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December 2014
CRITICAL VALUES -
Visiting Dignitaries 1
NIH Funding—FY2014 1
NEW FACULTY -
Uma Krishnamurti, MD 2
CASE REPORTS -
Volkan Adsay, MD 2
Lauren Stuart, MD, MBA
Tesha Guillory, MD
Cliff Sullivan, MD
2
Guido Silvestri, MD, PhD 3
Bahig Shehata, MD 3
Sean Stowell, MD, PhD 3
INTERESTING WEB LINKS -
Pathologists in the News 3
PHOTO PAGES -
Pathology Faculty—2014 4
Winship 5K Race 4
Parkos Farewell 5
IN THIS ISSUE
CALENDAR EVENTS
December 24-25th
University Holiday
December 31-January 1st
Official University Holiday
January 19th
Official University Holiday
February 9th, Noon, TBA
Pathology Faculty Grand Rounds
Alexander Khoruts, MD
March 2nd, Noon, TBA
Pathology Faculty Grand Rounds Elaine Jaffe, MD
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Comment: Congratulations again to all our investigators; to the outstanding administrative staff who sup-
port them; and to everyone else who helps create an environment where world-class scholarship can thrive.
A surge of grant awards in the closing weeks kept
Emory securely within the top tier of Pathology depart-
ments nationwide, as measured by the amount of
funding received from the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). With $32.5 million of NIH research and training
support received during the 2014 federal fiscal year,
which ended on September 30, Emory Pathology
marked its fourth consecutive year among the top 3
NIH-funded Pathology departments in the U.S., and its
seventh straight year among the top 5. The official
rankings, which take into account both direct and indi-
rect costs of grants and fellowships but exclude con-
tracts, are compiled annually by the Blue Ridge Insti-
tute for Medical Research based on data released by
the NIH. Pathology’s third-place showing made it
Emory’s highest-ranked department for NIH funding in
2014. The Department accounted for 14.5% of all NIH
support to the School of Medicine, which itself ranked
18th nationally among medical schools for the year. A broader measure of grant, fellowship, and contract
awards from all outside sources, compiled by the School, revealed that 54 faculty and trainees in our Depart-
ment were awarded a total of $50.5 million in the fiscal year that ended August 31.
Emory Pathology Again Among the Top 3 for NIH Funding (see Comment)
NIH Rankings—FY 2014
Pathologists Join in Welcoming World Dignitaries to Atlanta (see Comment)
Emory pathologists were part of the attraction last
September as two prominent world leaders visited
Atlanta. President Barack Obama paid a visit to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sept
16 to meet and honor those involved in combating
the West African Ebola outbreak and caring for people
afflicted with that disease. On hand to greet the
President and joining him at a news conference was
Associate Professor Charlie Hill, M.D., Ph.D., who
represented the team of more than a dozen Emory
Pathology faculty and laboratory staff professionals
who provided round-the-clock diagnostic testing with-
in the high-containment facility at Emory University
Hospital, where the first two Ebola patients in North
America were successfully treated. Three days later,
Jeannette Kagame, the First Lady of Rwanda, arrived
at Emory to deliver a campus-wide lecture on her
country’s progress since the 1994 genocide. Mme
Kagame’s hosts included Professor Susan Allen,
M.D., M.P.H., who established and directs one of the
world’s leading programs for HIV prevention, which is
based in the Rwandan capital of Kigali and has provid-
ed HIV-related healthcare services to more than
100,000 people in that nation during its 29 years of
operation thus far.
TOP (L-R): Charles Hill, MD, Carolyn Hill, President Obama, Bruce
Ribner, MD, MPH
BOTTOM (L-R): James Curran, MD, MPH; First Lady of Rwanda Jean-nette Kagame; Susan Allen, MD, MPH; Philip Wainwright, PhD
Comment: It’s no wonder that politicians, global leaders, and other celebs would want to rub shoulders with
Emory Pathologists.
December 2014
NEW FACULTY— Uma Krishnamurti, MD, PhD
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Sometimes we just get lucky.
Dr Uma Krishnamurti had
been perfectly content for
nearly 10 years as a Pitts-
burgh-based surgical
pathologist and cyto-
pathologist in the Allegheny
Health Network and as a fac-
ulty member at Temple Uni-
versity. She was Director of
Cytology at two major hospi-
tals and Associate Director of
the residency program there,
and had been promoted to
Associate Professor in 2011.
She had no intention of mov-
ing. But when her husband, a
pediatric hematologist, was
Volkan Adsay, MD
Our faculty’s conquest of leadership posts
in major Pathology organizations continues.
Two months ago, Professor Volkan Adsay,
M.D., our Vice Chair and Director of Ana-
tomic Pathology, was named Vice President
of the U.S.-Canadian Academy of Pathology
(USCAP), putting him on track to becoming
USCAP President for a two-year term that
will begin in April 2016. USCAP is the larg-
est and most distinguished academic pro-
fessional organization for anatomic
pathologists in North America. Dr Adsay
will be the second Emory pathologist ever
to lead the USCAP, joining Professor
Sharon Weiss, M.D., who was USCAP
President in 1997-98.
