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Summer Quarterly Pathology / Immunohistochemistry Conference Featuring Linda D. Ferrell, MD

Linda D. Ferrell, MD of the University of California, San Francisco, will present Update on Fatty Liver Disease. The evening starts with a social hour and light dinner at 6:30 PM, with the conference commencing at 7:30 PM, followed by interesting case presentations.

Dr. Ferrell trained in pathology at both the University of Kansas and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She joined the faculty at the UCSF in 1981. She is currently Professor, as well as the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the Dept. of Anatomic Pathology and the Director of Surgical Pathology. She also oversees the Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Liver/GI Pathology Fellowship, and the Liver Transplant Fellowship at UCSF. She has been honored with teaching awards given by the medical students and residents at UCSF, and she has chaired two major educational courses for pathologists for multiple years, including the combined UCSF/Stanford and the California Society of Pathologists annual courses. She has been invited to lecture at numerous U.S. and international meetings, including the USCAP, and has had numerous visiting professorships and lectureships, including the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio State University, Yale, Beth-Israel Hospital (Harvard University, Boston), and the Rodger Haggitt Memorial Lectureship at the University of Washington. She has contributed to over 175 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, and has written numerous chapters on liver pathology for major surgical pathology textbooks. She is one of the founding members of the International Liver Pathology Study Group. She recently served on the Executive Council of the USCAP, and is co-editor for the next edition of the MacSween’s Pathology of the Liver textbook. Her academic interests include emphasis in the areas of liver tumors, particularly dysplastic nodules and hepatocellular carcinoma, viral hepatitis, post-transplant liver pathology, and fatty liver disease.



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