News
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... More
June 2010
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Susan Winandy, Ph.D., First Bucher Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is pleased to announce Susan Winandy, Ph.D. as the first Nancy L. R. Bucher Assistant Professor. Dr. Winandy obtained a Bachelor’s of Science degree from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical school she... More
May 2010
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Correction with great apologies to Dr. Lija Joseph for not properly identifying her as Hematology Lab Section Director in an April’s New News article (reprinted appropriately below). KUDOS to Dr. Joseph!!~!!! Because of Dr. Lija Joseph’s Hematology Lab’s excellent performance in Hematology Cell Identification, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) has invited the Hematology Section of Laboratory Medicine to become a referee for the 2010 Survey year. Referees are selected... More
April 2010
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – Announcements Dr. Daniel Remick has been invited to give the 8th Annual John Spitzer Distinguished Lecture, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, March 25, 2010 in New Orleans. The title of his presentation is: Sepsis Complex Inflammation for a Complex Disease Dr. Remick also served as a moderator at the 8th Congress on Trauma, Shock, Injury and Sepsis, Munich Germany, on Immune Dysfunction in Sepsis in Injury Animals/Patients: Update on Immunopathogenesis... More
March 2010
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Bryan Belikoff MD/PhD Candidate, Remick Lab, who has just started as a pre-doc on the hematology training grant, has just won a travel award to a national meeting. The committee can feel good about selecting a great applicant who has already paid off dividends. Dr. Carmen Sarita-Reyes has just been appointed member of the Education Committee of the Society of Pediatric Pathology beginning March 2010 for a three year period. Dr. Michael... More
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 rotation for BUSM 3 students. Specific lab exercises are being developed to simulate actual clinical case workup scenario one afternoon a... More
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 held March 20 to 26, 2010 in Washington DC. Daniel Remick, M.D., has been asked to serve on the abstract review panel... More
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 and Gene Function Determination,” is to catalyze experimental validation of gene function for genes with no known function in bacterial genomes. This grant will... More
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, 2009. Dean Antman was in attendance for the announcement and seminar.The Department was able to raise money from multiple sources to fund... More
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 Cytokine Production” and requirements to receive her Masters in Pathology Degree in September A Student Research Award from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) has... More