2009 Trustee Teaching Awards
P ATH TO THE F UTURE
A Publication of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine
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Faculty Honors
2009 Trustee Teaching Award Dr. Badve selected for Breast Cancer Steering Committee Dr. Davis receives the Golden Apple
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History of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Written by Dr. Kathleen Warfel Hull, Emeritus Professor
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Farwell to Faculty
Dr. Lori Eichelberger-Dressman Dr. Caroline An
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USCAP 98th Annual Meeting
March 2009
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Research News
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Awards Promise Grant Research III named Joseph E Walther Hall
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Residents / Fellows Completing Program June 2009
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Senior Banquet & Awards Ceremony
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FA C U LT Y H O N O R S
Dr. Badve selected for Breast Cancer Steering Committee
The Indiana University Trustee’s Teaching Award is given by the Indiana University Board of Trustees to recognize excellence in teaching and outstanding contributions to the educa- tional mission of the Indiana University School of Medicine. This award is presented before the completion of each year to tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, clinical faculty and full-time lectures. This year our department has the honor of having two faculty members recognized by the board of trustees, Dr. Thomas E. Davis and Dr. Robert E. Emerson.
Dr. Davis, the Culbertson Professor of Pathol- ogy, was praised for his efforts and willingness to sacrifice his time to help students succeed. Dr.
Davis’s high-yield review sessions and lectures that cram huge amount of information were just two of the things mentioned by students who nominated him for this honor. Dr. Davis has been honored with this award 8 times.
Dr. Emerson, Assistant Professor of Pathology, was praised for his direction of the C604 sopho- more pathology course. Dr. Emerson’s efforts have produced high scores by his students on the National Board of Medical Examiners Subject Exam in Pathology.
This year 46 outstanding IUSM teachers received this honor at the commencement ceremony in May and were also recognized at the annual cam- pus Chancellor’s Honor Convocation in April.
Recipients of this award also have their names displayed on a plaque in the Ruth Lilly Medical Library. ■
Dr. Sunil Badve, Associ- ate Professor of Pathol- ogy, was selected for the Breast Cancer Steering Committee (BCSC) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). A com- mittee of approximately 25 members, the BCSC is designed to promote the “best science” in breast cancer clinical re-
search. Committee members evaluate and provide an analysis of proposed breast cancer clinical trail concepts. This new comprehensive approach to clinical trials in breast cancer is aimed at facilitat- ing communication among experts in the field. ■
Dr. Sunil Badve Dr. Thomas Davis
Dr. Robert Emerson
Dr. Davis receives the GOLDEN APPLE
Dr. Thomas Davis, Culbertson Profes- sor of Pathology, was honored at the IU School of Medicine Class of 2009’s Senior Banquet & Award Ceremony with the Golden Apple Award.
This honor is bestowed to the most outstand- ing teacher by graduating medical students. At the banquet Dr. Davis also presented student awards from our department. The J. Donald Hubbard Award is presented in honor of Professor J. Donald Hubbard, MD, who was a longtime teacher in the Department of Pathol- ogy. It is awarded to the senior student with the highest score on the Pathology Statewide Final Examination. In honor of a chair and professor of pathology for over 20 years, The Carleton D. Nordschow Award honors senior students who through participation in service, education and research demonstrate outstand- ing creative ability in pathology. The 2009 award recipients are pictured on page 8. ■
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Department of Pathology: 1962-1979
The last segment of the history featured the era in which Dr. Vellios was chair and ended with a footnote mentioning faculty member Dr. Wilens, about whom little else was known. We subsequently were contacted by Dr.
Richard McClure, who was a resident at IUSM at the time (1966-69). Dr.
McClure indicated that Sigmund L. Wilens, MD (1905-1973) and his wife Renate Dische, MD, PhD (1920-2002) were recruited by Dr. Vellios.
