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December 2013
CRITICAL VALUES -
Emory Pathologists Elections &
Accolades 1
Medical Students Interested in
Pathology 1
NEW FACULTY -
Gabriela Bedolla, MD 2
CASE REPORTS -
Resident Teaching Awards - Kelly R. Magliocca, DDS, MPH Andrew N. Young, MD, PhD
Marina Mosunjac, MD
2
Daniel J. Brat, MD, PhD 2
Residents Honored -
Tesha Guillory, MD
Brian Willis, MD
Annie Morrison, MD
2
Millipub Club/Emory 1% Honorees -
Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
N. Volkan Adsay, MD
Mirko Paiardini, PhD
Guido Silvestri, MD
3
Chuck Parkos, MD, PhD 3
Holiday Reception Reminder 3
NEW FEATURE -
Interesting Web Links 3
PHOTOS -
Winship 5K Race 4
IN THIS ISSUE
CALENDAR EVENTS
December16th, 12 Noon
Pathology Faculty Grand Rounds
Judith Ferry, MD
N235B EUH Annex Bldg
December 18th, 5-8pm
Pathology Holiday Party
Michael C. Carlos Museum
December 24th—25th
Official University Holiday
December 31st
New Year’s Day
Official University Holiday
Comment: How could anybody NOT be interested in Pathology?
What started as a grassroots movement has now hit
the Big Time: With the formal approval of its charter
in September, Students Interested in Pathology (SIP)
has officially been designated as a permanent student
organization of the Emory School of Medicine. Since its
launch in 2012 by interested medical students -- with
guidance, encouragement, and occasional dinners from
Professor Jeannette Guarner, M.D. -- the group has
been generating buzz and strong turnouts with its
signature events, which have so far included Board-
review sessions, a seminar on forensics by Professor
Randy Hanzlick, M.D., and a panel discussion on
Pathology careers featuring some of our illustrious
residents and fellows. This fall, medical students
Justin Yoo, Mia DeSimone, and Vanessa Cousins
took the lead in winning SIP’s official recognition by the
School. The group’s most recent gathering drew 10
interested Emory students, auguring a bright future
ahead for the SIP and for our specialty.
Emory Pathologists Win Elections and Accolades (see Comment)
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November was a blue-ribbon month for Emory Pathology, with several members of our Department earning
major awards or new leadership posts in national professional organizations. Among the highlights:
Professor George Birdsong, M.D., received the 2013 Pananicolaou Award, the highest honor given by the
American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) for
meritorious contributions to the field. Dr
Birdsong, our Chief of Anatomic Pathology at
Grady Hospital, helped establish the original
2001 Bethesda classification system for
assessing pap-smears, served on the ASC
national Executive Board in 1999-2007, and
was ASC President in 2005-06. His Grady
colleague, Professor David Koch, Ph.D., was
elected to lead the American Association of
Clinical Chemistry (AACC) by serving as its
President-Elect in 2014, President in 2015, and
Past-President in 2016. The AACC is the
premier organization of clinical chemists, with
8,000 members worldwide. Dr Koch, who is
Left to right: Mia DeSimone; Vanessa Cousins;
Jeannette Guarner, MD; Justin Yoo
Top left: Sharon
W. Weiss, MD;
Top right: David
D. Koch, PhD; Bottom:
George G.
Birdsong, MD
Medical Students are Interested in Pathology (see Comment)
Director of Clinical Chemistry at Grady Hospital and a Fellow of
the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry, served on the
AACC’s Board of Directors from 2010 until 2012. And Professor
Sharon Weiss, M.D., has been elected President of the
American Board of Pathology (ABP), the organization that sets
national standards and certifies individual physicians to
practice our specialty. Her yearlong term begins on January
1. A renowned diagnostician and co-author of the leading
textbook on soft tissue tumors, Dr Weiss has been a member
of the ABP Board since 2005. She is also the Associate Dean
for Faculty Affairs at the Emory School of Medicine.
Comment: For more accomplishments by our faculty and trainees, see pages 2 and 3.
December 2013
NEW FACULTY—Gabriela Bedolla, MD
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Great teaching is its own reward. But that didn’t stop our residents from singling out three outstanding educators for the 2012-13 academic year: Assistant Professor Kelly Magliocca, D.D.S, M.P.H., and Associate Professor Andrew Young, M.D., Ph.D., earned the Golden Apple teaching awards in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, respectively, while Associate Professor and new Associate Residency Director Marina Mosunjac, M.D., took home the coveted Annalee Boyette Award for her inspiring contributions to our residency program.
