ACADEMY OF CLINICAL LABORATORY

PHYSICIANS AND SCIENTISTS

NEWSLETTERFall, 2012

Editor: Geza S. Bodor

Denver, Colorado

President’s Letter

Eric Spitzer

Dear ACLPS Members:

The annual ACLPS meeting is the focal pointof the society for many members and itcontinues to serve that role for good reason.Laboratory Medicine 2012 (the 47 Annualth

Meeting), held last spring in Milwaukee, beganwith sessions on clinical applications of genomicanalysis followed by updates on recentadvances in the diagnosis of bleeding disorders.Friday morning, as always, was devoted to theyoung investigator’s program with oralpresentations by more than fifty residents andfellows. The afternoon again had a hematologyfocus with the Cotlove lecture given by RichardA s t e r o n d r u g - i n d u c e d i m m u n ethrombocytopenia followed by a lecture at theintersection of genomic analysis and historicaldetective work in which Evgeny Rogaevdiscussed the identification of the factor IXmutation responsible for hemophilia in the ill-fated Russian royal family. Later, there werebreakout sessions on coagulation, application ofmass spectroscopy in microbiology, and vitaminD testing in chemistry. The Friday night banquetwas held in the historic and grand setting of theGrain Exchange and featured a lively history of

Milwaukee and the brewing industry. Saturdaybegan with the Benson award lecture on“Innovations in Clinical Drug Testing” given byGwen McMillan and was followed by sessionson the role of iron in laboratory medicine whichfocused on hematology and blood banking butalso included a presentation on a fatal case ofplague associated with hemochromatosis.

As always, the academy owes atremendous debt of gratitude to the local hosts,Alan Mast, Stan Lo, and their colleagues at theMedical College of Wisconsin and the BloodCenter of Wisconsin, for organizing such a finemeeting. The local hosts perform myriad tasks;they design most of the scientific programs,invite speakers, negotiate with hotels, andchoose local landmarks for the reception andbanquet. On top of all that they are responsiblefor fund raising and insuring that the annualmeeting is a self-supporting endeavor. Thisyear’s local hosts, Angie Caliendo and JimRitchie, along with the Program and FinanceCommittee are hard at work putting togetherthe 2013 Laboratory Medicine meeting inAtlanta.

Last year’s president, Jonathan Miller,described how each year the organizers of the

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annual meeting seem to raise the bar, and eachyear the meeting exceeds our expectations.What is so special about the annual ACLPSmeeting? First, it is a manageable scale whereone can easily renew friendships with colleaguesfrom many institutions. Second, it serves as animportant showcase for residents and fellowswho get the opportunity to present theirresearch in a setting which fosters interactionswith a variety of specialists. Third, the programprovides a unique blend of talks on basicresearch, translational research, and clinicalpractice that cover all areas of laboratorymedicine. While most of us specialize in onesection of the laboratory, we need to keepabreast of developments in all areas of the lab,particularly if we are in a department where wehave to sometimes provide clinical coverage inmultiple sections. Finally, in contrast to thelarger societies in which meetings are restrictedto large cities with convention centers, theACLPS meeting gives attendees the opportunityto visit many cities and academic institutions.The meetings usually feature lectures by “local”talent from the host institution, a definite plussince at all of the ACLPS meetings I’ve attended,the “local” talent is also “major league” talent.

The relatively small size of ACLPS is oneof its virtues but there are always naggingconcerns that the organization may be too smallto maintain a critical mass of active membersand too small to make an impact on the field ofpathology. While this is always a potential risk,several trends point to the relative strength ofthe organization.

Ten years ago the number of abstractssubmitted by young investigators hovered in thelow fifties whereas for the past three years ithas been in the mid eighties. After five years ofexcellent leadership of the Young InvestigatorAward Program, Alex McAdam turns over thereins this year to Neal Lindeman. While a smallnumber of departments have been ardentsupporters of ACLPS for decades, it isencouraging to see examples in which trainees

from these programs have established ACLPS“beachheads” at other institutions that nowregularly send young investigators to themeeting and are represented on ACLPScommittees.