He reported that Dr. Wilens was an excellent autopsy pathologist and that Dr. Dische served at Riley as (probably the first) pediatric pathologist. The couple stayed for only a year and a half or so before going to Columbia University, where Dr. Wilens took over as pathologist-in-chief.
We thank Dr. McClure and hope that others who have more information to add to the history of the department will contact Dr. Hull at [email protected] or 317 996-4380.
The following segment of our department’s history continues through the 1960’s and 1970’s with Dr. Vellios in charge of the clinical laboratories.
Dr. Vellios and the Clinical Laboratories
(continued from Winter 2008-2009 issue)
During Vellios’ era, a few other new things of special note oc- curred in the department. In 1965-66, the department’s pathol- ogy courses C607, C608 for second year dental students appear in the Bulletin for the first time. And, in 1967-69, professor Charles S. Petty was professor of forensic pathology (part-time) in the department and administrative director of “the forensic laboratory to be established.” This addition of forensics was the result of a State Commission of Forensic Science that had start- ed its work in 1959, seeking to make improvements in Indiana’s county coroner system. For years, Dr. Ed Smith and others had worked to amend the constitution of Indiana to create a medical examiner system. That didn’t happen, but some changes in the state coroner’s law were adopted by the legislature in 1963. One of the new changes was a requirement that all coroners’ autop- sies be performed by a board certified pathologist. Another of the changes was the creation of a central source of forensic pa- thology expertise. Dr. Petty was hired from Baltimore to be the first Indiana State Medical Examiner. When lack of funding for the Indiana forensic program became apparent, Dr. Petty left after 18 months and went to Dallas, Texas, where a well-funded new forensic morgue and laboratory were waiting.1
A search and screen committee for a new chairman of Pathol-
1. Dallas upgraded its forensic operation after its experience with the assassination of President Kennedy. Earl F. Rose, MD, LL.B, who was the Dallas County Medical Examiner at the time and had unsuccessfully tried to block the removal of Kennedy’s remains, reportedly left Dallas when promised funding for forensic upgrades was not realized. Rose went to the University of Iowa in 1968. In 1969, Petty (1921-2007) became Chief Medical Examiner of Dallas County and director of the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, as well as professor of pathology at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School. Both Rose and Petty were members of the 1979 forensic pathology subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
ogy was formed and chaired by Joshua Edwards, MD, who had been professor of pathology and director of the Medical Sci- ences Program on the Bloomington campus since 1967. In the
end it was Edwards himself who was named as the new chairman of the Department of Pathology as of 1968-69.
But soon, Edwards’ depart- ment would comprise only anatomic pathology and pa- thology teaching.
Edwards was a researcher and anatomic pathologist. He needed someone to rescue and run the clinical pathology lab- oratories. Dr. Nordschow was recruited from Iowa, where he had experience being in charge of the clinical labs. A separate Department of Clinical Pathology was established once more in 1970, and Carleton Nordschow, MD, Ph.D. was its new chairman while Dr. Edwards remained chairman of the Department of Pathology (AP only). After all the efforts of Ed Smith and the campus pathologists to unite, there were two departments once again.
Pathology Faculty Members at Bloomington
The educational program for students seeking both the MD and Ph.D./MS degrees had existed in essentials at the Bloom- ington campus ever since the remainder of the freshman medi- cal students had moved up to Indianapolis in 1953.2 But, in about 1959, the “Combined Degree Program” was created to allow students to work on both degrees at the same time. The program was listed in the IU Bulletin for the first time in 1965-
66, and the pathology faculty list then included professors Douglas MacFadyen and Joseph F.A. McManus, assistant pro- fessors Phyllis Hartroft and Anthony Piz- zo, plus instructor Glenn Mather.3 In the 1966-67 Bulletin, it is listed as the “Medi- cal Sciences Program, Bloomington,” and Dr. McManus has been replaced by Dr.
Joshua Edwards. Professor Bernard C.
