Pathology and Laboratory Medicine New News – June 2016

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – June 2016

Announcements:

Congratulations to our Graduating Fellow, Residents and Graduate Students:

Fellow/Residents:

• Anita Deshpande, MD; Moving into a Faculty Position at Melrose-Wakefield – Hallmark Pathology PC
• Yanli Ding, MD; Going to Renal Path at Brigham & Women’s Hospital
• Dhay Kamel, MD; Stepping in to our Cytopathology Fellowship – BMC
• Anita Malek, MD; Moving on to New York Presbyterian – Hematopathology Fellowship
• Yue Sun, MD; Going on to New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Surg Path Fellowship

Graduate Students:

• Parul Agnihotri, PhD; Seeking a postdoc position in academia or industry
• Lois Bayigga, MS; Moved back to Uganda and plans to enter a PhD Program
• Mostafa Belghasem, PhD, MA; Moved into a position within the department
• Evan Catudal, MS; Currently employed at the Boston Heart Diagnostics in Framingham, MA as a Medical Technologist. He is working on validating new clinical diagnostic assays for predicting cardiovascular disease risk. Evan is also enrolled as a part-time student in the M.S. in Clinical Investigation program at BUSM beginning in the Fall
• Atsushi Ebata, PhD; Seeking a postdoc position
• Terry Hseih, MD/PhD; Gone back to medical school
• Melody Lun, MD/PhD; Gone back to medical school
• Nicole Stauffer Smith, PhD; Seeking a postdoc position in academia or industry
• Martin Steinbuck, PhD; Seeking a postdoc position in academia or industry
• Ruoyu Tian, MS; Moving on to the Georgia Institute of Technology, PhD Biology Program

Congratulations Graduating Resident, Yanli Ding for receiving the prestigious Robert Foley, MBA, Award. This honor is given annually to a resident or fellow who “demonstrates the qualities that Mr. Foley brought to work every day.”

Newly implemented Departmental Teaching Awards were given at this year’s Castle Graduation Dinner

• The committee-driven criteria for the student awards are; collegiality, sharing with fellow-students, knowledge, skills, kindness; Leadership, positive attitude, problem solving, initiatives for improvements; Growth in professional skills, aptitudes and attitudes over the year and being a good team worker, helping others, as well as guiding juniors
• The measures for the faculty awards are based on student feedback
• Bestowed to:
  • On the Clinical-Side:
    • Yue Sun, MD: The Excellence Award 2016 (Student/Resident Award)
    • Grace Zhao, MD, PhD: Residents Teaching Award 2016 (Faculty Award)
  • For the Research-Side:
    • Not yet awarded, so these will be announced in the next New News Edition!

Daniel Remick, MD was invited to the 39^th Annual Shock Society Meeting in Austin, Texas, June 11^th -14^th to give a presentation: “Interviewing Skills and CV Preparation that Stands Out

Daniel Remick, MD also organized a debate at the 39^th Annual Shock Society Meeting titled “Is Coagulopathy an Appropriate Therapeutic Target During Critical Illness?”

Congratulations on passing the Qualifying Exams!

• Ahmad Al-Moujahed
• Greg Hall
• Thank you to the faculty members who serve on the Qualifying Exam Committee; Drs. Blusztajn, Delalle, Rahimi, Remick and Slack with a SPECIAL Thank You Barbara Slack, Chair of the Qualifying Exam Committee

Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD just received word of funding for a $2.95 million 5 year R01 from NIDCR entitled: “Roles for lymphocyte RANKL in periodontal complications of type 2 diabetes”

Ivana Delalle will be presenting the results of her team’s work at 11^thEuropean Congress of Neuropathology (Bordeaux, France, 6-9 July 2016); “Subcellular changes in BIN1 protein expression in human cortex during the progression of Alzheimer’s disease”

Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD has received a re-appointment letter for the Boston University Dual Use Research Review Committee through June 30, 2019

Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD also spoke at the American Association of Diabetes Annual Meeting in New Orleans June 12. Session: Immunobiology of Type 2 Diabetes; Title: T cell Inflammation in Human Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Publications: ACCEPTED:

• Juan R. Mella M.D., M.P.H., Evan Chiswick Ph.D., David Stepien, M.D., Ph.D., Rituparna Moitra Ph.D., Elizabeth R. Duffy M.A., Arthur Stucchi Ph.D., Daniel Remick M.D. Antagonism of the Neurokinin-1 Receptor Improves Survival in a Mouse Model of Sepsis by Decreasing Inflammation and Increasing Early Cardiovascular Function. Accepted Critical Care Medicine

Castle Graduation Celebration 2016

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