{"id":15373,"date":"2018-12-17T09:53:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=15373"},"modified":"2018-12-17T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:53:17","slug":"pathology-laboratory-medicine-news-items-fall-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2018\/12\/17\/pathology-laboratory-medicine-news-items-fall-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathology &#038; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 Fall 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"11\" height=\"37\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b><strong><u>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 Fall 2018<\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><strong><u>Announcements:<\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Recent Faculty Promotions:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Chris <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/D64dCkRKD4CkZnnEhVTb0k?domain=bumc.bu.edu\">Andry, MPhil, PhD, Professor<\/a><\/u><\/strong> of Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine and Family Medicine<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Lawreen <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/QUBICxk594cLKJJlS0OzR8?domain=bu.edu\">Connors, PhD, Professor <\/a><\/u><\/strong>of Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Rob <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/wROICW6vmNC6vjjEFQXjS9?domain=bumc.bu.edu\">Pistey, MD, Clinical Associate Professor<\/a><\/u><\/strong> of Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Dr. Eric Burks<\/u><\/strong> was an Invited Speaker at the 39th International Conference on Screening for Lung Cancer (I-ELCAP)\/7th Conference on Research for Early Lung Cancer Treatment (I-ELCART) in Hyde Park NY. &#8211; October 16-17, 2018. He presented the following lecture: &#8220;Aggressiveness of Stage I Lung Cancer. Size, grade, histology: what do we know?\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Dr. Burks<\/u><\/strong> also gave a Poster Presentation at IASLC 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer 2018, Toronto, Canada, on September 24, 2018. <strong><u>Burks E.J<\/u>.<\/strong>, Sands J.M., Sullivan T., Regis S.M., McKee B.J., McKee A.B., Rieger-Christ K.M. Pathologic Comparison of Prevalent vs. Incident CT Lung Screen Detected Cancer in NCCN High-Risk Subjects: Are The Different?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Dr. Burks<\/strong><\/span> received 20% salary support from the Spira-Lenburg Lab to work with their group\u00a0on the Pulmonary Precancer Genome Atlas (PCGA) defining the molecular and pathologic changes in a multi-institutional cohort of smokers undergoing sequential autoflorescence\u00a0bonchoscopic biopsies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Dr. Dennis Jones<\/strong><\/span> was recently recognized recently by STAT newspaper. <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/YpjBCn5X84cGnZLnT9lmlD?domain=statnews.com\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wunderkinds\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>USCAP 2019; <\/u><\/strong>United States &amp; Canadian Academy of Pathology\u2019s 108<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, March 16-21, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Accepted Abstracts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cInflammatory Patterns by H&amp;E Stain are Predictive of Recurrence in Resected Stage I Lung Adenocarcinoma.\u201d, abstract number #2175, United States &amp; Canadian Academy of Pathology\u2019s 108<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Meeting for presentation in the Stowell-Orbison\/Surgical Pathology\/Autopsy Award Poster Session.\u00a0 Authors: I Yambayev, A Shevstov, P Moreira, T Sullivan, K Rieger-Christ, K Suzuki, <strong><u>E Burks<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u201cDistinctive Pulmonary Amyloid Vasculopathy is the Most Common Lung Finding at Autopsy in Patients with AL Amyloidosis.\u201d, abstract number #2148, United States &amp; Canadian Academy of Pathology\u2019s 108<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Meeting for presentation in the Stowell-Orbison\/Surgical Pathology\/Autopsy Award Poster Session. Autors: M Soliman, R Multz (med student), L Connors, H Cui, A Staron, V Sanchorawala, <strong><u>E Burks<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Race-ethnicity Associated Disparities of Molecular Genotyping in Classical Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma, Follicular Variant Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma, and Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features (NIFTP): an Institutional Experience, 162 Patients.\u00a0 <strong><u>Israa Laklouk MD<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Reyhan Gedik MD<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Sandra Cerda MD<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New course offered in the School of Graduate Medical Sciences.<\/strong> Our department will be offering a graduate level histopathology course (PA932) created by <strong>Dr. Mostafa Belghasem<\/strong> starting the summer of 2019. The course proposal was very well received by the University\u2019s Academic Policy Committee and no scheduled hearing was required. This new course will fill an unmet need within the graduate school to teach the practical and fundamental skills required of tissue processing, tissue staining, and interpretation of pathologic changes in tissues and organs. The course features several board-certified pathology instructors and the small class size ensures that all students are provided with adequate hands-on time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Dr. Belghasem <\/u><\/strong>also\u00a0presented an oral abstract during Evans Research Day 2018 titled \u201c<em>Newly Identified Metabolites Connect Colon Cancer to Thrombosis<\/em>\u201d <strong><u>Mostafa Belghasem<\/u><\/strong>, Sean Richards, Joshua Walker, Cristal Thompson, <strong><u>Cheryl Spencer<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Chris Andry<\/u><\/strong>, Katya Ravid, Vipul Chitalia.