Black-Shaffer joined the faculty in Bloom-
2. A move made possible by the opening of the new Medical Sciences Building in Indianapolis.
3. MacFadyen was professor of pathology at IUB 1959-1972 and served as director of the program there 1959-62. McManus was professor of pathology at IUB 1961-65. He served as director of the Bloomington program in 1962-65, resigning in 1965 to become executive director of FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology).
Hartroft was at IUB 1963-66 and then went to Washington University in St.
Louis. Pizzo joined the faculty in 1962 and served as co-director with John Mahoney, 1965-67, and he achieved the rank of clinical professor in 1987.
Mather was on faculty at IUB 1965-87.
ington in 1967-68.4 Dr. Bernard H. Berne was assistant profes- sor at IUB in 1971-74. Other IUB pathology faculty members later included Dr. Charles R. Ellis (beginning in 1975), Dr. John E. Pless (1972-83), Dr. Mark W. Braun (beginning in 1978), Dr.
Marcia Campbell (beginning in 1988), Dr. Dan Lodge-Rigal (beginning in 1995), and Dr. Mark Bauman (beginning in 2004). Eleven of the combined degree students at the Bloom- ington campus earned a master’s degree in Pathology.5
Dr. Edwards’ Department
Dr. Edwards had earned his MD degree from the Tulane Uni- versity School of Medicine and had gone into pathology after practicing general medicine. 6 He did pathology residency train- ing at Touros Infirmary in New Orleans and New England Dea- coness Hospital in Boston. This was followed by a fellowship in cytopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Cornell with Dr. Papanicoalou and Dr. Ruth Graham. He was a teach- ing fellow at Harvard University and a faculty member at Duke University and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research before serving as chairman of the Department of Pathology in his home state at the University of Florida, Gainesville (1955- 67). Dr. Edwards was an international figure in pathology and held many offices, including those of president (1968-69) and secretary-treasurer (1970-78) of the International Academy of Pathology, receiving the prestigious F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award in 1980.
Dr. Edwards’ department was responsible for medical student and dental student pathology courses in their second years of schooling. The faculty provided autopsy pathology, surgical pathology, and cytology diagnostic services at the university hospitals and the Veterans Administration Hospital. His original full-time faculty was quite small. It included J. Donald Hubbard, MD, who had been in the department since 1958 and was in charge of the teaching programs; Amos Michael, MD who had returned to the department in 1968 and was now a pathologist at Marion County General Hospital; Wolfgang Zeman, MD, who was director of neuropathology; and Jans Muller, MD, who also
4. Dr. Black-Shaffer had trained in Vienna. He was professor of pathology at IUB beginning in 1967, serving as director of the program there in 1969-76, and retiring as professor emeritus in 1981.
5. Blair D. Thompson (1965), John R. Feagler (1967), Henry Cassel Marietta (1967), Thomas P. Konicke (1967), Donald A. Parsons (1967), Stephen T. Hathaway (1967), Jesse B. Henry, Jr. (1967), William R. Jacobs (1968), David O’Brien (1968), Martin J. Johnson (1970), and Allen E. Paris (1974).
6. Dr. Edwards was born on August 9, 1918 in Jasper, Florida. He served as a captain at the U.S. Army Medical Corps, primarily as battalion surgeon to the 515th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe. In 1946, he began a general practice in rural Florida.
was in neuropathology.
Dr. Edwards began to rebuild the anatomic pathology faculty.
Associate professor John Cornog from Yale University School of Medicine was recruited to be head of surgical pathology in 1970-71, but he stayed only one year before going back to Yale to be director there. Edwards
then recruited Lawrence M.
Roth, MD, who was an expert in gynecologic pathology, from the faculty at Tulane University to be associate professor of pathology and director of surgical pathol- ogy, a directorial position he held from 1971 until his retire- ment in 2001. Dr. Hari Sharma was assistant professor doing surgical pathology with a special interest in renal pathology for a
brief time (1971-72). Moo Nahm “Phil” Yum, MD had joined the faculty in 1969 after completing a residency in pathology and neuropathology at Harvard’s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Dr.
