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April 30, 2013
Assistant Professor, Dr. Mingyi Chen along with Dean Claire Pomeroy recently had an article published in the prestigious Science journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) entitled, Murine natural killer cell licensing and regulation by T regulatory cells in viral responses.
For a copy of the article, please visit:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/12/1218767110.abstract
April 26, 2013
Professor Lee-Way Jin received a $250,000 award from the BrightFocus Foundation for his study "KCa3.1 Blockers for Alzheimer's Disease Therapy".
Our Transfusion Medicine fellowship, under the leadership of program director, Dr. Carol Marshall, received a full 5-year accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
April 16, 2013
Three of our faculty are featured in the Neuroscience Symposium on 04/22-04/24 co-sponsored by UCDHS and Academia Sinica. Taiwan's equivalent of the National Academy Science. Dr. Lee-Way Jin and Dr. Hawi-Jong Cheng are each chairing sessions, and Dr. Ralph Green is a speaker.
Asst. Professor Dr. Nam Tran and his point-of-care technology team will be presenting five abstracts at the American Burn Association's annual meeting, April 24-26, including a platform presentation by medical student, Erin Howell, recipient of a medical student research fellowhip.
April 10, 2013
Vice Chair of Strategic Technologies, Dr. Richard Levenson, participated in the National Cancer Institutes' Provocative Questions panel on intravital imaging to identify compelling research questions that explore subjects that currently aren't studied. The best questions wlll be selected for a funding opportunity that will be open to the national research community.
April 1, 2013
Faculty members Dr. Kristin Olson and Dr. Ishwarlal Jialal are participating in the annual Leadership Forum for the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) on April 3-7. Dr. Olson is a member of the editorial board for the ASCP Case Report program, and Dr. Jialal is a member of the editorial board for the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.
March 25, 2013
A biosensor to quickly and cost-effectively identify pathogens causing urinary tract infections has been developed by Dr. Nam Tran and his team of biomedical engineering students who will participate in the National Undergraduate Global Health Technology Design Competition at Rice University on April 5, 2013.
March 11, 2013
Professor Peter Barry received a R01 grant for $2,807,934 from the National Institute of Health for his project "Prevention of Primary HCMV Infection by Vaccination Against HCMV-Encoded IL-10".
March 8, 2013
We welcome our first pathology assistant student, Susan Louie, who will spend a 14 week rotation at UCDHS as part of a collaborative relationship with Drexel University.
Chair Lydia Howell was a guest speaker at Loma Linda University’s Dept. of Pathology & Anatomy’s Alumni Reunion on February 28. Her presentations included “Generational and Gender Differences Toward Career Flexibility and Work-Life Balance” and “Surviving Disruption in Cytopathology: Creativity, Quality, and Core Service”.
Assistant professor Joo Song received a $50,000 fellowship award from the University of California’s Center for Health Quality and Innovation for his project "Expand the UC Davis Pathology Consortium to Southern California Medical Centers."
February 19, 2013
Assistant Professor Mingyi Chen will speak on "Lectin-like Oxidized Receptor-1 in Atherosclerosis and Sickle Cell Disease Vasculopathy" at the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology's Companion Meeting at the US & Canadian Academy of Pathology, March 2-8 in Baltimore.
Eight posters from our department will be featured at the upcoming US & Canadian Academy of Pathology, March 2-8 in Baltimore. Five are from our housestaff: Drs. Christina DiLoreto, Benjamin Durham, Nicole Pele, Meighan Tomic and Michael Van Ness. Special thanks to all our faculty involved as presenters, mentors, and collaborators: Drs. Afify, Bishop, Borowsky, Borys, Cardiff, Chen, Gandour-Edwards, Green, Huang, Zhang.
Richard Levenson, Vice Chair of Strategic Technologies, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of OncoPathology.
February 12, 2013
Assistant Professor, Dr. Christopher Polage, has been selected to serve as one of the 24 Associate Scientific Advisors for Science's sister journal, Science Translational Medicine.
January 18, 2013
Richard Levenson, our vice chair of strategic technologies, is prominently featured at the: Medicine Tri-Conference in February 11-15. He will be moderating a roundtable on tumor-stromal interactions, speaking on digital pathology, as well as moderating an additional roundtable.
January 18, 2013
Rhonda Becker MPA MT(ASCP), director of professional services and our former core lab manager, has been appointed to the Clinical Laboratory Technology Advisory Committee (CLTAC).
