December 2011
CRITICAL VALUES -
Winship 5K Race 1
Pathology Holiday Party 1
FACULTY MATTERS -
Bruce R. Smoller, MD 2
CASE REPORTS -
John Roback, MD, PhD 2
Andrew Neish, MD 2
Yun (Wayne) Wang, PhD 2
Photos—Holiday Party 3
Photos—Winship 5K 4
IN THIS ISSUE
CALENDAR EVENTS
Dec 30th & Jan 2nd -
University Holidays
Jan 10th, 11am -
Faculty Research Seminar
Max Cooper, MD
Jan 23rd, 12pm -
Pathology Faculty Grand Rounds
Daniel A. Arber, MD
Jan 24th, 11am -
Faculty Research Seminar
Jim Zimring, MD, PhD
Feb 27th, 12pm -
Pathology Faculty Grand Rounds
Gregory Y. Lauwers, MD
Mar 5th, 12pm -
Pathology Faculty Grand Rounds
Michael Baden
April 16th, 12pm -
Pathology Faculty Grand Rounds
Boris C. Bastian, MD
Pathology’s “Inadequate Specimens” - Five minutes before the
race
“Inadequate Specimens” Bring in the Green (See Comment)
walked, or strolled the 5K course, which wound
through the Druid Hills neighborhood, beginning and
ending at McDonough Field on the Emory Clifton
campus. The day’s other events included a tot trot
for young kids, pre-race aerobics, post-race mas-
sages, and lots of inspirational stories from cancer
survivors. Though intended as an upbeat, commu-
nity-oriented fundraiser, the race inspired dazzling
displays of athleticism by many of the Inadequate
Specimens, including Mary Kinsella, M.D., Stewart
Neill, M.D., Krisztina Hanley, M.D., Marina Mo-
sunjac, M.D., and Gabe Sica, M.D., Ph.D., who
each ranked among the top-placed finishers, with
times in the top 10 for their age groups.
A fleet-footed band of Pathology faculty, trainees,
staff, and friends turned out on October 15 for the
inaugural Winship Cancer Institute "Win the Fight 5K"
road race, to raise funds for the fight against can-
cer. Our Department's team, the Inadequate Speci-
mens, put in a very strong showing at the race, plac-
ing second in fundraising among 90 teams by collect-
ing over $7,500 to support the work of cancer re-
searchers in Pathology and other departments. The
team's 57 members, captained by Professor and Vice
Chair Dan Brat, M.D., Ph.D., were highly visible on
race day, decked out in spectacular lime green T-
shirts that had been designed by Donna Martin and
supplied by the Department. Participants ran,
Comment: Next year’s Winship 5K is scheduled for the morning of
October 13, 2012, so mark your calendars and start getting in
shape! For more photos of the race day, see page 4.
Continuing a bi-annual tradition that began in 2004, Pathology
celebrated the holidays on December 8 with an evening gala be-neath
the dinosaur skeletons at the Fern-bank Museum of Natural History.
Joined by EML staff and other honored guests, includ-
ing five lucky residency applicants who were interviewing the
next day, our Department feasted, toasted, and enjoyed one
another’s company in a tastefully Mesozoic set-ting, with Neal
Raven at the piano. Thanks go out to Corey Anderson, Donna
Kilcullen, and everyone else who helped, for organizing this big
event. For a reminder of how much fun you had, or to see what you
missed, check out the photos on page 3 and at
http://www.path.emory.edu/Images/HolidayParty_2011/index.htm.
Pathologists Ring in the Holidays at Fernbank Museum
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December 2011
Associate Professors Yun F. "Wayne" Wang,
Ph.D., and Andrew Young, M.D., Ph.D., and
their colleagues at Grady Memorial Hospital are
exploring the usefulness of mass spectrometry
(MS) for diagnosing infectious diseases. The
Grady team's MALDI-TOF instrument from
bioMerieux, said to be the first installed in North
America, speeds identification of pathogenic
bacteria and yeasts from isolated colonies based
on the unique sets of macromolecules they
contain. The team's results support the promise
of MS technology to revolutionize diagnostic
microbiology. Drs Wang and Young are Director of
Clinical Microbiology and Chief of Laboratory
Medicine at Grady, respectively.
CASE REPORTS -
The newly appointed
Executive Vice President of
the U.S.-Canadian Academy
of Pathology (USCAP) has
just become the newest
member of our Department’s
adjunct faculty. Bruce R.
Smoller, M.D., an expert
dermatopathologist who took
over the leadership of USCAP
in August after seven years
as Chair of Pathology at the
University of Arkansas, was
appointed this month as
Adjunct Professor of
Pathology at Emory. A
graduate of Dartmouth and
of the University of Cincinnati
medical school, Dr Smoller
completed residency in
Anatomic and Clinical
Pathology, including a year
as Chief Resident, at
Harvard’s Beth Israel
Hospital, followed by a Dermatopathology fellowship at
Cornell,
before joining the Stanford Pathology faculty in 1990 as an
Assistant
Professor and Director of the Dermatopathology service. He
remained at Stanford until 1997, rising to the rank of
Professor, and
then moved to Arkansas, where he served as Chief of
Dermatopathology for more than a decade before being named
Chair
in 2004. He is the author of more than 250 papers and
chapters,
editor of nearly a dozen books, and former Editor-in-Chief of
the
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology. Now relocated to Georgia at
the
helm of one of the premier academic pathology organizations
in
North America, Dr Smoller says he is eager to take advantage of
the
opportunities for resident teaching and professional
interactions that
a formal appointment at Emory Pathology provides. His gifts
in
those areas, which have earned him numerous teaching awards
and
lectureships throughout his career, were very much in
evidence
during his seminar and slide session as our Grand Rounds speaker
in
October, affording us a preview of the talent, good humor, and
high
distinction Dr Smoller brings to our Department.
NEW FACULTY —
Bruce R. Smoller, MD
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Bruce R. Smoller, MD
Associate Professor John
Roback, M.D., Ph.D., is
senior editor of the newly
released seventeenth edition
of the AABB Technical Manual,
the definitive reference text for
blood banking and transfusion
medicine practitioners
nationwide. Dr Roback is the
Director of our Center for
Transfusion and Cellular
Therapies, as well as Medical
Director of the Emory
University Hospital Blood
Bank.
John Roback, MD, PhD
Professor Andrew Neish,
M.D., has become the fifth
Pathology faculty member to
be inducted into the School of
Medicine’s exclusive Milli-Pub
Club of faculty who have au-
thored papers cited in the
literature at least 1,000 times.
Dr Neish, whose research to-
day focuses on host-pathogen
interactions and the micro-
biome of the gut, was honored
for a classic 1995 paper enti-
tled “Transcriptional regulation
of endothelial-cell adhesion
molecules: NF-kappa-B and
cytokine-inducible enhan-
cers” (Collins et al., FASEB J 9:
899-909) at a reception hosted
by Dean Thomas Lawley and Vice Dean Ray Dingledine on Sep-
tember 20th for this year’s 10 inductees.
Andrew S. Neish, MD
Yun F. “Wayne’ Wang, PhD with mass spectrometry instrument
Erratum:
Our story in August about
DOG-1 as a marker for gas-
trointestinal stromal tumors
neglected to mention that
first-year resident Nazneen
Fatima, M.D., and Professor
Cynthia Cohen, M.D., were
co-authors of the work.
Sorry.
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