Bye Bye Microscope?

In this video, I talk about one of the most important research papers of my career, one that paved the way for the adoption of digital pathology in the United States and showed that whole slide imaging for not inferior to microscopy for primary diagnosis in surgical pathology. This study led to the first FDA approval of a digital pathology system in the USA, and was followed by others. At the time I'm writing this (August 2024), this is the 4th highest cited paper of my career, cited 387 times on Google Scholar. You can find the paper here:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28961...

I am a pathologist in Cleveland, Ohio (United States). For 17 years, I have taught medical students, pathology residents and pulmonary fellows. I also review scholarly work in pathology as Associate Editor for the journals American Journal of Clinical Pathology and Modern Pathology. I went to medical school in India (Maulana Azad Medical College, MAMC) and completed pathology residency training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) followed by a second pathology residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University (Syracuse, New York, USA). After a pulmonary pathology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), I was recruited back to Syracuse and stayed on as faculty for next 6 years, rising to the rank of tenured Associate Professor in 2011. In 2013, I joined the department of pathology at the Cleveland Clinic. My interests include granulomatous lung diseases (including infections), interstitial lung disease, smoking-related lung disease, and lung cancer.

I have authored more than 130 publications in indexed, peer-reviewed journals, including 50 first-authored papers. I am the author of a textbook on non-neoplastic lung pathology published by Cambridge University Press in 2016 and a textbook of thoracic pathology published by Innovative Science Press in 2023.

Since 2016, I have used online platforms to teach lung pathology globally. Please follow me on X (formerly Twitter), where my handle is @smlungpathguy. Many of my educational posts are archived in an organized way on KiKo: https://kikoxp.com/posts/18912

You can find my textbooks here:
https://tinyurl.com/yc2dhcdk (focused on non-neoplastic lung pathology, so-called “medical lung disease”)

https://tinyurl.com/3cy63dtw (survival guide, covers all thoracic pathology topics)