Ulysses G. J. Balis, MD, Fellow AIMBE, is the A. James French Professor of Pathology Informatics at the University of Michigan, with additional roles as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer and Informatics Fellowship Program Director at Michigan Medicine. He serves as this year’s Pathology Informatics Summit conference director. Dr. Balis has longstanding interests in data analytics, natural language processing, digital image analysis, computational pathology, and AI-driven workflow. During his career, he has carried foundational roles in the creation of subspecialty boards for Clinical Informatics, circulating tumor cell microfluidics technology, and in the development of the original DICOM Visible Light (VL) Image Object Definition. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2015 for his engineering contributions to laboratory instrumentation, pathology bioinformatics, and computational imaging in histology image search and analysis algorithms. His division is currently deploying all-digital primary diagnostic workflow in support of anatomic pathology, with the development of an associated computational pathology laboratory section. CLOSE

J. Mark Tuthill, MD, completed pathology residency and informatics fellowship training at the University of Vermont College of Medicine-Fletcher Allen Health Care, and created the department’s division of pathology informatics. Dr. Tuthill is Division Head of Pathology Informatics at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. Areas of interest include digital pathology implementation, Internet applications for laboratory services, laboratory information systems, business analytics, electronic health records and informatics training and education. Active in organized medicine, he is Delegate, Wayne Medical Society; Co-director for the API’s Pathology Informatics Summit; and Delegate for CDC’s CLIAC committee. As a charter member of the Association for Pathology Informatics, Dr. Tuthill has worked for the API from its inception serving as president, chair of the membership committee, education committee, and the organization’s original planning group. Dr. Tuthill is the recent recipient of the API’s distinguished service award. Married over 35 years, a father of five, Mark is passionate about many things including music, nature, golf, yoga and travel. He loves to share these adventures with his family. CLOSE

Ms. Clifford is currently the COO & Chief Strategy Officer of Gestalt Diagnostics and has over twenty years of experience in healthcare and laboratory technology with fifteen years of experience in digital pathology. Her roles include over eleven years as the CEO of an LIS company, with other senior level roles in product and organizational strategy, corporate operations, marketing, business development, digital pathology and product management. She has worked at leading healthcare solution vendors including McKesson and IDX (GE Healthcare), and has held executive level positions as Vice President of Global Marketing at International Data Group (IDG) and Operations at eBusiness Technologies. Ms. Clifford is widely published in business and industry trade publications; has authored a book on XML; and frequently presents educational and thought leadership sessions at healthcare industry conferences focused on technology. CLOSE

Dr. Mustafa Yousif is an Assistant Professor and the Director of digital Pathology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. He received his medical degree from the University of Al-Mustansiriyah in Baghdad, Iraq. He completed his anatomical and clinical pathology residency training at Wake Forest University. He subsequently completed a Gynecologic and Breast Pathology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a Pathology Informatics fellowship at the Department of Pathology Informatics, University of Michigan. Mustafa is interested and has deep knowledge in pathology informatics and digital pathology. His research interests include digital pathology and artificial intelligence, as well as gynecologic and breast pathology.CLOSE

Michelle Stoffel is the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and Medical Director of Laboratory Informatics at M Health Fairview and the University of Minnesota. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Associate Program Director for the ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics Fellowship at the University of Minnesota. In her roles, she uses her clinical informatics training and her pathology background to bridge communications and problem-solving between the lab and other areas of medicine. She completed her MD/PhD training at the University of Kansas, AP/CP pathology residency at the University of Wisconsin, and Clinical Informatics Fellowship and an MS in clinical informatics and patient-centered technologies at the University of Washington.CLOSE

Yonah Ziemba, MD, is a pathologist and clinical informaticist with subspeciality interest in analysis of real-world data (RWD). At his position in Northwell Health, he has responsibilities in the downstream propagation of Laboratory-generated data into clinical applications, and he is also responsible to design data models in EMR databases to identify patients with specified scientific or medical criteria to support research and business intelligence projects. Dr Ziemba is passionate about education in pathology informatics. He has served on the national PIER leadership committee, leads the Pathology Informatics Didactic Sessions for the residents at his institution, and is committed to inspire and mentor trainees who are interested in this discipline as a career choice.CLOSE