{"id":1039,"date":"2009-04-02T12:43:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T16:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2014-08-03T23:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T03:29:38","slug":"april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2009\/04\/02\/april-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: center\">Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0Announcements:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Boston<\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">University<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">School<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> of Medicine Alumnus Wins 2009 Ramzi Cotran Award<\/span>. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue M.D., Ph,D<\/span>. received the Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator of the Year Award.\u00a0This prestigious honor was presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.\u00a0Christine 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 in pathology working under the tutelage of Mary Jo Murnane, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.\u00a0Dr. Iacobuzio-Donahue commented that she still writes papers the way Dr. Murnane taught her. After medical school, Dr. Iacobuzio-Donahue trained in Anatomic Pathology at Johns Hopkins University. She continues her research in colorectal and pancreatic cancer and currently holds an appointment as an Associate Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Dr. Iacobuzio-Donahue has published nearly 100 scientific papers in the field of\u00a0\u00a0 cancer. She has published her work in high profile journals such as <em>Science<\/em>, and the<em> American Journal of Pathology, <\/em>and her research has been selected for the cover of <em>Cancer Research.<\/em> She is the co-editor of the diagnostic textbook <em>Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology<\/em> and has contributed to the upcoming 8th edition of the classic medical student textbook <em>Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. <\/em>Her important work has been profiled in the lay press including the New York Times, CNN and Forbes Magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology annually presents the Young Investigator Award to recognize a pathologist whose body of work has contributed significantly to the diagnosis and understanding of human disease. The 2009 meeting, with over 4000 registrants, was the largest gathering of pathologists in history. Additional information about Dr. Iacobuzio-Donahue and the award may be found at <a title=\"http:\/\/www.uscap.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uscap.org\/\">www.uscap.org<\/a> and navigating to the Annual Meetings, 2009 meeting and scrolling down to the Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Congratulations to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Srimathi Srinivasan<\/span> one of our first-year-PhD students who has been awarded a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ruth and Martin Levine Scholarship.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">CityLab<\/span> <\/strong>This term the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has hosted City Lab Interns: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chris Andry<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Janet Means<\/span> mentored two City Lab Interns and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Bryan Belikoff, MD\/PhD<\/span> grad student in the Remick Lab taught two City Lab Interns. In 1992, Boston University School of Medicine <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/\">(BUSM) <\/a><\/strong>pioneered an innovative, science education outreach program that has been disseminated across the country. CityLab is a biotechnology learning laboratory at BUSM serving students and teachers in grades 7 &#8211; 12. CityLab is funded by the National Institutes of Health<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/\"> (NIH)<\/a><\/strong>, the National Center for Research Resources<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><strong>http:\/\/www.ncrr.nih.gov\/&#8221;>(NCRR)<\/strong>, the Science Education Partnership Award <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncrrsepa.org\/\">(SEPA)<\/a><\/strong>, and Boston University School of Medicine. CityLab\u2019s mission is to provide access to state-of-the-art biotechnology laboratory facilities and curriculum, unavailable to most school systems. Teachers from Massachusetts and neighboring states bring their students to CityLab where they solve problems by applying the same techniques and concepts of genetics and molecular biology used in research laboratories today. Each topic is presented in a mystery format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Successful Mallory Institute of Pathology Reunion\/Reception<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To coincide with the US and Canadian Academy of Pathology 98th Annual Meeting, a reunion\\reception of former Mallory trainees was held in the lobby of 670 Albany Street on the Boston University Medical Campus.\u00a0 Historical panels of the Mallory Building and its rich history were unveiled (see below) and a good representation of residents and faculty attended.\u00a0 Alumni were given tours of the new Anatomic Pathology labs (3rd floor), new BU research labs (4th floor) and vacant space that is soon to be built out into offices, sign-out area (6th floor) and the main clinical laboratories (7th floor).