As Jonathan Miller discussed in lastyear’s newsletter, many of us work indepartments where faculty and residents areunfamiliar with ACLPS (or assume it is anastronomical society). To increase our visibilityhe helped create a brochure (ACLPS Brochure double-sided.pdf) describing the activities andgoals of the society which include: “Toencourage and promote the highest standardsof service, education and research in academiclaboratory medicine.”

So what exactly does ACLPS do? Asmentioned above, its main activity is helpingresidents and fellows establish careers inacademic laboratory medicine by giving them anopportunity to present their research anddevelop contacts at other academic institutions.This emphasis on fostering academic careersdoes not end with the Young InvestigatorProgram. A few years ago the society createdthe Ellis Benson award to recognizeaccomplishments by an outstanding junior ormid-career faculty member. In addition, theopportunity to serve on ACLPS committees canaid faculty in attaining academic promotions.

The Education Committee has been amajor force for increasing ACLPS’s visibility as aleader in laboratory medicine/clinical pathologyeducation. In collaboration with ASCP, ACLPS isresponsible for writing the majority of thelaboratory medicine questions for the annualresident in service exam (RISE). The Educationcommittee has also recruited authors forquarterly “Pathology Consultation” articles inAJCP that are published under an ACLPS byline.Due to the success of this series, these articleswill be published bimonthly starting in 2013. InThese articles also served as the basis for anACLPS-sponsored workshop titled “Consulting

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on Blood Disorders” at the Fall 2012 ASCPmeeting.

ACLPS is one of the CooperatingSocieties of the American Board of Pathology(along with ASCP, ASIP, ADASP, APC, CAP, andUSCAP) and this has enabled us to have a voicein decisions that affect academic laboratorymedicine. For the past two years the ACLPSpresident has been invited to the annualAPC/PRODS meeting as a member of theCooperating Society Liaison Panel. Major topicsdiscussed at last July’s meeting were the impactof genomics and informatics on the practice ofpathology and included a presentation onClinical Decision Support by Jacob Reider, ChiefMedical Officer from the Office of the NationalCoordinator for Health Information Technology.This December the ACLPS Executive Counciljoined the other cooperating societies in co-signing a letter to the Institute of Medicinerequesting that it add pathology to the list ofspecialties that are recommended for targetedincreases in Medicare funding for graduatemedical education. I greatly appreciate theExecutive Council’s timely input and advice onthese important matters.

Finally, there is also sad news to report

due to the passing of two individuals who werewell known to many in ACLPS. In July, memberswere greatly saddened by the passing of WilliamRoberts after a courageous battle with cancer.Bill was Professor of Pathology at the Universityof Utah and Director of Automated Chemistry atARUP Laboratories. He was devoted to ACLPSand served as secretary/treasurer and waspresident in 2010-11. He also received the 2006Gerald T. Evans award for outstandingleadership and service. It was a privilege to workwith him over the years on a variety of ACLPSactivities. He was also a great role model forresidents, fellows, and junior faculty. In October,members were stunned to hear of the suddenpassing of Jeffrey Kant, Professor of Pathologyand Director of Molecular Diagnostics at theUniversity of Pittsburgh. Jeff was widelyrecognized as one of the founders of the field ofmolecular diagnostics. He was very active inACLPS and served for many years as ourrepresentative to the Intersociety PathologyCouncil. He was well known for being a greatscientist, colleague, teacher, and mentor. Dr.Roberts and Dr. Kant will both be greatly missedby friends and colleagues.

The Grain Exchange, thelocation of the 2012awards banquet

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2012 ACLPS ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Saturday, June 2, 2012, 12:00 – 12:30 PM

Submitted by David Grenache

Secretary, Treasurer

1. Dr. Miller called the meeting to order at 12:00

pm.

2. The minutes of the June 11, 2011 annual

business meeting that were included in the Fall

newsletter and sent to the membership were

approved.

3. Executive Council Report

a. Dr. Jonathan Miller indicated that the

ACLPS website, hosted by ARUP

Laboratories, is due for updating. If any

members have suggestions pertaining to

the website, please forward them to Dr.