Yum was a surgical and autopsy pathologist who took up renal pathology after Dr. Sharma left. Dr. Yum also became director of the di- agnostic electron microscopy lab at University Hospital, retiring in 2005.
Dr. Edwards hired other anatomic pathologists who remained on the faculty for several decades. In Sook Seo, MD (1974-2005) had completed her pathology residency and a fellowship in ana- tomic pathology at the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia. She was a surgical pathologist first at University Hospital and later at Riley and then Wishard Hospitals, where she also served as director of hematopathology for the Wishard laboratory. Kath- leen Warfel, MD (1976-2000) started as surgical pathologist at University Hospital after completing a residency in anatomic pathology at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She became di- rector of the hospital autopsy services for two and a half decades and was course director for multiple years for medical student C603, C604, dental student C607, and allied health students C447 pathology courses.
Dr. Edwards hired other anatomic pathologists who did not stay as long. Professor Alistair Cunningham, MD (1969-71) did a lot of the autopsy work. Iqbal Malik, MD (1970-77) did surgical and autopsy pathology and was director of the cytology service.7 Dr.
Imami (1971-72) was surgical pathologist for one year before going to Florida. Horton Johnson, MD (1972-75) was a highly regarded teacher while on the faculty. Dr. Vera-Roman (1974- 75) briefly was assistant professor in charge of autopsies, but he returned to his native Spain. Robert Peace, MD (1974-76) from the University of Tennessee was director of the autopsy service
7. When Dr. Malik resigned, Dr. Roth took over the cytology service.
Douglas MacFadyen Joshua Edwards, MD
Original full-time faculty - Dr. Hubbard, Dr. Michael, Dr. Zeman and Dr. Muller
Moo Nahm Yum, MD
Lawrence M. Roth, MD
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and director of the residency program for a short time.8 Ted R.
Nicholas, MD (1977-78), Thomas F.S.C. Warner, MD (c. 1977), and John J. Gillespie, MD (c. 1978) were surgical pathologists at University Hospital who stayed for only a few years.9
By 1976-77, the anatomic pathology department examined 35,037 specimens, representing a 37% increase from the previous year.
Departmental income was $457,609, which was up 76% from the previous year, due in part to an increase in rates for some charges.
The department performed 287 autopsies, and the University Hospital-Riley Hospital autopsy rate was 52% (# autopsy cases/
# hospital deaths), which was lower than the rate in the previous year.10
Dr. Hubbard served as deputy chairman under Edwards. For the purpose of billing for professional ser- vices, a not-for-profit corporation was formed:
University Anatomic Pathology Associates, Inc.11 The officers of UAPA were president Edwards, vice president Muller, secretary Hubbard, and treasurer Roth. The department had a few standing committees: education, research, and long range planning.
The department continued to host the Annual Slide Seminar of the Indiana Association of Pathologists in which a national surgical pathology expert was invited to speak about a series of local cases that were collected on a specific topic. The first annual seminar had been given at the VA in 1949: the topic was “Tu-
8. Unfortunately, Dr. Peace left about 400 unfinished autopsies behind for Dr. Warfel to deal with.
9. Other faculty names appear in the Bulletins for short periods of time, but no other information about them is found. This list includes, associate professor Siew (70-71); assistant professor Griest (71-74); assistant professor Hoyt (1970-74) who was a pathologist at Methodist Hospital, assistant professor Goebel (72-73); assistant professor Panganiban (73-74);
assistant professor N. Chen (74-75).
10. Figures from the Department of Anatomic Pathology Annual Report, 1976-77; August 28, 1977.
11. Amended Articles of Incorporation and Code of Bylaws, August 18, 1977.
mors” and the presenter was Dr. Arthur Purdy Stout. Sub- sequent seminars were given by luminaries such as Dr. Lauren Ackerman (1953), Dr. James Kernohan (1954), Dr. F.K. Mo- stofi (1950), Dr. Elson Helwig (1960), Dr. Paul Kimmelstiel (1963), and Dr. Robert Scully (1965). Prior to each seminar, participants received case histo- ries and a box of slides that were theirs to keep. Between the an- nual seminar and the Friday night sessions, participants were able to build up a good collection of teaching over the years.
