An Emeritus Professor of Pathology at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dr. D. Robert Dufour has made significant contributions to continuing medical education for pathologists and laboratory professionals.
Jan. 29 - Dr. Michael Lawlor (Pathology – Pediatrics) reported in Human and Molecular Genetics that targeted enzyme replacement therapy resulted in marked improvement of mice with myotubular myopathy. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel & MedicalXpress
Jan. 25 - A collaborative team of researchers led by Michael Lawlor, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology, found promising results for a treatment of a rare, severe muscle disease. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jan 22 - A collaborative research team including a Medical College of Wisconsin pediatric neuropathologist successfully mitigated some of the effects of a muscular disease by using a new targeted enzyme replacement therapy strategy from 4s3 Bioscience.
Dec. 07 - Paula North, MD, PhD Professor and Chief of Pediatric Pathology, has been awarded a 2012 Fogarty GEOHealth Hubs Planning Grant along with partners, Ronald Hines, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Cesar Augusto Cabezas Sanchez, MD of the Peruvian NIH (Institute Nacional de Salud) and Luis Vasquez, MD, President of the Yantalo Peru Foundation.
Nov., 07 - Steven H. Kroft, MD, Professor of Pathology, Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology, and Director of Hematopathology, was elected President-Elect of the American Society for Clinical Pathology Nov. 2 at the society's annual meeting in Boston.
Sept. 27 - Scientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the Blood Research Institute received a one-year, $20,000 grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) to study the causes and prevention of a condition caused by the use of blood thinning medication.
Sept. 11 - The Medical College Department of Pathology is sponsoring the Midwestern Conference: Update Course in Surgical Pathology, planned for Sept. 14-16 at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. Saul Suster, MD, Chairman and Professor of Pathology, is serving as the course director.
July 30 - Elizabeth J. Cochran, MD, Professor of Pathology at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), has been elected vice president of the American Association of Neuropathologists.
The Senior Awards Dinner for the Medical School Class of 2011 was held May 19, 2011, at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee. The night was an opportunity to celebrate four years of accomplishment with friends and family.
Medical College of Wisconsin alumnus Dr. George M. Lange has been elected President of the Wisconsin Medical Society. Other alumni, faculty and students were also chosen for leadership positions in the Society.
The 99th annual commencement took place on May 18 at the Milwaukee Theatre, at which the Medical College of Wisconsin and its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences awarded 202 MD, 38 PhD, 27 MS, 4 MA, and 18 Master of Public Health degrees, as well as bestowed numerous honors.
Graduating medical students were matched to their residency positions via the National Residency Matching Program on March 16. Of the 202 fourth-year medical students at the Medical College, 196 students obtained first-year residency positions on Match Day.
July 16 - Stanley F. Lo, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), has been elected president of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry: the Academy of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (NACB).