AAPA Scholarships & Travel Grants

Call for manuscripts reporting on cases or techniques that would enhance the knowledge of the pathologists’ assistant at the anatomic pathology bench or at autopsy.  We will be awarding a travel grant to the top manuscript in each of two categories (Malignant Cases and Non-Malignant Cases)*.

Next offering: Apr. 1, 2020 – Jul. 1, 2020

Eligibility

• Author must be a Fellow member of the American Association of Pathologists’ Assistants
  
• Manuscripts submitted for a travel grant at any other state and/or national pathology conference or which have been accepted for prior publication are not eligible
  
• The manuscript must be the original work of the author
  
• The author may only submit one manuscript per annual travel grant

Fellow Travel Grant Details

The two winning entries (one in each category) will receive a travel grant valued at up to $1800 (registration to an upcoming Annual Conference, Spring Meeting, or Summer Meeting within the next two years + $1000 to assist with travel expenses). A total of four travel grants are awarded per calendar year.

*Categories will change before the next Travel Grant offering opens on April 1, 2020.

Previous Travel Grant Winners

2020 Fellow Conference Travel Grant Winners:

• Robert Gounaris with Intracardiac Burkitt Lymphoma
• Kimberly Green with An Unexpected Fortune-Teller: The Predictive Power of the Omentum

2019 Fellow Conference Travel Grant Winners:

• Neoplastic Case: Andrea Granger with Mesothelioma Masquerading as a Small Bowel Perforation
• Non-neoplastic Case: Amanda Stewart with Girl with Guts: Distinguishing Between Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease
• Non-neoplastic Case: Kathleen Czmut with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: A Case Report

2018 Fellow Conference Travel Grant Winners:

• Neoplastic Case: N. Dominic Alessio with Malignant Transformation of Childhood Burn Wound with Metastasis: A Case Report
• Non-neoplastic Case: Sarah Garner with Limb Body Wall Complex in a 17 Week Fetus: The Importance of a Gross Exam
• Andrea Granger with It’s Toe-tally an Enchondroma
• Cory Nash with Esthesioneuroblastoma Disguised as Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion

2017 Fellow Conference Travel Grant Winners:

• Christopher Baldoni with Forgotten But Not Always Gone; the Notochord and Its Tumors
• Kimberly Green with A General Overview of Tissue Submission Guidelines for Zika Virus Testing
• Bing Miller with New insight into endometrioid borderline ovarian tumor– a rare case report and literature review
• Karen Riviello with Safety… Who Cares Anyway?

2016 Fellow Conference Travel Grant Winners:

• Kailyn Gibson with Plasmacytoid Variant Urothelial Carcinoma: Diagnostic and Grossing Challenges
• Tisa Lawless with An Examination of Meningioma
• Drew Sciacca with Tissue Procurement During Autopsies to Aid in Advancement of Molecular Testing and Personalized Medicine
• Kenneth “Steve” Taylor with Whole-Specimen Freezing Technique Applied to Rare Maxillary Ghost Cell Odontogenic Carcinoma: An Illustrative Case with Literature Review

2015 Fellow Conference Travel Grant Winners:

• Bonnie Breeze with Testicular Mesothelioma
• Kimberly Green with Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis
• Meghan Pickard with Of Primary Concern: A Case of Metastatic Mucinous Cancer with Multiple Primary Suspects
• Kenneth “Steve” Taylor with Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma with Rare Ovarian Metastasis in an Adolescent Female: A Case Report with Literature Review 

2014 Fellow Conference Travel Grant Winners:

• Tara Meade with A Strangled Heart
• Kenneth “Steve” Taylor with Calcifying Nested Stromal-Epithelial Tumor of the Liver:  A Case Report and Review of Literature

Why Attend a Conference as a Student?

Call For Manuscripts Reporting on Macroscopic Dissection Techniques of Cancer Surgical or Autopsy Pathology Cases

Now open! Submit your manuscript by June 1, 2020

Eligibility

• Non-delegate student members who will be in their second year of training as of the Annual Conference date are eligible
  
• Manuscripts submitted for a travel grant at any other state and/or national pathology conference or which have been accepted for prior publication are not eligible
  
• The manuscript must be the original work of the author
  
• The author may only submit one manuscript per annual travel grant

Travel Grant Details

The winning entry will receive a travel grant valued at up to $1600 (registration + $1000 to help cover travel expenses) to attend the Annual Conference, Spring Meeting, or Summer Meeting of their choosing (within the next two years).