\u00a0 Many old friends were reunited and a most enjoyable evening was had by all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1040\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/dr-remick-dr-dongsheng-xu-dr-huihong-xu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1040\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/dr-remick-dr-dongsheng-xu-dr-huihong-xu-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Remick; Dr Dongsheng Xu; Dr Huihong Xu\" width=\"388\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Remick; Dr Dongsheng Xu; Dr Huihong Xu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1041\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/dr-swan-dr-yang-dr-mulligan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1041\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/dr-swan-dr-yang-dr-mulligan-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Swan; Dr Yang; Dr Mulligan\" width=\"384\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Swan; Dr Yang; Dr Mulligan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1042\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/mrs-gedeon-mr-truell-dr-dubinchik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1042\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/mrs-gedeon-mr-truell-dr-dubinchik-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs Gedeon; Mr Truell; Dr Dubinchik\" width=\"386\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs Gedeon; Mr Truell; Dr Dubinchik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1043\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/mrs-gedeon-mr-truell-dr-dubinchik-drchen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1043\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/mrs-gedeon-mr-truell-dr-dubinchik-drchen-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs Gedeon; Mr Truell; Dr Dubinchik; DrChen\" width=\"382\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs Gedeon; Mr Truell; Dr Dubinchik; DrChen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodakgallery.com\/ShareLanding.action?c=65j6mwa.62ixwqlm&amp;x=0&amp;y=-pgd090&amp;localeid=en_US&amp;cm_mmc=site_email-_-site_share-_-core-_-view_photos_button\">More Photos from 2009 Pathology Reunion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Historical Mallory Panels \u2013 670 Albany Street \u2013 3rd Floor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four wall mounted panels portraying the Mallory Institute of Pathology building, its work and name sake were prepared and installed by Frank Burr Mallory&#8217;s grandson Ken Mallory and designer Richard Duggan.\u00a0 Faculty and support staff made many contributions to these fine portrayals of the history of pathology at Boston City Hospital and Boston Medical Center.\u00a0 The panels are mounted in the 3rd floor lobby at 670 Albany Street and in the Mallory building, now known as Yawkey Place.\u00a0 <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">We encourage you to take a few minutes to stop by to enjoy them! <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Our New Residents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four new first year residents will begin their pathology training this year, as well as a new second year resident.<\/p>\n<p>New first year residents include:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mariam Priya Alexander, MD<strong> &#8212; <\/strong>Chrisrian Medical College; Vellore, India<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Josenia (Joy) N.M. Tan, M.D &#8212; Far Eastern University<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">; <\/span><\/strong>Philippines<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Yanelba Toribi &#8212; Boston University School of Medicine<strong>; <\/strong>Boston, MA<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Luisa Y.A. Watts<strong> &#8212; <\/strong>University of Miami School of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Medicine<\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">; <\/span><\/strong>Miami, FL<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our current new second year resident is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hao, Wu, MD, PhD<strong> &#8212;<\/strong>Xian Medical University; Xian, China<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>More News<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sandy Rolfe<\/span> (Sherr Lab) successfully defended her thesis, \u201c<strong>Activation and Roles of the Aryl hydrocarbon Receptor in Mammary Tumorgenesis\u201d <\/strong>on March 24th. Congratulations!<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Devin Horton, PhD<\/span> (Remick Lab) successfully defended her thesis on March 25th at the University of Michigan, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology. The title of her dissertation is &#8220;<strong>REGULATION OF CYTOKINES AND CHEMOKINES DURING THE PROGRESSION OF ACUTE INFLAMMATION IN THE HUMAN WHOLE BLOOD MODEL<\/strong>&#8221; Congratulations!<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Kazem Azadzoi, M.D<\/span>. has received the Pfizer 2009 OB\/LUTS (overactive bladder\/lower urinary tract symptoms) competitive award to investigate <strong>\u201cThe Role of Oxidative Stress in Bladder Muscarinic Receptor Dysfunction and Cholinergic Nerve Degeneration\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Tissue Dispensary<\/span> (Transfusion Medicine in the Dept. of Laboratory Medicine) went up with full force on March 10th.\u00a0 The number of tissues dispensed is twice what was anticipated.\u00a0 Now all tissues issues used in Surgery will be properly inventoried and tracked.\u00a0 We expect the Joint Commission will consider our management of Tissue satisfactory.