The Department After Hours
The department had a number of activities outside the routine work hours. A monthly Journal Club was hosted at the home of one of the residents or faculty members on the evening of the third Wednesday of each month. Participants were to briefly pres- ent one journal article they had found to be of special interest, and lively discussion was facilitated by the serving of wine and beer. On the evening of the first Friday each month, the Central Indiana Association of Pathologists slide session was held in the student pathology lab in the Medical Sciences Building. This was attended by residents and pathologists from most of the hospitals in Indianapolis, as well as by the pathologists at Eli Lilly & Co.
and some pathologists and residents from Muncie and Lafayette.
Participants would bring recut slides of interesting and challeng- ing cases along with brief case histories. After Dr. Vellios left IU, Dr. Edwin Pontius, surgical pathologist at Methodist Hospital, served as the moderator, calling on residents first and then pa- thologists for their diagnoses before letting the presenters discuss the case they contributed. Dr. Pontius often treated the residents to dinner at Sam’s Subway after the session.
The department also had an intramural volleyball team, called
“The Usual Y’s” in honor of basic autopsy procedure. Residents and faculty had a chance to interact on the volleyball court as well as across the microscope. The team tee shirts were often worn to the annual Picnica Pathologica that was held in the summer for the families of faculty, residents, and staff at Marrott Park in Broad Ripple and later at faculty homes and other sites. Drinks were supplied and ev-
eryone brought some food to share. Games were arranged for the multiple small children in attendance, and, of course, more volleyball was played. Funny spoof awards (mostly arranged
by Drs. Mick Glant and Ed Wills) were given out in recognition of memorable/infamous events that had occurred during the
Acknowledgments- In an earlier issue we acknowledged several people who helped Dr. Warfel Hull with the collection of materials including previ- ous briefer histories of various parts of the department. Since it has been a few years we would like to recognize and thank them all again - Nancy Eckerman, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Special Collections Librarian; Mary A. Feeley, Ed.D., Professor Emerita of Medical Technology; J. Donald Hubbard, MD, Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medi- cine; Linda Kasper, Ed.D., Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Robert McDougal, MD, former IU School of Medicine pathology resident; Leo J McCarthy, MD, Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medicine and Pediatrics;
Jans Muller, MD, Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medi- cine and of Neurology; John E. Pless, MD, Clyde G. Culbertson Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; James W. Smith, MD, Nordschow Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Stephen Towne, University Li- brary, Associate Libarian and Archivist, IUPUI Special Collections and Archives.
Drs. Wills, Glant (background), and Eble at picnica c. 1982
year. The annual pathology picnics were held after the anatomic and clinical departments merged, but the intimacy of the smaller group was lost and the tradition was discontinued. ■
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Lori Eichelberger Dressman, MD left the department in April, 2009.
Dr. Eichelberger Dressman arrived at Indiana University School of Medicine in 2000 for a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. She continued here for a fellowship in Cytopathology in 2006. Later that year she was appointed as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. While here at IUSM, Dr.
Eichelberger Dressman has been the Assistant Laboratory Instructor for the second year medical student’s General and Systemic Pathology courses.
Dr. Eichelberger Dressman is now working for FirstSource Laboratory Solutions, Inc., a regional, full- service laboratory located in Fishers, Indiana. ■
Caroline Shun-Tsu A n, MD will be relocating at the end of July, 2009 to Georgia with her sons Michael Mitchell (pictured above left) and Matthew Mitchell (pictured above right) and her husband Douglas Mitchell. Dr. An has accepted a posi- tion as the Associate Director of Hematopathology at Cytometry Specialists, Inc. (CSI) Laboratories in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Dr. An came to Indianapolis after two fellowships at Scott &
White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas. (Surgical Pathology, 1997 and Hematopathology, 1998). In 1998 she joined the pathol- ogy faculty group at Methodist Hospital. In 2000 she became an Adjunct Clinical Instructor at IUSM with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Subsequently Dr. An was appointed to a Clinical Assistant Professor position in 2001.
