September 2014
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items
Announcements:
- CAP (College of American Pathologists) 2014, September 7-10 in Chicago, Illinois:
- Resident Yanli Ding, MD presented a poster titled as “Gastroenteric biopsies in patients with rare immunodeficiency syndromes –two case reports and literature review” for the CAP 2014 Annual Meeting
Dr. Yanli Ding with her CAP Poster - Resident Dr. Anita Malek’s poster was titled; “Immunohistochemical Approaches to Poorly Differentiated Tumors of Unknown Origins ” Authors: Anita Malek, MD , Qing Zaho, MD, PhD
Dr. Anita Malek with her CAP Poster - Resident Dr. Yue Sun also presented a poster entitled “Epithelioid hemangioma of the penis: a case report,” Yue Sun, Qing Zhao
Dr. Yue Sun with her CAP Poster
- Resident Yanli Ding, MD presented a poster titled as “Gastroenteric biopsies in patients with rare immunodeficiency syndromes –two case reports and literature review” for the CAP 2014 Annual Meeting
- Post-doc Evan Chiswick, Remick Lab was selected to give a talk at this year’s Society of Leukocyte Biology & The International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society, in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 23-25, 2014. Dr. Chiswick also received a Travel Award. The title of his talk is “Acute Phase Deaths from Polymicrobial Sepsis are Characterized by Suppression, but Not Exhaustion, of Innate Immunity”
- Dr. Barbara Nikolajczyk has been selected for the 2014 Evans Center Research Collaborator Award. The award will be presented during the Evans Day Gala Dinner, Oct 16, 2014
- Brittany Mailhot and Diane Mullen participated in the Jimmy fund Walk with the Dana Farber Facilitating Hope team. Former BMC employees who also participated are Audrey Quinn and Janet Means. Former Patriot’s player Matt Light is the man in the photo with us!
Jimmy Fund Run 
Jimmy Fund Run - Please welcome the new post-doctoral fellow in the Kurosawa lab, Dr. Ji-Hye (“jee-hay”) Seo. Dr. Seo comes to us from BIDMC where she studied signaling pathways important in development of gastric cancer from chronic Helicobacter pylori infection. She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Yonsei University College of Medicine in South Korea (high honors) and lives with her family in Wellesley. Please introduce yourself and lend a hand as she gets settled.
- Ivana Delalle, MD, PhD is teaching a new GMS course in the Spring entitled “Human Biospecimens for Research,” PA 910.
- The objective of this course is to introduce students to the creation, maintenance and efficient use of an indispensable component of translational research in medicine: human biological material (human tissue and bodily fluids) = human biospecimens and their derivatives. Lectures from faculty from Pathology Departments at Yale, Harvard and Columbia (new York Brain Bank, NYBB), and from Boston University School of Medicine with extensive experience in human bio-specimens generation, maintenance, and utilization, will instruct how to successfully obtain and utilize human bio-specimens. ~~~
- Topics will include logistics and legal aspects of creating and sustaining bio-banks, federal and institutional regulatory and funding mechanisms, and concrete examples of human bio-specimens use to generate break-through data in specific field of biomedical research. Special attention will be given to human biospecimens used in neuroscience as four neuropathologists/neuroscientists from Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Boston University are enlisted as speakers to give comprehensive overview of biospecimens utilized in neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumors.
- Karen Quillen, MD is also teaching a new seminar entitled “Blood & Money” in the Kilachand Honors College on the Charles River Campus, with Professor Michael Salinger from the BU School of Management
- Dr. Nader Rahimi was invited to give a lecture at the Department of Biochemistry, Boston University on September 16. The title of his lecture was “Emerging Roles of Posttranslational Modifications in Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Activation and Signaling”.
- Dr. Rahimi gave a similar lecture on September 24, 2014 at the University Massachusetts, Lowell.
- Dr. Rahimi is also invited to give a lecture at the upcoming Boston Angiogenesis Meeting, on November 12, 2014. For additional information, please see the link: (http://lawsonlab.umassmed.edu/BAMspeakersAM.html).
- Dr. Lija Joseph recently was awarded the ICPI MSIG Award for her Medical Student Interest Group from the intersociety council for pathology information. Dr. Joseph plans to incorporate our residents in the grand funded program.
Publications: PUBLISHED:
- 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).