February 2010

Announcements

  • Audrey Quinn, Assistant Supervisor in the Microbiology Clinical Laboratory received her RN degree.  We all fill a little safer working when she is around….
  • New initiative in bringing pathology to the third and fourth year medical students.    The education team in the department  is planning a creative curricular program integrating pathology in the radiology rotation for BUSM 3 students.   Specific lab exercises are being developed to simulate actual clinical case workup scenario one afternoon a month.   Please let Drs. Joseph (lija.joseph@bmc.org) or O’Hara (carl.ohara@bmc.org)  know if you are interested in participating in the planning and development of this new project.   We plan to launch it in fall of 2010.
  • Fiona Chiem, a BU senior working with Dr. John Kim in the Remick Lab has won the “Student Research Award from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program” (UROP) at Boston University.
  • Liz Schuller, MA has been chosen to be the Research Internship Coordinator for the BU Summer Term Program.  This program places highly qualified high school seniors in laboratories for a six week period during the summer to conduct research in various fields.  Liz will be in charge of admission and lab placement.

Publications

  • Weber HC. “Editorial overview: gastrointestinal regulatory peptides.”  Current Opinion  Endocrinology Diabetes Obes. 2010 Feb;17(1):31-2. PubMed PMID: 19996968.
  • Flicker MS, Weber HC. “Endoscopic hemostasis in a case of bleeding from Zenker’s diverticulum.”  Gastrointest Endosc. 2009 Nov 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 19922922.
  • Majumdar ID, Weber HC. ” Gastrointestinal regulatory peptides and their effects on fat tissue.” Current Opinion Endocrinology Diabetes Obes. 2010 Feb;17(1):51-6.  PubMed PMID: 19855273.
  • Lazar HL, Joseph L, San Mateo C, Frame J, Cabral HJ, McDonnell M, Chipkin S. “Expression of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Conduits Used in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Undergoing Coronary Revascularization.” J Card Surg 2010; 25:120-126
  • Pornpen Srisawasdi, PhD, Somlak Vanavanan, MSc, Charaslak Charoenpanichkit, MD, and Martin H. Kroll, MD “The Effect of Renal Dysfunction on BNP, NT-proBNP, and Their Ratio. ” American Journal of Clinical Pathology 2010; 133:14-23
  • Martin H. Kroll, MD “Multiple Patient Samples of an Analyte Improve Detectionof Changes in Clinical Status” Archive of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. 2010;134:81–89
  • Papageorgis, P., A.W. Lambert, S. Ozturk, F. Gao, H. Pan,  U. Manne, Y.O. Alekseyev, A. Thiagalingam, H. Abdolmaleky, M. Lenburg, and S. Thiagalingam. 2010.  Smad signaling is required for maintenance of epigenetic gene silencing during breast cancer progression. Cancer Res. 70(3): 968-978.
  • Quiroz R, Joseph L, Sam F :” Serial Troponin-I Measurement as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tool in Chronic Myocarditis  submitted to the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.”   Submitted 1/19/10
  • A manuscript by Kazem Azadzoi, M.D. et al entitled “Oxidative Modification of Mitochondrial Integrity and Nerve Fiber Density in the Ischemic Overactive Bladder” has been published in the January issue of the Journal of Urology 183 (1):362-369, 2010.

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