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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