Dr. Baloch
received his medical degree from Liaquat Medical University in Hyderabad, Sind,
Pakistan. After receiving his PhD in 1991 he joined the pathology residency at
Hahnemann University Hospital. This was followed by fellowships in surgical
pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and cytopathology
at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia under the
mentorship of Dr. Prabodh K. Gupta (past president ASC). Dr. Baloch began his
career as an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology &
Laboratory Medicine at UPENN medical center in1997 and is currently a professor
of pathology and laboratory medicine there. He has authored more than 200 peer
reviewed publications in leading pathology journals on the subject of endocrine
and head and neck pathology; and book chapters and monographs. Dr. Baloch has delivered numerous lectures,
workshops and short courses both at the national and international meetings
including ASC, USCAP, ASCP, CAP, ECC and IAP. Dr. Baloch has coauthored 3 books
and has served as co-editor of the most recent “Milan System for Reporting
Salivary Gland Cytopathology”. Dr. Baloch has also served as the chair of the
terminology and morphologic criteria committee of the 2007 NCI sponsored
thyroid FNA initiative which led to the development of “Bethesda Thyroid FNA
Classification Scheme”. Dr. Baloch also served on the international panel which
recommended the renaming of encapsulated follicular variant of papillary
thyroid carcinoma to non-invasive follicular tumor with papillary like nuclear
features (NIFTP). Dr. Baloch is co-chief editor of Diagnostic Cytopathology and
member of the editorial board of Cancer Cytopathology, Cytojournal, Endocrine
Pathology and Journal of American Society of Cytopathology.
Dr. Baloch has served as the chair
of ASCP annual meeting scientific program committee (2014-2018), member of Papanicolaou
Society scientific program committee, USCAP education committee, ASC executive
board, ASCP committee for continuing professional development, American
Association of Endocrinologist thyroid nodule guideline task force, American
Thyroid Association laboratory test committee and well-differentiated thyroid
carcinoma management guidelines committee.
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Date (UTC+8) | Time (UTC+8) | Local Time | Hall | Session | Role | Talk Title |
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2020-12-20 | 14:45-15:10 | 2020-12-20,14:45-15:10 | Room 2 |
Symposium 26 Thyroid Pathology |
Speaker | Review of Bethesda vs. European or Other Classifications |