The Douglas Bocking Award

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Bertha Garcia for receiving the Douglas Bocking Award, one of the highest teaching awards at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. This award, created in honour of the former Dean of Medicine and Vice-Provost, is given annually to a faculty member at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of medical education over the last four years.

The award was bestowed upon Dr. Garcia, Vice Dean Education, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, and former Chair/Chief of Pathology, by Dean Michael Strong at the Medical Convocation ceremony on May 13th, 2016. The following is a short excerpt from the Dean’s speech: “In her time at Schulich, this year’s recipient has been involved with all aspects of the “business” of our program and has accumulated a great number of experiences, as a researcher, educator, administrator, mentor, and supporter. If one were to connect with a random sampling of Schulich graduates from the last 15 years, each one would have a direct memory or experience of a moment that they could still recount connected to this year's recipient.

Congratulations to Dr. Gibson

Congratulations to Dr. Candace Gibson on receiving the Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA) 2016 Tribute to Excellence Award. Read more

An unexpected path to regenerative medicine

As an undergraduate student in biomedical sciences at the University of Waterloo, Niamh Richmond wanted to be a veterinarian. However, things didn’t go according to plan. Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Bend

Congratulations to Dr. Jack Bend and his co-investigators on their award from the First Nations Environmental Contaminants Program. Read more

News Stories

2016 Recipients of the Dr. Fredrick Winnet Luney Awards

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine would like to congratulate the following students: Sonja DiGregorio, Steffi Stephenson and Audrey Evetts. Read more

2016 Ontario Graduate Scholarship Awardees

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine would like to congratulate the following students on receiving an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. They are: Jina Kum, Yohan Kim and Julie Wallis. Read more

WHMIS training is changing

All staff, faculty, graduate students, work study and co-op students and volunteers at Western must receive training in WHMIS 2015 now. You will be required to take the new version of WHMIS training by August 31, 2016. Click here

2016 PaLM Research Day Photos

All of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Day photos are available for download. Click here

Upcoming Events

NERDs June Open Forum

Thursday, June 23, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - LHSC UH A3-100 | Click here

Publications

Chadwick SR, Pananos AD, Di Gregorio SE, Park AE, Etedali-Zadeh P, Duennwald ML, Lajoie P. A Toolbox for Rapid Quantitative Assessment of Chronological Lifespan and Survival in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Traffic, 2016 Jun 1; 17 (6): 689-703 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12391 PMID 26939796.
Hoffmann KS, Duennwald ML, Karagiannis J, Genereaux J, McCarton AS, Brandl CJ. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Tti2 Regulates PIKK Proteins and Stress Response. G3 (Bethesda), 2016 Apr 6 DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.029520 PMID 27172216.
Budhram A, Gabril MY, Lee DH, Fraser JA. Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis With Optic Neuropathy Heralding Systemic Vasculitis. Can J Neurol Sci, 2016 May 17: 1-3 DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2016.51 PMID 27184909.
Nofech-Mozes R, Khella HW, Scorilas A, Youssef L, Krylov SN, Lianidou E, Sidiropoulos KG, Gabril M, Evans A, Yousef GM. MicroRNA-194 is a Marker for Good Prognosis in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Med, 2016 Apr 1; 5 (4): 656-64 DOI: 10.1002/cam4.631 PMID 26860079.
Theurer JA, Stecho W, Yoo J, Kwan K, Wehrli B, Harry V, Black M, Pinto N, Winquist E, Palma D, Richter S, Barrett JW, Danielle MacNeil S, Fung K, Howlett CJ, Nichols AC. Feasibility of Targeting PIK3CA Mutations in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Pathol Oncol Res, 2016 Jan 1; 22 (1): 35-40 DOI: 10.1007/s12253-015-9970-3 PMID 26271341.
Taylor G, Gravel D, Matlow A, Embree J, LeSaux N, Johnston L, Suh KN, John M, Embil J, Henderson E, Roth V, Wong A. Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program. Assessing the magnitude and trends in hospital acquired infections in Canadian hospitals through sequential point prevalence surveys. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2016 May 21;5:19. DOI: 10.1186/s13756-016-0118-3. PMID: 27213039.
Mucaki EJ, Caminsky NG, Perri AM, Lu R, Laederach A, Halvorsen M, Knoll JH, Rogan PK. A unified analytic framework for prioritization of non-coding variants of uncertain significance in heritable breast and ovarian cancer BMC Medical Genomics 9 ( 1 ) , art. no. 19. DOI: 10.1186/s12920-016-0178-5.
Arifin A, Driman DK, Parfitt J. Liver Nodules Crash Course. MedEdPORTAL, 2016 Apr 14; Available from: https://www.mededportal.org/publication/10396
Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network (affiliated with Ontario Tumour Bank: Albert M, Bartlett J, Parfitt J). Comprehensive molecular characterization of papillary renal-cell carcinoma. N Engl J Med, 2016 Jan 14; 374 (2): 135-45 DOI: 10.1038/nature13385 PMID 26536169.
Arifin A, Driman DK, Parfitt J. Liver Biopsy Crash Course. MedEdPORTAL, 2016 Jan 6; 10318, Available from: https://www.mededportal.org/publication/10318
Ruicci KM, Barrett JW, Nichols AC. (2015). Back to the drawing board: resistance and itsimplications for the use of targeted agents in head and neck squamous cellcancer. UWO Medical Journal (UWOMJ). 85(1): 8-10.
Sangle N, Baringer JR, Majersik J, DeWitt LD. CADASIL with Multiorgan Involvement: a Complete Autopsy Examination Report. Can J Neurol Sci, 2016 Jan 1; 43 (1): 202-5 DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2015.240 PMID 26138243.
Goebel EA, McCluggage WG, Walsh JC. Mitotically Active Sclerosing Stromal Tumor of the Ovary: Report of a Case Series With Parallels to Mitotically Active Cellular Fibroma. Int J Gynecol Pathol, 2016 May 4; Epub ahead of print. DOI: 10.1097/PGP.0000000000000292 PMID 27149006.

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