Rodger C. Haggitt Lecture
A special lecture in honor and recognition of Rodger C. Haggitt, M.D., Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology, 1984-2000.
Rodger C. Haggitt, M.D.
Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology, 1984-2000
Dr. Rodger Haggitt, Professor of Pathology and Director of Anatomic Pathology from 1984 to 2000, died in June 2000 under tragic circumstances. He was one of the most highly respected pathologists in the country and in the world, whose knowledge of surgical pathology and diagnostic accuracy became legendary. He mentored many residents and fellows, and traveled throughout the work as an invited speaker at professional meetings. Dr. Haggitt developed an interest in gastrointestinal and liver pathology from the time of his residency. He joined the University of Washington to develop a program in gastrointestinal pathology that had a close interaction with clinical and research work conducted in the Division of Gastroenterology of the Department of Medicine. Through their common interests, Dr. Haggitt developed a life-long professional and personal relationship with Dr. Cyrus Rubin, one of the greatest names in gastroenterology. After his death, the gastrointestinal section of the US and Canadian Academy of Pathology was renamed the “ Roger C. Haggitt Society of Gastrointestinal Pathology.”
2008 Haggitt Lecture
May 1, 2008 at 4:30 PMHealth Sciences Center, Room T-733
Speaker: Henry Appelman M.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology
University of Michigan Health System
Why Do Biopsies of Ulcerative Colitis Seem to Look More and More Like Crohn’s Disease?
And Whatever Happened to the Old Ulcerative Colitis That We Knew and Loved?
Henry D. Appelman, MD, the M. R. Abell Professor of Surgical Pathology at the University of Michigan, trained at the University of Michigan with some amazing pathologists who served as role models, including A. James French, his original chairman and a power in national pathology circles including serving as president or the American Board of Pathology, and Murray R (Gus) Abell, one of the most accomplished tissue diagnosticians or his generation. Dr. Appelman was introduced to his subspecialty of gastrointestinal pathology while assigned to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology from 1966-68, under the tutelage of Dr. Elson B. Helwig, one of the giants of surgical pathology. Gastrointestinal pathology was mostly limited to surgical resections when he started in the business, but he and fiberoptic endoscopy and endoscopic biopsies grew up and evolved together, so he learned modern GI pathology on the go, as did all of his contemporaries. He was forced to deal with liver pathology, and had to teach himself how to do it.
Dr. Appelman has authored or co-authored over 100 papers and numerous chapters, and he has edited or co-authored four books, including the Fascicle on Tumors of the Esophagus and Stomach for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology with Klaus Lewin. His early publications were analyses of gastric mesenchymal tumors, including glomus tumors and stromal tumors. His subsequent published studies included the colitic dysplasia-carcinoma sequence, acute infectious colitis, anorectal prolapse lesions, Barrett’s and cardiac carcinomas, the morphology of end stage achalasia, appendiceal chronic inflammations and neoplasms, the chronic diarrheal colitides, superficial Crohn’s disease, changes in distribution of inflammation in ulcerative colitis, and more gut stromal tumors, including those in duodenum, jejunum and ileum, abdominal colon, and anorectum. His publications also include diseases of the liver, especially post-transplant disorders.
Dr. Appelman is a dedicated educator, known for his teaching excellence, enthusiasm and sense of humor. In recognition of this, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the Commission on Continuing Education of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) in 1999, and the 2006 H. P. Smith Award for Distinguished Pathology Educator from ASCP.
Past Haggitt Lectures
Date: April 13, 2006Speaker: Linda Ferrell, M.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology
University of California, San Francisco
Lecture Title: “Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: The New Epidemic”
Date: February 27, 2004
Speaker: Abul K. Abbas, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology
University of California, San Francisco
Lecture Title: “Genes, Lymphoctyes and Autoimunnity”