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Recent Departmental News

Jason Cheng (PGY-IV) is awarded the Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award from the Academy of Clinical Physicians and Scientists for 2008 for his work entitled: "Genome-wide Analysis of Histone and DNA Methylation in Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) with a Novel Technology-Sequential Chromatin-Immunoprecipitation Coupled Genome-wide promoter array (SChIP-on-chip): A Pilot Study on Refractory Cytopenia with Multilineage Dysplasia.
Jason Cheng (PGY-IV) is the winner of the Resident Research Competition of the Chicago Pathology Society 2008.
Twenty-seven abstracts and 7 platform presentations were accepted at the 2008 United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology meeting from University of Chicago residents and faculty.
Four residents/fellows were recipients of awards for excellence in research at the 2007 United States and Canadaian Academy of Pathology meeting. Dr. Rish Pai (PGY-II) was awarded the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society Award. Dr. Quian Liu was awarded the Stowell-Orbison Merit Award. Dr. Tom Stricker (PGY-II) and Dr. Kimiko Suzue (PGY-V) were each awarded the Pulmonary Pathology Society Best Young Presenter Award.
Seventeen resident abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 2007 United States and Canadaian Academy of Pathology Meeting (USCAP), including a platform presentation by Rish Pai (PGY-II). The meeting will be held March 24 - 30, 2007 in San Diego, California.
Dr. Chad El-Zayaty (PGY-IV) is awarded membership to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honors society by the Pritzker College of Medicine Class of 2007, for his teaching role in the medical school pathology course. This marks the first time a pathology resident has been awarded this honor by a graduating medical school class.
Dr. Ivan Moskowitz has been awarded the Katz prize, given annually by the AHA to a single young investigator for basic science in the heart. The Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Prize encourages new investigators to continue research careers in basic cardiovascular science. This award historically has recognized research involving biochemical, cellular, molecular and genetic sciences, and now includes whole animal studies, especially those related to the creation of new genetic lines.
Dr. Vinay Kumar delivered the sixth annual Anderson Memorial Lecture at the University of Toronto. This lecture is in honor of the late Dr William Anderson who was a distinguished pathologist and teacher at the University of Toronto. He also delivered the second annual Stanley L Robbins Lecture at Harvard Medical School, Boston. The late Dr Stanley Robbins was the original author of Robbins Pathology. Dr Kumar's lectures were entitled : "Non MHC dependent mechanisms of self tolerance in natural killer cells" at Boston and Toronto, and "Origin and Evolution of Robbins Pathology and future of medical text book publishing: a personal perspective".
Dr. Jerrold Turner has been awarded the 2006 ASIP Amgen Outstanding Investigator Award. This prestigious annual award for excellent research in experimental pathology is sponsored by Amgen and is administered by the American Society for Investigative Pathology.
Dr. Aliya Husain has been named as a Master of The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators, with lifetime tenure.
Dr. Husain Sattar is awarded the Young Investigator Award for 2006 by the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology.
Dr. Richard DeMay receives Exellence in Education Award by the American Society of Cytopathology.