Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – September 2016

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – September 2016

  • Announcements:
    • Ahmad Al-Moujahed, Pathology PhD Candidate in Dr. Demetrious Vavvas’s Lab (off-site at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary) has been selected to be a Fall 2016 fellow of the MIT IMPACT program. It is  a career development program for post-doctoral and advanced pre-doctoral trainees (here is a good website for the details; http://impactprogram.mit.edu). Ahmad applied last June; he interviewed and was accepted over the Summer. Ahmad started his first session Tuesday, September 13th
    • From Sandra Cerda, Cytology Fellowship Director, as of July 2016… “Accordingly, the Residency Review Committee for Pathology, functioning in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), has removed previous citations for the following program: Cytopathology Boston University Medical Center Program/Boston University Medical Center” Bravo!!!
    • Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD was an invited speaker at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Department of Pharmacology, “Defining Inflammation in Human Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes,” September 14, 2016
    • Dr Sandra Cerda collaborated with the Endocrine Department in an abstract selected for poster presentationat the 86th Annual Meeting of the AMerican Thyroid Association in Denver, Colorado from September 21 – 25, 2016: “Large Independent Prospective Study to Evaluate the Performances of ThyroSeq2 ® Multigene Next Generation Sequencing Panel Analysis on Cancer Diagnosis in Thyroid Nodules with Indeterminate Cytopathology.” Toraldo Gianluca MD, Godley Frederick A MD, Cerda Sandra  R MD, Doherty Gerard MD, Braverman Lewis MD, Lee Stephanie MD
    • Nader Rahimi, PhD was invited to give a lecture at the Department Pathology, Boston Children Hospital, Harvard Medical School on September 22, 2016. The title of his lecture was “Adhesion signaling in tumor growth and angiogenesis”
    • Nancy S. Miller, MD was the invited speaker at the Boston area Microbiology Supervisors Meeting at Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain on September 28th Dr. Miller presented “GPC Potpourri – a collection of pesky staph and streps”
    • Dr. Miller will also be the ASM Distinguished Lecturer at the Fall Meeting of the New York City branch of the American Society for Microbiology, NYC, October 7, 2016. Dr. Miller will present “From the bench: Challenges, conundrums, and lessons learned in this era of improved microbial identification”
    • CAP 2016:
      • Lei Li, Dr. Sandra Cerda, Dr. Reine Gedeon and Dr. Carmen Sarita-Reyes had an abstract accepted for the College of American Pathologists (CAP) in Las Vegas, Nevada from September 25th-28th 2016 titled; “Acrania Without Anencephaly In The Presence Of Amniotic Band Syndrome;” Lei Li, MD, PhD., Sandra Cerda, M.D., Reine Gedeon, M.D., and Carmen Sarita-Reyes, MD
      • Lei.CAP2016.image1.SECOND TRYDr. Lei Li presenting at CAP 2016
      • Also presented at CAP: Israa Laklouk, MD, Mahmoud Soliman, MDRobert Pistey, MD, and Sandra Cerda, MD; “Primary Unresectable Locally Invasive Right Atrial Paraganglioma Presenting with Chest Pain”  Presented in CAP 2106 http://www.archivesofpathology.org/
      • Mahmoud.CAP2016.IMG_2132Mahmoud Soliman presenting at CAP 2016
      • Soliman was quite busy at CAP, he also presented; Mahmoud L Soliman, MD, PhD, Sandra Cerda MD, Huihong Xu MD, “An Invasive Moderately Differentiated Adenocarcinoma incidentally identified in Perforated Diverticulitis with Abscess Formation”  Presented in CAP 2106 http://www.archivesofpathology.org/
      • Mahmoud.CAP2016.Poster2.Mahmoud Soliman presenting a second poster at CAP 2016
    • Welcome to our two new Masters Students:
    • SubhaSinghSubha Singh joins us directly as a McNair Scholars Fellow from the University of New Hampshire:
    • Rawan picRawan Tahboub is already an accomplished physician finishing in the top of her class at Jordan University of Science and Technology:
  • Publications: ACCEPTED:
    • Elizabeth Moses, Teresa Wang, Sean Corbett, George R Jackson, Eduard Drizik, Catalina Perdomo, Claudia Perdomo, Eric Kleerup, Daniel Brooks, George O’Connor, Steven Dubinett, Patrick Hayden, Marc E. Lenburg, and Avrum Spira. “Molecular impact of electronic cigarette aerosol exposure in human bronchial epithelium.” Accepted to Toxicological Sciences.
  • Publications: PUBLISHED:
    • Hafida, S, Mirshahi, T, Nikolajczyk BS. 2016. The impact of bariatric surgery on inflammation: quenching the fire of obesity? Current Opin Endocrinol, Diab and Obesity. 23:373-8. PMID: 27455515
    • Nicholas DA, Andrieu G, Strissel KJ, Nikolajczyk BS, Denis GV. 2016. BET bromodomain proteins and epigenetic regulation of inflammation: implications for type 2 diabetes and breast cancer. Cell Mol Life Sci. (In Press). PMID: 27491296
    • Moshe S, Siwak J, Tapan U, Lee SY, Meyer RD, Parrack P, Tan J, Khatami F, Francis J, Zhao Q, Hartshorn K, Kolachalama VB, Rahimi N, Chitalia V. c-Cbl mediates the degradation of tumorigenic nuclear β-catenin contributing to the heterogeneity in Wnt activity in colorectal tumors. Oncotarget. 2016 Sep 20. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.12107