January 10, 2013
New research conducted by professor Ishwarlal Jialal found that fat stored in the buttock area secretes abnormal levels of proteins chemerin and omentin-1 that can lead to inflammation and insulin resistance in individuals with early metabolic syndrome. The article was posted online January 10 in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and will appear in the March 2013 print edition.
December 19, 2012
Erica Padilla has been appointed our new clinical chief administrative officer. Her administrative experience includes five years as the operations administrator at BloodSource with oversight of seven departments. She has a master's degree in business administration from California State University, Sacramento.
December 19, 2012
Assistant professor Mingyi Chen has received an intramural research grant from the Cancer Center for his project "Identification of microbial pathogens in the pathogensis of lymphoma by a novel microarray assay."
November 26, 2012
Assistant professor Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno has received a $30,000 MIND Institute pilot research award for her project entitled An alteration in dendritic and spine number and morphology in pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex underlies cognitive deficiencies present in autism.
November 26, 2012
The pre-conference on "Scientific Basis of Spinal Cord Injury Therapy" at the 2012 Howard H. Steel Conference featured a presentation by assistant professor Veronica Martinez Cerdeno on stem cell biology on November 28 in Orlando, Florida.
November 26, 2012
Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs John Bishop presented a poster “Raising the Bar: Breast Cancer Biomarkers IHC4 Harmonization from University of California - Athena Pathology Collaboration at the of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s inaugural Quality Care Symposium in San Diego on November 30- December 1, 2012.
November 6, 2012
Professor Michael Hogarth was a panelist in the 2012 California Health Information Exchange Summit on Nov 1st in Sacramento which brought together California's healthcare policy leaders and health information technology experts to discuss the optimal use of information technology to support the improvement of both clinical care and public health. Dr. Hogarth discussed "The Role of Big Data in Improving Quality, Outcomes, and Cost".
October 23, 2012
Assistant professor Eric Huang presented his abstract titled "Quantitative MRI assessment of LV structural remodeling and fibrosis formation in canine models of chronic atrial fibrillation" at the American Heart Association meeting in Los Angeles November 3-7, 2012.
October 21, 2012
Distinguished professor Ralph Green is an invited participant in the American Society of Hematology's (ASH) “Fly In” Day on November 28 in Washington, DC. This special advocacy effort enables ASH members to lobby members of Congress for relief of the scheduled 8.2% cut to the National Institute of Health's budget which is anticipated to have dramatic consequences to medical research.
October 21, 2012
Vice Chair of Information Services Michael Hogarth is participating in the UC Davis Big Data Implementation Committee to develop a comprehensive blueprint for computational infrastructure and intellectual resources necessary for "big data" research and to meet the teaching needs of our campus.
October 21, 2012
A U.S. Patent recently was issued to associate professor Ramez Saroufeem, and a collaboration of fellow physicians and researchers in the Departments of Urology and Internal Medicine for an in vivo spectral micro-imaging esophageal device that will allow early detection of dysplastic changes in Barrett’s esophagus for subsequent targeted biopsy, diagnosis and early therapy.
October 18, 2012
AProfessor Ishwarlial Jialal will be a featured speaker at the upcoming American Society for Clinical Pathology meeting in Boston, MA October 31-November 2. Dr. Jialal's Nov. 1 presentation, titled, "Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers: Focus on Lipoproteins and Inflammation," will be part of the "Update Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers: A Systems Approach" session.
October 18, 2012
Our department will be featured in two posters at the American Society for Clinical Pathology meeting in Boston, MA October 31-November 2. Assistant professor Mingyi Chen, M.D., Ph.D., will be presenting a poster titled, "Characterization of Clonal Plasma Cells in Bone Marrow Biopsy Associated with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Pilot Study." Meighan Tomic, MD, cytopathology fellow and assistant professor Kristin Olson are presenting "A Medical Student Elective in Gastrointestinal Oncology Modeled after the Multidisciplinary Tumor Board."
October 15, 2012
Two of our faculty have been appointed section editors for Archives in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: John Bishop is the section editor for digital pathology, and Richard Levenson is the editor of a new section on advanced imaging in pathology.
October 3, 2012
Faculty member Dariusz Borys is presenting a poster titled "Acceptance of Digital Tumor Board Presentations in Two Medical Institutions" at the Digital Pathology Association's Pathology Visions 2012 Conference in Baltimore, Oct. 28-30.
October 3, 2012
In November, the American Society of Cytopathology's annual scientific meeting in Las Vegas will feature six poster presented by housestaff Sarah Barnard, Mahan Matin, and Meighan Tomic, with faculty mentors Alaa Afify, John Bishop and Eric Huang. Topics include cytologic differentiation of squamous and adenocarcinomas, atypical diagnoses in thyroid, and urine cytology, telecytopathology, and virtual microscopy.