Dr. An has been very active in her stay at IUSM, serving as a Residency Education Committee member, Faculty Mentor for the Medical Student Mentor Program, Medical Advisor for Methodist Hospital Medical Technology Program, Board of
Department of Pathology Faculty - 1977
The 98th annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology was held in Boston, Massachusetts in March 2009.
Attendance at this year’s conference was the highest in history, which continues to make this meeting the largest gathering of physician-pathologists in the world.
The USCAP annual meetings consist of educational components including: Companion Meeting Symposia, Long Courses, Short Courses, Specialty Conferences and Scientific Abstracts.
The long course presented at this years meeting entitled,
“Breast Pathology: Controversial Topics and the Emerging Role of Adjunctive Molecular Studies,” was presented by Dr.
Stuart Schnitt and Dr. Frances O’Malley. As in the past, the long course will be published early 2010 in Modern Pathology.
There were a few significant highlights at this years meet-
Dr. Joshua Edwards and Dr. J. Donald Hubbard
Directors member of Indiana Pathology Institute, Board of Directors member of Clarian Federal Credit Union, Medical Director of Laboratories (East, South, Glendale, and George- town satellite laboratories for Indiana Pathology Institute), and Staff liaison for the Hematopathology section at Clarian North Hospital. In addition, Dr. An has served as the Medical Director of Hematopathology for the VA Medical Center since 2001 and Wishard Medical Center since 2005.
Reflecting back, Dr. An says the friendships and knowledge base she has acquired over the past 11 years is what she is most grate- ful for. Stating, “The prospect of leaving a very safe harbor and setting sail for the horizon is both exciting, yet daunting.
I cannot however imagine that any place can prepare someone better for the open sea than Clarian Pathology Laboratory and the many incredible people that staff it.” Dr. An finds she values the mentorships that many past senior faculty have offered. The most profound pearl of wisdom shared with her during her first year is what she will carry with her in the future, “Pathology is humbling in that it is not what you know that matters, it is your ability to recognize what you don’t know that matters...”
Dr. An’s many contributions to the department will be missed.
A reception was held in Dr. An’s honor on July 7, 2009. ■
Hall from the Medical Science Building. Dr. Yan is a Professor of Pathology, member of the Center for Immunobiology and member of the IU Simon Cancer Center. His lab uses animal models to study inflammation-induced lung cancer and identify biomarkers for early diagnosis.
The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (ICTSI) operates a 5500 square foot Specimen Storage Facil- ity (SSF) in Walther Hall that supports national biobanking efforts such as the National Gene Vector Biorepository, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank, the Indiana Cen- ter for Biomarkers Research in Neuropsychiatry and the MRI Biorepository. Along with their national support of biobank- ing the SSF provides support for all ICTSI member universi- ties which includes Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame. Investigators can have existing specimens transferred in bulk, lease space in the freezer units as small as one-forth of a shelf, or rent space for their own freezers. Specimens stored in the SSF may only be released as directed by the investigator. This state-of-the-art SSF includes a specimen receiving station, a sample processing laboratory, special containment processing laboratory, decontamination
autoclave, a -70° freezer room and a liquid nitrogen freezer room. The directors of the SSF are Lilith Reeves, associate professor with the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics and Dr. George Sandusky, Visiting Professor with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. For more information on the SSF visit the Indiana Clinical and Translation Sciences Institute’s website www.indianactsi.org/
research.
Walther Hall was designed as an integrated biomedical complex meant to encourage research collaboration. It was built connected to Research II, Cancer Research Institute, University Hospital, and IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. In addition, the building has direct access to the People Mover allowing individuals to ride a monorail system to the Methodist Hospital Campus, Health Information and Translational Science Building, Clarian Pathology Laboratory, Fairbanks Hall and additional Canal Street buildings.
