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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 […]

January 2010

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – January 2010 Announcements: The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center is pleased to continue its strong record of accepted abstracts at the annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. The 2010 meeting will be […]

December 2009

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements Bryan Belikoff, MD/PhD candidate has recently been placed on the Hematology Training Grant. Grants: Marten Steffen’s, PhD recently awarded Grand Opportunity Grant (1RC2GM092602-01; multi-PI: Steffen, Kasif, Roberts) has been highlighted in an NIH news release. The goal of the grant, entitled “SciBay: A New Methodology for Scientific Collaboration […]

November 2009

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Nancy Bucher Professorship. The Department is extraordinarily pleased to announce the Nancy L.R. Bucher Career Development Professorship Fund. The Board of Trustees of Boston University formally approved the professorship in October, 2009. The award was announced at the pathology research seminar by Richard Hotchkiss, M.D. on October 23, […]

October 2009

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: The New Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Strategic Plan is now posted on our web page. Joann Crain and Kathleen White from Lab Medicine have successfully completed the AACC Point of Care Specialist Certificate Program Elizabeth Schuller, MA successfully completed her thesis “Delayed Addition of Anti-oxidants Fails to Modulate […]

September 2009

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Kazem Azadzoi, M.D. has received funding from American Medical System for a term ending March 2011 to study “The Effects of Accessa Stimulation on Bladder Overactivity” in an Experimental Model of Pelvic Ischemia The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society President’s Award for Best Overall Trainee/Resident Presentation 2nd Place […]

August 2009

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – Dear Colleagues,     I regret to inform you that our colleague Joseph John Vitale, MS, ScD, MD, professor emeritus, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine, passed away on August 18, at the age of 84.  Dr. Vitalle also served as BUSM […]

July 2009

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Walther Pfeifer, MD, will become Medical Director of the Clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, in July Lija Joseph, MD will be at the APC/PRODS meeting in Seattle, Washington this July 16th. She is co-chair of a 90 minute discussion on Integrated Curriculum to the pathology course […]

June 2009

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: You can watch our own Dr. Daniel Remick speak about his asthma and cockroach research on http://mms.tveyes.com/MediaCenter/315364.8788/WCVB_05-07-2009_23.15.05.wmv”>Channel 5/WCVB and http://mms.tveyes.com/MediaCenter/316022.6216/WBZ_05-07-2009_23.14.59.wmv”>Channel 4/WBZ (both broadcasts were May 7, 2009) Welcome to two New Faculty Members Joel Henderson, MD PhD, Assistant Professor Catherine Valentine, MD; Assistant Professor June is PhD Qualifying […]

May 2009

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Congratulations are in order for our Residency Program which just received a full 4-year Accreditation from the ACGME! Special acknowledgement goes to Dr. Carl O’Hara and Bob Foley for their efforts!~ Our own Dr. Daniel Remick was featured in the New York Times April 7th Science/Health Section.  “House […]