October 1, 2012
Welcome to our newest faculty member, neuropathologist Mirna Lechpammer MD PhD, whose research focuses on developmental neuropathology and includes thematic work on brain injury in premature infants and the neuropathology of Fragile X and related disorders.
September 13, 2012
Distinguished professor emeritus Bob Cardiff received UC Davis Extension's Outstanding Service Award for his leadership in developing the Pathobiology of the Mouse online program. Other members of this award winning team included professor emeritus Clancy Miller and retired pathology specialist Robert J Munn, both of whom developed content for these award winning courses.
August 17, 2012
Clinical laboratory scientist Ka Pou (Emily) Iong has been selected as a Career Ambassador by the ASCP to raise awareness among pre-college students about careers in laboratory science. Emily is a recent graduate of our clinical lab science program.
August 15, 2012
Distinguished Professor Ralph Green will give the keynote lecture at the Second Asian Federation of Haematology Scientific Congress in Singapore on September 8. He will speak on “Anemias beyond B12 and Iron deficiency: The Buzz about other B's, "Elementary" and non-Elementary problems.”
July 31, 2012
Congratulations to newly promoted professor Jeff Gregg, M.D. and associate professor Ramez Saroufeem, M.D. We also congratulate the following faculty for successful merit advancements: Sandy Borowsky, M.D.; Mingyi Chen, M.D., Ph.D.; Regina Gandour-Edwards, M.D.; Michael Hogarth, M.D. Lydia Howell, M.D.; Krish Krishnan, Ph.D.; Tom Konia, M.D.; Richard Louie, Ph.D.; Paul Luciw, Ph.D.; Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno, Ph.D.; Raj Ramsamooj, M.D.; and Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, Ph.D.
July 25, 2012
Third-year pathology resident Rebecca Sonu, M.D. was recently selected as a recipient of the 2012 Resident Representative Leadership Award presented by the American Society for Clinical Pathology. This competitive award will honor her at the 2nd Annual Michele D. Raible Lecture for Residents and provide financing for her conference registration, airfare and lodging for the ASCP Annual Meeting to be held in Boston, MA October 31-Nov. 2, 2012.
July 23, 2012
Our faculty are advancing diagnostic testing with two new industry contracts: Assistant Professor Chris Polage, M.D., is working with Siemens on MicroScan Antibiotic Qualification 15(AQ15) Gram-Positive External Design Validation Study. Assistant Adjunct Professor Richard Louie, Ph.D., is performing a clinical study sponsored by Roche Diagnostics, Inform II with Freedom II 7mm (ACCU-Chek Inform II).
July 23, 2012
Professor Lee-Way Jin, M.D., Ph.D. received an award from the International Rett Syndrome Foundation for his study "Preclinical studies of allopregnanolone, a positive GABAA receptor modulator."
July 6, 2012
Assistant professor Izumi Maezawa has received two new research awards to support her work in neuroglial pathology in Alzheimer's disease and Rett syndrome: a two year R21 for $400,000 from the National Institute of Health and a pilot award from the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center for $32,500.
June 29, 2012
Two new assistant professors join our department this summer: Jeremy Parsons completed a transfusion medicine fellowship at the Univ. of New Mexico, and Anna Romanelli finished a fellowship in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania.
June 20, 2012
Faculty members Sandy Borowsky and Josh Miller have received IDEA grants from the California Breast Cancer Research Program for two projects: "Maternal Folic Acid Intake, Mammary Development, and Cancer" and "Establishing Cell Lifetimes of Normal and At Risk Breast Tissue".
June 16, 2012
Three assistant professors have received Academic Senate Research Awards: James Chan is using multimodal second harmonic generation and fluorescence microscopy to study arrhythmias, Mingyi Chen is studying microbial signatures in lymphomagenesis, and Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno is investigating stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury.
May 25, 2012
Congratulations to clinical laboratory science students Alexander Ko and Ka Pao Iong who are recipients of the 2012 National Student Honor Award from the American Society for Clinical Pathology.
May 20, 2012
Zack Godwin, a junior research specialist working with Asst. Professor Nam Tran, will receive the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry's Distinguished Abstract Award for their study reporting the effects of hematocrit interference in critically ill burn patients. This award will be presented at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry annual meeting in Los Angeles in July.