Laboratories began moving in the Walther Hall the first week of April and the building will be formally dedicated on October 8, 2009. ■
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Zandra D’Hue, MD is taking a staff position with the Department of Pathology at Reid Memorial Hospital in Richmond, Indiana.
Matthew Hagen, MD will begin a fellowship in Neuropathology here at IUSM.
Matthew Kuhar, MD, Chief Resident will begin a fellowship in Dermatopathology at IUSM.
Sarah Lott, MD will begin a fellowship in Hematopathology at Vanderbilt University.
Rebecca Marks, MD will begin a fellowship in Cytopathology here at IUSM.
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Sharath Bhagavathi, MBBS – Hematopathology Dr. Bhagavathi will begin a fellowship in Molecular Genetics at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
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Research III is now the Joseph E. Walther Hall. The building was named in honor of Dr. Walther, whose foundation has supported cancer programs at IU for over 20 years. Walther Hall is the largest of the new research buildings on campus with 240,000 square feet of space, allowing for more than 125 research laboratories. The Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, the Center for Immunobiology, the Center for Environmental Health, and the National Gene Vector Biorepository are among a few areas that have relocated to Walther Hall. Dr. Cong Yan’s lab has also moved into Walther
Specimen Storage Facility’s liquid nitrogen freezer room
Awards Promise Grant
A $5.8 million Promise Grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure was awarded to the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. The grant was received in April for research that will attempt to predict which patients will benefit from the use of the powerful breast cancer-fighting drug bevacizumab (Avastin), a drug that slows the growth of cancer in women with metastatic breast cancer. Bryan Schneider, assistant professor in the Divi- sion of Hematology/Oncology, is the principal investigator.
The Translational Genomics Core lab of the IU Simon Cancer Center, directed by Dr. Sunil Badve, Associate Professor of Pa- thology, will be completing the SNP (single-nucleotide polymor- phism) analysis for this cutting-edge genetic biomarker study.
The SNP maps will help researchers identify the multiple genes associated with breast cancer and detect how minor differences in protein structure affect function.
This study of genetic biomarkers is an ongoing Indiana Univer- sity based E5103 phase III trail by Dr. Kathy Miller, associate professor of medicine. “What we hope and think will happen is the women treated with Avastin in addition to chemotherapy will have fewer recurrences of their breast cancer and more of them will be alive and well,” Dr. Miller said. ■
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Recipients of the J. Donald Hubbard Award were (left to right) Jessica Clevenger, Stefanie Detommaso, Rachel Manley, Allison Taraska, and Vivianne Montgrain.
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Dr. Davis (right) presented the Carleton D. Nordschow Award to Jessica Clevenger (left), Nicholas Frechette (center), and Vera Krol (not pictured).
ing from our department.
First, Dr. John Eble was voted to serve as an Acad- emy Council Member by the membership. Second, Jessica A. Clevenger, who at the time was a forth year medical student here at IUSM, was selected to present her abstract in the
Genitourinary category at a poster session. The abstract entitled
“Rhabdomyomatous Tumors (RT) after Chemotherapy for Metastatic Testicular Germ Cell Tumors: A Study of 7 Cases”
was first authored by Jessica. The contributing author was Dr.
Richard Scott Foster, professor of urology and the senior au- thor is Dr. Tom Ulbright who is the Lawrence M. Roth Pro- fessor of Pathology. All authors are from IUSM. Jessica has matched with our department and will begin residency here in the fall.
The 2010 USCAP meeting will be held from March 20-26 Washington DC. The Long Course entitled, “Endocrine Pa- thology including the Thyroid” will be presented by Dr. Ri- cardo Lloyd and Dr. Yuri Nikiforov. For more information visit the USCAP website at www.uscap.org. ■
Dr. Tom Ulbright and Jessica Clevenger at USCAP poster session
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