Eric Spitzer.

b. ACLPS will be offering its assistance to the

American Board of Pathology’s Milestones

Working Group, a project designed to set

guidelines regarding the training and

education of AP/CP pathology residents.

c. ACLPS continues to work with ASCP on

education. At the ASCP annual meeting in

the Fall of 2011, there was a co-branded

symposium on consultative laboratory

medicine. ACLPS has been invited to the

Fall 2012 ASCP meeting to repeat this

effort. Also, there continues to be a robust

interaction to provide review articles in the

American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

d. Dr. Harv Rinder has been selected as ACLPS

liaison to the Training Residents in

Genomics (TRIG) Working Group. TRIG was

established by PRODS in 2010 as part of a

coordinated effort to meet the genomics

education challenge for laboratory

medicine.

e. Dr. Miller expressed on behalf of the

society our appreciation to the following

individuals for their service to ACLPS:

i. Dr. Mitch Scott who has completed his

service as past president.

ii. Drs. Chuck Eby, Andy Hoofnagle, and

Ted Bovill for their service on the

Executive Council.

iii. Dr. Dan Sabath for his service as chair

of the Membership Committee and Dr.

Jim Richie for his service on the same

committee.

iv. Dr. Alex McAdam for his service as the

Director of the Young Investigator

Award Program.

v. Drs. Karen Frank and Jonathan Tait for

their service on the Nominating and

Awards Committee.

vi. Dr. Harv Rinder for his service as chair

of the Education Committee.

vii. Dr. Eric Spitzer for his service as chair of

the Program and Finance Committee.

4. Reports of Standing Committees

a. Membership Committee

i. Dr. Dan Sabath thanked all of the

committee members for their service,

and indicated that there are presently

299 active members, 159 associate

members, and 180 emeritus members.

b. Program and Finance Committee

i. Dr. Eric Spitzer noted that the 2013 Lab

Medicine meeting would be hosted by

Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Future

meetings include the University of

California, San Francisco (2014), the

University of Alabama, Birmhingham

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(2015), Yale University (2016), and

Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX (2017).

He also indicated that beginning in 2013,

ACLPS would now pay the registration

costs of the Young Investigator Award

winners to the local meeting host.

Previously, this fee was waived.

c. Education Committee

i. Dr. Harv Rinder reported that, in the last

2 years, 7 concise reviews had been

published in the American Journal of

Clinical Pathology, and that 3 are

currently in preparation. Please be in

touch with the Education Committee

chair with any recommendations for

review article topics and authors. Please

keep in mind that these are great

opportunities for trainees and junior

faculty and that review topics are often

used to selected educational sessions for

the ASCP annual meeting sessions that

are co-branded with ACLPS.

d. Nominating and Awards Committee

i. In Dr. Bill Robert’s absence, Dr. David

Grenache presented the individuals

nominated to the ACLPS ballot and asked

for nominations from the floor. No

nominations from the floor were

received, and the ballots were

distributed.

e. Treasurers Report

i. Dr. David Grenache reported that

ACLPS was financially sound with total

revenue of $958,548. Balances as of

May 24, 2012 were as follows:

1. General fund: $138,420

2. YIAP fund: $123,904

3. Cotlove fund: $30,000

4. Ellis Benson fund: $5,524

5. YIAP endowment: $601,998

6. Ellis Benson endowment: $57,317

7. Cash: $1,385

f. Young Investigators Award Program

Director Report

i. Dr. Alex McAdam reported that 86

abstracts were submitted to the ACLPS

2012 Lab Medicine meeting, and that

the award for individuals receiving an

award “with distinction” had increased

from $100 to $250 effective with the

current meeting.

5. Unfinished Business

a. There was no unfinished business

6. New Business

a. There was no new business

7. Election Results

a. The election results were unanimous

with the proposed slate of candidates.

i. President-elect:

1. Robin Lorenz (University of Alabama,

Birmingham

ii. Executive Council Members-at-Large

1. Pampee Young (Vanderbilt

University)

2. Joshua Bornhorst (University of

Arkansas)

iii. Director, Young Investigator Award

Program

1. Neal Lindeman (Harvard University)

iv. Chair, Membership Committee

1. Petr Jarolim (Harvard University)

v. Nominating and Awards Committee

1. Geoffrey Baird (University of

Washington)

vi. Education Committee

1. Jonathan Genzen, Chair (Cornell

University)

2. Marissa Marques (University of

Alabama, Birmingham)

3. Harv Rinder (Yale University)

8. Installation of New President

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a. Dr. Eric Spitzer thanked Dr. Jonathan Miller

for his service to ACLPS as president. He

discussed the role that ACLPS should have

with the Milestones project. He

emphasized ongoing efforts to get more

pathology training programs and

individuals involved in ACLPS.