May 20, 2012
Regina Gandour-Edwards MD presented two posters at the ISBER Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, May 15-18: “Development of a Unique Human Cancer Xenograft Model: Essential Role for the UC Davis Cancer”, and “Collecting Blood for Research in the Asian American Community: A Collaboration Between the UC Davis Cancer Center Biorepository and the Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training”.
April 23, 2012
On May 4, chair Lydia Howell is presenting a poster at the Association of American Medical College's Physician Workforce Research Conference in Washington DC titled "Work to be Done: A qualitative analysis of biomedical faculty attitudes about and perceptions of family-friendly workplace policies."
April 9, 2012
Faculty member Ishwarlal (Kenny) Jialal will receive the 2012 Garry Labbe Award from the American Association of Clinical Chemistry’s Nutrition Division at their annual symposium on July 17th. Dr. Jialal will provide an address titled "Nutritional modulation of the Metabolic Syndrome".
February 18, 2012
Faculty member Dariusz Borys will be presenting a poster at the US & Canadian Academy of Pathology in March, "Gene Deletion Underlies Loss of P16 Expression in Osteosarcoma Tumors with Poor Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy."
February 17, 2012
Nearly 200,000 people have visited the UC Davis POC Technologies Center YouTube website, and over 400 are subscribers. Australian Partners contributed two new lectures on POC testing in low-resource settings. Center Investigator, Dr. Richard Louie, and colleagues created a tutorial that highlights the critical need for protection for POC cardiac biomarker tests from environmental stresses during urban search and rescue. Please visit http://www.youtube.com/POCTCTR to learn how the effects of high temperature and humidity can affect these tests and others performed at the point of care during emergencies and disasters.
February 15, 2012
Faculty member Peter Barry received a $625,000 NIH grant to study how vaccination can reduce viral shedding of cytomegalovirus (CMV). Successful vaccination could have major public health implications, particularly for women and children since CMV infection during pregnancy can cause significant congenital abnormalities.
February 13, 2012
Our department is serving as a beta-test site for Roche's Ventana iScan HT whole slide imager. Anatomic pathology director John Bishop is examining images from over 400 pathology slides to evaluate image quality, ease of use, and problem points in operation.
February 7, 2012
Dr. Yvonne Wan will join our department this summer as Vice Chair of Research and Scientific Director of UC Davis Health System Biorepositories. An award-winning scientist and mentor, Dr. Wan has $3 million in federal funding to support her research studying the role of retinoic acid in liver function and disease.
February 6, 2012
In collaboration with scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, faculty members Ralph Green and Mingyi Chen received the Fitzpatrick Research Award to support a postdoctoral fellowship for their project "Comprehensive analysis of microbial signatures for lymphomagenesis using a novel Microbial Detection Array".
Februrary 6, 2012
Resident Enko Kiprilov and faculty sponsor Mingyi Chen have received a mini-grant for their project “The Role of Primary Cilia in Senescence and Differentiation: the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Model” from the UC Davis Musculoskeletal and Aging Research and Education Group.
February 1, 2012
Welcome to new faculty member Richard Levenson, M.D., who joins the department as professor and vice chair of strategic technologies. Internationally known for his leadership and innovation, The Scientist magazine named Dr. Levenson’s optical dynamic contrast enhancement technique one of the top ten innovations in the life sciences for 2010. Previously, he was vice president of research at Cambridge Research Institute where he led development of their pathology, research and small animal imaging systems.
January 25, 2012
Third-year resident Kali Tu provides pathology services in remote villages in Kenya.
January 20, 2012
South Korean students from the clinical laboratory science (CLS) program at Jinju Health College are visiting our department with their professor, Byoung-Seon Yang, Ph.D. The Korean students are paired with our CLS students for two weeks, and participate in educational actitivies at our Specialty Testing Center.
January 19, 2012
Ishwarlial Jialal, Stowell Chair in Experimental Pathology, has been appointed to the International Advisory Committee for the Kuwait Institute of Medical Specialization. He will participate in planning and implementing training and education programs for hospitals under Kuwait’s Ministry of Health and for the Faculty of Medicine at Kuwait University.
January 19, 2012
Ted Wun, professor of Internal Medicine and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, has been appointed Associate Dean for Research in the School of Medicine.
January 14, 2012
A big success -- Pathology faculty were included in 5 of 6 funded projects from the collaborative research opportunity sponsored by the Depts. of Surgery, Internal Medicine, and Pathology! Drs. Chen, Jin, Martinez-Cerdeno, Tran, and Zarbalis will be pursuing projects related to anemia in bypass surgery, muscle morphology in polycystic ovary disease, stem cells in Parkinson's disease, point of care testing in post-burn resuscitation, and autophagy in osteoporosis. And for those particpants not funded, we hope that this program enabled you to meet new collaborators that will be valuable for future projects!
