AANP Teaching Rounds 

The American Association of Neuropathologists Teaching Rounds with Digital Slide Review is a regularly scheduled series that occurs the 4th week of the month alternating between Mondays and Wednesdays. Please note: Beginning in 2025 the time of AANP Teaching Rounds will be different on Mondays versus Wednesdays.

  • Monday sessions will occur from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern Time (10:00 am Central, 9:00 am Mountain and 8:00 am Pacific Time)
  • Wednesday sessions will occur from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Eastern Time (11:00 am Central, 10:00 am Mountain and 9:00 am Pacific Time)

Sessions are accessed via Path LMS. Maria Martinez-Lage, MD and Angelica Oviedo, MD are the Co-Course Directors. Annual registration is $50.00 for AANP members (non-trainees), $100.00/year for non-members, and free for all trainees (member and non-member). Register via the following link: https://aanp.memberclicks.net/2025teachingroundsPlease Note: There is a delay between registering for the activity and receiving access in Path LMS (www.pathlms.com/aanp). You must be registered prior to 4:00 PM Mountain Time the day before a session in order to guarantee receipt of access information.

Each month registrants can expect to receive an e-mail with access instructions and the session flyer. Please check your "Spam" or "Junk" e-mail folder for the e-mails. Even if you don't receive the email, once registered, you should always have access the the monthly session in Path LMS.

Please note that only the live session is accredited for CME; credit may not be claimed for watching the recording. 

2025 Schedule

*off-cycle date
Date Presenter Topics, Slides and Recordings

Monday, January 27, 2025

Hilary Highfield, MD

Eye Pathology Cases

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

William McDonald, MD

Tumors - PitNET

*Monday, March 31, 2025

Rudy Castellani, MD

 Neuropathology of Beta-amyloid Therapies
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 Rebecca Folkerth, MD  Autopsy Genotype/Phenotype Correlations in Epilepsy
*Wednesday, May 28, 2025   

Murat Gokden, MD and Stephen Nix, MD

Transitioning to Life as a Newly Minted Neuropathologist
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Steven Arnold, MD Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease
Monday, July 28, 2025 John Donahue, MD

Gamification in Medical Education

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Maria Martinez-Lage, MD Toxic Injury
Monday, September 22, 2025  Isaac Solomon, MD, PhD Emerging Viral Infections
Wednesday, October 22, 2025  Peter Pytel, MD Peripheral Nerve Pathology
Monday, November 24, 2025  Marc Del Bigio, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FCAHS

Pediatric Metabolic/Storage Disorders

*Wednesday, December 10, 2025   To be announced  To be announced

 

2024 Schedule

*off-cycle date
Date Presenter Topics, Slides and Recordings
Monday, January 22, 2024  Stephen Nix, MD 
Navigating the Border: Skull Base and Head and Neck Pathology for the Practicing Neuropathologist
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slides
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Kristyn Galbraith, MD
DNA Methylation in CNS Tumor Diagnostics
PowerPoint Slides
Recording

*Monday, March 18, 2024

Karra Jones, MD, PhD
Muscle Pathology Across a Spectrum
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Vanessa Smith, MD

An Introduction to the Brain Autopsy
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
*Monday, May 20, 2024 Hunter Cai, MD, PhD Crafting a Meaningful Muscle Pathology Report-Dermatomyositis and its Mimickers
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Angelica Oviedo, MD The Role of Medical Case Reports in Advancing Neuropathology Research
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday, July 22, 2024 Jose Otero, MD, PhD Image Analysis for Pathologists: Basic Information Needed to Make Sense of the Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Revolution
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Aivi Nguyen, MD Practical Approach and Evaluation of Common Neurodegenerative Diseases
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday, September 23, 2024 Rebecca Folkerth, MD Neuropathology of Brain Swelling and Herniation
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Melike Pekmezci, MD
Hereditary Tumor Syndromes Associated with CNS/PNS Tumors
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slides
Monday, November 25, 2024 Sandra Camelo-Piragua, MD
Intraoperative Neuropathology
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slides
*Wednesday, December 11, 2024 Rebecca Folkerth, MD

Session Cancelled and Rescheduled to April 2025

Autopsy Genotype/Phenotype Correlations in Epilepsy

 

