{"id":11806,"date":"2015-06-02T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2015-06-02T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:24:41","slug":"may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2015\/06\/02\/may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 May 2015<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Announcements:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LAB WEEK<\/span><\/strong> was April 20-24 this year, the theme was \u201cwas &#8220;Not all Heroes Wear Capes, Some Wear Lab Coats!&#8221; Events for the week included: a scavenger hunt, door decorating contest, which Chemistry won, for a departmental pizza party, we had games, and we collected $213 for the Cancer Center by allowing employees to wear jeans. We also handed out tumblers as lab week gifts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/LabWeekSuperHeros.IMG_5594.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/LabWeekSuperHeros.IMG_5594-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"LabWeekSuperHeros.IMG_5594\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/LabWeekSuperHeros.IMG_5594-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/LabWeekSuperHeros.IMG_5594.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/Cake.IMG_5717.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/Cake.IMG_5717-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cake.IMG_5717\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/Cake.IMG_5717-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/Cake.IMG_5717.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/GroupwTherapyDogs.IMG_5670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/GroupwTherapyDogs.IMG_5670-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"GroupwTherapyDogs.IMG_5670\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/GroupwTherapyDogs.IMG_5670-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/GroupwTherapyDogs.IMG_5670.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/SuperhersKozack.Coutoure.IMG_5650-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/SuperhersKozack.Coutoure.IMG_5650-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"SuperhersKozack.Coutoure.IMG_5650 (2)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/SuperhersKozack.Coutoure.IMG_5650-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/SuperhersKozack.Coutoure.IMG_5650-2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/SuperheroMarthaRodgers.IMG_5647-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/SuperheroMarthaRodgers.IMG_5647-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"SuperheroMarthaRodgers.IMG_5647 (2)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/SuperheroMarthaRodgers.IMG_5647-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/SuperheroMarthaRodgers.IMG_5647-2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Huihong Xu <\/span><\/strong>was invited to give\u00a0a\u00a0cytology lecture &#8220;GI Interesting Cytology Cases&#8221; for the pathology residents at Brigham &amp; Women&#8217;s Hospital on May 12th, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations; <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Lee Quinton<\/span><\/strong> has been promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Last year<strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mostafa Belghasem, PhD candidate<\/span><\/strong> taught PS701 Immunology\/Pathology lectures; these lectures were well-received by the<em> Physician Assistance<\/em> students and accordingly, he has been invited by the course directors to teach this year as well<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Carmen D. Sarita \u2013Reyes<\/span><\/strong> attended, as a member, the National Board of Dental Examiners Microbiology-Pathology Test Construction Committee Meeting \u00a0from May 11<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 15<sup>th<\/sup> 2015 in Chicago, Illinois<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Debbie Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD<\/span><\/strong> was an invited featured speaker at the 2015 American Society for Apheresis Annual Conference May 6 &#8211; 9 in San Antonio, Texas.\u00a0 Her talk was entitled: <em>The Pathophysiology of E.coli-Mediated Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mostafa Belghasem, PhD candidate<\/span><\/strong> was invited by the Boston University Renal Section to talk about his thesis work. The lecture Mostafa presented was: <em>Pathological and Molecular Profiling in Hypertension-induced Glomerular Injury<\/em> on April 30, 2015<\/li>\n<li>A collaborative project between the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kurosawa Lab<\/span><\/strong> and Drs. Monica Schaller and Johanna Kremer Hovinga from the University Clinic of Hematology, Central Hematology Laboratory and Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland was accepted as a poster presentation for the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) meeting in Toronto, Canada (June 20-25).