Thomas J. Cummings, MD, Professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology, and Residency Program Director, is pleased to announce the Foundation Medicine elective rotation for upper-level residents is underway, and to great initial reviews.

Duke University Medical Center has received major funding ($13.5 million) from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Aging to establish one of the first Human Tissue Mapping Centers to better characterize cellular senescence in normal multi-organ tissues.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Avani Pendse, M.D., Ph.D. has assumed the position of Program Director of our Surgical Pathology fellowship.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Xiaoyin “Sara” Jiang has been honored with the 2021 College of American Pathologists Pathology Advancement Award with her colleagues for their work on PathElective.com.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Rajesh Dash has been honored with the 2021 College of American Pathologists Distinguished Service Award for his long-standing contributions to patient care and the advancement of pathology, as well as in recognition of his years of dedicated service to the CAP.

Please join me in welcoming our newest member of the department faculty and laboratory director team- Stefan Rentas, PhD.

On September 10th, Susan Reeves, who has been a constant presence and guiding force in the Department of Pathology’s PhotoPath group for four decades retired.

Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received major funding from the National Institutes of Health to establish a prestigious Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), part of a federally-funded national network of 33 similar centers.

Laura Barisoni, MD, Professor of Pathology and Medicine, has been awarded a multiple investigator R01 grant by the National Institute of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for her research proposal “Computational Pathology of Proteinuric Diseases.” 

Awarded by the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation through the Max Planck Society, the prize is one of the most prominent awards in neuroscience and recognizes individuals who have made outstanding and original contributions for better understanding of neurobiology and neurological disease.