9. The meeting was adjourned at 12:30 pm.

David G. Grenache, PhD

Secretary-Treasurer

Speakers of the 2012 scientificmeeting and laboratory tour

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Report on Lab Medicine 2012, the 47 Annual ACLPS Meetingth

Alan Mast and Stan Lo

Lab Medicine 2012, the 47 annual ACLPSth

meeting was hosted by the Medical College ofWisconsin and the Blood Center of Wisconsinbetween May 31 and June 2, 2012 at the HyattRegency Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Twohundred and seventeen members registered forthe meeting. Eighty one abstracts weresubmitted and 55 speakers participated in theYoung Investigator Award competition. Thescientific program included presentations onhemophilia, Vitamin D deficiency, vonWillebrand disease, thrombocytopenia, ironmetabolism, genomics, and residency training.

The Thursday evening reception was held at theEckhart G. Grohmann Art Museum, a three storybuilding filled with Dr. Grohman’s privatecollection of paintings and bronzes, documenting over 400 years of “Man at Work”.Of special interest to members of ACLPS was asection dedicated to “Physicians, Quacks andAlchemists” that includes paintings of the earlypractice of Laboratory Medicine. The Fridayevening awards banquet was held at the GrainExchange, a historic building in downtownMilwaukee.

Alan Mast (L)and

Stan Lo (R),2012 Local

Hosts

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INVITATION TO ATTEND LAB MEDICINE 2013

The 48th ACLPS ANNUAL MEETING

Decatur, GA

June 6th-June 8, 2013

Dear ACLPS Members and Young Investigators:

Plans are well underway for the 48 Annualth

Meeting to be hosted by the Department ofPathology & Laboratory Medicine of EmoryUniversity. The meeting will be held at the newlyremodeled Courtyard Marriott and ConferenceCenter in Decatur, Ga. We know that most all ofyou have been to Atlanta before but come andexperience the real South by joining us in thisdelightful small town near Emory University. The city was founded in 1822 and named fornaval hero Stephen Decatur. In the 1830s, theWestern and Atlantic Railroad wanted to makeDecatur the southernmost stop on its line. Thecitizens of Decatur did not want the noise,pollution and growth that would come with sucha major terminal, and they rejected theproposal. In response, the railroad founded anew city to the west-southwest of Decatur forthe terminal. This town would later becomeknown as Atlanta. More recently, Decatur hasgained a local and national reputation as atrendy small mixed use retail and restaurantdistrict with easy transit to downtown Atlantaand Hartsfield airport via the MARTA. A shortwalk from the hotel, on the Square, is the OldDeKalb County Courthouse where the Thursdayevening reception will be held in the oldSuperior Courtroom. The building was built in1829 and served as an active court building until1967. Immediately adjacent to the Courthouse,the Square will provide a convenient area toenjoy the Decatur night life and informalinteractions with colleagues.

For the Friday evening awards banquet

we will move to downtown Atlanta and the new“World of Coke” where attendees canexperience the fascinating history of the world'smost famous soft drink in this dynamicmultimedia attraction featuring over 1,200never-before-displayed artifacts ranging fromvintage bottles to a 1939 Coca-Cola deliverytruck from Argentina. Who knows we mighteven discover the secret recipe.

Planning for the scientific program is wellunderway and the theme of the meeting will beLaboratory Medicine and Global Health.Thursday afternoon will center on the newestlaboratory quality initiatives and the necessity ofinstituting these new measures in yourlaboratory. As always, the Young InvestigatorSessions will make up the entire Friday morningprogram. Friday afternoon will featurepresentations on the laboratory’s role in globalhealth, the Cotlove Award recipient, followed bya poster viewing session and the Ellis BensonAward Lecture. A panel discussion on ways tolocally support global health initiatives willround out the day. The Saturday morningprogram will feature speakers from the EmorySchool of Public Health and the CDC. This will befollowed by a session of three interesting clinicalcases which will actively involve all participants.

