---
title: 'Episode 108: Dr Jeffrey Ross - HER2, Companion Diagnostics, and Foundation Medicine'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-108-dr-jeffrey-ross-her2-companion-diagnostics-and-foundation-medicine'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2022-04-18'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nfdti5/Dr_Jeffrey_Ross_-_4_17_22_1023_PM7hb1s.mp3'
---

# Episode 108: Dr Jeffrey Ross - HER2, Companion Diagnostics, and Foundation Medicine

Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Jeffrey Ross What we discuss with Dr Ross: How he got started in medicine and pathology, and his thoughts on exposing medical students to pathology His experience during residency of handling a specimen for an estrogen re...

## Summary

Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Jeffrey Ross

What we discuss with Dr Ross:

- How he got started in medicine and pathology, and his thoughts on exposing medical students to pathology

- His experience during residency of handling a specimen for an estrogen receptor trial

- How he decided to focus on the HER2/neu gene, and some of his work in that area

- HER2 testing by IHC and by FISH, and which he thought was better

- Liquid biopsy, and how it may be used in the future

- The origin of Foundation Medicine

- Some of the work that Foundation Medicine does

- The impact that Foundation Medicine has had on patients, and a few of their stories

Links for this episode:

[Health Podcast Network](https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

[ LabVine Learning](http://bit.ly/labvine)

[The ConfLab from LabVine](https://www.labvinelearning.com/TheConflab)

[Dress A Med scrubs](https://dressamed.com/?rfsn=5044297.cb03eb&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=5044297.cb03eb)

[A New Era for Pathologists' Assistants - Voicebrook Blog](https://www.voicebrook.com/blog/a-new-era-pathologists-assistants-day)

[Foundation Medicine](https://www.foundationmedicine.com)

[Faculty Profile SUNY Upstate - Dr Jeffrey Ross](https://www.upstate.edu/pathology/faculty.php?empID=rossj)

[A Brief History of Breast Cancer](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318603/)

[Comprehensive Genomic Profiling of Carcinoma of Unknown Primary SiteNew Routes to Targeted Therapies](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2108853)

People of Pathology Podcast:

[Website](https://peopleofpathology.com/)

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/peopleofpath)