July 2010

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items

Announcements:

  • As of July 1st, Martin Kroll, MD is the Chair of the Northeast Section of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry
  • On Sunday September 26 Dr. Leonard Berman will be honored at the Massachusetts/Rhode Island branch of the New York University Medical Alumni Association annual brunch here at the Boston Harbor Hotel
  • Daniel Remick, MD organized and chaired a Symposium at the Shock Society’s 33rd Annual Conference on Shock, titled “Where are they now? Updates from Previous New Investigator Awardees”
  • Dr. Daniel Remick also presented Grand Rounds at Temple University in Philadelphia. The title of his talk was “Sepsis, Complex inflammation for a complex disease”
  • After its successful inspection by the Mayo Labs for the CAP, Laboratory Medicine has received a full accreditation
  • Daniel Remick, MD moderated a mini-symposium at the same conference “Organ Dysfunction – Mechanisms and Therapies”
  • The Community Health Centers Laboratories, under the direction of Michael Roehrl, MD, PhD, had a successful inspection from the Joint Commission
  • Martin Kroll, MD was recently elected to the nominating committee of the AACC (American Association for Clinical Chemistry) Critical and Point of Care Testing
  • Welcome to new faculty member Evrim Erdogan, MD; Associate Director of Clinical Chemistry
  • Congratulations on passing the Qualifying Exams!
    • Atsushi Ebata
    • Ed Hartsough
    • Tricia Kao
    • Sri Srinivasan
      • Thank you to all faculty members who assisted with the qualifying exams, with a special Thank You Dr. Bohdana Burke
  • The summer has a flurry of activities going on with students interning from high schools and colleges in several pathology labs!
    • The Office of Summer Term’s program, Research Internship in Science and Engineering, is once again in full swing offering rising high school seniors the opportunity to participate in basic science research for six weeks.  Forty-three students are places throughout the BU community and the following six are place in the Pathology and Immunology Departments:
      • Gabe Beaudoin in the Remick Lab hails from Marin Academy in Marin, CA
      • Greta Gadbois in the Kurosawa Lab arrives from Amesbury High in Amesbury, MA
      • Corey Shih in the Cruickshank Lab comes from Monta Vista High in Cupertino, CA
      • Shannon McCarthy in the Blusztajn Lab hails from Austin Preparatory School in Reading, MA
      • Rebecca Dale in the Berse Lab comes from Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, MA
      • Sabrina Rangi in the Rifkin Lab arrives from Owosso High in Owosso, MI
    • Valencia Potter and Mychelle Williams from Xavier University in Louisiana are here in the Remick Lab as part of the Graduate Medical Sciences Summer Research Program
    • John Kim, PhD in the Remick Lab has college student Doo-Yong Bradley Choi, currently a Junior at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada interning/working on “Expression and purification of a recombinant protein from bacteria”

Presentations:

  • Dr. Lija Joseph’s abstract entitled “Association Between Insulin Resistance and Macrophage-Mediated Inflammation in Subcutaneous and Visceral Fat Depots in Obese Individuals ” was accepted for poster presentation at The Obesity Society’s 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego, California, October 8-12
  • Martin Kroll, MD recently presented at the ASCP Workshop for Laboratory Professionals in Newark, NJ.  The title of his all day presentation was “Quality Control and Method Evaluation.”
  • Dr. Sun-Young Oh from the Kurosawa Lab presented two posters at the 33rd Annual Shock Society Conference in Portland, Oregon, June 2-7, 2010:
  • S-Y. Oh*, D. Weiner, D.J. Stearns-Kurosawa, S. Kurosawa. DIFFERENTIAL CYTOKINE RESPONSES IN BABOONS FOLLOWING SHIGA TOXIN TYPE-1 AND -2 CHALLENGE.
  • D.J. Stearns-Kurosawa V. Collins, S.Freeman, S-Y. Oh*, S. Kurosawa. DISTINCT PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC RESPONSES IN BABOONS AFTER CHALLENGE WITH SHIGA TOXIN TYPE-1 OR -2.

Publications-PUBLISHED:

  • Roehrl MHA & Wang JY. “Immature Granulocytes in Pregnancy: A Story of Virchow, Anxious Fathers, and Expectant Mothers.” American Journal of Hematology 2010 (in press).
  • Srisawasdi P, Chaichanajarernkul U, Teerakanjana N, Vanavanan S, Kroll MH.  “Exogenous interferences with Jaffe creatinine assays: addition of sodium dodecyl sulfate to reagent eliminates bilirubin and total protein interference with Jaffe methods. “ Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis.  2010;24:123-133

Publications-ACCEPTED:

  • Just accepted for publication in Journal of Clinical Microbiology (ASM Press):  “Corynebacterium falsenii bacteremia occurring in an infant on vancomycin therapy”  Pui-Ying Iroh Tam, Mark A Fisher, Nancy S Miller Louis Vaickus, MD/PhD, Remick Lab just had has paper; “Assessing Pulmonary Pathology by Detailed Examination of Respiratory Function” accepted for publication to the American Journal of Pathology. It was the first of 4 papers he submitted for review; we’ll have to wait to see about the others
  • Bryan Belikoff’s, MD/PhD, Remick Lab paper submitted to Shock; “Adenosine Negative Feedback On A2A Adenosine Receptors Mediates Hypo-Responsiveness In Chronically Septic Mice” has been accepted for publication

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