Please register now for what promises tobe another fantastic ACLPS Laboratory MedicineMeeting.

Angela M. Caliendo, MD, PhD

James Ritchie, PhD

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Lab Medicine 2013Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians & Scientists

48th Annual Meeting

Emory University School of Medicine

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Atlanta, GA

June 6 - 8, 2013

DAY 1: THURSDAY, JUNE 610:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration

10:30 am – 12:30 pm Optional Tours of Clinical Laboratories

Start of Scientific Sessions

1:00 pm – 1:15 PM Welcome and IntroductionsAngela M Caliendo MD PhD

Professor & Vice-Chair, Department of Pathology & Laboratory MedicineEmory University School of Medicine

James Ritchie PhDProfessor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory MedicineEmory University School of Medicine

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Introduction to Global HealthCarlos Del Rio MD

Professor & Chair, Hubert Department of Global HealthEmory University Rollins School of Public Health

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Laboratory Infrastructure in Developing CountriesTsehaynesh Messele MD

African Society of Laboratory Medicine

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Transfusion Medicine in Developing CountriesAlexander Duncan MDAssistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Coffee Break

3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Case presentations: New diagnostics and technology I:Audience response system will be used

Case 1: Infectious DiseaseCase 2: Hematology/Molecular Oncology

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4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Case presentations: New diagnostics and technology II:Audience response system will be used

Case 3: Clinical ChemistryCase 4: Coagulation/Transfusion Medicine

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Executive Council Meeting

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Welcome ReceptionOld Decatur Courthouse101 East Court Square Decatur, GA 30030

DAY 2: FRIDAY, JUNE 77:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast

8:30 am – 10:00 am Young Investigator Presentations 15 simultaneous sessions

10:00 am – 10:30 am Coffee Break

10:30 am – 11:45 pm Young Investigator Presentations 25 simultaneous sessions

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Invited Business Lunch:Directors of Clinical Pathology Divisions and Departments

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Cotlove Award LectureCommunicable Chronic DiseasesJeffrey P. Koplan MD MPH

Director, Emory Global Health InstituteVice President for Global Health, Emory University

1:45 pm – 2:30 pm Global Health Impact of HIVJames W. Curran MD MPH

Dean, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Poster Viewing and Networking Session(Refreshments Served)

3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Breakout Session I: MALDI-TOF

Molecular Oncology

Chemistry/Point of Care Testing

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5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Buses to Awards Banquet

6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Awards BanquetWorld of Coca-Cola121 Baker Street Northwest Atlanta, GA 30313

DAY 3: SATURDAY, JUNE 87:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast

8:45 am – 9:15 am Ellis Benson Award Lecture

TBD

9:15 am – 10:00 am Global Health Impact of DiabetesK. M. Venkat Narayan MD MSc MBA FRCP

Emory University School of MedicineEmory University Rollins School of Public Health

10:00 am – 10:30 am Coffee Break

10:30 am – 11:15 am Diagnostic ErrorsPaul Epner or Mark Garber

Affiliation TBA

11:30 am Box LunchEnd of Scientific Sessions

Start of Business Meeting12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Membership Business Meeting

12:45 pm – 2:30 pm Executive Council MeetingEnd of Business Meeting

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Nominations Requested for Benson Award

The Ellis Benson Award is presented toa young physician and/or scientist (member ornon-member of the Academy) in recognitionof meritorious accomplishment in the field oflaboratory medicine. Nominees need to beeither under 45 years of age by July 1 orwithin 10 years of completion of clinicaltraining.

Please send the name of your nominee with acurrent CV and a brief letter to

Jonathan Miller, MD, PhD

Chair, Nominating and Awards Committee

jlmiller@bsd.uchicago.edu

Call for Abstracts

Lab Medicine 2013

The 48th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists

(ACLPS)

It’s time to plan your abstract for the2013 ACLPS Meeting in Atlanta! Applicationmaterials are posted at ACLPS web site underUpcoming Meeting or they can be reacheddirectly from this link:

http://www.aclps.org/meeting_current.html .The deadline for abstract submission is Friday,February 15th, 2013.