She was just passing through on her way back to Texas, but she’s decided to stay awhile. Dr Gabriela Bedolla, who hails from Texas and Mexico and is a graduate of the UT medical school in San Antonio, first ventured north to the chillier climes of Ohio in 2000, for a Pathology residency at the University of Cincinnati. There she completed her AP/CP training, including a year as Chief Resident and a
final year as Fellow/Instructor in Surgical Pathology before being recruited into a large private pathology group in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she spent seven busy years honing her skills in general surgical pathology. It might have been those icy winds, or her
growing interest in GI pathology, that led Dr Bedolla to weigh anchor last January and head southward, planning on a yearlong GI Instructorship in our Department before returning to the Lone Star state. But she’s been contributing so much to our clinical services, and turned out to be such a delightful colleague and gifted diagnostician, that we’ve spent the past year enticing her to stay on. Luckily for us, she’s accepted, and will join our regular faculty on January 1 as an Assistant Professor at EUH-Midtown and on the GI subspecialty service. That’s one more reason to feel joyful as we start the New Year!
Gabriela Bedolla, MD
Left to right: Kelly R. Magliocca, DDS, MPH; Andrew N. Young, MD, PhD; Marina Mosunjac, MD
CASE REPORTS
Left to right: Tesha Guillory, MD; Brian Willis, MD; Annie Morrison, MD
Professor Dan Brat,
M.D., Ph.D., has been
elected to
membership in the
American Society for
Clinical Investigation,
a notoriously exclusive
club of physician-
investigators known
colloquially as the
“Young Turks”. He
will be formally
inducted into the
Society at its April
2014 meeting in
Chicago. Dr Brat is
our Chief of
Neuropathology, Vice
Chair for Translational Programs, and Residency Co-
Director, as well as a Distinguished Cancer Scientist of
the Georgia Research Alliance.
Daniel J. Brat, MD, PhD
Meanwhile, our
residents are taking
over the world, too:
Tesha Guillory,
M.D. (PGY-2) has
been elected by her
peers to serve as
Secretary of the
nationwide Resident
Forum of the College
of American
Pathologists for 2014.
On December 8,
Brian Willis, M.D.
(PGY-2) chaired a
session on soft-tissue
tumors at the bi-
annual meeting of the
California Tumor
Tissue Registry in San
Francisco. And
Annie Morrison,
M.D. (PGY-3) won
the “Duel in
Dermatopathology” at
the October annual
meeting of the American Society for Dermatopathology for her lecture on
cutaneous acanthamoebiasis. That’s the same duel that Lauren Stuart,
M.D., M.B.A. (now PGY-3) won last year, making Emory the only repeat
winner of this event since the dueling began 14 years ago.
Professor Chuck Parkos,
M.D., Ph.D., is the recipient of
the 2013 Scientific
Achievement Award in Basic
Research from the Crohn’s and
Colitis Foundation (CCFA), in
honor of his research on
mucosal immunity and
inflammatory bowel
diseases. Dr Parkos, who
received the award at the
CCFA’s national meeting in
Florida on December 12-14, is
our Vice Chair for Research
and also directs Emory’s
Medical Scientist Training
Program.
Charles A. Parkos, MD, PhD
Pathologists
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universal-donor-fecal-transplants-1C9884982
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way-cure-dangerous-c-diff-infections-8C11300066 Andy Neish, Rheinhalt Jones, Dave Lambeth EurekAlert!
· http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/embo
-tbo101813.php Carlos Moreno
Atlanta Journal Constitution
· http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/
nov/13/emory-professor-and-cancer-researcher-study-scienc/
Lee Cooper / David Gutman
Image Analysis Database
· http://cancer.digitalslidearchive.net
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Interesting Links
December 2013
CASE REPORTS
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Four more Pathology faculty have earned places this year in
the Emory School of Medicine’s two honor societies that
recognize high-impact scholarship. At a reception hosted by
Dean Chris Larsen and Associate Dean for Research Ray
Dingledine on October 8, three pathologists were among 16
new inductees to the “Millipub Club”, which honors the authors
of blockbuster scientific papers that have been cited at least
1,000 times. The honorees were Professor and Vice Chair
Volkan Adsay, M.D., for his co-authorship of a 2007 paper
identifying pancreatic cancer stem cells (Li et al., Cancer Res
67:1030); Professor Fred Sanfilippo, M.D., Ph.D., who co-
authored the original Banff criteria for diagnosing renal
allograft rejection (Solez et al., Kidney International 44:411,
1993); and Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent
Scholar Guido Silvestri, M.D., as a co-author of Nature
Medicine 12:1365, 2006, highlighting the role of gut microbial
translocation in HIV disease. Also in the limelight was
Assistant Professor Mirko Paiardini, Ph.D., who became the
fourth pathologist to qualify for the “Emory 1%” when his NIH
RO1 grant application on HIV immunopathogenesis scored in
the top percentile on peer review on its first submission.
Left to right: Mirko Paiardini, PhD; Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD; N. Volkan Adsay, MD; (Not pictured: Guido Silvestri, MD)
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