\u00a0 The abstract is entitled:\u00a0 ANTI-IDIOTYPIC DARPINS RESTORE ADAMTS13 ACTIVITY IN BABOONS CHALLENGED WITH HUMAN MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES: FIRST STEP TOWARDS AN ANIMAL MODEL FOR HUMAN ACQUIRED TTP<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dave Sherr, PhD <\/span><\/strong>and his Lab has received yet another $50k from Avon for breast cancer<\/li>\n<li>BRAVO is in order:\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Chris Andry<\/span><\/strong> has been reappointed as Chair of Boston University\u2019s Safety Committee<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abigail Brown<\/span><\/strong> has been reappointed as a Voting Member of Boston University\u2019s Safety Committee<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Shinichiro Kurosawa<\/span><\/strong> has been reappointed as a Voting Member of Boston University\u2019s Safety Committee<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Liz Duffy<\/span><\/strong> has been newly appointed as a Voting Member of Boston University\u2019s Safety Committee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dave Sherr, PhD <\/span><\/strong>and his Lab has received yet another $50k from Avon for breast cancer<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Commencement, May 15, 2015; CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES:<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Emad Arafa, MA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Philip Bondzie, PhD<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Patricia Chun, MA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zach Hunter, PhD<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Clarissa Koch, PhD<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Caitlin Leibowitz Parello, PhD<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jordan Shafran, MA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nick Woolf, MD\/MA<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/PhDCrew.10989175_864090270304515_8004530147224855586_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/PhDCrew.10989175_864090270304515_8004530147224855586_n-530x300.jpg\" alt=\"PhDCrew.10989175_864090270304515_8004530147224855586_n\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/PhDCrew.10989175_864090270304515_8004530147224855586_n-530x300.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/PhDCrew.10989175_864090270304515_8004530147224855586_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/RahimiandCrew.graduation-ceremony-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/RahimiandCrew.graduation-ceremony-2015-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"RahimiandCrew.graduation ceremony-2015\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/RahimiandCrew.graduation-ceremony-2015-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/RahimiandCrew.graduation-ceremony-2015.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/AndryandBondzie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/AndryandBondzie-356x300.jpg\" alt=\"AndryandBondzie\" width=\"356\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/AndryandBondzie-356x300.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/AndryandBondzie-1024x864.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/AndryandBondzie.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/ClarissaKochGettingHooded.DSC02131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/ClarissaKochGettingHooded.DSC02131-451x300.jpg\" alt=\"ClarissaKochGettingHooded.DSC02131\" width=\"451\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/ClarissaKochGettingHooded.DSC02131-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/06\/ClarissaKochGettingHooded.DSC02131-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications PUBLISHED<\/span>:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Malek A<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lee J.C<\/span><\/strong>. Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa associated lymphoid tissue arising in the pleura. <em>Annals of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Vol 2, No 2 (2015)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications ACCEPTED:<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Mathew H, Dittus C, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Malek A<\/span><\/strong>, Negroiu A. Howell-Jolly Bodies on Peripheral Smear Leading to Diagnosis of Congenital Hyposplenism in a Patient with Septic Shock<em>. <\/em><em>Clinical Case Report<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Srimathi Srinivasan<\/span><\/strong>, Vipul Chitalia, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rosana D Meyer<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Edward Hartsough<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Manisha Mehta<\/span><\/strong>, Itrat Harrold, Nicole Anderson, Hui Feng, Lois E.H. Smith, Yan Jiang, Catherine E. Costello, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nader Rahimi<\/span><\/strong>. Hypoxia-induced expression of Phosducin like 3 regulates expression of VEGFR-2 and promotes angiogenesis. <em>Angiogenesis, 2015<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/biomed\/cancer\/journal\/10456\">http:\/\/www.springer.com\/biomed\/cancer\/journal\/10456<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sowmya Shivanna, Kumaran Kolandaivelu, Moshe Shashar, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mostafa Belghasem<\/span><\/strong>, Laith Al-Rabadi, Mercedes Balcells, Anqi Zheng, Janice Weinberg, Jean Francis, Michael P. Pollastri, Elazer R. Edelman, David H. Sherr, and Vipul C. Chitalia. \u201cThe Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor is a Critical Regulator of Tissue Factor Stability and an Antithrombotic Target in Uremia\u201d. <em>Accepted for publication by the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. May 2015.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 May 2015 Announcements: LAB WEEK was April 20-24 this year, the theme was \u201cwas &#8220;Not all Heroes Wear Capes, Some Wear Lab Coats!&#8221; Events for the week included: a scavenger hunt, door decorating contest, which Chemistry won, for a departmental pizza party, we had games, and we collected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9112,"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\/11806"}],"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\/9112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12323,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions\/12323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}