December 13, 2011
Professor emeritus Boris Ruebner has received an Appreciation Award from UC Davis' Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in recognition of his outstanding service to the University in providing a freshman seminar.
December 7, 2011
A President's Undergraduate Fellowship has been awarded to Karen Wong, a student in course Medical Pathology 199, for her project on corneal reshaping for ocular health. Professor emeritus Anthony Cheung is her mentor.
November 23, 2011
Dr. Ishwarlal Jialal, chemical pathologist and Stowell Chair in Experimental Pathology, was named a "Best Doctor in Sacramento" in Sacramento Magazine's December issue.
October 4, 2011
Radhika Srinivasan, health informatics graduate student pursuing research with pathology faculty member Mike Hogarth, is presenting "Evaluation of a Natural Language Processing Platform in Concept Tagging of Surgical Pathology Reports for Information Retrieval" at the Association of Pathology Informatics 2011 meeting in Pittsburgh on Oct 6th.
October 3, 2011
Resident Enko Kiprilov will be presenting his work on regulation of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells at the joint Livermore National Laboratory-UC Davis Cancer Center Retreat in Livermore, CA on October 17th, 2011.
September 5, 2011
Our housestaff have 11 posters at CAP ’11. Congratulations to Drs. Barnhard, Gorospe, Jess, Matin, Milstein, Sonu, and Tu, and to their faculty mentors.
August 24, 2011
Ishwarlial Jialal and his team have discovered biological indicators that help explain why some obese people develop chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, and others do not. His paper is published on-line today in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
August 18, 2011
The US Army Medical Research and Material Command awarded almost $375,000 to faculty member Jeff Gregg for his project studying the breast cancer oncogene ZNF217's role as a marker of invasiveness.
August 15, 2011
We’re delighted to have three outstanding new faculty members join our department this month: Eric Huang, M.D., Ph.D. (cytopath and gyn path) from Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston; Kristen Olson, M.D. (GI path) from UCLA and Joo Song, M.D. (hemepath) from NIH.
August 5, 2011
Resident representatives to major pathology organizations from our department include Aram Millstein and Sarah Barnhard for the College of American Pathologists for 2011-12, and Rebecca Sonu who is serving a two year term for the American Society of Clinical Pathologists.
August 4, 2011
July 29, 2011
Neuropathologist Lee-Way Jin has received a grant for over $340,000 from the National Institute of Aging for his project "The Microglial Kv1.3 Channel in Alzheimer's Disease".
July 28, 2011
Faculty member Joshua Miller has been chosen to participate in the UC Davis Health System's Mid-Career Leadership Development Program. His project will focus on developing a biorepository for translational research through the use of remainder blood specimens.
July 7, 2011
Congratulations to faculty members Ralph Green and Stephen Barthold who have been honored by the University as Distinguished Professors in recognition of their exceptional and impactful career accomplishments in all academic missions.
June 27, 2011
A warm welcome to our new residents: Christina DiLoreto, Eric Kiprilov, Elham Vali Khomeini, Michael Van Ness. Also, welcome to our new fellows: Amaurdeep Aulakh (Transfusion), Heidi Jess (Cytology), Joyce Kovar (Surg Path), Diane Sanders (Hemepath).
June 24, 2011
Congratulations to faculty member Chris Polage and his wife Emily on the birth of their new daughter, Lauren Kate.
June 22, 2011
Pathology informatics director Mike Hogarth has been appointed as our school’s representative to UC Research Exchange (UC-ReX), an exciting new project which will integrate data across all of the UC Health Systems to better support research and translational medicine.
June 22, 2011
Congratulations to our newly promoted faculty: Hwai Jong Cheng, Denis Dwyre, LeeWay Jin, and Joshua Miller. Congratulations also to faculty receiving merit advancements: John Bishop, Dariusz Borys, Sridevi Devaraj, Gerald Kost, Christopher Polage and Konstantinos Zarbalis.
June 14, 2011
Rhonda Becker, currently the clinical laboratory manager and senior supervising clinical laboratory scientist for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, has been appointed Assistant Director of Professional Services, including radiology, pathology and radiation oncology. Her appointment is effective July 1.
