burke. Dr. Burke presented "Sudden Cardiac Death Cases and What They Have Taught Me (and All of Us)" built around a number of excellent cases.

 

Our general business meeting after the sessions showed that our society is strong and active.

 

Sunday evening's banquet was held at the Palm restaurant. There was great food and wine and the Baltimore contingent even approved of the crab cakes. Dr. Tavora, with the help of resident remembrances ably roasted Allan Burke. In addition, Joe Westaby was given our young investigator award.

 

Other great cardiovascular events were held on Monday and Tuesday. A variety of vascular diseases were covered in the excellent Cardiovascular Evening Session.

 

The 2021 SCVP Companion meetings will be swinging over to Baltimore, MD. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Pictures from Los Angeles 2020 are below. Clicking on one will start a swipeshow.

 


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Mary Ann Sens Open Mic(roscope) Night begins!
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Dylan Miller's quick break before the festivities.
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Pre-event chit chat.
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The SoCal faculty were asking about the weather in Rochester
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Our event goers traveled from far and wide.
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An Aussie - Italian connection being made.
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Giulia d'Amati and Giulia Ottaviani discuss the importance of having lots of Giulias in SCVP
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Joe Maleszewski goes hunting for a seat in the packed house.
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Not everyone knew the camera was ready to shoot.
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Laing Liu discusses the histopathology associated with V tach ablation.
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Brenda Mai discusses plasma exchange in sensitized transplant patients.
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Joe Westaby goes deep into characterizing a hypertensive heart.
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Monica de Gaspari tackles both myocarditis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in back-to-back talks.
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Carla Giordano knows she has the audience stumped as she kicks off the 'Open' part of the night.
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Andrew Layman say's 'give it up for an interesting transplant case.'
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Stefania Rizzo discusses something fun.
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Susan Armstrong and the case of the incidental nematodes.
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Sarah Parsons presents an interesting autopsy case proving we all need genetic testing labs!
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The crowd is checking their devices one last time before the Sunday morning session begins.
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Mike Johnson gets in the last laugh while Joe is distracted.
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Fabio Tavora, Cristina Basso, Karen Kelly, Julie Huss-Bawab, Allan Burke and Dylan Miller spoke at the excellent SCVP Sunday morning meeting.
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James Stone and Giulia de Amati run our general business meeting.
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Debra Kearney is impressed with Silvio Litovsky's financial report.
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Cristina Basso and Katarzyna Michaud.
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So I said 'stick'em up!'
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Marc Halushka photobombs a deep conversation between Giulia d'Amati and Joe Maleszewski.
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Stan Radio has something to say.
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Allard van der Wal and Carla Giordano discuss retirement options.
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Carmela Tan and Vidhya Nair discuss important things.
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Carolyn Glass and husband
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Sarah Parsons and Katarzyna Michaud.
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Allan Burke looks mystified.
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Max Buja, Bihong Zhao and Li Li
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A happy bunch of SCVPers.
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Peter Anderson and Jay Fallon catch up.
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Vidhya Nair and Mary Sheppard
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Marc Halushka, Andrew Layman, Petere Anderson, Silvio Litovsky, and Chieh-Yu Lin
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The superstar Italian team
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The Fishbeins, Ryan Lau, Laing Liu, and Bobby Padera.
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Joe Westaby is congratulated by Joe Maleszewski on his Young Investigator Award.
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Fabio Tavora and Joe Maleszewski congratulate Allan Burke on his Distinguished Achievement Award ending the evening.

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