Molecular diagnostics are increasingly being utilized to help guide targeted therapy in solid organ malignancies. A large proportion of molecular diagnostic testing is performed on limited volume samples obtained via minimally invasive techniques such as fine needle aspiration. Increasingly, cytopathologists, are at the forefront of triaging specimens during rapid on-site evaluation and selecting specimens for ancillary testing

Speaker

Sinchita Roy-Chowdhuri, MD, PhD, MIAC The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Roy-Chowdhuri is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Houston, TX, specializing in Cytopathology and Molecular Pathology. She is currently the Medical Director of the Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory Solid Tumor section and the Director of Molecular Cytopathology at MDACC and serves as the Principle Investigator for the NCI-MATCH Adult and Pediatric clinical trials.

Her interests include NSCLC biomarker testing, molecular diagnostics in solid tumors, and the application of ancillary studies and molecular diagnostics in cytopathology. Dr. Roy-Chowdhuri has presented several educational courses at national and international meetings and published over 130 peer-reviewed articles in the field of cytopathology and molecular pathology. She has authored several book chapters and is co-Editor of the book Molecular Diagnostics in Cytopathology: A Practical handbook for the Practicing Pathologist. She serves as Associate Editor for Cancer Cytopathology and the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. She is a committee member in several professional societies, serves as a mentor to pathology trainees, co-founded a pathology educational mobile app CytoAtlas, and can be frequently seen participating in pathology education on social media.

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