This is the final episode of our season 1, with co-hosts Abdul Abid, Meredith Herman, Casey Schukow and Virginia Fernandez, giving an overview of the season, what worked, didn't work, favorite moments, what common themes emerged from our interviews and much more.

We talked to Dr. Jeffrey Medeiros, Professor and Chair of the Department of Hematopathology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, about his path to pathology, how did he ended up choosing hematopathology as a career, his mentors, what makes hematopathology special, two of his memorable cases, what makes applicants for fellowship stands out in his opinion and his advice for trainees. Additionally, an anecdote by our co-host Abdul about that one time that Dr. Medeiros's sign-out cost him a date.

We talked to Dr. Anne Mills, Gynecological pathologist and cytopathologist at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, about her path to pathology, to gyn pathology, her mentors, her memorable cases, and advice for residents.

We talked to Dr. Jacqueline Macknis, program director of Beaumont Health's pathology residency, and a pediatric pathologist about her path to pathology, to pediatric pathology and her advice for trainees.  

We talked to Dr. Ankur Sangoi, who is transitioning from private practice to full-time GU pathology at Stanford, about his path to pathology, to GU pathology, his advice for trainees and his killer meme game.

We talked to Dr. Laura Favazza, pathologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan, about her path to pathology, experience as a D.O., her path to molecular pathology, her mentors, and advice for trainees. 

We talked to Cardiac Pathologist at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Joseph Maleszewski, Professor of Pathology, about his path to pathology, cardiac pathology, what makes cardiac pathology unique and his advice for trainees.

We talked to Dr. Marilyn Bui, Professor of Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, about her path to pathology, her introduction to digital pathology, her being at the right place at the right time, her contributions to digital pathology and the broader pathology world, and her advice for trainees.

We talked to pediatric pathologist and one of the editors of WHO Classification of Pediatric Tumors, Dr. Miguel Reyes-Mugica about his path to pathology, his mentors, how he got involved in pediatric pathology, his most memorable case and his advice for trainees.

We talked to Dr. Agnes Fogo, Professor of Pathology at Vanderbilt University about her path to pathology, how she ended up doing medical renal pathology, what makes it unique and what trainees interested in the field can do to learn more about the field.

We talked to Head and Neck guru, Dr. Justin Bishop at UT Southwestern about his medical education, his path to pathology, to H&N pathology, entities that he and his collaborators described for the first time, his mentors and his advice for trainees. 

We talked to Hemepath guru Dr. Dennis O'Malley about his path to hematopathology, his love for spleen, his favorite books (AFIP Fascicles) and his advice for trainees. He also talked about working in academia and at a referral center.

We talked to Dr. Monica Pagano, Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Washington, about her path to transfusion medicine (through internal medicine and cell therapy), her interest in apheresis, her mentors, why it is important fro all medical students to rotate on transfusion service, and committees that residents interested in transfusion/blood banking should join.

We talked to Dr. Joe Chaffin, educator at Loma Linda University and creator of the Bloodbankguy website and podcast series. He talked to us about his medical education, his time doing clinical transition year, his training in transfusion medicine (and him being fortunate that he didn't have to do a fellowship), his experience in academia/private practice/independent blood centers, his mentors, what makes transfusion medicine unique (he trained in and practiced Surg path for years as well), different pathways in transfusion medicine, and resources for med students and residents. 

We talked to Dr. Leilani Valdes, a community pathologist in Victoria, Texas, who is a second-generation pathologist, about her life journey (she started off in marketing after college, did not want to travel so much), ending up liking pathology in second year of med school (because she liked solving problems and help other medical professional solve problems), why she chose community pathology (the ability to solve multiple problems at the same time, instead of being super-specialized), her involvement in organized medicine and her focus on professionalism for trainees. 

We talked to Dr. John Hart, Professor of Pathology at UChicago, about his path to pathology (through research in GI and a mentor at Uni of Iowa), his love for GI/Liver pathology (he thinks its the best specialty, there is a lot of diseases to look at, gastroenterologists are fun to work with, GI ppl at USCAP have the most fun! and there are plenty of jobs),  his favorite case (diagnosing celiac disaease on liver biopsy), most gratifying aspect of his job (solving puzzles, esp in Medical liver), what makes a good liver pathology fellowship applicants (good grasp of surg path, doing projects with mentors, submitting asbtracts at USCAP, introducing yourself at USCAP) and his involvement with USCAP. 

We talked to Dr. Eric Salazar at UT San Antonio, an expert in coagulation and related disorders about his path to pathology, what he learned from his mentors (both during his training and from committees at CAP), what makes coagulation a unique specialty (you get to see patients!, your role as director of the coag lab), interesting cases that has stayed with him through the years (one involved the Houston Astros winning parade in 2017), what he loves about his job (finding systemic error and taking corrective action), how to get started in coagulation as a career,  what can residents do to learn more about coag (talk to the local coag expert at your institution, attend the AABB/ASH/ISTH meetings). 

We talked to Dr. Pantanowitz about his path to pathology, how he ended up doing clinical informatics, what makes informatics unique, what are pathways to train in informatics and his advice for trainees. 

We talked to Dr. Arie Perry, Professor of Neuropathology at UCSF and a classically trained Tenor! He talked about his education, his path to pathology, to neuropathology, his mentors, interesting cases, his advice for trainees and then we talked about his musical career.

We talked to Dr. Sarah Bean, Professor of Pathology at Duke University and Fellowship Director for Cytopathology, about her path to pathology, cytopathology, her mentors, what makes cytopathology a unique specialty, interesting cases and her advice for trainees. We also talked about her interest in medical education and how trainees interested in that could learn more about it.