Residency News

Feb. 19-23, we celebrate Graduate Medical Education (GME) Week 2024. We hope everyone will use the time to reflect and shine a spotlight on the many contributions that our residents, fellows, program directors, and program coordinators make in support of Duke’s legacy of excellence.

Duke Pathology fourth-year resident Bangchen Wang, MD, PhD, received a $1,000 Pathologist-in-Training Travel Award for his abstract (supervised by David Howell, MD, PhD) submitted to the United States and Canadian Academy of

Professor of Pathology and Residency Program Director Thomas J Cummings, MD, is pleased to announce Physician-Scientist research opportunities in collaboration with the Duke Office of Physician Scientist Development, Duke Medicine, and Duke Neurosurgery.

Chief Resident Ashley Rose Scholl MD, MSc, and Hematopathology Fellow Catherine Tucker, MD, attended the College of American Pathologists’ (CAP) Engaged Leadership Academy (ELA) in Rosemont, IL, from Nov 9^th-11^th.

Duke Pathology fourth-year resident Bangchen Wang, MD, PhD, presented a poster titled “Infection as a Trigger of Acute, Transient Glomerular Deposition of Clonal Immunoglobulins” at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week meeting, attended by over 12,000 neph

Thomas J. Cummings, MD, professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology and Residency Program director, lectured at the Eastern Ophthalmic Pathology Society (EOPS) annual meeting held at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 12^th-14^th. Cummings spoke about ocular rhabdomyosarcoma, and also served as moderator for a session of unknown case presentations.

Duke Pathology fourth-year resident Bangchen Wang, MD, PhD, and Duke medical student Ian Taylor-Cho, BA, attended the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Annual Meeting, from Oct. 7^th-10^th in Chicago, IL. 

Meg Lee, MD, PGY4, has been named as chair of the inaugural North Carolina Society of Pathologists’ (NCSP) Trainee Advisory Council.

Professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology, and Residency Program Director Thomas J. Cummings, MD, lectured at the 12^th Joint European Ophthalmic Pathology Society (EOPS) and Verhoeff-Zimmerman Society meeting held in Liverpool, England, from June 7-11, 2023.

On Wed., Aug. 30^th, 2023, Pathology residents Jusmita “Jesse” Saifullan, MD, Grace Kwon, MD, PhD, and Tanner Bakhshi, MD, PhD, joined Thomas J.