Clinical Informaticist, GI Pathologist, Professor of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Joined September 2016
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First @Waymo ride. Delightful. To borrow something @JasonPathology said: "I feel so modern." – at Olmos Park, TX
10-0 at the top of the 5th -- does the World Series have a slaughter rule? This has to be demoralizing for the Rays – at Stonebank, WI
I guess Galileo got the final word in his disagreement with the vatican on heliocentrism. – at Wauwatosa, WI
Big news for #DigitalPathology: CMS has proposed making the current CLIA enforcement discretion for virtual access permanent. Cytology remains excluded, but this is a major step forward for #Telepathology and #PathologyInformatics.
The proposed rule is scheduled to go live in the Federal Register tomorrow, Oct. 8. Comments will be accepted for 60 days after publication (through Dec. 7, 2026). Read it here: federalregister.gov/d/2026-2…
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Join us this Thurs, 8/13 @ 12PM ET, for the 2nd installment in our FREE 3-part webinar series featuring 2026 Becich-Friedman Distinguished Presentations.
Pre-registration req:
tinyurl.com/55tds28e
#pathology #informatics #pathologist #digitalpathology #pathologyinformatics
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4/29 Join Dr. David McClintock & Dr. Clare McGenity for a free webinar! Dr. Hooman Rashidi joins for a discussion moderated by Dr. Keluo Yao. Sponsored by Aira Matrix with additional funding from Mopec Group. lnkd.in/gVH4TzcC
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Pleased to announce that Dave McClintock and I have displayed and navigated a whole slide image on the Las Vegas Sphere — 580,000 sq ft of H&E at 256 megapixels. Press release follows. 1/
#digitalpathology #PathTwitter @dpatweet @SphereVegas
Thank you all for joining in on our April 1st fun 😁 maybe we'll have an opportunity to do this IRL one day @DaveMcPath411 @SphereVegas – at St Louis, MO
About the team:
Dave McClintock, MD — pathology informaticist and monitor enthusiast who has long believed the problem with digital pathology is that the screens aren't big enough.
Toby Cornish, MD, PhD — informaticist specializing in studies that are about themselves.
Technical Specifications:
Display: Sphere exterior LED
Resolution: 256 megapixels
Display area: 580,000 sq ft (~13.3 acres)
Construction cost: $2.3 billion
Viewing distance: 0.3–2.0 miles
Diagnostic accuracy: 100% (n=1)
Nachos consumed: 2 trays
We are now proposing a follow-up using the Sphere's 160,000 sq ft interior LED display — essentially a very large, very expensive reading room. It eliminates both the ambient light and HIPAA concerns, with the welcome addition of air-conditioning. 9/
Ambient lighting remains a challenge for daytime use. Las Vegas averages 294 sunny days/year.
"The medical community solved the ambient light problem by putting pathologists in a windowless basement. We considered this, but it's hard to put a 366-ft sphere in a basement." 8/
At the standard Sphere advertising rate of $450,000/day, this represents the most expensive telepathology consultation in history — though still cheaper than an out-of-network second opinion.
We are now marketing Strip-facing hotel rooms as "remote sign-out suites." 6/
A board-certified pathologist at The Venetian identified the case as a neuroendocrine tumor from her 34th-floor window.
She texted us "did you order a MIB-1?" at 11:47 PM.
That's telepathology without a network, without a viewer, without even a computer. 5/
"We didn't need Zoom or other technologies to share our screen," said Cornish. "Anyone within a two-mile radius and a clear line of sight was already looking at it."
Review time: 1 hour 15 minutes, including a 25-minute intermission for nachos. 4/
We drew inspiration from the Leeds Powerwall, but "Why stop at 37 square feet when you could have 580,000?" — Dr. McClintock, gesturing toward the 366-foot-tall rendering of a well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor glowing above the Las Vegas skyline.