A new technology could have vast implications for surgery outcomes

In collaboration with the Duke Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carolyn Glass, MD PhD and Jadee Neff MD PhD were selected to receive the 2021-2022 Duke-Coulter Translational Grant to study the use of machine learning in hematologic and potentially vascular (blood clotting) disorders.

Karolina Woroniecka, MD PhD, first-year resident, been selected to receive a Technician Support Award from the Duke Office of Physician-Scientist Development and the School of Medicine.

Thomas J. Cummings, MD, Professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology, and Residency Program Director, is pleased to announce our ACGME Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship (MGP)  request has been approved and accredited for 1 fellow/year.

Soman Abraham, PhD, is featured in a May 18, 2021 live interview on WTVD-TV, talking about the urinary tract infection (UTI) vaccine that his team has developed, now awaiting testing in humans.

Thomas J. Cummings, MD, Professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology, and Residency Program Director, was elected Member-At-Large (2021-2023, 1st Term) to the Association of Pathology Chairs Residency Program Directors Section Council.

Haley Davis MD, PGY-3, won the first place poster prize in the Virtual Poster Competition at the North Carolina Society of Pathologists 2021 Meeting in April. 

Jeff Everitt, DVM was appointed to a three-year term to the 13 member Standing Committee for the Care and Use of Animals in Research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Thomas J. Cummings, MD, Professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology, and Residency Program Director, is pleased to announce a 10-year agreement has been reached with Foundation Medicine for residents to do a molecular pathology rotation at the Research Triangle Park laboratory campus beginning July 1, 2021.

The Todd Brady and Andrea Darling Scholarship for 2021/22 has been awarded to Asjah Wallace, an incoming PhD student starting in the fall of 2021.