People of Pathology Podcast
Episodes
Episode 127: Grace Li – A Medical Student’s Experience In The Angevine Fellowship
Today my guest is Medical Student Grace Li
What we discuss with Grace:
- How she became interested in forensic pathology and how she decided to go to medical school
- Why she decided to move to the US
- How she heard about the Angevine Fellowship
- An overview of the Fellowship
- Her experience in each of the rotations during the fellowship
Links for this episode:
Grace Li on Twitter
Enhancing preclinical year pathology exposure: the Angevine approach
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Episode 126: Dr Roy Jensen – BRCA, and the University of Kansas Cancer Center
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Roy Jensen
What we discuss with Dr Jensen:
- How he decided to go to medical school and how he chose a specialty
- Two of his mentors early in his career, and how he was influenced by them
- His research work in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes
- How he established a Cancer Center at the University of Kansas, and some of the work that goes into that
- Why he thinks being a pathologist helps him in this role
- The NCI designations for cancer centers and achieving his goal of Comprehensive Designation
- His thoughts on the future of cancer incidence
Links for this episode:
To NCI designation through difficulty: How KU’s Roy Jensen made it happen
Dr. Roy Jensen of The University of Kansas Cancer Center: Innovating to Break Cancer’s Grip
University of Kansas Cancer Center
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Episode 125: Dr Heidi Rehm – Genomics and Pathology, and the Precision Health Meeting
Today my guest is Genomic Medicine Researcher Dr Heidi Rehm
What we discuss with Dr Rehm:
- How she became interested in biology and genomics
- Studying the genetic basis of hearing loss, and why she thinks the cochlea is a thing of beauty
- How she got involved with the Broad Institute, and her work there
- Some of the barriers to the use of genetics in medicine
- Her thoughts on free data exchange among genomics researchers
- Matchmaker Exchange, and how it is important for genomics research
- The role of genomics in pathology, both now and in the future
- The Precision Health Meeting, and how she became involved
- How meetings such as this help promote technological advances in genomics
Links for this episode:
Laboratory Transformation Seasonal School
Dr Heidi Rehm on Twitter
Program for Medical and Population Genetics
“Matching” consent to purpose: The example of the Matchmaker Exchange
Matchmaker Exchange in Human Genetics
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Episode 124: Luis Plaza – Medical Laboratory Science and Let’s Talk Micro Podcast
Today my guest is Medical Laboratory Scientist Luis Plaza
What we discuss with Luis:
- How he discovered the medical laboratory field while in the Navy and training to be an MLT
- How he discovered his passion for microbiology and earning his MLS degree
- How he became interested in teaching
- How and why he started the Let’s Talk Micro podcast
- The different types of episode formats he uses and how he prepares for these
- His favorite organism and why it is his favorite
- Future goals for Let’s Talk Micro
Links for this episode:
Laboratory Transformation Seasonal School
Let’s Talk Micro on Twitter
Let’s Talk Micro on Instagram
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Episode 123: Dr Martin Weihrauch – Smart In Media, Digital Pathology, and AI
Today my guest is Dr Martin Weihrauch
What we discuss with Dr Weihrauch:
- How he became interested in computers and computer programming
- Why he decided to go to medical school and how he became interested in hematology and oncology
- The origin of Smart In Media
- How Smart In Media became involved with the European Society of Pathology and the International Academy of Pathology
- How Smart In Media branched out from education into diagnostics
- How Smart In Media integrates AI and Dr Weihrauch’s thoughts on the future of AI
- What is on the horizon for Smart In Media
Links for this episode:
Laboratory Transformation Seasonal School
pathCast – Key Concepts In Specimen Grossing
Smart In Media website
Dr Weihrauch on the Digital Pathology Podcast
International Academy of Pathology
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Episode 122: Dr Fatima Carneiro – Pathology in Portugal, Gastric Cancer, and The European Society of Pathology
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Fatima Carneiro
What we discuss with Dr Carneiro:
- How her interest in pediatrics changed to pathology
- Her education in Angola, and some of her experiences there
- How she became interested in teaching
- How she started working on research in gastric cancer, and specifically hereditary gastric cancer
- Her experience as an editor for The WHO Blue Book on Tumors of the Digestive System
- How she became involved with the European Society of Pathology, and some of her accomplishments as President of the Society
- How she established a national tumor bank network in Portugal
- Why international efforts are important in pathology
- The state of pathology recruitment in Portugal
Links for this episode:
LabVine Laboratory Transformation Seasonal School
Dr Fatima Carneiro on Wikipedia
The Pathologist Power List 2018
The 2019 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Digestive System
Pathological Society of GB and Ireland Grand Rounds May 2022
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