{"id":14020,"date":"2016-08-01T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2016-08-01T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:29:48","slug":"pathology-and-laboratory-medicine-new-news-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2016\/08\/01\/pathology-and-laboratory-medicine-new-news-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine New News &#8211; July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Carmen.Table_.AAPathologosts2016.IMG_1316.jpg\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Carmen2.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1318.jpg\"><\/a>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 July 2016<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Announcements:<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Dhay Kamel<\/span><\/strong>, one of our recent resident graduates and our new Cytology Fellow, just passed her AP &amp; CP exams successfully! She is now board certified; CONGRATULATIONS Dhay!!<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Martin Steinbuck, PhD <\/span><\/strong>(Susan Winandy Lab) successfully defended his Thesis, \u201cNOVEL T-CELL RECEPTOR MEDIATED MECHANISMS OF NOTCH ACTIVATION AND SIGNALING\u201d on July 18<sup>th<\/sup>, 2016, BRAVO!!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Martin.Susan_.Closer.20160718_115142-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14021\" alt=\"Martin.Susan.Closer.20160718_115142 (2)\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Martin.Susan_.Closer.20160718_115142-2-150x150.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Martin.Susan_.Closer.20160718_115142-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Martin.Susan_.Closer.20160718_115142-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Martin.Cake_.Champayne.20160718_150802.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14022\" alt=\"Martin.Cake.Champayne.20160718_150802\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Martin.Cake_.Champayne.20160718_150802-150x150.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Martin.Cake_.Champayne.20160718_150802-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Martin.Cake_.Champayne.20160718_150802-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Newly implemented Departmental Teaching Awards were given at this year\u2019s Castle Graduation Dinner in June, however some recipients were unable to attend the dinner and were presented their awards at alternate times.<\/li>\n<li>The committee-driven criteria for the student awards are; collegiality, sharing with fellow-students, knowledge, skills, kindness; Leadership, positive attitude, problem solving, initiatives for improvements; Growth in professional skills, aptitudes and attitudes over the year and being a good team worker, helping others, as well as guiding juniors. The measures for the faculty awards were based on student feedback<\/li>\n<li>Bestowed to:<\/li>\n<li>On the Research-Side:\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mostafa Belghasem, MD, PhD<\/span><\/strong>: The Excellence Award 2016 (Student\/Resident Award) (given at a Henderson Lab meeting)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Krzysztof Blusztajn, PhD<\/span><\/strong>: Residents Teaching Award 2016 (Faculty Award) (presented at a recent Faculty Meeting)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tim Norman\u2019s, PhD Candidate<\/span><\/strong> (Alan Fine Lab) F31 application from NHLBI titled &#8220;Origin, maturation, &amp; regeneration of pulmonary lymphatic endothelium&#8221; scored in the 14th percentile. Tim wants to thank Drs. Carter Cornwall, David Atkinson, Andy Henderson, Chris Gable and Chelsea Epler for their help through BU&#8217;s Best Grant Writing Seminar<\/li>\n<li>Annual Association of Pathology Chairs Meeting, San Diego, CA; July 2016:\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daniel Remick, MD<\/span><\/strong> gave a talk at the Pathology Leadership Academy in San Diego on July 11, 2016, \u201cUnique Leadership Challenges in the Research Mission\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Remick<\/span><\/strong> also, organized a workshop at the 2016 Association of Pathology Chairs Meeting in San Diego, \u201cBiorepository Management Workshop\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>In addition <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Remick<\/span><\/strong> moderated the Research Committee session at the Association of Pathology Chairs in San Diego, \u201cYou Won\u2019t Believe Your Eyes \u2013 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Optics in Pathology\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Carmen Sarita-Reyes<\/span><\/strong> participated in the course offered by the Association of Pathology Chairs titled &#8220;Pathology Leadership Academy&#8221; in Coronado, CA July 11-12 2016. This course was offered to only 50 participants selected by their respective Chairs<\/li>\n<li>Erin Brooks, MD, University of Wisconsin;\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">David Kindelberger, MD<\/span><\/strong>, Boston University; <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Carmen D. Sarita-Reyes, MD<\/span><\/strong>, Boston University presented a Discussion Group titled &#8220;Strategies for Maximizing Early Medical Student Exposure to Pathology&#8221; at the Association of Pathology Chairs national meeting in San Diego, CA on July 13th 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Carmen2.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14024\" alt=\"Carmen2.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1318\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Carmen2.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1318-150x150.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Carmen2.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1318-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/Carmen2.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1318-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/David.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14025\" alt=\"David.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1317\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/David.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1317-150x150.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/David.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1317-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2016\/08\/David.AAPathologists2016.IMG_1317-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dr. Carmen Sarita-Reyes<\/span><\/strong> shared that our fellow <strong><em>Brandon Hayse<\/em><\/strong> completed our first\u00a0<span>Boston University School of Medicine Pathology\u00a0and Laboratory Medicine\u00a0Fellowship from May 23rd &#8211; July 8th 2016 that is offered to 1st year medical students at BUSM. We wanted to thank the department for their support.