June 13, 2011
Welcome to the 2011 Edmondson Summer Research Interns: Rahotep Alkebulan (Howard Univ.), Jenna Chen (UC Berkeley), Shefali Dujari, (UC Berkeley), Morgan Ingemanson (Pomona College), Jane Lee (UC San Diego), Vincent O'Brien (St. Mary's College of CA), Samantha Osborn (Univ. of Notre Dame), Van Tra, (Bowdoin College), Melody Zhou (Carleton College).
June 10, 2011
Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, John Bishop and colleagues are recipients of a 2011 Partnership for Innovation Commercialization Plan Award for their Advanced Tissue Diagnostics project to allow pathology evaluation of fresh tissue in minutes.
May 23, 2011
The Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network, a joint program between the Department of Pathology, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and National Institute of Health (NIH), will be hosting an international forum at the UC Davis Health System campus entitled "Clinically Driven Commercialization: Moving Technologies to the Point of Need" on June 24.
Young investigators are encourged to submit abstracts reflecting original research work. Four abstracts will be selected for oral presentations (15 minutes each) and 50 for poster presentations. All abstracts will be available at the meeting for attendees to review. The objective of this special program component is to encourage the development of young investigators conducting studies in point-of-care testing research and device commercialization. See the attached flyer (PDF).
May 20, 2011
Margaret Lawless is the recipient of the 2011 Charles M. Blumenfeld, M.D. Endowed Scholarship, an endowment established in July 2007 by the grandchildren of Dr. Charles M. Blumenfeld. In honor of Dr. Charles M. Blumenfeld, the endowed scholarship is a gift to a third- or fourth-year medical student who expresses an interest in specializing in pathology. Margaret will be entering Pathology residency at University of Washington.
Helen Bai is the recipient of the 2011 Robert E. Stowell Award for Excellence in Pathology, an award in honor of the first chair of the Department of Medical Pathology, Robert E. Stowell. The recipient is chosen based on an exceptional performance in the Pathology course and during rotations through the Department of Pathology during their fourth-year electives. Helen will be entering the Otolaryngology residency at UC Davis.
May 4, 2011
Assistant Professor Mingyi Chen, M.D. has been awarded a UC Davis Health System Vision Grant for his project “Role of Lectin-like Oxidized Low-density Lipoprotein Receptor-1 (LOX-1) in endothelial cell activation and the vasculopathy of sickle cell disease.” This award program for early career faculty funds innovative, interdisciplinary, transformative research.
May 3, 2011
Hematopathology director Denis Dwyre, M.D. and apheresis director Leonor Fernando, M.D. will become fellows of the American Colleges of Physicians (ACP), effective July 1, 2011. Election to ACP is an honor demonstrating peer recognition for personal integrity, superior competence in internal medicine, professional accomplishment, and demonstrated scholarship.
April 8, 2011
On April 6, informatics director Michael Hogarth, M.D. was a panelist discussing: "Building a Successful Health Information Exchange: Technology Strategies and Solutions" at The State of Health Care Conference Strategies for Success in 2011,the capitol’s premier health care event.
March 23, 2011
Ishwarlial Jialal, M.D., Ph.D, Stowell Chair in Experimental Pathology, delivered lectures in Pune, Chennai, and Mumbai, India. He was the keynote speaker on ""Diabetes is a Pro-inflammatory State" for the Indian Association of Pathology and Microbiology Endowment Lecture.
March 17, 2011
Match Day brings us two excellent new residents: Elham Vali Khojeini, a graduate of Islamic Azad University of Tehran Branch, and Enko Kiprilov who will receive his M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
March 17, 2011
Nam Tram was accepted to the Mentored Clinical Research Training Program and will continue his work in our Point of Care Technologies Center under the mentorship of faculty member Gerald Kost.
March 17, 2011
Sefton R. Wellings, second chair of our department and author of a landmark atlas in breast pathology, died peacefully at his home on March 8, at age 83.
February 26, 2011
On March 1, Assistant Professor Dariusz Borys gave a platform presentation at the United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology 100th Annual Scientific Meeting, "Expression of p16 in osteosarcoma as predictive neo-adjuvant therapy factor". You can view his abstract online: http://www.abstracts2view.com/uscap11/
February 11, 2011
Check out the article on volunteer faculty member, Bennet Omalu, chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, who is featured in the UC Davis Health System's Faculty Newsletter. (PDF)
January 18, 2011
Professor Ishwarlal Jialal, Stowell Chair in Experimental Pathology, has been named an associate editor of the journal Atherosclerosis.
January 10, 2011
Assistant Professor Konstantinos Zarbalis, Ph.D. has received a R21 award from the National Institute of Health for his study "Wdfy3, a Novel Regulator of neuronal migration and connectivity." Dr. Zarbalis is a member of the Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine at the Shriners Hospital of Northern California.
