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Wahab A. Khan completes his PhD Thesis
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Medicine would like to offer congratulations to Wahab Khan, who has completed his PhD in Pathology, under the supervision of Drs. Joan Knoll and Peter Rogan. Wahab's thesis is titled: "Chromatin structure and differential accessibility of homologous human mitotic metaphase chromosomes”. Dr. Khan will be leaving Western this summer for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, NY. He will begin an American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics.
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Jina J.Y. Kum completes her MSc Thesis
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Medicine would like to offer congratulations to Jina Kum, who has completed her MSc in Pathology. Dr. Zia Khan is Jina's MSc supervisor. The title of Jina's thesis is "ß-adrenergic receptor-dependent and -independent effects of propranolol in infantile hemangioma". Her work has highlighted the molecular mechanisms by which propranolol mediates the therapeutic effect in hemangioma patients. Jina is planning to stay at Western University with a number of offers to advance her education.
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Meghan A. Piccinin completes her MSc Thesis
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Medicine would like to offer congratulations to Meghan Piccinin, who has completed her MSc in Pathology. Dr. Zia Khan is Meghan's MSc supervisor. The title of Meghan's thesis is "Diabetic Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Dysfunction”. Meghan's work has identified how diabetes changes tissue microenvironment and causes impairment of reparative stem cells. Meghan will be leaving Western University to further her education and pursue a fulfilling medical career at Michigan State University.
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Advances in the Practice of Cytopathology
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine had a very successful CME day in Pathology on May 2, 2015. This meeting was organized by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre and the Schulich School of Medicine, in partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. We had a total of 97 attendees, 28 MDs (pathologists and residents) and 69 cytotechnologists. Our guest speaker Dr. Jeffery Krane, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, as part of the ‘Bedard Lectureship’, spoke on the challenges with indeterminate thyroid aspirates. Other presentations covered a wide variety of relevant and challenging topics, including; recent changes in cervical cancer screening in Canada, crisis in cytotechnology in Ontario, an update on cytology laboratory practices in Ontario, cytology quality improvement initiates and a cytology slide seminar on diagnostic challenges.
Thank you to all of our speakers and participants for your contribution!
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 2015 Schulich Award of Excellence winner - Dr. Michele Weir
We are delighted to share the news that Dr. Michele Weir was awarded the 2015 Schulich Award of Excellence for Graduate/Postgraduate Education - Educator Award on May 20, 2015. The award is in recognition of the time and energy that Dr. Weir has devoted to postgraduate education at Schulich.
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 Dr. Arany keynote speaker at a symposium in Argentina
Dr. Edith Arany was an invited keynote speaker at the VI Latin American Symposium on Maternal-Fetal Interaction and Placenta that took place from April 13-16, 2015 in Argentina. She gave her talk on intrauterine programming of beta cell defects.
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 Tornado warning procedures for Western and LHSC
The start of warmer weather is a great opportunity to review the Western and LHSC tornado warning procedure. To learn more about Western's procedure, click here. For LHSC you can sign up for Tornado alerts, click here.
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 Kevin Wen-Yang Lim given award
The 2014-2015 Professor Colin Anderson Award was awarded to Kevin Wen-Yang Lim on May 21, 2015. This award is given to the undergraduate student who achieves the highest mark in the course Pathology 3245B, "Diseases of Organ Systems”. The Anderson Award is given in memory of Dr. Colin Anderson, who was a member of our Pathology faculty from 1973 to 1996, during which time he organized and coordinated this course.
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