The Paul E. Strandjord YoungInvestigator Award will be given to thetrainees who submit the highest-scoringabstracts. Residents, fellows, and students in adoctoral program in health sciences,participating in research with a member of

ACLPS or sponsored by an ACLPS member areeligible for the award. Students in programsleading to non-doctoral degrees conductingresearch with an ACLPS member may beconsidered upon written request from theACLPS sponsor to Dr. Lindeman.

For information about the abstractsprogram or Paul E. Strandjord YoungInvestigator Awards contact

Dr. Neal Lindeman atACLPSabstracts@partners.org

2012 Young Investigator Awardwinners

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Clinical Chemistry Trainee Council

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring the Clinical ChemistryTrainee Council ( www.traineecouncil.org ), aFREE, web-based Educational Program, toyour attention and the attention of yourclinical pathology trainees.

The journal Clinical Chemistry recentlylaunched this new global initiative and offers• a variety of educational materials including

Clinical Case Studies,

• Q&A (a virtual roundtable discussionamong a group of experts about a hottopic),

• the Guide to Scientific Writing (a series of14 articles),

• Webcasts (lectures by leading internationalscientists),

• Pearls of Laboratory Medicine (15 minutepresentations about a laboratory test), and

• CouncilChat (a chat room directed by 6junior faculty members from around theworld).

• more than 120 popular podcasts, whichhave been downloaded over 450,000 timesin the last 2.5 years.

In addition, the journal periodically publishesinterviews with world scientific leaders andarticles about prominent clinical chemists(Inspiring Minds) that can serve as aninspiration to young scientists. The focus ofthe Council is broadening to include lecturesand educational materials in all disciplines oflaboratory medicine including microbiology,transfusion medicine, molecular diagnosticsand hematology.

In addition, later this Fall, the Council willlaunch a question bank in laboratorymedicine for those preparing for boardcertification.

This program is currently available in itsentirety in English and Spanish and will belaunched in Chinese and Russian this year andin Arabic, Japanese and Portuguese next yearwith the hope of becoming a primaryeducational resource for laboratory medicinetrainees worldwide.

To register in the Council and gain accessto all the materials free of charge go towww.traineecouncil.org ; it takes less than aminute!!

Best wishes,Ann M. Gronowski

Additional photos from Lab Medicine 2012, ACLPS Annual Meeting can be found here

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Authors Needed

Announcement from the Education Committee

by Jon Genzen

The ACLPS Education Committee continuesto solicit articles for the “PathologyConsultation on…” series of concisecase-based reviews published in the AmericanJournal of Clinical Pathology (AJCP). Recent2012 articles include “Detection of Clostridiumdifficile” by Drs. Annika Svensson and P. RoccoLa S a l a , “La b o r a t o r y Evaluat ion o fThrombophilia” by Drs. Riley Ballard andMarisa Marques, “MyeloproliferativeNeoplasms” by Drs. Amy Schmidt and StephenOh, and “Transfusion Related Acute LungInjury (TRALI)” by Drs. Jill Adamski and AmySchmidt.

Due to the success of this series, we will besoliciting additional articles to advance thisfrom quarterly to bimonthly publication. TheEducation Committee invites all ACLPSmembers to consider writing or soliciting anarticle for this series on a topic of theirinterest and/or expertise. Authorcollaborations with residents and fellowsand/or colleagues at outside institutions areencouraged and can be a great way to fosterongoing collaboration. Please contact the

ACLPS Education Committee chair

Dr. Jonathan Genzen

( jonathan.genzen@path.utah.edu ) and/or

Dr. Marisa Marques ( mmarques@uab.edu )for information on potential topics, articleformat, and to facilitate the submissionprocess with AJCP.

