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November 2, 2009
The clinical laboratory's move to the new Surgery and Emergency Servicesw Pavilion, and the laboratory's new state-of-the-art automation line is featured in The Insider.
November 2, 2009
The College of American Pathologists' 2009 meeting included poster presentations by faculty members Dariusz Borys, John Bishop, Denis Dwyre, and Claudia Greco, and residents Thomasina Bailey, Phillip Starshak, Kamireddy (Jyostna) Reddy. http://arpa.allenpress.com/arpaonline/?request=get-current-issue
November 2, 2009
Medical students are invited to learn about residencies and careers in pathology at an Open House for the Pathology Student Interest Group on November 30, 2009 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at PATH 1002. Pizza and refreshments will be served. RSVP to: richard.cosens@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
October 8, 2009
The Intersociety Council for Pathology Information has chosen the Deparment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as a recipient of a new matching grant to enhance our medical student interest group in pathology. Nine academic pathology departments were funded nationally to encourage outstanding medical students to pursue a career in pathology.
http://www.pathologytraining.org/interestgroups.htm
October 8, 2009
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine's new transfusion medicine fellowship has received its first two-year accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, thanks to the hard work of fellowship director Carol Marshall, M.D. Applications for the fellowship program are currently being accepted.
September 17, 2009
Dr. Ishwarlal Jialal, Professor and Robert Stowell Endowed Chair received a grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 from the NIH, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The project title is CRP, Diabetes, Atherothrombosis. This award is for $908,000 for two year period. Congratulations Dr. Jialal!
August 13, 2009
New grants have been awarded to the Point of Care Testing Center team. Nam Tran has received a 3 year award for $1.7 million from the American Burn Association to study rapid quantitative PCR-based detection of Staphylococcus aureus in burn sepsis patients. Gerald Kost and Richard Louie received a U54 supplemental award sourced from federal stimulus funds for rapid multi-pathogen detection and national disaster readiness.
August 13, 2009
Lee-Way Jin and faculty at UCSF and UCLA have received a 5-year award for $1.8 million from the UC Office of the President to establish a University of California Pediatric Neuropathology Consortium (UCPNC). Precious pediatric brain specimens will be collected for research use, with a special focus on neural stem cell research. The UC Davis site will specialize in neurodevelopmental disorders affecting cognition and intellect, such as fragile X syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, and Rett syndrome.
July 28, 2009
Faculty members Alexander Borowsky, Jeffrey Gregg, and Carol Marshall have been accepted to the UC Davis School of Medicine's Mid-Career Leadership Program, a year-long curriculum that provides training and development in core competencies necessary for effective department and/or section/division leadership.
June 30, 2009
John Bishop, Director of Surgical Pathology and Immunohistochemistry, authored a new volume in Springer's Essentials in Cytopathology series, "Endometrial Cytology with Tissue Correlation" which highlights direct cytologic sampling as an effective method of diagnosing endometrial abnormalities.
June 17, 2009
A warm welcome to new residents Tatyana Berezenko, Jose Gorospe, Aram Millstein, Nelson Velasco; cytopathology fellow Yasi Saffari; hematopathology fellow Daniel Marko; and surgical pathology fellows Steven Carlson and Brian Poirier.
June 17, 2009
Congratulations to newly promoted professors Sridevi Devaraj, Michael Hogarth, and Raj Ramsamooj; and to faculty members Jimmy Chen, Denis Dwyre, William Ellis, Jose Galvez, Regina Gandour-Edwards, Jeffrey Gregg, Lydia Howell, Ishwarlal Jialal, Lee-Way Jin, Christopher Polage, and Ramez Saroufeem for successful merit advancements.
May 29, 2009
Izumi Maezawa, postdoctoral scientist in the lab of faculty member Lee-Way Jin, received the 2009 UC Davis Award of Excellence in Postdoctoral Research for her recent publication in the Journal of Neuroscience demonstrating a novel astrocyte-based mechanism for disease onset in Rett syndrome with implications for autism.
May 18, 2009
The UC Davis Blood Bank was honored with the 2009 Friends of Nursing Award for their cooperative and efficient work ethic that contributes towards positive patient care outcomes. This annual award from Patient Care Services celebrates teamwork. See the article in The Insider.
April 29, 2009
In the April issue of Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, resident Mary Meighan Smith Tomic and faculty mentor Anthony Cheung report that whole blood viscosity correlates with vasculopathy using computer-assisted intravital microscopy for real-time in vivo quantification of microvascular abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease.
April 22, 2009
Rena Kuramoto and fellow clinical lab scientist Jackie Csicsery were the key individuals in an investigation by the clinical virology laboratory that led to a national recall of a product, used in clinical laboratories across the United States, which could have resulted in false positive results for the influenza B virus in respiratory specimens. For the complete story, go to http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/welcome/features/20090422_lab_detectives/index.html.
April 16, 2009
Check out the UC Davis-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Point-of-Care Technologies Center on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/poctctr. This project is led by Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine faculty member Gerald Kost, M.D., Ph.D. and is funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
April 15, 2009
UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is ranked 42nd in NIH funding among recipient institutions in 2008, according to The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. The department has had a steady and significant rise since 2006 when it was ranked 61st.
April 15, 2009
Congratulations to department faculty member Ursula Esser, Ph.D. on her new appointment as Interim Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Support (IRS) Unit at the UC Davis Office of Research.
April 15, 2009
The California Association of Cytotechnology's 44th Annual Workshop/Seminar will be hosted by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Medical Education Building on May 30, 2009. David Kaminsky, M.D., former President of the American Society of Cytopathology, will be a guest speaker, in addition to department faculty members Alaa Afify, M.D.; John Bishop, M.D.; Malathy Kapali, M.D.; and Cindy Yu, M.D.
April 2, 2009
Congratulations to Christopher Polage, M.D. and his wife, Emily, who had a baby girl named Sabrina Claire Polage!
January 3, 2009
Paul Luciw, Ph.D. elected to the prestigious Association for Advancement of Science
Septempber 25, 2008
CONGRATULATIONS – Drs. Kost, Polage and Lee
September 23, 2008
Dr. Ishwarlal Jialal Invited to Serve on the JCEM Editorial Board
June 30, 2008
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine welcomes Dr. John Bishop as its newest faculty member
June 16, 2008
Dr. Ishwaral Jialal receives Linus Pauling Award for achievements in Integrative Medicine
June 6, 2008
Dr. Regina Gandour-Edwards named recipient of C. John Tupper Prize for Excellence in Teaching