Previous Travel Grant Winners

2019 Student Non-Delegate Conference Travel Grant Winner

• Tanja Sisarica, Rosalind Franklin University, with Submitting Prophylactic Total Gastrectomy via Whole Mount Roll in Patient with CDH1 Gene Mutation: Grossing Technique Write-up

2018 Student Non-Delegate Conference Travel Grant Winner

• Samantha Etters, Wayne State University, with Breast Cancer Metastasis to the Colon Presenting After Fifteen Years

2017 Student Non-Delegate Conference Travel Grant Winner

• Robert Bauer, Duke University, with A Large Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma of the Spermatic Cord

2016 Student Non-Delegate Conference Travel Grant Winner:

• Kelsie Thill, Quinnipiac University, with Pathological Processing of Wilms Tumor: A Primer

2014 Student Non-Delegate Conference Travel Grant Winner:

• Cassandra Murray, Quinnipiac University, with Choriocarcinoma with Metastasis to the Lungs

Call For Manuscripts Reporting on: What advancements in molecular/immunohistochemistry will change the direction of pathology as a field?

Now open! Submit your manuscript by May 1, 2020

Eligibility

• Author must be a student member of the American Association of Pathologists’ Assistants
  
• All student members who will be in their second year of training as of the Annual Conference date are eligible
  
• Manuscripts submitted for scholarship at any other state and/or national pathology conference or which have been accepted for prior publication are not eligible
  
• The manuscript must be the original work of the author
  
• The author may only submit one manuscript per annual scholarship

Scholarship Details

The winning entry will receive a $2500 scholarship toward their education.

Previous Scholarship Winners

2019 Student General Education Scholarship Winner:

• Ellen Panetto, Indiana University, with A Review of Machine Learning Methods and Advancements in Pathology

2018 Student General Education Scholarship Winner:

• Lora “Taylor” Horlock, University of Calgary, with Implementation of Digital Technologies in Pathology

2017 Student General Education Scholarship Winner:

• Katherine Owen, University of Maryland, with Paratesticular Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma in a Juvenile Patient: A Case Study

2016 Student General Education Scholarship Winner:

• Shelby Currier, University of Maryland, with Giant Lipoleiomyoma of the Posterior Uterus

2015 Leica Scholarship Winner:

• Michael Gerling, University of Calgary, with Pancreatic Involvement in Von Hippel-Lindau Disease

All training programs are invited to send two representatives each to attend our Annual Conference.

Training programs are contacted by the AAPA in the winter.

Eligibility

• The two students must be in their second year at the time of the Annual Conference.

Program Details

Student delegates are required to participate in a number of activities leading up to and including their time at the conference. In return, the AAPA provides complimentary conference registration and accommodations, with up to two students per room, for the length of the program. Student delegates will be responsible for their airfare, meals outside of those provided with their conference registration, and any incidentals.

Each student delegate is required to arrive on Sunday afternoon and depart on Thursday. The total length of stay is five (5) days and four (4) nights at the conference.

Previous Student Delegate Manuscript Winners

2019 Student Delegate Manuscript Winner:

• Sicheng (Delia) Lee, University of Calgary, with Myoepithelial Carcinoma of the Left Maxilla with Extension to the Inferior Pterygoid Plates

2018 Student Delegate Manuscript Winner:

• Nicole Dispensa, Rosalind Franklin University, with Conventional Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity with Mandibular Invasion

2017 Student Delegate Manuscript Winner:

• Lori Stewart, University of Maryland, with Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma with a Solitary Synchronous Metastasis to the Contralateral Adrenal Gland

2016 Student Delegate Manuscript Winner:

• Riki Turri, West Virginia University, with Extramedullary Plasma Cell Myeloma Involving the Ileum

2015 Student Delegate Manuscript Winner:

• Sydney Cooley, Rosalind Franklin University, with Osteosarcoma of the Distal Femur

2014 Student Delegate Manuscript Winner:

• Emily Ragaglia, Quinnipiac University, with Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma: An Autopsy Case Report with Metastatic Spread to Heart, Lungs, Spleen and Testes

2013 Student Delegate Manuscript Winner:

• Joseph Pociopa, Wayne State University, with A Rare Complication: Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome