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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 was awarded to Bryan Belikoff, MD/PhD candidate for his presentation entitled "Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Prevents Lung Inflammation in the Absence of Adenosine A2A... More
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 Associate Dean, International Health Programs from 1978 to 1990, Director of Nutrition Education Programs at BUSM from1977 to 1995, and Professor of Nutritional Sciences... More
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 directors. Lija will also be presenting results of the resident and junior faculty stress survey data to the pathology residency program directors. http://www.apcprods.org/mtg/2009/CDS2009.pdf http://www.apcprods.org/mtg/2009/PRODS2009.pdf Congratulations on... More
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 Exams Month! This year June 18th will be the written part of the exam and June 25th the oral portion will take place. There are six... More
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 Dust Yields Clue to Asthma: Cockroaches" April was National “Donate Life” month which celebrates the work of the New England Organ Bank (NEOB) and... More
April 2009
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Boston University School of Medicine Alumnus Wins 2009 Ramzi Cotran Award. Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue M.D., Ph,D. received the Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator of the Year Award. This prestigious honor was presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. Christine graduated from Adelphi University in New York in 1991 and earned her MD /PhD from Boston University School of Medicine in 1998. She obtained her Ph.D. thesis... More
March 2009
Untitled Document Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – March 2009 Announcements: Recent Doctoral Degrees Awarded Nichol Holodick successfully defended her thesis, “B1 Cell Development and Signaling on November 8th. Congratulations! Jose Cacicedo successfully defended his thesis, “Palmitate-Induced Apoptosis in... More
February 2009
Announcements: BU Pathology in the TOP TEN -- The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center has been informed that we are in the top ten in the number of abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2009 United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology annual meeting. Over 430 academic institutions from across the world, including 230 from the United States, submitted nearly 2800 abstracts to this year’s... More
January 2009
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Happy New Year! Announcements: BU Bridge, the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute, is delighted to announce the awardees of its 2008-2009 Pilot Project and Methods Project Grants and K12 Fellowship. These awardees were chosen after reviewing many outstanding applications. One of the PILOT PROJECT GRANTS was awarded to Nader Rahimi, PhD: Identification of Novel Anti-Angiogenesis Agent for Treatment of Angiogenesis-associated Eye Diseases. The goal of this project is to... More
December 2008
USCAP Accepted Abstracts for Annual Meeting Boston – 2009 Platform Presentations Chris D. Andry, Christian Kiriakos, Diego Martinez, and Lisa O'Connor (VP for Nursing at BMC): A Pathology Department-Based Decedent Affairs Office Can Contribute to Improved Organ and Tissue Donation Services” LA Emery, A. de las Morenas, A. Tripathi, P. Sebastiani and CL Rosenberg: “Gene Expression Alterations Associated with Premalignant and Preinvasive Breast Disease” S.Yang , H Xu, H Huang, More