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Daniel Remick, M.D<\/u><\/strong>., participated on a panel discussion at the PISA 2018 meeting in Ann Arbor Michigan \u201cMaximizing Biospecimen Resources\u201d October 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Daniel Remick, M.D<\/u><\/strong>., was invited to give the plenary lecture at the Department of Pathology\u2019s Research Day at the University of Iowa on October, 23, 2018. His talk was \u201cMechanisms of Traumatic Brain Injury Augmenting Innate Immunity\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Max Vaickus<\/strong><\/span>, former Masters student in the Department had his paper accepted in the American Journal of Pathology: \u201cMild traumatic brain injury in mice beneficially alters lung NK1R and structural protein expression to enhance survival after <em>Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/em> infection. <strong><u>Max Vaickus<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Terry Hsieh<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Ekaterina Kintsurashvili<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Jiyoun Kim<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><em>Daniel Kirsch<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><u>George Kasotakis<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Daniel Remick<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Dr. Anna Belkina<\/u><\/strong> was a plenary speaker at the MetroFlow 2018 meeting in New York, NY with a talk entitled: \u201cFrom\u00a0Chaos\u00a0to\u00a0Chorus: Revealing disease phenotypes with computational analysis of high-dimensional flow cytometry\u201d October 18, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Resident, Dr. Mahmoud Soliman <\/u><\/strong>presented his poster the American Society for Clinical Pathologists October 3-5 in Baltimore.\u00a0 &#8220;A report of a case of hyalinizing trabecular neoplasm of thyroid gland associated with PAX8-GLIS3 fusion&#8221; Authors: <strong><u>Mahmoud Soliman<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Artem Shevtsov<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Grace Zhao<\/u><\/strong> and <strong><u>Sandra Cerda<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Resident, Dr. Shoreh Fazeli<\/u><\/strong> presented a poster at the Massachusetts Medical Society on Friday, November 30.: \u201cImpact of ThyroSeq v2 Testing on Cytopathology diagnosis, Cost, and Outcome of Management in Patients with Thyroid Nodule\u201d <strong><u>S R. Fazele<\/u><\/strong>, B Zehn, <strong><u>D Kindelberger<\/u><\/strong>, S Lee, <strong><u>S Cerda<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Dr. Chris Andry\u2019s <\/u><\/strong>appointment as Co-Chair of the Boston University Laboratory Safety Committee has been renewed through December 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Dr. Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa <\/u><\/strong>just completed her term as Chair of the Institutional Biosafety Committee. \u201cHer leadership as Committee Chair and her contributions to the program have helped to ensure research at BU has been conducted in a safe and compliant manner, consistent with the highest ethical standards<\/p>\n<p>Our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Residency Program<\/strong><\/span> Day-After-Thanksgiving International Pot Luck! Program Director, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Dr. Joel Henderson<\/strong><\/span> had a great time and learned a lot about recipes from all over the world \u2013 These were enjoyed by all! Dr. Henderson and our residents appreciated having the opportunity to chat about things without the usual pressures of a typical workday<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><strong><u><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2018\/12\/2018.Thanksgiving.DayAfter.Residents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"246\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-15376\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2018\/12\/2018.Thanksgiving.DayAfter.Residents-150x150.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2018\/12\/2018.Thanksgiving.DayAfter.Residents-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2018\/12\/2018.Thanksgiving.DayAfter.Residents-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2018 Residency Program Day After Thanksgiving Thanksgiving<\/p>\n<p><b><strong><u><b><strong><u>Publications ACCEPTED <\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Browne B.M., Sullivan T.B., Libertino J.A., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Burks E.J<\/strong><\/span>., Canes D., Rieger-Christ K.M.\u00a0 MicroRNA expression profiles in upper tract urothelial carcinoma differentiate tumor grade, stage and survival: implications for clinical decision-making.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Manuscript accepted to Urology October 2,\u00a02018<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b><strong><u><b><strong><u><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/u><\/strong><\/b><u><u>Lack of Ikaros deregulates inflammatory gene programs in T cells&#8221; by\u00a0<\/u><\/u><u><u><strong><u>Carolina Lyon de Ana<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Ksenia Arakcheeva<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Parul Agnihotri<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Nicole Derosia<\/u><\/strong> and <strong><u>Susan Winandy<\/u><\/strong>. <\/u><\/u><em>Accepted by The Journal of Immunology<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Publications PUBLISHED<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u><u><u><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Weldon%2C+Christopher\">Christopher Weldon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Ji%2C+Tianjiao\">Tianjiao Ji<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Nguyen%2C+Minh-Thuy\">Minh-Thuy Nguyen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Rwei%2C+Alina\">Alina Rwei<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Wang%2C+Weiping\">Weiping Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Hao%2C+Yi\">Yi Hao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Zhao%2C+Chao\">Chao Zhao<\/a>, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Mehta%2C+Manisha\">Manisha Mehta<\/a><\/u>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Wang%2C+Bruce+Y\">Bruce Y. Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/author\/Marini%2C+Robert+P\">Robert P. Marini<\/a>, and Daniel S. Kohane: \u201cNanoscale Bupivacaine Formulations to Enhance the Duration and Safety of Intravenous Regional Anesthesia. <em>ACS Nanao, Publication Date (Web): October 23, 2018<\/em><\/u><\/u><\/u><\/li>\n<li><u><u><u><strong><u>Weiwei Shi<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Ram Al-Sabti<\/u><\/strong>, <strong><u>Nelson Mantilla-Rey<\/u><\/strong>, and <strong><u>Karen Quillen<\/u><\/strong>. &#8220;Quality Management of massive transfusion protocol incorporating tranexamic acid adherence.&#8221; <em>Published in Transfusion and Apheresis Science<\/em><\/u><\/u><\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 Fall 2018 Announcements: Recent Faculty Promotions: Chris Andry, MPhil, PhD, Professor of Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine and Family Medicine Lawreen Connors, PhD, Professor of Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine Rob Pistey, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine Dr. Eric Burks was an Invited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":939,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15373"}],"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=15373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15381,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15373\/revisions\/15381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}