January 10, 2011
On January 19, Sridevi Devaraj, Ph.D., will be honored by the Northern California section of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry as the recipient of their Technology Award for her outstanding contributions to clinical chemistry through science and technology. Dr. Devaraj is internationally recognized for her research on the causes of vascular disease.
December 10, 2010
Photography by Chief Administrative Officer Darrell O'Sullivan is available at auction to benefit UC Davis Children's Hospital.
November 22, 2010
Congratulations to our faculty and staff for a successful laboratory inspection and re-accreditation by the College of American Pathologists. Your hard-work and dedication are greatly appreciated.
November 3, 2010
Our new automated technology in the Pavilion laboratory was featured on KCRA-3.
October 30, 2010
Our department was well-represented at the American Society of Clinical Pathology's annual scientific meeting in San Francisco. Dr. Jialal and Devaraj led a workshop on cardiovascular markers. Posters were presented by Drs. Afify, Borys, Jess, and Konia. Check out the abstracts.
October 23, 2010
Welcome to our newly appointed faculty members, Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno and Richard Louie. Dr. Martinez-Cerden is a member of the Center for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine at the Shriner's Hospital where her work focuses on the genetic and epigenetic regulation of neural stem cell differentiation . Dr. Louie is Associate Director of UCD-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Point-of-Care Technologies Center and is developing new devices for rapid multipathogen detection related to national disaster readiness.
October 22, 2010
Former Edmondson fellow in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis graduate student Wilson To was invited to the White House for President Obama’s Science Fair. To was part of a team that won the Grand Prize in the U.S. finals of the Microsoft-sponsored Imagine Cup for a project using a cell-phone based system to look for early signs of damaged blood vessels in diabetes and other diseases. Mentors for this project included pathology faculty member Anthony Cheung. http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2010/10/20/uc-davis-grad-student-at-white-house-science-fair/
October 22, 2010
Jeffrey Gregg, professor and director of gene expression research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, in collaboration with Cancer Center colleague Sheryl Krig, received a $900,000 IDEA Collaborative Option award from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program to demonstrate how the gene ZNF217 is an important biomarker that can predict if a breast tumor will be aggressive. See the article on The Insider.
October 17, 2010
Lydia Howell has been appointed chair of the Hematology and Pathology Devices Panel of the Food and Drug Administration Medical Devices Advisory Committee. See the article on The Insider.
October 17, 2010
Ishwarlal (Kenny) Jialal has been included in the Best Doctors in America 2011-2012 database. Physicians are included in this database based on a peer-review survey of thousands of doctors.
October 12, 2010
Leonor Fernando, director of our apheresis service, is featured on the homepage for the Foundation for the Accreditatin of Cellular Therapy regarding her experience as an inspector for FACT for the past five years. http://www.factwebsite.org/
October 9, 2010
Congratulations to chief resident Heidi Jess who received a resident scholarship from the American Society of Cytopathology to attend their 58th annual meeting in Boston in November.
September 15, 2010
Mike Hogarth, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, won an Advancing Innovation Award from the National Institutes of Health for his work as chief architect of an information-management infrastructure created within the caBIG framework. This technology is used by investigators involved in a multi-center trial which pairs five investigational cancer therapies with biological markers. See the article on The Insider.
September 8, 2010
Izumi Maezawa received a two-year New Investigator Award from the Alzheimer's Association, the largest private funder of Alzheimer research. Selected from a fierce global competition, Dr. Maezawa will test a microglial potassium channel as a therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease.
September 1, 2010
The College of American Pathologists' annual meeting will feature posters from residents Thomasina Bailey, Jose Gorospe, Heidi Jess, Aram Milstein, and Nelson Velasco, and faculty members Dariusz Borys and John Bishop. Check out the abstracts here.
September 1, 2010
Special thanks to our staff and faculty for their successful move to the new $24.3 million clinical laboratory in the Surgical and Emergency Services Pavilion. The new laboratory was recently featured on Capital Public Radio. Listen to the segment here.
July 29, 2010
Congratulations to newly promoted professor Alaa Afify, and to the following faculty for successful merit advancements: Peter Barry, Alexander Borowsky, Robert Cardiff, HJ Cheng, Malathy Kapali, Thomas Konia, Carol Marshall, and Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu.
