FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Sept. 3, 2002

UC DAVIS PATHOLOGY CHAIR ELECTED TO SERVE ON NATIONAL COMMITTEES

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Ralph Green, professor and chair of the Department of Pathology at UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center, was elected to the council of the Association of Pathology Chairs and re-elected to the executive committee of the Universities Association for Research in Education in Pathology.

Founded in 1967, the Association of Pathology Chairs represents chairs from medical schools throughout North America and Canada. The group acts as a communications center for the exchange of information and for workshops on innovations for teaching and resident training, department administration, and relationships with governmental and other non-university agencies. Green will complete a two-year term with an option for an additional year of service, and will also serve as chair of the Graduate Medical Education Committee, which is concerned with resident, fellowship training and continuing education in pathology.

He was also re-elected to the executive committee of the Universities Association for Research in Education in Pathology, an organization that Robert Stowell, founding chair of the pathology department at UC Davis, helped to establish in 1964. The group represents faculty, residents, and research fellows and works to enrich pathology research and education, with special emphasis on toxicology and chemical carcinogens.

A pathologist-in-chief at UC Davis Medical Center, Green directs the activities of faculty and staff involved in the study and treatment of human disease and in the professional training of physicians, medical students and other health-care professionals in all areas of pathology and laboratory science. The department has extensive and diverse research programs, and offers a full range of diagnostic services.

His research activities are predominantly in the field of anemias and, in particular, vitamin B12, folate and iron metabolism. He has developed cellular and animal models to study vitamin B12 deficiency and has helped to develop improved methods for early detection of nutritional deficiency anemias by assay of vitamins, minerals and related metabolites in the blood. He also studies how vitamin deficiencies and genetic defects disturb homocysteine metabolism, which may play a role in vascular occlusive disease and cancer.

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