July 2014

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items

Announcements:

  • Congratulations to Dr. Manisha Mehta and Dr. Dana Semmel for successfully completing the Anatomic and Clinical Pathology sections of the ABP Board Examination and becoming diplomats of the American Board of Pathology
  • Daniel Remick, M.D., has been selected as the moderator for the Pathology Roundtable. The roundtable has representation by the major pathology societies, such as the College of American Pathology, The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, The American Society of Clinical Pathology, The American Board of Pathology, The American Society of Investigative Pathology, the National Association of Medical Examiners, the Association of Directors of Academic Surgical Pathology, the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, The Association of Pathology Informatics, and the American Society of Cytology. The roundtable meets on a regular basis to discuss issues that directly impact our discipline, so that a unified response may be developed. Dr. Remick assumed his duties as moderator in July, 2014 as a representative of the American Society for Investigative Pathology
  • Dr. Remick moderated a session at the 2014 Association of Pathology Chairs Meeting “Academic Pathology 2020: Advancing Research Opportunities,” in Boston, MA; July 8-11, 2014
  • Mark Wojnarowicz, PhD Candidate in the Goldstein Lab, attended the 2014 National Neurotrauma Symposium in San Francisco, late June 2014. Mark presented a poster titled “Pathobiology of Blast-Related Traumatic Brain Injury in a Mouse Model.” Authors: M. Wojnarowicz A. Fisher C. Tagge A. Gaudreau N. Casey J. Moncaster O. Minaeva G. Hall R. Cleveland W. Moss X.L Zhang P. Stanton H. Lu B. Lamb R. Ransohoff A. McKee L. Goldstein
  • Dr. Lawreen Connors received a 1-year grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation in support of her study, “Blood Profiling for Biomarkers in Age-related ‘Senile’ Systemic Amyloidosis (SSA)”
  • Chad Mayer, MD/PhD, Kurosawa Lab successfully Defended his thesis: “An Inside Job: Shiga Toxins, DAMPs, and a Tale of Endothelial Dysfunction” on Friday, May 9th, 2014
  • Philip Bondzie, PhD, Henderson Lab successfully Defended his thesis; “Out of Africa; The Role of APOL1 and MYH9 in Chronic Kidney Disease” on Wednesday, July 16, 2014
  • Martin Steffen, PhD has joined the Editorial Board of two new publications:
  • ○     Journal of Bacteriology and Mycology
  • ○     Clinical Journal of Microbiology and Pathology
  • Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD Lab welcomes the following people:
  • ○     Dr. Blanche Ip, Post-doctoral fellow on the Inflammation Training Grant
  • ○     Michel Azer, Masters’ student from the BU Goldman School of Dental Medicine
  • Effective July 1, 2014, Dr. Maria Panchenko will be the new course co-director for our course PA710 “Principles of Applied and Basic Pathology”. The course was originally created by Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa who will be stepping down. I will remain the new course co-director.
    This is a graduate level course which introduces basic concepts of pathology, including some essential histology. Additionally, all graduate students are required to attend our research seminars and prepare a written synopsis of 4 seminars. This allows the students to have their writing formally evaluated. Another major component of the course is to expose all of the new graduate students to the range of research conducted within the Department so that they may select an appropriate lab to do their thesis.  Please join me in welcoming Dr. Panchenko as the new course co-director, and thanking Dr. Stearns-Kurosawa for her efforts to launch and mentor a new course.
  • David Sherr, PhD has been appointed Director of the BU Superfund Research Program
  • Dr. Kazem Azadzoi received the Journal of Urology Best Reviewer in 2013 Award at the American Urological Association 2014 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida; May 2014
  • Welcome to our two new Pathology Residents!!!
  • ○  Dr. Reyhan Gedik
  • ○  Dr. Shiva Khoobyari

Publications: ACCEPTED:

  • Yang S, Stepien D, Hanseman D, Robinson B, Goodman MD, Pritts TA, Caldwell CC, Remick DG, Lentsch “AB: Substance P Mediates Reduced Pneumonia Rates After Traumatic Brain Injury,” Crit Care Med 2014, PMID: 2501406 (In Press)
  • Osuchowski MF, Remick DG, Lederer JA, Lang CH, Aasen AO, Aibiki M, Azevedo LC, Bahrami S, Boros M, Cooney R, Cuzzocrea S, Jiang Y, Junger WG, Hirasawa H, Hotchkiss RS, Li XA, Radermacher P, Redl H, Salomao R, Soebandrio A, Thiemermann C, Vincent JL, Ward P, Yao YM, Yu HP, Zingarelli B, Chaudry IH: “Abandon the Mouse Research Ship? Not Just Yet!”, Shock 2014, PMID: 24569509 (In Press)
  • Mella JR, Chiswick EL, King E, Remick DG: “Location, Location, Location: Cytokine Concentrations are Dependent on Blood Sampling Site,” Shock 2014, PMID: 25004061 (In Press)
  • Strissel, KJ, Denis, GV, and Nikolajczyk, BS. 2014. “Immune Regulators of Inflammation in Obesity-Associated Type 2 Diabetes and Coronary Artery Disease,” Current Opin Endocrinol and Diab- Obesity and Nutr. (In Press)
  • Gusenleitner, D., S. S. Auerbach, T. Melia, H. F. Gomez, D. H. Sherr, and S. Monti. 2014. “Genomic models of short-term exposure accurately predict long-term chemical carcinogenicity and identify putative mechanisms of action.” PLoS One 9:e102579

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