Pathology resident takes first place at tri-state conference

Pathology resident Charu Shastri, M.D., presents at the Tri-State Pathology Conference. 

Charu Shastri, M.D., a first-year pathology resident, recently presented and won first place at the 2024 Tri-State Pathology Conference, held April 27-28 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. 

Shastri discussed racial disparity in the clinicopathological spectrum of incidental prostate cancer diagnosed following a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), which is the surgical removal of part of the prostate gland to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Co-authors from the Whiddon College of Medicine were Jatinder Kumar, M.D., assistant professor of urology; Christopher Keel, D.O., associate professor and chair of urology; Sarabjeet Sudan, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow; Guillermo A. Herrera, M.D., professor and chair of pathology; and Ajay P. Singh, Ph.D., professor of pathology.  

Residents and faculty who attended the conference

included, from left, Jawaria Rahman, M.D.; Xuebao

Zhang, M.D.; Rosetta Campbell, M.D.; Osama Elkadi,

M.D.; Muhammad Tahir, M.D.; and Eric Wei, M.D. 

Others who presented from the Department of Pathology were residents Ryan Walde, M.D.; Jawaria Rahman, M.D.; Rasha Mohammed, M.D.; Rosetta Campbell, M.D.; Lingling Xian, M.D.;  Xuebao Zhang, M.D.; and Muhammad Tahir, M.D.

The tri-state conference brings together the Alabama Association of Pathologists, the Louisiana Association of Pathologists, and the Mississippi Association of Pathologists.