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jacquelyn Sikora Hanson, PhD Candidate<\/span><\/strong> (Lawreen Connors Lab)presented a poster at the International Symposium on Amyloidosis in Uppsala, Sweden on July 5 entitled &#8220;Transthyretin and retinol-binding protein serum concentrations are prognostic and survival indicators in wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis.&#8221; The authorship was the following:\u00a0Jacquelyn LS Hanson, Clarissa M Koch, Marios Arvanitis, Gloria G Chan<em>,\u00a0Frederick L Ruberg, Tatiana Prokaeva, Lawreen H Connors<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jacquelyn Sikora Hanson<\/span><\/strong> also received a Travel Award from GMS to attend the International Symposium on Amyloidosis in Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Additional Posters\/Presentations from the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Connors Lab<\/span><\/strong> at the XV<sup>th<\/sup> Amyloidosis Symposium in Sweden, July 2016, include:\n<ul>\n<li>ALBase:\u00a0 an updated and improved platform to study immunoglobulin light chain sequences.\u00a0A Bhutkar, B Spencer, G Chan, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong>, T Prokaeva<\/li>\n<li>Proteomic blood profiling in inherited (ATTR-FAC) and acquired (ATTRwt) forms of transthyretin-associated cardiac amyloidosis.<strong> <\/strong>GG Chan, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CM Koch<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Serum proteomic variability associated with clinical phenotype in familial transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRm).\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CM Koch<\/span><\/strong>, GG Chan<\/li>\n<li>Retinol-binding protein 4, a natural binding partner of transthyretin, is an indicator of differing pathobiologies in ATTRm and ATTRwt cardiac amyloidosis.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CM Koch<\/span><\/strong>, GG Chan<\/li>\n<li>Histological characterization of localized amyloidosis tissues.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HL Cui<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong>, T Prokaeva, M Skinner, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CJ O\u2019Hara<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Transthyretin and retinol-binding protein serum concentrations are prognostic and survival indicators in wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRwt). <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">JLS Hanson<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CM Koch<\/span><\/strong>, GG Chan, T Prokaeva, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Quantitation of tissue amyloid by novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging T2 relaxation sequences.\u00a0N\u00a0Hua, JE Ward, V Shibad, G Yee, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong>, H Jara, DC Seldin, JA Hamilton<\/li>\n<li>AL amyloidosis cell model expressing patient-derived immunoglobulin light and heavy chains.\u00a0ES Klimtchuk, TB Prokaeva, BH Spencer,<strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Heavy light chain test quantifies clonal plasma cell disease in patients with AL amyloidosis and low serum free light chain burden.\u00a0 T Prokaeva, B Spencer, F Sun, N McConnell, RM O&#8217;Hara, DC Seldin, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong>, V Sanchorawala<\/li>\n<li>A new and unusual transthyretin mutant, duplication of TTR codons 51 and 52 (Glu51_Ser52dup), associated with severely aggressive familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy.\u00a0B Spencer, JL Berk, E Klimtchuk, P SooHoo, T Prokaeva, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Cytogenetic abnormalities in patients with newly diagnosed AL amyloidosis.\u00a0H Yameen, JM Sloan, C Varga, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">JC Lee<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CJ O\u2019Hara<\/span><\/strong>, V Sanchorawala<\/li>\n<li>Familial wild-type transthyretin cardiomyopathy.\u00a0 MD Benson, JL Berk, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LH Connors<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Barb Nikolajczyk<\/span><\/strong> will serve as Lead Organizer for the FASEB Conference &#8220;Immunological Aspects of Obesity&#8221; held in Big Sky Montana July 31- Aug. 5<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD<\/span><\/strong> also presented &#8220;Defining Inflammation in Human Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes&#8221; at the San Antonio Health Sciences Center Department of Microbiology and Immunology in July 2016.\u00a0 Dr. Liz Leadbetter, an alum of the BUSM PhD program, hosted the speaker visit<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications: ACCEPTED:<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Huihong Xu, MD<\/span><\/strong>, and <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daniel G. Remick MD<\/span><\/strong>; &#8220;Pathology &#8211; A Satisfying Medical Profession&#8221; has been recently accepted by <em>Academic Pathology Journal<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Samar Hafida, Tooraj Mirshahi, and <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Barbara S. Nikolajczyk<\/span><\/strong>,<sup><\/sup>The Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Inflammation: Quenching the Fire of Obesity? <em>In Press at Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes for Oct. 2016\u00a0publication<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications: PUBLISHED:<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Guo J, Wang X, L\u00fc X, Jing R, Li J, Li C, Wang D, Bi B, Chen X, Wang F, Sun S, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Azadzoi KM<\/span><\/strong>, Yang JH. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27104882\">Unraveling molecular effects of ADAR1 overexpression in HEK294T cells by label-free quantitative proteomics.<\/a><span><em>Cell Cycle<\/em><\/span><em>. 2016 Jun 17;15(12):1591-601<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 July 2016 Announcements: Dhay Kamel, one of our recent resident graduates and our new Cytology Fellow, just passed her AP &amp; CP exams successfully! She is now board certified; CONGRATULATIONS Dhay!! Martin Steinbuck, PhD (Susan Winandy Lab) successfully defended his Thesis, \u201cNOVEL T-CELL RECEPTOR MEDIATED MECHANISMS OF NOTCH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":939,"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\/14020"}],"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\/939"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14031,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions\/14031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}