{"id":1189,"date":"2009-07-01T14:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2014-08-03T23:18:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T03:18:45","slug":"july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2009\/07\/01\/july-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items<\/h2>\n<h3>Announcements:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Walther Pfeifer, MD<\/span>, will become Medical Director of the Clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, in July<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Lija Joseph, MD <\/span>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.\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/www.apcprods.org\/mtg\/2009\/CDS2009.pdf<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.apcprods.org\/mtg\/2009\/PRODS2009.pdf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations on passing the Qualifying Exams!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u2022 Jackie Bouchard<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u2022 Heather Cohen<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u2022 Michael Durando<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u2022 Mike Greene<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u2022 Madhu Jagannathan<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u2022 Jillian Richmond<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eligible students should start thinking about taking the next exam in January-February 2010 and get in touch with Dr. Burke at the latest October 2009<\/li>\n<li>Thank you to all faculty members who assisted with the qualifying exams, with a special gratitude to Bohdana Burke!<\/li>\n<li>On Monday, June 22, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Carl O\u2019Hara, MD<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Lija Joseph, MD<\/span> presented two posters on curricular integration at the John McMahon Medical Education Day<\/li>\n<li><strong>Welcome to Our New Residents<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>PGY-1:\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Luisa Watts<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Priya Alexander\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Joy Tan<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Yanelba Toribio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>PGY-2:\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Dehua Wang<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Hao Wu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NEW PEOPLE:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chaoxu Liu PhD<\/span>, a postdoctoral scholar from China, has joined Dr. Azadzoi\u2019s research team in the pathology laboratories<\/li>\n<li>Joel Henderson\u2019s new Lab Manager is Dr. Hui Chen, general internist from Wuhan, Hubei, China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In Laboratory Information Service, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Silvia MacMurdo<\/span> will assume the Chair of the Regional Sunquest Users Group<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Janet Means<\/span>, Administrative Director of Laboratory Medicine has passed her Black Belt written examination for the Juran training course in Lean Six Sigma. She had to attend four weeks of intensive training at the Juran institute. Her score topped her class of international participants.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Janet Means<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Neil O\u2019Neill<\/span> visited a Lean-designed Quest Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia to learn about applying Lean Six Sigma principles to laboratory design. The information they gleaned validated many of the laboratory layout designs instituted for the new lab as well as provided impetus for making important changes in the final design.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Bethany Tierno, MD<\/span> will be starting her hematopathology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess July 1st. Bethany wants to thank everyone for a great four years of residency, \u201cI will miss you all! My e-mail address is bethanyjc@comcast.net, please keep in touch!\u201d<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">John Cho Lee, MD<\/span>, Chief Resident received a United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Pathologist-in-Training Award from the Society for Ultrastructual Pathology for this year&#8217;s USCAP meeting.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">John Cho Lee, MD<\/span>, Chief Resident received an award from the University Of South Alabama Department Of Pathology for his USCAP poster presentation: Society for Ultrastructural Pathology Pathologist-in-Training Award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Presentations:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD<\/span> has been invited to speak at the 35th Annual New England Immunology Conference in Woods Hole Oct 24-25 2009. The topic will be \u201cThe Role of Toll-like Receptors in Type 2 Diabetes.\u201d Web site is: http:\/\/neic.uchc.edu\/ This is an excellent venue for grad students to present their work and talk to other regional immunologists.<\/li>\n<li>An abstract by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Kazem Azadzoi, M.D.<\/span> et al entitled \u201c<strong>Oxidative Stress-Sensitive Genes and Mitochondrial Stress Regulate Neural Injury and Wall Degeneration in the Overactive Bladder<\/strong>\u201d has been accepted for presentation at the International Continence Society Annual Meeting to be held in San Francisco in October 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Abstract\/case study for poster presentation by our residents <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Marier Hernandez; Katherine Downey<\/span>; and attending<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> Sandra Cerda<\/span>, <strong>&#8220;Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lung Secreting Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and \u00df-Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in a Young Female Smoker<\/strong>&#8221; at CAP \u201909, which is to be held in Washington, DC, on October 11\u2013October 14<\/li>\n<li>Our resident, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Kate Duhon Hartman<\/span>, with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Janet Means<\/span>, Administrative Director, and Neil O\u2019Neill, will present a poster at the AACC meeting entitled \u201c<strong>Improving Oncology STAT CBC Turnaround Time by Means of Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement<\/strong>\u201d<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Jianmin Gan, MD<\/span> has had her abstract, &#8220;<strong>Histopathology of the pig lung after microwave ablation: report on ten cases<\/strong>&#8221; accepted for poster presentation at the 2009 American Society for Clinical Pathology Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois from October 28-November 1, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Stephen Hammond, MD<\/span> has had an abstract accepted for poster presentation at the College of American Pathologists meeting in Washington, DC, on October 11-14, 2009. &#8220;<strong>Using Amended Report Rates to Monitor Pre- and Post-Analytic Errors in an Anatomic Pathology Laboratory<\/strong>&#8221; Authors: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Stephen Hammond MD, Chris Andry PhD, and Kathy Harkins. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Publications- ACCEPTED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A manuscript by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Kazem Azadzoi, M.D<\/span>. et al entitled \u201cOxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration in Penile Ischemia\u201d has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Urology<\/li>\n<li>The abstract\/case study by our residents Marier Hernandez,; Katherine Downey; and attending Sandra Cerda, \u201c<strong>Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lung Secreting Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and \u00df-Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in a Young Female Smoker<\/strong>&#8221; will be published in the October 2009 issue of the Archives of Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Stephen Hatfield , Bryan Belikoff , Dmitriy Lukashev <\/span>, Akio Ohta article: \u201cT<strong>he Anti-hypoxia-adenosinergic Pathogenesis Due to Collateral Damage by Overactive Immune Cells<\/strong>\u201d has been accepted for publication in Journal of Leukocyte Biology<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Resident Stephen Hammond<\/span>\u2019s abstract &#8220;<strong>Using Amended Report Rates to Monitor Pre- and Post-Analytic Errors in an Anatomic Pathology Laboratory<\/strong>&#8221; will be published in the October 2009 issue of the Archives of Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathology &amp; 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. 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