Division Chief of Duke Cardiovascular Pathology Service Carolyn Glass, MD, PhD, has been named as associate editor for the journal Cardiovascular Pathology (Elsevier). It is the official journal for the Society of Cardiovascular Pathology (SCVP), which is devoted to the advancement of the study of cardiovascular disorders. In her role, she will act as a subject matter expert to ensure the academic and scientific integrity of the journal.
The journal covers basic, clinical, and applied cardiovascular science including cardiovascular biology, prosthetic devices, molecular biology, and experimental models of cardiovascular disease. Members are united by a common interest in cardiac disease and include pathologists, cardiologists, surgeons, educators, investigators, and those who hold medical degrees (MDs), doctor of philosophy degrees (PhDs), and doctor of veterinary medicine degrees (DVMs).
Glass has spent the last 30 years in healthcare, dedicating the last decade to the diagnostic side as a cardiothoracic pathologist. She initially trained as a vascular surgeon with a focus on endovascular/interventional procedures through the Integrated Vascular Surgery Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center. After receiving her PhD in the areas of genomics and epigenetics, she completed residency in Anatomic Pathology and a cardiothoracic pathology fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Glass was mentored by Gayle Winters, MD, Richard Mitchell, MD, PhD, and Fred Schoen, MD, PhD, distinguished cardiovascular pathologists at BWH/Harvard, who were instrumental in defining the International Society Heart and Lung Transplantion riteria for cardiac transplant rejection and numerous other seminal contributions to the field of cardiac pathology.
She received the SCVP Young Investigator’s Award, the William von Liebig Vascular Biology Research Fellowship at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine, and has authored numerous publications and national presentations in cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular surgery. She has active collaborations with the Duke Departments of Cardiology, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, and Electrical Engineering/Computer Science.
In addition, she is a co-director of Duke’s AI and Computational Pathology division. Currently, Glass and the lab of Changhuei Yang, PhD, Chair of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (CalTech) are collaborating to bring the first machine learning algorithm for the diagnosis of heart transplant rejection to clinical implementation grade.