2023 Schedule

Date Presenter Topics, Slides and Recordings
Monday, January 23, 2023 Patricia Cheves-Barrios, MD
Ocular Pathology: Uveal melanoma, Retinoblastoma, Cataract
PowerPoint Slides - Not posted per presenter's request
Recording
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Jennifer Cotter, MD
Metabolic Disorders Involving The CNS: A Case-Based Discussion
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Monday, March 27, 2023 Thomas J. Cummings, MD
Pathology of Conjunctiva and Eyelids
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Wednesday April 26, 2023 Jennifer Cotter, MD
Neuropathology of Epilepsy
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Monday May 22, 2023 Tatyana Milman, MD
Corneal Dystrophies and Simulating Lesions
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Wednesday June 28, 2023 Nora Laver, MD
Retinal Diagnosis of AMD, Diabetes and Other Ischemic Vascular Diseases
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Monday July 24, 2023 John Donahue, MD
The Neuropathology of Vascular Disease
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Wednesday August 30, 2023 John (Jack) Lee, MD, PhD
 Manuscripts from the Perspective of an Editor
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday September 25, 2023 Charles White, III, MD
Tauopathies
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Wednesday October 25, 2023 Craig Horbinski, MD, PhD
DNA Methylation and Brain Tumors
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday November 27, 2023 Dennis Burns, MD
Functional Anatomy of the Basal Ganglia
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday December 13, 2023 John Crary, MD, PhD
Trauma
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
 

2022 Schedule

Date Presenter Topics, Slides and Recordings
Monday, January 24th - Rescheduled for June 22nd Karra Jones, MD, PhD High-Yield Congenital Myopathy Pathology - Rescheduled to June, 22, 2022
Wednesday, February 23rd Mark Cohen, MD
Prions for Neuropathology Fellows (and Friends)
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Monday, March 28th David Meredith, MD, PhD
Common Mesenchymal Neoplasms in and Around the CNS
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Wednesday, April 27th Jeffrey Golden, MD
Neural Tube Closure and Associated Defects
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday, May 23rd John Donahue, MD
General Neuroanatomy/Staining: An Introduction to Neuropathology for Neuropathologists
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Wednesday, June 22nd Karra Jones, MD, PhD
High-Yield Congenital Myopathy Pathology
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Monday, July 25th Arie Perry, MD
Hereditary Tumor Syndromes
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, August 24th Jason Huse, MD, PhD
Rare Gliomas
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday, September 26th Edward Lee, MD, PhD
Alzheimer's Disease and Common Co-Morbidities
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, October 26th Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov, MD
Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors in Neurofibromatosis
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Monday, November 28th Thomas J. Cummings, MD
The Pathology of Glaucoma
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Wednesday, December 21st Nora Laver, MD - Rescheduled for June 28, 2023
Retinal disease: AMD, Diabetes, Arterial and Venous Occlusions and Hypertensive Changes
 

2021 Schedule

 Date  Presenter  Topic, Slides and Recordings
Monday, January 25th                                      Melike Pekmezci, MD
Neoplastic Disease: Diagnostic Approach to Diffuse Glioma
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Virtual Slide
Wednesday, February 24th Angela Viaene, MD, PhD
Pediatric Neuropathology: Malformations
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday, March 22nd Caterina Giannini, MD, PhD
Inflammatory Disease of the Meninges
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, April 28th Marta Margeta, MD, PhD
Neuromuscular Disease: Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday, May 24th Leila Chimelli, MD, PhD
Neuropathology of Central Nervous System Infections
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, June 23rd Fausto Rodriguez, MD
Eye Disease: Illustrative Cases
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday, July 26th Brent Harris, MD, PhD, FCAP
Update on ALS and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, August 25th Karra Jones, MD, PhD
High-Yield Muscular Dystrophy Pathology
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday, September 27th Isaac Solomon, MD, PhD Infectious Diseases of the Central Nervous System
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, October 27th Cynthia Hawkins, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Pediatric Gliomas - A Case-Based, Practical Approach to Using the WHO 2021 Classification  
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Monday, November 29th Ann McKee, MD
The Neuropathology of CTE
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
Wednesday, December 22nd Marta Margeta, MD, PhD
Metabolic and Toxic Myopathies
PowerPoint Slides
Recording
Case-Based Questions
 

Accreditation Information

Overall Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss recent advances in the field of neuropathology that impact research and practice.
2. Cite 2-3 examples of new information on the underlying etiologies and mechanisms of neurologic disease.
3. Explain how to translate the latest developments in neuropathology into clinical practice.

Accreditation Statement: The American Association of Neuropathologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Physician Credit Designation: The American Association of Neuropathologists designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

For information about the accreditation of this program, please contact the American Association of Neuropathologists at (303) 557-0859 Ext. 84.