Our residents are taking over the world, too. Cliff Sullivan, M.D., one of our
PGY-4 Chief Residents, was elected Vice Chair of the Resident Council of the
American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) for this year and will become
its Chair in October 2015. Meanwhile, our other PGY-4 Chief, Lauren Stuart,
M.D., M.B.A., is currently Chair of the Residents Forum for the College of
American Pathologists (CAP), while her PGY-3 colleague, Tesha Guillory,
M.D., serves as its Vice Chair; their yearlong terms continue until September
2015.
Uma Krishnamurti, MD, PhD
Case Reports
Tesha Guillory, MD Cliff Sullivan, MD Lauren Stuart, MD, MBA
offered an irresistible new post at CHOA, she found
herself looking for opportunities in Atlanta at the same
time we’d begun looking for someone exactly like her.
So it came to pass that, on November 1, our Depart-
ment welcomed a highly skilled and delightful new
colleague with special expertise in breast and gyneco-
logic pathology and a strong commitment to resident
education onto our faculty at Grady Hospital. This is
not the first time Dr Krishnamurti has relocated,
though: Born and educated in New Delhi, she had
already completed her Pathology training there before
moving in 1993 to the University of Minnesota, where
she earned her Ph.D. in Pathobiology and began a
second Pathology residency that she subsequently
completed, along with a Cytopathology fellowship, at
the University of Pittsburgh. All of that – plus a bit of
luck -- brought Dr Krishnamurti into our Department.
We count ourselves lucky indeed to have her here, and
wish her many happy, successful years on our Emory
Pathology faculty.
Guido Silvestri, MD, PhD
December 2014
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Bahig Shehata, MD
What does it take to win the
Neustein Memorial Award from the
Society for Pediatric Pathology
(SPP) three times? Ask the only
person who’s ever done it: Profes-
sor Bahig Shehata, M.D. This
distinguished award honors the
application of novel technology to
the study of pediatric disease. Dr
Shehata’s unprecedented three-
peat came in September at the
SPP’s annual meeting in Birming-
ham, England. Here’s a hint:
Spend decades amassing the
world’s largest collection of tissue
samples from children with histio-
cytoid cardiomyopathy; use ge-
nome-wide sequencing to identify
candidate mutations; and then
show that mutating one of those
candidates (ndufb11) causes cardiac anomalies in zebrafish.
Chalk up another one for
Assistant Professor Sean
Stowell, M.D., Ph.D., as a
recipient of the NIH Direc-
tor’s Early Independence
Award. This prestigious
$1.25 million, 5-year grant
is designed to enable
“exceptional junior scientists
to … start an independent
research career at a sup-
portive institution” (that’s
us!) without doing a post-
doctoral fellowship first. It
will support Dr Stowell’s
research on the glycobiology
and immunology of red
blood cell transfusion. The
NIH awarded only 17 such
grants nationwide in 2014.
Case Reports
Sean Stowell, MD, PhD
Professor Guido Silvestri,
M.D., Ph.D., has been
named as Vice Chair and
Director of our Depart-
ment’s top-ranked Division
of Experimental Pathology.
An internationally ac-
claimed researcher who
studies HIV pathogenesis,
prevention, and treatment
using non-human primate
models, Dr. Silvestri is also
the Georgia Research Alli-
ance Distinguished Scholar
in Comparative Pathobiolo-
gy and directs the Division
of Microbiology and Immu-
nology at the Yerkes Na-
tional Primate Research
Center.
Pathologists
in the News
Colleen Kraft Emory Magazine
Doc of the Day—What it takes to care for patients with Ebola virus
while President Obama visits
· http://www.npr.org/blogs/
goatsandsoda/2014/07/10/330217262/why-hiv-spreads-less-easily-in-heterosexual-couples
James Ritchie USA Today
Latest Ebola fear: Safety of lab equipment
· http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/06/
hospital-laboratories-ebola-equipment/18546709/
Erin Meyer 11 Alive (Video)
What your blood type says about you
· http://www.11alive.com/story/news/health/2014/11/14/blood-
type/19059477/ Colleen Kraft GQ
Out of Ebola
· http://www.gq.com/news-politics/201412/kent-brantly-ebola
Gabe Sica Emory Update
Annual external research funding total again exceeds $500 million
· http://whsc.emory.edu/home/publications/health-sciences/
update/2014/Oct/hsu-oct-2014.html
Interesting Links
Sean Stowell Emory Update
NIH selects Emory pathologist for Early Independence Award
· http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/10/
stowell_early_independence_award/campus.html Colleen Kraft The New York Times 90.1 WABE
An Ebola Doctor’s Return From the Edge of Death
· http://wabe.org/post/emory-doctors-detail-treating-anonymous-ebola-
patient-we-didnt-know-if-he-was-going-survive
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