July 5, 2010
Mingyi Chen, M.D., Ph.D. has joined the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine as Assistant Professor. Dr. Chen recently completed hematopathology fellowship training at the City of Hope Medical Center where he received extensive training in lymphoma, bone marrow, and molecular diagnostic pathology.
July 5, 2010
Mingyi Chen M.D., Ph.D. has joined the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine as Assistant Professor. Dr. Chen recently completed hematopathology fellowship training at the City of Hope Medical Center where he received extensive training in lymphoma, bone marrow, and molecular diagnostic pathology.
June 18, 2010
Nine outstanding college students and four high school students are participating in the department's annual Edmondson Summer Program for mentored experiences in pathology research and laboratory medicine. We welcome college student fellows Payal Desai (UC San Diego), Anna MIchelle Dillier (UC Davis), William Dotterweich (University of Notre Dame), Alyssa Espenson (California Lutheran University), Margaret Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Allison Manderfield (UC Davis), Ramandeep Minhas (UC Berkeley), Carla Plaza (Cerritos and El Camino Colleges), Avnit Virdi (UC Davis, Ohlone College). We also welcome high school interns Crystal Vazquez (Sacramento Charter High School), Ka Thao (Sacramento Charter High School), Sarah Johnson (Elk Grove Health Professions High School), Carlina Vaughan (Elk Grove Health Professions High School).
June 17, 2010
A warm welcome to our outstanding new residents and fellows: PGY1: Sarah Barnhardt, Mahan Matin, and Rebecca Sonu; PGY2 Kali Tu; Fellows: Shweta Das (Cytopathology), MIchelle McNamara (Hematopathology), Surgical pathology fellows Philip Starshak and Joyce Kovar (Surgical pathology), Brian Poirier (Transfusion Medicine).
June 7, 2010
Professor emeritus Boris Ruebner was honored by the Division of Gastroenterology through the creation of their new Ruebner-Rosenquist Award. Ramez Saroufeem, assistant professor of pathology, was the first recipient of this award which recognizes a non-gastroenterology faculty member who demonstrates outstanding dedication to the education of gastroenterology fellows.
May 27, 2010
Chris Polage has been accepted as a K12 Scholar in the Clinical Translational Science Center's Mentored Career Development Program which accelerates the career growth of talented and committed junior faculty members as independent multi-disciplinary clinical investigators.
May 25, 2010
The landmark online course "Pathobiology of the Genetically Engineered Mouse Part A" developed by pathology faculty member Robert Cardiff in partnership with the Center for Genomic Pathology, and Center for Comparative Medicine recently received the Outstanding Distance Learning Course of 2010 award from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), the nation’s primary organization for promoting excellence in and awareness of continuing higher education.
May 20, 2010
Assistant Professor Dariusz Borys is presenting "Application of Virtual Pathology with Radiology Correlation in Daily Orthopedic Pathology Practice" at the the annual Aperio San Francisco Digital Pathology Seminar on June 11, 2010.
April 28, 2010
Dr. Anthony Cheung’s graduate student in Comparative Pathology, Wilson To, won the recent Image Cup Award competition held in Washington D.C. (he is a Gates Foundation Awardee in Dr. Cheung's unit) and will be representing the U.S. in the upcoming international competition in Poland this summer. Congratulations Wilson!
April 21, 2010
Regina Gandour-Edwards has been elected chair of the Undergraduate Medical Educators Section (UMEDS) of the Association of Pathology Chairs. UMEDS provides a forum for information, ideas and programs that develop and enhance education in pathology and laboratory medicine.
April 15, 2010
Nam Tran has been selected to participate in "Professors for the Future", a year-long fellowship program in Graduate Studies designed to prepare leaders that can address the unique future challenges of graduate education, post-doctoral training and the academy. Dr. Tran is a key member of our Point of Care Technologies Center.
February 19, 2010
Congratulations to Paul Holland who was honored as a recipient of UC Davis Health System's first annual Volunteer Clinical Faculty Awards. Dr. Holland was nominated by our residents for his outstanding educational contributions in blood banking and transfusion medicine.
January 13, 2010
Dr. Ralph Green's research and study on folic acid and B-12 that suggest a possible health risk for the elderly is featured on the front page of the health system's website. The article can be found here.
December 16, 2009
The department's annual holiday auction raised $3038 which will be donated to the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee (Davis), the Women's Civic Improvement Club of Sacramento, and the Kiwanis Family House on the UCDavis Medical Center campus.
December 8, 2009
A new funding opportunity for exploratory projects in new point-of-care influenza testing technologies for emergency-pandemic-disaster care is offered by the UC Davis-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Point of Care Technologies Center.
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