\u00a0 Dr. Mark Flomenbaum is the Medical Director for the Tissue Dispensary; Missy Cohen is the Medical Technologist in charge.\u00a0 Dr. Kroll would like to thank Dr. Karen Quillen and Kate Murphy for their precious input; Dr. Chris Andry for his organizational skills; and Janet Means, the Administrative Director of Laboratory Medicine for her enormous input and advice in bringing the Tissue Dispensary to fruition to provide exceptional care without exception.<\/li>\n<li>On March 18th, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Laboratory Information System<\/span> was successfully upgraded to version 6.3.\u00a0 This accomplishment is a great step forward for the laboratory. This upgrade included both software and hardware and is a major advance for the labs and BMC. The downtime was 17 hours, overnight through two rush hours for labwork.\u00a0 So far Dr. Kroll has not heard of any major complaints from physicians.\u00a0 The consultants said this was one of the smoothest upgrades they had seen.\u00a0 Besides thanking BMC administration for supporting these efforts and IT for their assistance, we need to thank the entire staff of Laboratory Medicine, because everyone pitched in to make the upgrade successful and seamless (the whole project took more than a year of planning).\u00a0 Dr. Kroll would particularly like to note the efforts of Janet Means, Silvia MacMurdo (Supervisor of LIS), Dr. Nancy Miller (Medical Director of LIS), the members of the LIS team, and all the Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors.<\/li>\n<li>John Cho Lee , current Chief Resident, won the Ultrastructural Pathology Society Award at the Boston 2009 USCAP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>25 Years of Service Anniversary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Mary Jo Murnane<\/span>, Associate Professor and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Celia Slayter<\/span>, Departmental Administrator were recognized for their 25th Anniversary of working at Boston University at a dinner at the Sherman Union on March 26th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Presentations:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Nancy S. Miller, MD<\/span>; Medical Director, Clinical Microbiology &amp; Molecular Diagnostics Invited speaker, \u201c<strong>Best Practices in Blood Culture<\/strong>.\u201d At the H.E.R.O. Solutions Workshops (Helping to improve Healthcare Efficiencies, Results and Outcomes) a P.A.C.E.-accredited Continuing Education event Sponsored by BD Diagnostics March 24, 2009 Sheraton Framingham Hotel &amp; Conference Center, Framingham MA<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Jackie Bouchard, PhD student<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Lou Vaickus, MD\/PhD student<\/span> (both in the Remick Lab) had their abstracts accepted to FASEB 2009 in New Orleans and will be presenting posters Wednesday April 22<\/li>\n<li>USCAP BOSTON PHOTOS of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Bethany Tierno<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Brian McMillan<\/span> with their poster at the Annual 2009 Annual USCAP in Boston, March 2009<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/news1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1048\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/news1.jpg\" alt=\"news1\" width=\"294\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0John Cho and former resident Dana Semmel with their USCAP Boston posters respectively<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/new2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1049\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/new2.jpg\" alt=\"new2\" width=\"291\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/news3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1050\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/04\/news3.jpg\" alt=\"news3\" width=\"290\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications- PUBLISHED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>M Asmal, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">RE Factor<\/span>, R Walensky. <strong>An HIV Infected Man with an Upset Stomach<\/strong>. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2008; 47:935-6.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Nader Rahimi<\/span>, Todd E.<\/em><strong> <\/strong>Golde and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Rosana D. Meyer<\/span><strong>. Identification of Ligand-Induced Proteolytic Cleavage and Ectodomain Shedding of VEGFR-1\/FLT1 in Leukemic Cancer Cells. <\/strong><em>Cancer Research<\/em> 2009; 69: (6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Publications- ACCEPTED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>International Journal of Cancer<\/em>:\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Murnane\u00a0MJ,<\/span>\u00a0 Cai J,\u00a0Shuja S,\u00a0McAneny D, Klepeis V and Willett\u00a0JB.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Active MMP-2 Effectively Identifies the Presence of Colorectal Cancer<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u00a0Announcements: Boston University School of Medicine Alumnus Wins 2009 Ramzi Cotran Award. \u00a0 Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue M.D., Ph,D. received the Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator of the Year Award.\u00a0This prestigious honor was presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.\u00a0Christine graduated from Adelphi University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8321,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}