Hosted by Wyss Core Faculty David R. Walt, PhD, Diagnostics Grand Rounds brings clinicians with unmet needs to the Wyss Institute. The goal of these sessions is to inform technology developers about important clinical problems that can help them direct their technology development efforts. Presenters are asked to identify diagnostic needs that will have an impact on the quality of care they deliver.
Pathology is the study of disease: its etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and, ultimately, its diagnosis. In this talk, we will orient you to how pathology is practiced within its two main divisions, anatomic and clinical, with a particular focus on the diagnostic services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We will then present a set of “hard-to-biopsy” entities, i.e., diseases where the tissue or biofluids that would settle the diagnosis are inaccessible, precarious to obtain, or uninformative, and use them to map both where the field currently stands and where the diagnostic needs are greatest.