Telepathology – The daily link between Virchow Laboratories Shanghai, the Charité-Pathology and beyond
Worldwide telepathology has become a constant approach to improve the diagnostic accuracy and security for difficult cases in histopathology. Due to the technical development of excellent slide-scanners (e.g. produced by 3D Histech) combined with comprehensive histo-adapted software today it is no problem to provide correct and reliable diagnoses even for difficult cases.
Virchow Laboratories Shanghai are linked directly by tele-pathology to the Institute of Pathology, Charité Berlin, Germany and other Institutes around Germany in order to discuss difficult cases in particular.
The currently involved experts in Berlin:
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Dietel (Sen. Director, Institute of Pathology, Charité-Univ. Medicine Berlin, Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Frank Heppner (Director, Institute of Neuro-Pathology, Charité-Univ. Med-icine Berlin, Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Ioannis Anagnostopoulos (Specialist in Hematopathology, Vice-Director, Institute of Pathology, Charité-Univ. Medicine Berlin, Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Denkert (Specialist in Breast- and Gyn-Pathology, Vice-Director, Institute of Pathology, Charité-Univ. Medicine Berlin, Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Hendrik Bläker (Specialist in Gastro-Intestinal Pathology Vice-Director, Institute of Pathology, Charité-Univ. Medicine Berlin, Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Michael Hummel (Molecular Pathology, Head of Molecular Dept., Institute of Pathology, Charité-Univ. Medicine Berlin, Germany)
- PD Dr. Korinna Jöhrens (Vice-Director, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital, Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Michael Hummel (Director of the Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Charité-Univ. Medicine Berlin, Germany)
The currently involved experts around Germany:
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Büttner (Director of the Institute of Pathology, Univ. of Cologne)
- Prof. Dr. Iver Petersen (Director of the Institute of Pathology, Univ. of Jena)
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Röcken (Director of the Institute of Pathology, Christian-Albrechts-Univ. zu Kiel)
- Prof. Dr. Joseph Rüschoff (Director of the Institute of Pathology, Nordhessen and major partner of Targos Ltd.)
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Schildhaus (Director of the Institute of Pathology, Univ. of Göttingen)
- Prof. Dr. Peter Schirmacher (Director of the Institute of Pathology, Univ. of Heidelberg and current President of the German Society of Pathology)
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Kirchner (Director of the Institute of Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilian-Univ. of Munich)
- Dr. Markus Tiemann (Director of the Institute of Pathology, Hamburg-Nord)
- Prof. Dr. Wilko Weichert (Director of the Institute of Pathology, Technical University Munich)
- and on demand, the involvement of many more experts is possible for particular cases.