An educational session “Consulting onBlood Disorders: Laboratory Medicine Pearlsto Impress Colleagues and Improve PatientCare” (derived from this AJCP series) was heldat the ASCP Annual Meeting on October 31st,2012 with information from articles by Drs.Harvey Rinder, Marisa Marques, Jill Adamski,and Alexa Siddon. The session had a packedaudience – an all-the-more impressive featgiven the travel difficulties just days afterHurricane Sandy. The Education Committeeplans to continue with another ASCPjoint-session in 2013, and will provide anupdate on this at the ACLPS Annual Meeting inJune.

Find more pictures from the Lab Medicine 2012, ACLPS Annual Meeting by clicking this link

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Obituaries

William Lewis Roberts, MD, PhD

SALT LAKE CITY, August 7, 2012—ARUPLaboratories, a national medical referencelaboratory, announced today that Universityof Utah professor and medical director atARUP Laboratories, William Lewis Roberts,MD, PhD, died July 26, 2012, following a year-long battle with brain cancer.

Dr. Roberts was born July 23, 1960 inColumbus, Ohio. Funeral services were held inSalt Lake City August 2, 2012. He is survived byhis parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Roberts ofColumbus, Ohio, his wife, Wendy, and his sonJoel, and daughter Laurel.

Dr. Roberts was born and raised in Columbus,Ohio, and attended The Ohio State Universityon a Battelle scholarship. He graduated fromOhio State in 1982 with a BS degree inchemistry, and was accepted to the NIHmedical scientist trainee program at CaseWestern Reserve University in Cleveland,Ohio. He earned a PhD in Pharmacology in1988, and an MD degree in 1990.

He and Wendy then moved to Connecticut sothat Bill could pursue a pathology residencyand fellowship at Yale University, where heserved as chief resident in 1991.

During his training, he presented his researchat the annual meetings of the Academy ofClinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists(ACLPS) and received the Young Investigatoraward for his research in 1992, 1993, and1994.

After completing his fellowship at Yale in1995, Dr. Roberts accepted his first academicappointment as assistant professor ofpathology at the University of Mississippi inJackson, Mississippi. In 1998, he joined theUniversity of Utah and ARUP as assistantprofessor in clinical chemistry. At ARUP, hedirected the automated core laboratory andserved as the Chemistry group medicaldirector, chair of the capital equipmentcommittee, and executive member of theresearch institute.

Dr. Roberts was promoted to full professor atthe University of Utah School of Medicine in2007. As a clinical chemist, Dr. Roberts wasacademically prolific; he authored 144 peer-reviewed publications, eight review articles,and 13 book chapters. In addition, at the timeof his death, his publications had been cited2,684 times.

He also reviewed submitted manuscripts for13 scientific journals and served on theeditorial boards of two journals in hisspecialty: Clinical Chemistry and ClinicaChimica Acta. He was an active member of theAmerican Association for Clinical Chemistry(AACC), ACLPS, and the College of AmericaPathologists (CAP). For CAP, Dr. Roberts

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served as a lab inspector, and as a memberand chair of the Chemistry ResourceCommittee. For ACLPS, he served assecretary/treasurer, president-elect, and waspresident in 2010-11. ACLPS honored him in2006 with the Gerald T. Evans award foroutstanding leadership and service.

In an autobiographical piece for an ARUPcompany newsletter in 1999, Dr. Robertsstated he considered himself a Midwesternerwho loved the Rocky Mountains, his family,and science. Indeed, one of his earliestrecollections was as a kindergartener, whenhe tried to build an electron microscope.

Dr. Roberts will be remembered not only forhis passion for clinical chemistry andpathology, but for his willingness to share hisknowledge and time, frequently providingthoughtful discussion and consultations withcolleagues, students, and fellows. He will alsobe remembered for his kindness and hisenthusiasm for hiking in the outdoors with hisfamily.

Dr. Roberts will be greatly missed by hisfamily, friends, and professional colleagues.

Jeffrey A. Kant, MD, PhD

Dear ACLPS Members,

It is with much sadness that I report thatJeffrey A. Kant, MD, PhD, Professor ofPathology at the University of Pittsburghpassed away on Sept. 29th, 2012 after a briefbattle with cancer. Jeff was one of thepioneers in the development of moleculardiagnostics and was very active in AMP andACLPS.

He will be greatly missed by colleagues andfriends.

Eric D. Spitzer, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology

SUNY at Stony Brook, NY

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