{"id":1244,"date":"2009-07-31T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T21:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2009\/07\/31\/august-2009\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T06:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T10:19:52","slug":"august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2009\/07\/31\/august-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><!--CTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dt--><br \/>\nPathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Dear Colleagues,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">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.\u00a0 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 at GSDM from 1976 to 1995. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Dr. Vitale was passionate about fostering and facilitating international student exchange health experiences.\u00a0 He developed formal affiliations with medical centers in Mexico, Columbia, Ireland, Israel, Spain and China during his career and established the Vitale International Foundation for Medical Education\/Exchange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vifme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vifme.org\/<\/a> in January 1996. This program provides financial assistance to qualified senior medical students who successfully complete an elective at a foreign medical center. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Dr Vitale graduated from Northeastern University with a BS in Biology in 1947 and earned his ScD from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1951. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from Health Science Institute in Medellin, Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">He had over 100 original publications, 92 abstracts and papers presented, and had written eight book chapters and monographs. Dr. Vitale served on the editorial boards of a number of journals including American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the American Public Health Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Dr. Vitale leaves his wife Gilda and two children. We are saddened by the loss of this admired colleague and grateful for his many contributions to our community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Announcements:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/c-andry-3-07-30-09-3-of-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1239\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/c-andry-3-07-30-09-3-of-12-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"c-andry-3-07-30-09-3-of-12\" width=\"163\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>Dr. Chris Andry<\/span> has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. The Trustees and Dr. Robert Brown have recognized Dr. Andry\u2019s \u201ccontributions to the work in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.\u201d Congratulations Chris!<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">BIG MOVE, thanks to Chris Andry\u2019s diligent work: Pathology People moving to 670 Albany Street \u2013 6th Floor, so if you are trying to find someone after August 1st: <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Rachel Factor, MD &#8212; #4-5325 \u2013 Room #676<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Gan, MD &#8212; #4-5358 \u2013 Room #670<\/li>\n<li>Denise Johnson &#8212; #4-5310 \u2013 Room #671<\/li>\n<li>Lija Joseph, MD &#8212; #4-4457 \u2013 Room #666<\/li>\n<li>Michael O\u2019Brien, MD &#8212; #4-4988 \u2013 Room #672<\/li>\n<li>PATHOLOGY Office &#8212; #8-6990 \u2013 Room #671<\/li>\n<li>SIGN OUT: MENINO &#8212; #x-xxxx \u2013 Room #673<\/li>\n<li>SIGN OUT: NEWTON &#8212; #8-6995 \u2013 Room #674<\/li>\n<li>Loraine Toorie &#8212; #4-7039 \u2013 Room #671<\/li>\n<li>Huihong Xu, MD &#8212; #4-4283 \u2013 Room #669<\/li>\n<li>Michael Roehrl, NEW FACULTY &#8212; #4-5329 \u2013 Room #667<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>See photos of our new location at 670 Albany Street \u2013 6th Floor below:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/670-6th-office-w-furniture-07-30-09-4-of-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1241\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/670-6th-office-w-furniture-07-30-09-4-of-12-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"670-6th-office-w-furniture-07-30-09-4-of-12\" width=\"147\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/670-6th-pathology-office-07-30-09-7-of-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1240\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/670-6th-pathology-office-07-30-09-7-of-12-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"670-6th-pathology-office-07-30-09-7-of-12\" width=\"114\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/670-6th-obriens-office-07-30-09-9-of-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1242 \" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/670-6th-obriens-office-07-30-09-9-of-12-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"670-6th-obriens-office-07-30-09-9-of-12\" width=\"166\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/670-6th-obriens-office-07-30-09-9-of-12-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/670-6th-obriens-office-07-30-09-9-of-12.jpg 778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/cynthia-harris-july-23-2009-1-of-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1243\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2009\/07\/cynthia-harris-july-23-2009-1-of-1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"cynthia-harris-july-23-2009-1-of-1\" width=\"155\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Cynthia Harris<\/span> in the department of Anatomic Pathology for her 40 years of service to Boston City Hospital\/Boston Medical Center! Bravo!<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">John Meyers, PhD<\/span> successfully defended his thesis \u201cUNIQUE CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE SIGNALING IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA REPRESENTS A POTENTIAL NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGET\u201d on July 20, 2009<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">David Davis, PhD<\/span> successfully defended his thesis \u201cActin Capping Protein Beta 2 Subunit (Capzb2) Function in Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration\u201d on July 29, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Welcome to NEW PEOPLE: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Michael Roehrl, MD, PhD,<\/span> new faculty member<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Somdutta Mitra<\/span>, has joined Dr. Maria Panchenko\u2019s Research Team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Steve Bogen, MD<\/span> received a newly issued U.S. Patent: U.S. Patent 7,553,67; Issued June 30, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Strategic Planning Committee Begins Work. <\/span>A strategic planning committee has begun work to evaluate the current status of the department and map future directions. The committee is chaired by Daniel Remick with administrative support provided by Debra Kiley. The committee members include Michael O\u2019Brien, Martin Kroll, Lija Joseph, Jacqueline Sharon and Chris Andry. A password protected, on-line discussion forum will be available shortly to allow faculty, staff, residents and students the opportunity to provide input into the plans as they develop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Presentations:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Nader Rahimi, PhD<\/span> was invited to give a talk at the Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Angiogenesis Conference held in Chester, England on July 14-17. This conference was organized by Biochemical Society Transduction. The title of Dr. Rahimi&#8217;s talk was &#8220;<strong>A novel role for protein ubiquitination in VEGFR-2 signaling and angiogenesis<\/strong>&#8221; and the text of his presentation will be published as a review article in Biochemical Society Transductions Journal.<\/li>\n<li>Resident <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Marier Hernandez-Perez\u2019s M.D<\/span> has had a poster accepted for presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Dermatopathology (ASDP) for &#8220;<strong>PROTOTHECOSIS OF THE NAIL: A RARE SUBUNGUAL PRESENTATION OF ALGAL DISEASE<\/strong>&#8221; in Chicago, Illinois, October 2-5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Publications- PUBLISHED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">SA Bogen<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">K Vani, B McGraw, V Federico, Iqbal Habib, R Zeheb, E Luther, C Tristram &amp; SR Sompuram<\/span>. \u201c<strong>Experimental Validation Of Peptide Immunohistochemistry Controls<\/strong>.\u201d 2009. Appl. Immunohistochem &amp; Mol Morphol. 17(3):239-246.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 \u201c<strong>Oxidative Modification of Mitochondrial Integrity and Nerve Fiber Density in the Ischemic Overactive Bladder<\/strong>\u201d has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Urology<\/li>\n<li>A manuscript by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Osuchowski, M, Teener, J, and Remick, D<\/span> \u201c<strong>Noninvasive model of sciatic nerve conduction in healthy and septic mice: Reliability and normative data<\/strong>.\u201d has been accepted for publication in Nerve and Muscle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 Dear Colleagues, \u00a0 \u00a0 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.\u00a0 Dr. Vitalle also served as BUSM [&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\/1244"}],"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=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8331,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}