A. James French Lecturer

Plenary Lecturers

Victor E. Reuter, MD

Professor of Pathology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)
New York City

Dr. Reuter is presently Vice-Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City where he has served since 1983, and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. His major administrative duties in his department reside in technology and innovation as it applies to anatomic pathology, including implementing automation in the histology laboratory and the implementation of whole slide imaging in diagnostic surgical pathology. He is a practicing surgical pathologist with interests in neoplasms of the urogenital tract. He is the leader of the Genitourinary Pathology Team at Memorial as well as Director of the Genitourinary Pathology Subspecialty Fellowship and the Genitourinary Pathology Research laboratory. He is Co-Director of the Pathology Core of two NIH/NCI sponsored SPOREs in Prostate and Bladder Cancer at MSKCC. He served as Co-Chair of the NCI Kidney Cancer Clinical Trials Task Force. He is past President of the Medical Staff at MSKCC, past Chairman of the Education Committee and President of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology as well as Vice-President for North America of the International Academy of Pathology. In addition to multiple resident and fellow teaching awards, he received the Koss Medal from the International Society of Urological Pathology for “eminent services in the advancement of urological pathology”, the Harvey Goldman distinguished teaching and mentoring award from the Unites States and Canadian Academy of Pathology as well as the F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service award. In 2015 the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center honored him with the William O. Russell Lectureship and Joanne Vandenberge Hill Award for “outstanding achievement in pathology”. He is co-editor of the 2016 (4th edition) of the World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs.

Conference Organizers

David Lucas, MD

A. James French Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology
University of Michigan

Dr. David Lucas received his M.D. from Wayne State University in 1988. After Pathology residency training at Wayne State University (1998-1991), he spent two years as a Surgical and Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic (1991-1993). In 1993, he accepted a faculty position at Wayne State University, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2000, and worked there until 2003. Dr. Lucas was Course Director for the sophomore Connective Tissue Unit at Wayne State University from 1995-2003 and Director of Immunohistochemistry at the Detroit Medical Center from 2000-2003.

Dr. Lucas joined the faculty of the University of Michigan of Pathology Department in 2003 and was promoted to Professor in 2006. He is an expert consultant in Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology. He served as Director of Immunohistochemistry from 2006-2010, Director of Surgical Pathology from 2010-2015, and Program Director of the Surgical Pathology Fellowship from 2010-2015. Dr. Lucas was appointed Director of Anatomic Pathology in December 2015. He is author of 120 peer-reviewed publications, co-authored two editions of Diagnostic Pathology of Soft Tissue Tumors (2011 and 2016), and wrote multiple book chapters and abstracts. He has given various extramural invited presentations at local, national, and international venues, and has participated as study pathologist on multiple clinical trials.

Lauren Smith, MD

Director of Hematopathology
University of Michigan

Dr. Lauren Smith received her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan Honors College with highest distinction in 1992. She spent four years working in a neurogenetics laboratory at the University of San Francisco with Dr. Nelson Freimer. For the next two years she worked as a manuscript editor for Dr. Donald Klein, a psychiatrist, at Columbia University. In 1998, she began medical school at the University of Michigan. She was awarded AOA in her junior year and was president of the UM AOA Chapter the following year. She completed her residency in anatomic/clinical pathology and fellowship in hematopathology from 2002-2007.

In July, 2007 she began her faculty career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. She was appointed Fellowship Director in 2013. She was appointed the Director of the Ethics Path of Excellence in the University of Michigan Medical School in 2013. She became the permanent Director of the Hematopathology Section in 2016. In addition, she serves as a Hospital Ethicist at Michigan Medicine.

Maria Westerhoff, MD

Associate Professor
Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathology
University of Michigan

Dr. Westerhoff graduated from the Guaranteed Professional Program Admissions and Honors College of University of Illinois-Chicago and received her medical degree in 2006. She then completed her pathology residency and fellowship in gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology at the University of Chicago in 2011. She was a faculty member at the University of Washington from 2011, where she was promoted to associate professor in 2016.

Dr. Westerhoff joined the University of Michigan in 2017. She is the chair of the education committee of the Rodger Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society, education committee member of the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society, a member of the Laennec Society, and member of the congress scientific advisory board of the World Organization for Specialized Studies on Diseases of the Esophagus (OESO).