Top 5 Junior Member Abstract Program Winners Announced at CAP24 Meeting

Winners in the College of American Pathologists (CAP) CAP24 Top 5 Junior Member Abstract Program were recognized during the recent CAP24 meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. CAP President Donald S. Karcher, MD, personally congratulated the winners on October 20, 2024, during the Honors in Pathology Awards Ceremony.All abstracts accepted for presentation at the CAP24 meeting that were submitted by CAP junior members were eligible for selection as one of the Top 5 Junior Member Abstract Program winners. Prior to being selected as a winning abstract, these submissions were reviewed by a group of experts within various anatomic and clinical pathology disciplines who were blinded to the authors’ identities.The CAP24 Top 5 abstracts (winning CAP junior members shown in bold) are as follows:First Place: Difference in Clinical Presentation for Individuals with R485K Polymorphism Compared to Those With Factor V Leiden Mutation: A Single-Institution Study. Patricia Le, MD1 (pnl75465@ creighton.edu); Mary Hanson, MD1; Marcos Perez, BSc1; Ahmed Eladely, MBBCh1; Ryan Walters, PhD2; Ian Ng, MPH2; Joseph Knezetic, PhD.1 Departments of 1Pathology and 2Internal Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska.Second Place: Histologic Factors Contributing to Discordance Between Biopsy and Excisional Specimen in Patients With High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion. Jianhua Liu, MD1 ([email protected]); Suyeon Yeon, MD1; Suhalika Sahni, MD1; Priyanka Gokhale, MD2; Vikas Mehta, MD.3 Departments of 1Pathology and 2Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois; 3Department of Pathology, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. Third Place: Distinct Disease Trajectories: Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma in African Caribbean and Japanese Adults. Hagar Attia, MD ([email protected]); Elif Yakut, MD; Jenna Zudell, MD; Raavi Gupta, MD. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York.Fourth Place: Diagnostic Efficacy of Deep Sections in the Histologic Confirmation of Endometriosis: A Large Retrospective Study With Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Yang Hu, MD, PhD ([email protected]); Ellen Gomulia, MS; Kathleen Cederlorf, BS; Ann Folkins, MD; Teri Longacre, MD; Xiaoming Zhang, MD. Department of Pathology, Stanford Medicine, Palo Alto, California.Fifth Place: Microscopic Tubulovenous Fistulae in Nonneoplastic Kidneys: A Single-Center Case Series. Cullen M. Lilley, MD, MS, MA ([email protected]); Jonathan E. Zuckerman, MD, PhD. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA Health, Los Angeles, California.The Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Editorial Board acknowledges the efforts of the following individuals for their assistance in selecting the winning Top 5 Junior Member abstracts: David A. Schwartz, MD, ChairHikmat A. Al-Ahmadie, MDKim A. Collins, MDGenevieve M. Crane, MD, PhDAndre L. Moreira, MD, PhDMaria M. Picken, MD, PhDAnja Christiane Roden, MDAnnika L. Windon, MDRoseann I. Wu, MD, MPHRhonda K. Yantiss, MDThe accepted CAP24 abstracts and case studies are available on the Archives website (www.archivesofpathology.org; click on the CAP Annual Meeting Abstracts link).